<VV> Which OIL? Re: Doc opinion

[shortle]

Bob, are you using an oil temp. gauge and monitoring it? I am wondering where the oil temp was at when the damge occured. Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado 81301


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>Bob, were you using a SYNTHETIC engine oil at the time the damage occurred?  Usually they're good up to 450 deg.F. which is quite a bit higher than conventional oils.
>     Frank Burkhard
>     Boonton, NJ
>
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>
>Hi,
>And on a somewhat related note, I seriously damaged a freshly built 3.1
>in
>my UltraVan about 18 months ago. I did all the required deflashing, etc.
>but
>made a huge mistake in not installing additional cooling power in the
>form
>of an external oil cooler. No problem for short trips around home but on
>the
>first long trip, up a multi-mile very steep hill in the Rockies with a
>full
>load of vacation supplies I cooked the oil and damaged all 6 pistons
>and
>cylinders beyond repair. An expensive lesson and with 20:20
>hindsight
>totally preventable.
>So cooling is VERY important when you stress
>Corvair engines beyond their
>normal "in-car" mode.
>Regards,
>Bob
>PS I am
>rebuilding it as we speak and adding a fan driven external
>oil
>cooler!
>
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>Appreciate Doc's detailed
>dissertation on FC engines and driving.
>Agree they need to be handled
>differently than cars.
>Have experienced engine failures on Ramp and Brier
>bought from long-time
>owners that were tuned by "professional" Vair mechanics
>but lacked suggested
>modifications.
>Many of us are not gear heads and depend
>on others for service and repairs.
>We need to know the realities of our lovely
>old trucks.
>Jack by the Big Beach
>'64 Greenbrier Deluxe
>'66 Corsa soft
>top
>plus several waiters
>   
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