Corvair Forum

Back in the day I would get the 4x6 8 ohm speakers from Radio Shack and they sounded really good. I never had a radio fail because of that.

The trunk can be an ice chest! I have done this before where I filled the trunk with ice and then filled with the drink of your choice or variety!

I think cheaper shoes are better for us because we want a soft compound and more expensive shoes are often hard for longer wearing. Jim Brandberg Isanti, MN CorvairRepair.com The current batch of brake shoes seem to me to be a carbon metailc base. I think they stop very well and seem to last a long...

If you are trying to ridge ream I have always just opened my vise up and grab lightly on the bottom flat fin. Tight enough to hold what you are doing but not enough to permanently distort the cylinder. Then when I hone I put the cylinder in my vise again but I clamp on the small flat fins at the stu...

The ONLY thing the Uni-Syn tool measures is air flow. You only want to do idle speed to match the floater from side to side. The mixture may change where the ball floats but only because of idle speed and flowing more air but do not do that.
Idle speed only!

Since you mentioned Corvan in your title that is what I'm going to talk about. The center of any van roof is not super strong, you can easily deform it if you crawl, walk or even pit something heavy on it. You can see the ribs on the inside but the real strength is close to the edge of the roof by t...

I took a quick look over on the other forum but I couldn't find it but then I didn't sign in either. Here are the pictures I posted of the mods to make a primary shoe. I just used a hacksaw being careful not to hit to hard on the base material. I then ust used my sharp putty knife to tap off the bon...

I wanted to come but with having to fix the race car and a customer coming here from out of town next week, I just can't make it.
I have been there before and always a good time to be had.

You probably will have to have them order the shoes but you should be able to get them local. What I have found with the new shoes is you may have to shorten the primary shoe a little and then that either a drill bit or a round file and open up the park brake hole and the self adjuster cup hole. All...

Brad Bodie puts a list of ads in his post that is a mile long!

Be sure and send me an email with your address, all I am asking is $5 to help with shipping. The $5 is for those that have purchased from me.

If you want one for one of Lon's old idlers then it is $15 plus shipping. Also I offer a bushing upgrade to Lon's tensioners also.

First off, what's with all the adds????? It's been mentioned that you need to look at your tire sidewall max cold pressure. From there I use a ratio formula similar to what the original manufacturer did. As an example for a 44 psi tire in the front I would not quite go to less than half the pressure...

Wow, you guys go to some elaborate stuff to pull engines! Back in the early 70's I used 2 of the Corvair jacks to pull an engine, after that for probably40 years I used a floor jack with either a 2x10 or a 2x12 piece of wood. I would get a late engine out in 20 minutes and the complete drivetrain in...

If Craig can't find his I have several.

I have the same screen name here. I have a spring upgrade that just may keep the idler more steady. I have posted several places about the extra spring but apparently you didn't see any of those posts. I offer a dampener spring that goes on the inside of the original spring, it seems to help the osc...

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 dow...