[FC] here's smoke in your eyes

[Charles]

Ben -

Please pardon the pun but that sounds like a smokin' deal!  Go for the 
rebuilt engine. You can fiddle with the other one at your leisure when 
it's up on an engine stand with a cold beer within easy reach.

I wouldn't think twice about it.

best regards,

Charles



Ben's Bus wrote:

>I actually have more oil coming out of the dipstick tube than the filler
>tube.  It is coating the engine with oil in that area.  To answer a previous
>post, no the perimeter seals are not in very good condition.  The gentleman
>wants $660 for the rebuilt engine plus $100 to remove my engine and put the
>new one in.  I thought it sounded like a good price.
>
>Thanks for your input.  Does this info change anything?
>
>The engine in my Greenbrier is a 110 car engine, not an FC engine.  The
>rebuilt one is also.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Steinberg" <noahsarkinc@earthlink.net>
>To: <corvanatics@corvair.org>
>Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 6:49 PM
>Subject: Re: [FC] here's smoke in your eyes
>
>
>  
>
>>Go for the replacement engine or rebuild your old one.  I had a blown head
>>gasket on my Spyder, so off came the heads and rebuilt ones went on.
>>    
>>
>After
>  
>
>>that, the blow by was so bad that I had oil coming out the filler pipe,
>>    
>>
>just
>  
>
>>like yours.  I should have known better, but was just trying to get it
>>    
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>back on
>  
>
>>the road.  Have a engine rebuilding in progress for the last 4 years and
>>    
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>still
>  
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>>haven't found the time to finish it.  A ready engine is the way to go,
>>especially if time is a factor.  Paul in CT....
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Ben's Bus
>>  To: corvanatics@corvair.org
>>  Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 5:04 PM
>>  Subject: [FC] here's smoke in your eyes
>>
>>
>>  Hey guys and gals-
>>
>>  I have been getting burnt oil smell in my heat and some gray smoke comes
>>    
>>
>in
>  
>
>>  through the heating vents.  Also, the oil is blowing out the top filler
>>tube.
>>  The last time my van was in the shop they told me the blow by is getting
>>worse
>>  and the oil is leaking everywhere.  It was used when I got it.
>>
>>  Anyway, what are the chances that replacing the Vitons will take care of
>>the
>>  burnt oil smell (burning on the manifold), and the smoke problem?  I
>>    
>>
>have a
>  
>
>>  good lead on a rebuilt 110 engine and a great installation price quoted.
>>  Would it be smarter to get the rebuilt or fix the smoker??
>>
>>  Thanks!   Ben
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