No ;
NOT bad design , just too cheap ~ they should have used one piece stainless steel valves like we did whenever we rebuilt one .
Although I prefer the single port engines , the twin port 1600's that broke most of those # 3 exhaust valves, were good too .
The _only_ valve I ever broke was in a low compression 1954 36hp engine when I was abusding it on a hot day in my '53 " Zwitter " Split Window VW Beetle..
-Nate
Max wrote:
>
> Everyone I knew, that drove a VW including myself sucked that valve. I learned how to work on cars at a VW shop. As a piece of shop art he had a piston with the top of said valve melted into it. Of course Nates gonna say, bad design. That was the one that got robbed of cooling by the oil cooler tower. In fact that was the guy who got me into my first Mercedes, the 1959 190D. Life in the 70's. Max
>
> --- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, BStromsoe <bstromsoe@> wrote:
> >
> > My wife sucked said #3 valve near Avenal as she headed back for SF to LA. I got
> > to rescue her by driving from SF to Avenal to LA, and then back to SF to drop
> > off the sis-in-laws car. I think I flew back to LA and then went back for the 70
> > van 3 weeks later. Suffice it to say, my wife has never forgotten (35 yrs) that
> > escapade nor the field laborers she met in the motel where I picked her up in
> > the morning. So, I discovered that #3 valve early in my life and have never
> > forgotten that brilliant piece of engineering, nor did I ever again drive 80mph
> > on the #5 in 90F weather.
> >
> > brian from la verne, ca
> >
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