<VV> Ole Valve Guide Eater

[corvairs]

To all - I have gone through this same issue with countless Corvair 
owners over the past 32 years - If you get it set in your mind that  
there is supposed to be massive amounts of oil shooting out off the  
rockers, then you are going to have a harder quest than 
Diogoynes.....(sp?).  We create a lot of our own unnecessary mysteries  
that lead us down paths that have no destination. Ask yourself this - If 
massive amounts of oil are supposed to be spitting out then how could 
anyone adjust the valves running with a 1/3rd cover? It would be 
impossible, yet thousands of us do it and have for years. (I know some 
of you don't do it)

Many forget that I ran a full time Corvair only repair shop for almost 
12 years (at times 2 full time mechanics hired). I also do all my own 
engine rebuilding. here's what I have observed. On any given Corvair 
engine there is about a 25% chance that one  pushrod on a side will put 
out "excessive" oil. (I always remembered that when that happened we'd 
be quite upset - It makes adjustments while running a real mess). The 
majority of the time the pushrods do just what Smitty is saying, they 
"dribble". Actually we always assumed that the errant pushrod that shot 
out excessive oil was a lifter out of specs, but they never seemed to 
cause any real trouble.

Again, I do not beleive that the lifters have caused this valve guide 
problem. I also do not believe that Smitty has lubrication problems (his 
car, I mean)
Lon

Hubert A Smith wrote:

>Smitty says:  OK chew on this for a while.  I put the new lifters in and
>they pumped up pretty quickly.  Ran the engine long enough to get the oil
>pan hot to touch.  The lifters put out considerable more oil than the
>original installed ones but they still don't squirt.  Just dribble.  The
>guides are never going to get proper lubrication that way.  Engine
>produces 38 psi oil pressure when hot at a slow idle so don't come on to
>me with low oil pressure guesses.  Don't even think of saying the oil
>gallerys were not properly cleaned.
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