<VV> push rod tube seals

[Rick & Janet Norris]

If you are that far in to it you should replace them all with Viton.

Rick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barneck Doug C TIGTA" <Doug.Barneck@tigta.treas.gov>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:02 AM
Subject: <VV> push rod tube seals


> I am cleaning and sealing an engine for a 64 Monza coupe for my daughter
who
> turns 16 in 8 days ( as she keeps reminding me).  I pulled two pushrods
and
> the seals are a black material.  I pulled them off the tubes and they are
> still stretchy and didn't break.  It doesn't really look like they have
> leaked on one side and the other side is hard to tell as there is oil
> residue but unable to tell where it came from.  Any idea if the seals are
> viton or is there a way to tell?  I am inclined not to replace them
because
> they are still stretchy like a rubber band and don't crack or break.  What
> do the vair-ites think?
>
> Brief history on the car is it was last driven in 1972.  The owner's wife
> was taking the kids to school and the engine died.  They got it running
> again but couldn't keep it running.  Parked the car.  I bought it last
year
> from owner who had purchased it when it was 6 months old.  Original engine
> is stuck and all of my efforts to unstick it for the last year have been
in
> vane.  The car is red with a white interior and red carpet.  Front seat
have
> some tears.  The back seat still has the plastic cover over the upholstery
> that was so common back then.  One door has lots of paint chips.  Only
rust
> in the whole car is at the end of the trunk lid by the letters.  That will
> get replaced easily.
>
> PS.  I don't know much about the prior history of the engine.  The clutch
> was new and it was a 64 engine in a 62 wagon so it could have had the
seals
> replaced...but they are black.  And the engine does run.
>
> And just in case anyone is wondering...  It is red and has been in Group
Red
> for a year but I wasn't willing to bring it out of the closet and admit
it.
> Does that make me the Western Desert group member?
>
> Doug Barneck
> Your Tax Dollars at Work
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