<VV> VirtualVairs Digest, Vol 180, Issue 27

Sun Jan 19 13:19:02 EST 2020

With all that Smitty has done for the Corvair Community, someone out there should have a good head that can go to his place and replace the one with the blown spark plug hole.  Come on team (I would do it myself if I weren't so far away from him and I have a 3 months back log of promised Corvair work
Eddie Meadows 

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Today's Topics:

  1. Stripped plug hole (Smitty)
  2. Re: Stripped plug hole (tony..)

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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 13:07:12 -0500
From: Smitty <vairologist at cox.net>
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Subject: <VV> Stripped plug hole
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Well said Hugo but us humans are not all created equal.  Two years ago I would have thought nothing of pulling the head for repair, but things change.  I am still trying to get back in the groove from the results of the accident I had.  I may never do a thing like pulling a head again.  It is painful enough just to lean over a fender and mess with the plugs.  Having 7 ribs broken loose at both ends, a broken elbow and shoulder and major nerve damage to my left hand takes a lot of joy and ambition out of life, not to mention being 86 years old.  So I?ll continue doing what I can within my limitations even though there is a better way.

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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 14:18:05 -0500
From: "tony.." <tony.underwood at cox.net>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Stripped plug hole
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On 1/18/2020 11:41 AM, FrankDuVal via VirtualVairs wrote:

> Swarf? Not an issue! It's aluminum. Just crank the engine over (start 
> on 5 cylinder) after the operation and blow the swarf out. Done it 
> many times with the KD inserts.

I always did it this way, never a problem.? 5 cylinders at idle with the 
empty plug hole WILL blow everything out.

 > BTW,? Danny Otey in Roanoke used to use 18mm plugs in Corvair heads 
many times for repairing blown out plugs to keep the cars on the road. 
We did lots of things back then to keep people driving Corvairs when 
they were cheap transportation. ggg

Ahh, Ford plugs.?? Then again Danny didn't have one of those cute little 
specialty tools that reams the hole and taps it for a 14mm helicoil.? A 
13/16 plug socket fits it, makes it easy to use.? I have one that's 
maybe 50 years old now, made of some of the hardest metal I've seen in 
any tool.? I've used it to install a helicoil on a Corvair on the side 
of the road. ? We all did a lot of weird stuff to Corvairs back in the 
day.? Today, just about anything that's done to a Corvair seems weird to 
anybody else other than "Corvair folk".?? I have a salvage engine that 
Danny had run his hands over a time or two that came out of a terminally 
rusty late model...? one head has two Ford plugs in it.

tony..

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