Corvair Forum

X2 for kart's post.
First image is from manual showing witness marts lining up with timing mark. I've put white paint on some so that a quick glance is all that is needed to inspect, even though the one shown is a rebuild with some kind of epoxy and I've never seen one of those fail.

>>-- I was surprised that the CORSA directors are volunteers and maybe too much is being expected of volunteers. If folks want CORSA to be professional (fair, balanced, and held to standards), then they have to pay folks to run it like a professional company.<< About CORSA being a volunteer organiza...

I am not an automotive machinist.
Someone told me that Ray Sedman uses a .008" interference fit for replacement seats as well as for the deep seats.
I've read that motorcycle machinists often use .003' - .005" and I think some of the Corvair machinists may do that as well.

>>I’ve disconnected the fuel line at the rubber hose in the rear. << That's the FRONT of the engine. The cylinders are numbered from the rear #1, to the front #6. When viewed from the REAR of the engine, the crankshaft turns counter-clockwise, CCW. The flywheel/ torque converter is on the front of t...

>>"The GM engineers know everything" is a bad argument.<<

Ok, I can't argue that, but between GM and JCWhitney, GM never sold toilet paper oil filters.

The old chevy stovebolts had the coil mounted vertically, but not the way some of you would think is correct. In the late 50's they flipped them over with the terminals on top. If I were to guess, they flipped them about the same time Dwell meters and Tachs became readily available. You needed to be...

>>My favorite is folks drilling holes and putting screws through the bulkhead INTO THE GAS TANK.<< My Sister bought a new 1965 Evening Orchid Corsa. A few weeks later she took it down to Muntz Stereo on Rosco, next to Galpin Ford and had a stereo installed. The next time she filled the tank, she cou...

>>I went to the Mopar Spring Fling in Van Nuys today. << I was there, but didn't bother going into the swap meet section. The turn out of Mopars was the smallest I've seen. I'd guess 1/3 of the 500 cars that CPW - Chrysler Performance West expected . I talked to a guy that drove his '05 Magnum HEMI ...

It has been on craigslist - San Diego for quite awhile with a lot more pictures.

https://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/cto ... 84876.html

Sorry, the first one you posted.

Regulator on the right is the original styl Reg with relays. The Reg on the left is the newer Semi-conductor style. The tab under the Reg is attached directly to Reg terminal #4. Terminal #4 is the Exciter Circuit connecting to the Gen Light and Ignition Switch. DO NOT GROUND THIS TAB. The Gen Light...

>>The vacuum advance hooked to manifold vacuum would not make it ineffective at cruise it would just be active at idle.<< During cruise the Primary carb would be at part throttle and the Secondary carb would be completely closed or just cracked. I've never used carbs with mixture screws as Secondary...

The picture below from Clark's looks the same with right front as normal Primary position, with same linkage.
It looks in photo from 6T5VAIR that vacuum advance is connected to Ported Advance port on Secondary carb, which would make it ineffective in cruise.

>>Dad replaced all wheel bearings 20 years ago and i try to put 200 miles on the car every time i visit. <<

Unless I missed something about the condition of the car, why don't you just drive it to CO.

That HF bleeder is just a vacuum bleeder and I think it would be a lot simpler to just use a hand vacuum pump. In most cases you still have to wrap the bleeder valve threads with tape to keep from sucking air past the threads. I do like the looks of that auto-refill bottle. If it works as advertised...

No one wants to call it a distribution block? Distribution block / pressure differential switch / valve. Whatever . Part of the problem may be that some of the pressure differential valves actually use a separate switch. In the photo, the item circled in green is an actual switch. The electrical gro...

Dave 'Cal Worthington' Motohead