<VV> Dropped a valve seat 65 brier

[corvairduval at cox.net]

I agree with Bryan. Although you roll the dice and can win with a used
head, I suggest having the seats redone by one of our machine work
suppliers that knows Corvair heads. IIRC, that would be Steve Goodman, Mike
LeVeque and others I don't RC. ggg

I have dropped too many seats over the years to trust unknown heads. But I
have several running Corvairs on "untrusted" heads at the moment. So I do
roll the dice when the situation warrants. A $50 used head is way cheaper
than $500 seat replacement. I also spent the money to have two sets of
heads ready to build engines that have been re-seated by "professionals"
above.

This also shows that 95 heads are not imune to dropping seats.

Frank DuVal

Frank DuVal
Original Message:
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From: Bryan Blackwell bryan at skiblack.com



Hi Mike,

Since the seat is only loose, you might check into the cost of having the
head rebuilt with new seats.  I'm personally a little leery of putting
unknown history heads on engines these days, too many of them have been
overheated.

--Bryan

On Mar 4, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Mike Moyer wrote:

> Pulled head found #4 intake seat loose.
> anybody got a 3856743 95hp head spare for reasonable cost?


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