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Date:         Tue, 26 May 2009 07:11:23 -0400
Reply-To:     Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
Subject:      Re: nasty AMC exhaust valve, photos here
Comments: To: Paul Guzyk <paullist08@GUZYK.COM>

IS it your Syncro camper Paul?

Can you show pictures of the other side of the valves? Where is the rest? How are the keepers????? If keepers failed the valve could get in and that would explain the failure.

Ben http://www.benplace.com/

On Sat, 23 May 2009 22:27:51 -0400, Paul Guzyk <paullist08@GUZYK.COM> wrote:

>Instead of going camping this weekend, I decided to work on one my vans with a stuck engine (silly me). > >Pulled engine, noticed two AMC heads installed by a previous owner. > >Pulled #1,2 head, noticed this fun stuff inside; #2 exhaust valve was broken off and banging around inside the cylinder. I guess that is why the engine would not turn :) > >http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj285/baboonia/vanagon/vwvalve1.jpg >http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj285/baboonia/vanagon/vwvalve2.jpg >http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj285/baboonia/vanagon/vwvalve3.jpg >http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj285/baboonia/vanagon/vwvalve4.jpg > >Perhaps this is why everyone says when you use AMC heads -- you should install better exhaust valves than the ones that come from AMC?


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