<VV> Re: Bad Smell

[vairologist@juno.com]

> From: "Ewell Mills" <emills5@cfl.rr.com>
 Subject: <VV> Bad smell
>  I have two Corvairs and both of them have a really bad smell when I 
> first start them (in garage with door open).  It seems to be the
exhaust, 
> not a gasoline smell 
----------------smit-------------
Smitty says: Cecil sometimes a head gasket leak can create that problem. 
As the engine warms up the clearances close up and the smell stops.  The
only way I know to find this (outside of hearing it chirping) is to pull
the manifold shrouds and look for a gummy black residue at the bottom of
the cylinders right where it enters the head.