<VV> Crankshaft Question? - Now base metal

[Western Canada CORSA]

While we're on the subject of crankshafts.

Has anybody ever heard that there is a difference between the standard and
nitrided cranks in terms of the metal they were constructed with?

Regards,
Joel

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Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 12:23 PM
To: DUMERAUF at cs.com; virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Crankshaft Question?


 
In a message dated 2/3/2008 11:13:57 AM US Mountain Standard Time,  
DUMERAUF at cs.com writes:

I hope I  don't open up a fire storm here, but I have to ask: How many have
taken off  .020 on the crankshaft and had problems of it 
breaking?
A friend  recently told me that they tend to break at .020. I have never 
heard 
this  before. 



Terry,
More Corvair myths. They just crop up like lightening-caused fires. It's  
just not true. 
 
What likely might happen is that someone runs a LM crank without a harmonic

damper--just a plain pulley. Then the crank  develops some cracks. Years  
later the cracks have grown to large cracks and just one day the crank
breaks.  
That get blamed on whatever the owner just did.
Regards,
Bob Helt



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