<VV> Help needed in Ft. Myers, FL

[Dave Thompson]

About a year ago, My wife (we are separated) said that her jeep was making a
bad knocking noise. I took it around the block and realized that it was bad
rod knock. When I checked the oil, there wasn't any in it. When I asked what
happened, she said that the oil pressure gauge stayed at zero for the last
two weeks or so. I said " Didn't you check the oil?" She said that if there
was a problem, she thought there would be a red light. The engine was blown.
She now drives my Expedition and my Spyder is my daily driver. 

Moral to the story, The driver needs to know what they are looking for on
the instrument panel AND know basic maintenance.

Dave Thompson

-----Original Message-----
From: J R Read_HML [mailto:hmlinc at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 1:54 PM
To: FrankCB; virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Help needed in Ft. Myers, FL

What, the red light caused by the non-functioning belt is not enough to tell

you to shut down the engine?  If that is the case, then is that analog 
needle going to have a greater impact on the brain?   Hmmmm....
Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "FrankCB" <frankcb at aol.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Help needed in Ft. Myers, FL


>     This is why EVERY Corvair needs a CHT (cylinder head temp) gauge.  Why

> would a person buy a Corvair unless they knew someone nearby who could 
> service and repair it?????
>     Frank "rhetorically" Burkhard
>
> In a message dated 06/30/09 14:57:36 Eastern Daylight Time, 
> gyoungwolf at earthlink.net writes:
> I received a call from a new Corvair owner in Ft. Myers who thinks she 
> might have ruined her 1968 110 engine by losing the belt. Said the car 
> stopped and she saw white smoke from the exhaust.
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