<VV> Dropped valve seats

[Paul Fox]

 I had a 390 Holley carb power valve fail when the engine belched back. All of a sudden came the death clatter. The 140 dropped like 5 valve seats all at once. Completely scrambled the engine.
Paul Fox
On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 2:11 PM, corvairduval--- via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
  
Yes, and I did it while going around one city block in a friend's turboed
140!

It was running fine when he stopped by, a fresh turboinstallation, saying
it ran as good as his V-8 Vair. I barely made it back it ran so bad at the
end of the trip.  The first half of the trip was exciting!

When he took the heads off, two seats had fallen out.

I can torture the best of them!

He sent the heads to Moby Dick Racing (rememebr them?) so it would not
happen again.

Ah, fun times in my past.

Frank DuVal



Original email:
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From: Ed Lindsay via VirtualVairs virtualvairs at corvair.org
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 12:13:06 -0500 (CDT)
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: <VV> Dropped valve seats



I got up with the guy in Florida that was looking for some heads. He has a
66 110 that had  no compression on cylinders 1 and 6.  We pulled the heads
off and it had dropped valve seats in both heads- at the same time ! That
sounds like some really bad luck, especially for a first time Corvair
owner. The motor itself looked like a Johnny Cash motor,  Smog motor with
66/67 heads, various aftermarket pushrods, and other stuff that looked like
they just used whatever was laying around.  The heads themselves looked
like they were brand new- spotless clean and the exhaust stacks were still
clean and shiny-no rust, no discoloration from oil, very little carbon
buildup. Anybody else ever heard of dropping two valve seats at once -on
opposite sides ?

                                                                         Ed
Lindsay

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