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Topic: Pulls to left

Last week my motor dropped a valve in #3 cylinder. I pulled the
motor and pulled the head, and found the valve had stuck in the
piston and did very little damage.(Lucky Me!) Well to make a short
story long, the only head I had laying around was a dual prt head so
I cut my manifold and with a little finangiling I installed the dual
port head on the engine after cutting the tin a little bit and
shorting the two middle upper studs and using part of a radiator
hose to seal up the connection at the dual port manifold. After I
got done I started the engine and it runs GREAT! EXCEPT... Now when
I accelerate hard (like trying to pass a Semi) the steering wheel
pulls hard to the left. I don't remember this happining before I
changed the head. Do anyone think that it is doing this because the
left head is pulling more gas now?
   Jerry

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Re: Pulls to left

Jerry in Roanoke wrote:
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> Last week my motor dropped a valve in #3 cylinder. I pulled the
> motor and pulled the head, and found the valve had stuck in the
> piston and did very little damage.(Lucky Me!) Well to make a short
> story long, the only head I had laying around was a dual prt head so
> I cut my manifold and with a little finangiling I installed the dual
> port head on the engine after cutting the tin a little bit and
> shorting the two middle upper studs and using part of a radiator
> hose to seal up the connection at the dual port manifold. After I
> got done I started the engine and it runs GREAT! EXCEPT... Now when
> I accelerate hard (like trying to pass a Semi) the steering wheel
> pulls hard to the left. I don't remember this happining before I
> changed the head. Do anyone think that it is doing this because the
> left head is pulling more gas now?
>   Jerry   
>
>
>
> @@ I think this is because you hold your crack pipe in the left
side of your mouth.
>
>
>
>

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Re: Pulls to left

Jerry (Yancey is that you again?): More "power" on the left bank of
the engine might cause an out-of-balance loading on the crankshaft,
but the crank drives the flywheel which drives the Tranny, so you
shouldn't see "left hand" power sent to the righthand drive wheel
(to account for the car "pulling to the left"). To me, a hard
pulling steering wheel says maybe your brakes are out of adjustment?
Are you sure you're not related to Yancey? Clancy

Jerry in Roanoke wrote:
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> Last week my motor dropped a valve in #3 cylinder. I pulled the
> motor and pulled the head, and found the valve had stuck in the
> piston and did very little damage.(Lucky Me!) Well to make a short
> story long, the only head I had laying around was a dual prt head so
> I cut my manifold and with a little finangiling I installed the dual
> port head on the engine after cutting the tin a little bit and
> shorting the two middle upper studs and using part of a radiator
> hose to seal up the connection at the dual port manifold. After I
> got done I started the engine and it runs GREAT! EXCEPT... Now when
> I accelerate hard (like trying to pass a Semi) the steering wheel
> pulls hard to the left. I don't remember this happining before I
> changed the head. Do anyone think that it is doing this because the
> left head is pulling more gas now?
>   Jerry   
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>

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Re: Pulls to left

Sorry Clancy, not me! Me and the boys have been down to the river
ramping our 51 split, seeing if we can beat our record of 3
barn-door buses (side-to-side, not end-to-end.) I am telling you,
since we put that Ford Escort motor engine in it, that 51 does
fly!
          Yancey

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Re: Pulls to left

Mount oversize tire on right-rear, inflate as needed

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Yancey wrote:
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>
> Sorry Clancy, not me! Me and the boys have been down to the river
> ramping our 51 split, seeing if we can beat our record of 3
> barn-door buses (side-to-side, not end-to-end.) I am telling you,
> since we put that Ford Escort motor engine in it, that 51 does
> fly!
>          Yancey
>
>

Are you keeping the crotch cooler closed? I found having it open
really slows you down, you might be able to get a 4th barndoor in
there...