<VV> Head Problems

[ricknorris at suddenlink.net]

We have all reached that state at one time. I usually hang up the tools and relax with a few cold adult beverages then, attack it in the morning. Everything looks better the next day!
--
Rick Norris
#36 Sunoco Corvair
www.corvairalley.com 

---- HallGrenn at aol.com wrote: 
>  
> In a message dated 3/21/2011 6:32:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> byron.comp at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> One last  stupid question: Has anyone else ever felt like just sitting down 
> on 
> the  shop floor and crying?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Well there was the time when I was torqueing down a newly rebuilt right  
> head and one of the upper studs broke.  Had to use special tools to  get it 
> out of the block, then had to install the new, oversize stud, which  galled 
> and seized up as I was installing it because I was dumb enough to leave  it in 
> the sun, on hot asphalt in July before I installed it.  Had to tap  new 
> threads, install an insert and then install the new stud.  That weekend  job 
> ended up taking weeks of spare time before the car ran again.  But that  was 
> almost twenty years ago and the engine still runs just fine.
>  
> Hang in there.
>  
> Bob
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