Corvair Forum

Not sure I understand the white dots part. The scribe mark on top of balancer that's colored silver should be your timing mark. You can take white chalk or silver sharpie and mark your recommended timing on the indexer, then line 'em up.

Been fighting with the car for the last couple days. Tried to get clutch adjusted, shifter/shaft adjusted, and belly heater duct in. For some reason, none of them are going easy. Still in the fight though! Did finally get the clutch sorted. I worked on it for a couple hours, reading the books, readi...

Good info. I'll be starting this project in a couple days. Thanks for the thread!

Ugh. Didn't know that, lol. Guess I need the manual open for everything! Bob had shipped it to me with a dummy switch installed, and it was a little touchy getting the threads started like the plunger was trying to push off to the side. I'm going to assume that the ball bearing is already there, but...

Nice!

Last thing for the day. When I got my resealed trans/diff from Bob Coffin, I also got a new backup switch that has been wrapped and carefully protected in a little jar all this time. I guess the little prongs are somewhat tender, so didn't want them broken off. Didn't snap a pic of it on the bench, ...

Had some time to kill, so decided to start on something a little more fun and gratifying. Acquired a street yenko lid awhile back from someone on here, but don't remember who. I do remember that they were great to work with and had no issues! Not cleaned up, repaired, or flapped, but wanted to do a ...

Found a nice graph on here posted by Brad, so decided to check out thermistor as much as possible before giving up on it. So, top post would just spin and no reading at all on the gauge while it was installed. Pulled it out and if I lightly compressed the thermistor without the weight of the wiring ...

I had a set like that, put the non-powered versions. I even test fitted them in the car and they are great! Mine were sitting too long and getting deteriorated, so sold them to another member. Nice flat tracks on the bottom though, and having an up/down function was nice. My new seats don't. Great j...

Nice!

I did, worked out well. 2" lower in front, 1" lower in back. I had them use the HD spring rate.

Okay so 2 steps forward wouldn't be any good without 1 step back, so had a couple issues surface now that she will run pretty well. Issue #1-- was easily resolved and my own fault, of course. I had no Gen/Alt light with the key on. I had replaced all my dash lights with LEDs a while back, but never ...

Also re-did my throttle linkage adjustments. Did it a little red-necky, but seemed to work out okay. Only 2 adjustment points, one at trans and one in engine compartment. I did NOT put pedal all the way to the floor, I don't have any carpet or anything in there yet, so put a 1/2" spacer behind ...

Got a chance to work the carb issue this morning. Had some success and learned a bit more since this is the first time I've pulled the carb apart some. So always a win-win there. I didn't want to re-disturb (Again) my newly sealed carb bases, so just left the bottom half mounted and pulled the top o...

Thx guys.

Dang, I didn't mean to write 30, I meant 10. I think the manual spec I saw was 7-13ft-lb.

Good catch man!

On tomorrows agenda if I get time, will be pulling at least the top off the driver primary to see if the idle circuit and venturi are clogged up. I think I just waited WAY to long from getting the motor back and installing. Years, I think. I can get her to run, and can ALMOST get the tuning down, bu...