<VV> Control Rod Removal - Worked!

[Ron]

It Worked Just Now!
What I did on my '62 wagon was to flood the four nuts with PB Blaster and 
Aero Kroil  a couple of times a day for several days and then I used a 1" 
long box wrench and a small scissors jack and it loosened with a loud pop. 
Did it help that it's a hundred degrees out?  We'll never know but I found a 
new set of rubber cushions in a stash of stuff I acquired some time ago so 
now I can install them with no torching or sawing.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Byron Comp" <byron.comp at yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Control Rod Removal


> Ken,
>
> If by "Fish in a barrel" you mean how easy that procedure should be, I 
> wish
> you'd been here to do it. All I succeeded in doing with the heat was to 
> melt the
> rubber bushing around the rod and when it cooled it was that much harder 
> to
> break it loose. I ended up cutting the bolt just behing the front nut, 
> between
> there and the big washer, and then driving it out the back. And that 
> bushing
> wouldn't let go for nothin'. I finally was able to pry the front washer 
> off and
> then drove the rod out, but man, what a job. Especially in 98 degree heat 
> with
> only a small window fan. Let me out of Florida!! ;-/)
>
>>Message: 3
>>Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 20:23:26 -0500
>>From: "deltainc" <deltainc at grm.net>
>>Subject: Re: <VV> Control Rod Removal
>>To: "vv" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>>Message-ID: <9E67B1C72BAB4CD49FAF4D2A96CC620C at deltaa5d58061e>
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>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Rick Norris" <ricknorris at suddenlink.net>
>>Subject: Re: <VV> Control Rod Removal
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Byron,
>>> Go to Homie D-pot or other store and buy a bottle of MAPP gas (yellow
>>> canister)
>>>I use it all the time and it will heat up your nuts
>>> to red hot! DOH!
>>>
>>> Rick Norris
>>>*********
>>Fish in a barrel; ken at deltawerkes
>>
>>
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