Corvair Forum

Good comments. Keep in mind on new cars the maximum COOL and HOT rating is usually posted on the body door frame or in the manual and often different than maximum tire pressure. Since the Corvair is older some guesswork is needed. The maximum tire pressure ON THE TIRE is just that! If a tire says MA...

If you don't sell it, then instead of throwing the stuff in the trash, I suggest you give it to Jeff at California Corvair.

The worn out door panels have trim that can be removed. Years ago I bought door panel trim from Jeff when nobody else had it.

Unless he was the sitting president of the club, he had no right to interfere with the individual club meetings and invitees. He needs to go. He is trying to ruin clubs, like he ruined the CCF. Some of the local Corvair guys met up for cars and coffee and someone started the discussion on the infig...

Those may be a bit noisy no matter what adjustment you use if they are the fast leakdown also. It sounds like they are using the tiny lash as the "anti" pump up feature. You can do the same with any lifter but then again I'll say that all of that is not needed because I run a full turn do...

The 60's used I believe a 1/4" rivet and the rest used I believe 5/16". GM must have noticed something fairly soon to change the size after 1 year. Interesting. In 1960 the engine produced an advertised 80HP, although a 95HP engine became available. In 1961 there was an optional 98HP engi...

Some of the octane variation is due to how much ethanol is in the gasoline. [/color] I call BS on that. Our pumps say "up to 10% Ethanol added" for the fuel I am talking about. The 15% and 85% are different animals not in this discussion. Your 91 is "up to 10% ethanol" too, righ...

"GM had little experience with riveting flywheels" Isn't that the very definition of incompetent? "not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully." WOW Joel you are on a roll today - :wave: Benzinger said that BECAUSE GM HAD LITTLE EXPERIENCE WITH RIVETS...

Thank you for your replies. I had a lot on my "plate" the past few days and it made my "plate" theoretically too heavy and I hurt my back. Hopefully I can get the car jacked up and I'll look at the transmission mounts soon. I did observe them before everything went back in and t...

Our gas prices here fluctuate between .25 and .50 per gallon depending on the day of the week "but we have no control over the price of fuel" (whoever "we" is). Back about 1981 I had a couple of guys in my youth group who got jobs gassing up planes at the local airport. They oft...

"The GM engineers know everything" is a bad argument. They didn't. If they did they would have used hot rivets in the flywheel and Viton push rod tube o-rings. Viton was available. A lot of things were done because it was cheap or because they could get away with it when warranties were 1...

Veeery interesting. Well this needs some investigation. Having not been to many states west of the Misssissippi, I only noticed lower pump octane in the high elevations of certain western states, like Colorado's 85 pump octane. Everywhere else I saw 92/93. Now I need to see why "they" did...

Well, I was able to get the filter off with some creative use of an adjustable wrench and a belt-style oil filter wrench. Obviously there is no way I have torqued the new filter to spec, but it seems close enough for government work. Will certainly look into converting it to a more useful and frien...

As someone had predicted, the problem with my '65 140 engine was a too-small main jet in one of the primary carburetors. The fellow that rebuilt my engine didn't match the primaries (one was 1965 vintage, the other just older), and the carb rebuilder installed a drilled 0.046" jet in the old c...

Stock location for ignition coil on AC Corvairs is horizontal on the rear body panel, just like Gasman has his mounted. Same with '56 Buicks. They work a long time, like almost forever. Just saying, it works, don't trust stuff you hear on the internet! OMG, the coil will fail if mounted anyway but ...

Since today's 91octane R+M/2 equals the old 96 octane RON that worked in the Corvair, I use it in my 140HP cars and have not had a detonation issue. Just me. [/color] What altitude are you running your Corvairs? Down here at sea level we run 93 to eliminate ping. :tu: Sea level give or take a few h...

Sometimes the hood bracket is far enough off center that it will bind on the latch frame. Have someone hold the key turned and then CAREFULL pry on the hood to see if it will open. Not saying that is your issue, but worth a try. Picture indicate a four carburetor 140HP engine. Not that common with t...