<VV> Heater hose overheats engine?

[J R Read_HML]

Allows the cooling air to escape out the top side of the shroud without 
passing over the cylinder heads (cooling fins).

Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at unctv.org>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 1:52 PM
Subject: <VV> Heater hose overheats engine?


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>
> From: "Jedd Hebrink" <jhebrink at anvilcom.com>
> Subject: <VV> 66 Monza 110 PG engine knock - mystery solved
>
> Well, I think I finally found the cause of the knock in my recently 
> rebuilt
> 66 110 PG. Turns out, I spun the#5 rod bearing. Probably several possible
>
> reasons for this, including a disconnected front (through the firewall) 
> heater/
>
> defroster hose which would have overheated #5 and #3 especially.
>
> ============================================
>
> Hmmmmm.... I'm confused, how would a missing heater hose cause the
>
> engine to overHEAT? It seems more to me that excess 'hot air' escaping
>
> from the area around the heads would keep the engine cooler....
>
> I've been driving around for a while with a rippped-up heater hose- am I 
> risking
>
> efffing up my engine?!!!!!
>
>
>
> CJW
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>
>
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