<VV> Theoretical recommendations.

[Charles Fregeau]

One of the things I want to know is, why did the mechanic grind the valves
at 41,000 miles?  I've never had another car either my Dad or myself or my
brother owned over the past 40 years or so that we had to do anything to the
valves, except I owned a Toyota 3K-C engine with mechanical lifters.  Those
had to be adjusted, but other than that, I've not had to do one thing to the
valves on the engines I've owned and driven.

BTW, we had the mechanic do the same thing with our Corvair as you did with
the belts.  He put one on so tight he cracked one of the generator mounts.
Also, I could hear him tuning the twin carbs, sometimes it took him a whole
hour.  His shop was a block and a half from our house and I had to go by it
to get most anywhere in town.  Heard the old engine galloping away while he
was working on it.

Charles Fregeau

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From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Pleau
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 6:04 PM
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Theoretical recommendations.

When I was in High School, I use to toss a couple of belts a week.  I always
assumed it was because I wasn't putting them on tight enough, so I would put
the next one on tighter.  

I was using a crowbar one day and snapped one of the ears on the generator
mount.  When I got back to Corvair in the early 80's and joined (Silicon)
Valley CORSA and CORSAS and learned to tension the belt properly and almost
all my belt problems went away.

I can only think of one belt problem when I daily drove Corvairs from 1984
through 2004 and that belt had 13K miles on it when it let go.  I also had a
belt failure on my Greenbrier right after I bought it.  I had ordered a new
belt and a spare and received them the day before and they were sitting on
my workbench.  Debbie gave me a hard time because she had to go from work to
our house and open up the box and bring me the belt.

dp

-----Original Message-----
From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Charles Fregeau
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:32 PM
To: 'Bryan Blackwell'
Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Theoretical recommendations.

<snip>

I was also told by an experienced Corvair owner I know that we shouldn't
have had to replace the belts as often as we did, that the mechanic we had
in those days was overtightening the belts a bit.  (We always carried a
spare belt, just because.)  

<snip>

Charles


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