<VV> Evil doth come

[Mike Kost]

Tony Underwood wrote:

>At 09:49 hours 08/17/2004 -0400, you wrote:
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>>And who was it who warned you last week?
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>Followup:    
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>Concerning the slight miss and shudder the engine in my '60 4-door recently
>began exhibiting on occasion, suggesting an intermittent pending valve seat
>problem:    
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>Last night the engine shuddered bigtime, shook, and thumped to a halt
>suddenly and severely.   It will not turn with either a wrench on the crank
>pulley nut nor a pry bar in the converter cooling vent against the starter
>ring gear.     It doesn't look good... and it doesn't sound like any sort
>of valve seat problem or at least nothing that the seat alone might cause.   
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>Maybe the seat did suddenly come out, break,  and jam a piston against a
>cylinder or something similar... either way, I'm bummed.    I'd hoped the
>old engine would make 200k...   but I guess 44 years without an overhaul is
>sufficient service for it to have earned its keep many times over.   
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>tony..  
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>PS:   I shudda listened and never touched the car with primer   
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That sounds like a shattered seat to me! Try turning it the other 
direction. You likely have pieces in all three cylinders on that side.

-- 
Mike Kost
Show-Me Corvair Club