<VV> Re:Leakdown testing / tearing down

[Ron F Hinz]

Very nice pictures, Thanks.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Hubbell" <whubbell@cox.net>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Re:Leakdown testing / tearing down


> Boy, what a timely thread!  I just got back the 140 cylinder heads I sent
> off to Larry Claypool's shop for repair.  They did a superb job!  New deep
> valve seats, guides, exhaust valves, seals, etc.  They even repaired a
> broken fin so well that you can hardly tell where it was.  Now as soon as
I
> get a warm day off work we will pull both heads on Geoff's car and replace
> the heads with these babies!  I expect to find a partially dropped seat on
> #2 - no compression.  Yes, I did check the rocker arm, valves, and pushrod
> first.  No, I did not do a leakdown test -- what's the point?  Still need
to
> pull the head even if it does turn out to be a head gasket, piston or ring
> problem.
>
> Anyway, please take a look at the work Larry did for me.  Pictures at the
> following site:
> http://community.webshots.com/album/132008501hEnqyi
>
> p.s. If you wonder where the broken fin was, look closely at the upper
left
> corner of the top head in picture #1 -- viewed in high magnification you
can
> barely make out that the grain of the metal runs diagonally - that is the
> area of the broken fin.  You would never know it if I hadn't told you.
>
> Bill Hubbell
> TCC President 2003-2004
> CORSA Eastern Division Director Candidate 2004
>
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