<VV> Cam bearing, lifter galley wear--humor

[BBRT]

He has a LOT of wear on him...

Chuck S
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Kubin" <dreamwoodck at yahoo.com>
To: <aeroned at aol.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 3:06 PM
Subject: <VV> Cam bearing, lifter galley wear--humor


> Even on Smitty?
>
>  Chuck
>
> aeroned at aol.com wrote:
>
> Assuming any one engine hasn't been run without oil, how much wear would 
> you
> anticipate there would be to the lifter galleys and cam bearings?
>
>
> Chuck,
>
> While I don't have a great deal of experience rebuilding Corvair engines 
> (although I do have experience blowing them up), I did not notice a great 
> deal of wear on the cam bearing surfaces on the engine I have measured. In 
> fact it was right in the middle of the spec. The thing to remember is that 
> the engine only had 75K or 80K miles on it. Smitty, on the otherhand, is 
> probably in the neighborhood of 300K miles(Smitty car's engine that is). 
> At that kind of usage, I'd bet there wear on everything.
>
> Ned
>
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