<VV> Newbie mechanical Weird FEAR

[Matt Nall]

Never fear!!   The odds of you dying on the toilet are greater than loosing 
a valve seat....

It does happen..but mainly to specific  situations.....  engine has been 
severly overheated.....  high rpm performance engines...

I've only lost 3 in 34 years......   2 on a 140 engine that the previous 
owner was in need of a "rebuild"..not  the engine..

My Corvair Boat........previous 3 owners all got tired of it running at 600F 
and melting plugwires...
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Vairs are not weird... DIFFERENT LOOKING.....but use similar parts to a SBC! 
Really!

The big thing is AIR Cooling....and 2 or 4 carbs...

Both "no brainers", after you understand them...

Air cooled runs cooler than Water cooled....just cannot have any Hot air 
recirculating back into the engine compartment.

To COOL a hot engine..you rev it up!   shift down a gear..

You just need to think of the 6 cylinder engine as  2 -  3 cylinder engines 
when working with the carbs.....

The carbs???   Just a  1 bbl  Rochester 2GC  1/2 the parts...

Syncronizing / Balancing ??    Super simple.....after you "understand" what 
you are doing. A 3 minute job!




Matt Nall
All Vairs!
http://members.aol.com/patiomatt
Lots of Corvair Technical info!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at unctv.org>

> Okay, I like to think of myself as semi-literate in auto mechanical stuff.
> I can usually divine what might be wrong with an engine even if I can't
> always fix it myself.
>
> But I feel quite lost at sea now that I've entered in the Corvair world.
> Boy, these things are weird!
> I feel like I'm having to un-learn about half of everthing I ever learned
> about good old-fashioned small-blocks!
>
> At term I hear tossed-out a lot on this list and elsewhere is "dropped
> valve" (or valve seat sometimes).
> Sounds like a common/ recurring problem.
>
> I never to my recollection heard of this malady in the small-block
> world.
>
> What is it?  How common is it?  Is there a way to prevent it or at
> least lessen it's likelihood?  Should I live in fear that my engine is
> going to "drop a valve" at any minute?