Steve: just a thought but it happened to me. the end of a rocker arm snapped off and it was so small that I didn't see it until I was putting it back on the angine after a complete rebuild and very fruatrated that I couldn't find anything wrong. new rocker arm-it worked great. Russ Breckenridge,MN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Glover" <kr...@cox.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:17 PM Subject: KR> Correction on Crank
> Hi Netter's, > > Well, It appears I had spoken too soon. All initial indications pointed to > a broken crank on the VW. We pulled the engine down and did not see > anything unusual. I took the crank over to a well known machine shop in the > area and had it magnafluxed and dye glowed. Zip, zilch, nada.... No cracks > anywhere. Now we are at a total loss for any explanation of the vibration. > We will recheck the prop for balance but I think it was too severe of > vibration for that. Besides, once it was repaired, refinished, and > balanced, it ran really smooth. > > I apologize for the false info. Now I have no idea what could have caused > the problem. Both ignitions were checked with the same results on both. > The heads and valves looked fine after disassembly. Carb functioned properly > as far as acceleration. I am using a Revflow which has not given me any > trouble in 200 hours. If anyone has any ides, I'm listening. We are > putting the engine back together and I will fly it until the Corvair is > ready. Hopefully whatever the anomaly was, with the rebuild (Again), it > will be gone. > > Steve Glover > KR-2 N902G > AJO, Ca > <kr...@cox.net> > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
