<VV> pouring water down the carbs/ dropping seats/hydrolocking/ nucular exp.

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 vairzwa@hotmail.com writes:
Matt, in addition to what Paul Fox and Ryan Counterman said about dropping 
valve seats and hydrolocking the pistons, another BAD outcome of pouring 
water down the carbs is that it tends to wash the oil off of the cylinder 
walls and can cause tremendous wear or damage to the cylinder walls and 
piston rings.  If you feel you must pour something down the carbs, make sure 
it has some lubricating properties such as the GM top cylinder lube or 
Wynns.  The principle of pouring liquid down the carb is to cause a thermal 
shock to the carbon build-up on the heads and pistons.  This same thermal 
shock is what can cause the valve seats to shrink and drop.

Be Vairy Careful!

Gary Mierzwa
WFCC
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I'm sorry Gary, and others........after 40 yrs of doing these things with 
NEVER a problem...
I just cannot believe so many have had bad luck.....

Out here in LaLaland we just rely on the MATH......Corvair at 3000 rpms might 
be sucking 80CFM  of air....mixed [ volume] with 1 GALLON of water in ONE 
MINUTE gives us a  AIR / WATER ratio of 106 to 1!  So a Coke can a minute???   [ 
10oz ]

But then again..our Colorado River water is so bad we have to add SOAP to it 
to remove OIL !

DeckRug