<VV> Re: oil out of dipstick. (no useful content)

[Roger Gault]

Gee, on my '62 beach car that I had in '67, I just blocked the dipstick hole
with a broken arrow.  Just fit, and looked cool with the feathered end
sticking up out of the engine.  The car had such bad compression (broken
rings) that it wouldn't start hot.  I had to surf for a couple of hours
before I could go home.  How sad...

The arrow did make it hard to check the oil, and one day it got ahead of me.
The engine started making a repetitive squeaking noise.  I didn't want to
stop there (no surf), so I just poured in oil while it was running.  On the
third quart, she died rather ungracefully.  I had to take .030 off the crank
in my attempted resuscitation, but I graduated from college and moved inland
so I never finished the rebuild.  So ended my first Corvair - gave the
engine to a guy who was going to put it in an airboat.

Roger


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Gershenfeld" <mailist@san.rr.com>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Re: oil out of dipstick.


> I though I'd share a tale or two, being a veteran of "oil out the
dipstick".
>
> I had an engine that blew so much oil that I fashioned a "receiver bottle"
> out of a plastic fabric softener jug and connected it directly to the
> breather.  It acted like a trap, so I had a second "breather" hose from
the
> bottle to the outside down by the air grille. <SNIP>