<VV> Head Work

[Tony Underwood]

At 02:10 PM 8/15/2009, Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
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>In a message dated 8/14/2009 6:45:03 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>bgilbert at redshift.bc.ca writes:
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>1)  What is the standard procedure for removing valve  seats?
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>The most commonly used procedure involves driving up a long hill in  hot
>weather, then immediately coasting down the other side using engine
>compression to slow you down.  Then a seat comes loose.
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Been there done that Asheville National Convention spent most of 
convention on my back under Corsa ragtop doing impromptu head 
replacement tech session in parking lot.   Spent a LOT of time 
following a truck up that mountain going too fast for 1st gear and 
too slow for 2nd to not lug the engine through an endless series of 
S-curves.   Of course then there's that long steep downhill 
straightaway on the other side of the mountain that stretches from 
here to Kansas.

I was halfway down the hill in 3rd before it occurred to me, 
"Supercooling is bad juju!" but by that time it was evidently already 
too late...




...no better way to make an impression than to pull into the host 
hotel parking lot going CLATTERCLATTER.




tony..