<VV> update on engine exam

[Ron]

Strange, but it was on the #2 cylinder that I had a valve guide go oval 
also, in only 3000 miles!  What is it about that cylinder?

RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffrey & Gayle Angelli" <gangelli at roadrunner.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:03 AM
Subject: <VV> update on engine exam


> further disassembly of the bad exhaust valve yielded the cause of it's 
> demise. The seat was pounded out of round,the valve had serious rocking in 
> the guide and one side of the stem was scored,so looks like guide failure 
> followed by wallowing out the seat and letting the blowby up the now very 
> worn guide into the rocker cover as well as continuosly bleeding off that 
> cylinder pressure, this is the cylinder directly behind the oil cooler . 
> Now to get it fixed .the head has no numbers on it they are wiped off by 
> aluminum corrosion,this is a 65 motor 110 bored .030 over . the heads look 
> like 110 heads but the tip of the point between the valves is lower than 
> the rest of the raised part of the chamber but not quite equal in height 
> to the valve seat surface ,almost looks like someone ground it that way 
> but there are no marks to indicate such. need a new guide, valve, valve 
> seat  no way I will attempt that myself .I am in buffalo NY anyone nearby 
> who does head work? also will get new rings and gap them myself or most 
> likely use total seal gapless. what can i use to clean off the carbon 
> safely ? . thanks again . regards jeff angelli
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