<VV> Locked up Engine

[Chris C, Warwick RI]

I had one like it.

Poured Marvel mystery oil in each spark plug whole and let sit.  Then would 
hand turn each way twice a day.  After about a week,  it was free.



At 11:50 PM 9/11/2005, you wrote:
> > [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org]On Behalf Of Cash Case
> > Subject: <VV> '65 Corvair question.
> >
>Just before TDC the crank stops
> > turning. I tried turning it the other direction but when it gets
> > almost to the same place it locks again.
>------------------------------------------
>Smitty says:  Cash, this has happened to me often enough it is the first
>thing I look for now.  When an engine sits dormant for a period of time
>the carbon deposits on the piston top and combustion chamber break up and
>start crumbling into the bottom of the chamber.  When you crank it over
>the piston packs the carbon "sand" into a solid pack which stops it from
>going past TDC.  I don't know how anyone would go about this but I pit a
>tube extension on my air gun and stick it down in the spark plug hole.
>Then I stick a length of wire through the hole too and tickle the bottom
>of the combustion chamber with the wire while I blow air in.  Doesn't
>take much to break up the pack and get it out of there,
>         Not related to this subject but I am curious.  What makes Richard
>Finch an authority on torque sequences for heads.  What makes his
>sequence any better than any one elses and especially, what makes them
>better than that of GM engineers?
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