<VV> Re: [FC] Seat dropping record

[Bill Elliott]

Good point that's worth making more distinctly... the Corvair engine in 
my very heavy '71 Westy has dual head temp sensors... when climbing a 
long hill the different between having the engine wound up to 4000rpm or 
slightly beyond in Low or lugging it in Drive could not be more 
different... even when still going uphill, dropping from D to L drops 
head temps by at least 40 degrees.

Don't lug those engines!!!

Bill

Tony Underwood wrote:

> At 07:46 PM 12/12/2006, Frank DuVal wrote:
>
>> My 64 Spyder stayed on the road for several years with a valve seat 
>> comming loose and re-seating itself many times. Finally it didn't 
>> re-seat and it awaits repair time...
>>
>> Oh yes, run up a hill and coast down the other side would drop it 
>> right away. Learned to be illegal and hold the clutch down while 
>> decending...
>
>
>
>
> I learnt this the hard way when on the final legs of the Asheville 
> convention.    Climbed that winding mountain road behind a truck that 
> went at just the right speed to make my 1st gear too buzzy so 2nd gear 
> got lugged all the way...  which was a mistake.    Hot.   Topped the 
> hill and was greeted by a LONG straight downhill, coasted the whole 
> way in 3rd gear while tapping the brakes.
>
> Dumb.    Somehow rationalized that the engine could really benefit 
> from cooling seeing as how the temp gauge was right up there.    Not 
> even the unspoken mandate observed as sacrosanct from On High by 
> wartime pilots everywhere who ever flew an airplane with an air cooled 
> engine came to mind:
>
>
> NEVER allow an air cooled engine that was already hot to "super-cool".
>
>


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