<VV> Head Torque

[Ron]

It would be nice if someone could make a batch of them.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ruth Dorogi" <dfamily at cecomet.net>
To: <NicolCS at aol.com>; <kaczmarek at charter.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Head Torque


>I also have one of the special sockets and I think they were available to
> mechanics at that time.  I picked up mine at a flea market for $5.  I was
> probably the only corvair owner in  50 miles around that would recognize 
> the
> socket as being used for a corvair head.  It is a very useful and time
> saving tool.    Dennis Dorogi
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> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 2:08 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> Head Torque
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>
>> Hank replies:
>> <snip>Craig
>> Your assessment is certainly possible.
>> However, I had no idea that Corvair engines were made anywhere but
> Tonawanda.
>> Don't all blocks start with a T??
>> Remember, they weren't casted at Tonawanda, that was done at the Reynolds
>> Aluminum plant in Messina, NY.
>> Are there blocks without a T in the casting number?
>> If so, I never saw one.
>> Were blocks sent from Messina to LA?<unsnip>
>>
>> Ah So!  Good point, Batman.
>> The engine ID stamping clearly indicated TO (Tonawanda) on every Corvair
>> engine that I have ever seen and those marks are only stamped on 
>> assembled
> engines
>> regardless of where they were cast. Perhaps the tool I have was used for
>> rework only?
>> Craig
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