[FC] Seat dropping record... going downhill!?

[Merv Krull]

So.... just how do you go down the hill after a gut wrenching climb in a way 
that will slowly normalize the head temp, other than keeping the hammer down 
and the brakes on...??? (oh! I know! we used to do this as wild and crazy 
teenagers.... throw open the doors to act as landing flaps! <s>)
toodles
Merv Krull
Salmon Arm, BC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris & Bill Strickland" <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [FC] Seat dropping record


>I didn't know we were supposed to keep track -- I always was under the 
>impression that you fixed it and then tried to forget that it had happened 
>(at this point in my life, I find that those incidents have been pretty 
>easy to forget, as I try to recall them)  -- eventually, I discovered 140 
>heads, and after a while, and several repairs, learned that coasting down 
>the back side of steep grades after climbing them enthusiastically was not 
>quite the thing to do -- moral: If ya got the hammer down, keep it there!
>
> more recently, I bought a $50 beater that sorta ran, and I twiddled with 
> the valve adjustment until the loose seats dropped back into their holes 
> (there was more than one) and drove it for about six months before I tore 
> it apart -- not only were the two seats loose, but several others showed 
> signs of repair. (164 engine that appeared to have been assembled from 
> spare parts -- rods didn't match, some were upside down, pistons, too, 
> heads were different, ...) got me into work everyday I drove it ...
>
> yes, you read correctly, I have had dropped seats work their way back 
> under the valves and stay there for a while when the valves were "played 
> with" -- yes, i'm as suprised as the next guy ...
>
> Bill Strickland
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