<VV> Descending a mountain (was valve seats revisited)(HUMOR)

[Ron]

Don't think about it and just do it like I've been for the last 35 years and 
everything will be fine.  I drove over the Cascades and back this weekend 
and never gave it a thought, 65 mph both ways but I don't try to go faster 
continuously.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "shortle" <shortle556 at earthlink.net>
To: "Daniel Monasterio" <dmonasterio at hotmail.com>; <vairtec at optonline.net>; 
"VirtualVairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Descending a mountain (was valve seats revisited)(HUMOR)


> So out of curiosity, how am I supposed to drive up and down some of the 
> real mountains I encounter at times (to keep my valve seats in)?
> Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado 81301
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Daniel Monasterio <dmonasterio at hotmail.com>
>>Sent: May 7, 2012 6:34 PM
>>To: vairtec at optonline.net, VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>>Subject: Re: <VV> Descending a mountain (was valve seats revisited)(HUMOR)
>>
>>
>>You lead me to a better idea.... a rear installed parachute.
>>Daniel
>>
>>> Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 19:24:35 -0400
>>> From: Vairtec at optonline.net
>>> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>>> Subject: <VV> Descending a mountain (was valve seats revisited)
>>>
>>> Randy Hook wrote:
>>>
>>> > if you don't descend  the mountain in gear, how else, exactly, are you 
>>> > supposed to do  it?   Please
>>> > don't say "brakes," as some mountains are tougher than  that.
>>>
>>> When the CORSA convention was in Seattle in 1983 I drove there from NJ
>>> in my 1962 Greenbrier.  Part of the convention was a tour up Mount
>>> Rainier.   What goes up, must come down.  To control speed on the
>>> downhill trek while saving brakes, engine, and transmission, my
>>> girlfriend and I simply opened the two front doors.  Greenbrier doors
>>> open to a full 90 degrees.  We each planted a foot on a door and held
>>> them fully open.
>>>
>>> We had to let them close every once in a while when a car came in the
>>> opposite direction, but then we just propped them open again if the
>>> speed rose too much.  After a while we got adept at controlling speed by
>>> varying the degree to which the doors were open.
>>>
>>> Unbeknownst to us at the time, Ken Klingaman was in the car in front of
>>> us and he later explained that he was laughing to the point of tears at
>>> the sight of Dumbo the Greenbrier with its giant flapping ears...
>>>
>>>
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