<VV> Re: Valve Adjustments

[corvairs]

Do the cold adjustment as a preliminary to getting the car started. If 
it runs fine - then great. But be preparred to go in and adjust them 
running. I have not seen a single Corvair engine that could be set cold 
and that was that. Explaination? I haven't got one, but that doesn't 
change the fact.  Lon

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Tony wrote:

>Ladies and gentlemen:   
>
>
>Allow me to have my final say on the matter of valve adjustments.   
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>
>Everyone else can do it the way they say works for them, and *I* will do it
>the
>way it works for me.   I will not sit around and argue about this and that and
>the other in order to defend the way I do things.   I've had nothing but good
>luck with hot adjust so that's the way I do it.  
>
>
>Why this is so hard for some people to understand escapes me.   And yes, I
>*do*
>know the difference between simple wear and tear and advancing tolerances
>in an
>older engine and an actual defect which I'm "disguising" or "covering up" by
>adjusting the way I do it.  I *do* know how a Vair engine works and I am *not*
>stupid in spite of the rumors and what my family says.   
> 
>
>My '60 4-door has a couple of lifters which will NOT ADJUST CORRECTLY COLD,
>DAMMIT!    
>
>I adjust them hot and running and they're quiet.   This car has been running
>like this for over TEN YEARS.  If there was something genuinely wrong that I
>was "covering up" I think it would have made itself evident by now.   ya
>think?   
>
>By the way, it's still quiet.   It also has 190,000+ miles on it and NO I
>haven't pulled a lifter out of it because they tend to stick/hang in the bores
>(no doubt because of either a varnish ring or a slight lip on the edge of the
>face) and I don't wanna scar up anything by arbitrarily removing sticky
>lifters
>just to look at the faces.   It's been several years since I did the
>adjustments and the car remains quiet.  It runs well.   I'm going to continue
>to run it as-is until it exhibits a reason to fix something.   And I *do*
>watch
>out for things to make sure I don't get greeted with any surprises.   And
>should the car (or any other Vair I have to work on)  need a valve adjustment
>because of seals or repairs etc I'll adjust them hot/running just as I've done
>for the last 25+ years... and another 10+ years with other marques along the
>way which also seemed to work out well with hot/running adjustments.        
>
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>Anybody got a problem with that?     
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>
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>Ya know, maybe Hank is on to something with that retort thing of his...   
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>
>
>tony..   
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