Corvair Forum

I made to 71 with the same attitude. In the words of (sort of) Patrick Henry, "If this be lack of common sense, let us make the most of it."

Thanks Ted, I do have the pipe out now, and I had pushed the grommet at the top inward but the hoses came off anyway while I was jiggling the tank to get it to fall. I had a pan to catch the last of the stale gas under the tank, but when it fell out it hit the pan and spilled the gas all over the pl...

I got the tank out today, it comes out with the crossmember in place pretty easy. The vent hose ripped in half and the fill hose slipped off the tank. I suppose if the pipes had to come out along with the tank it would be harder. Getting the new tank in might be more of a problem, but that's somethi...

Thanks for the replies! I worked on it today and got the sender out. What a mess - the entire thing is coated with black "tar" of some sort. I drained about a quart of really stinky old gasoline. The bottom of the tank seems to have a bunch of that tar crap too. A new gas tank would be the...

The tube coming out of the sending unit / delivery tube on our 65 is plugged solid with muck of some sort. We have a new sending unit - what is involved in getting the old one out? It appears the ring holding it in doesn't have threads, or does it? Maybe just pries out?
Thanks for any advise.
Jim S.

I asked Clark's tech. service about this and they said - "There should be no problems adjusting, the camber is still adjusted at the cam and will push the bottom of the wheel in and out with just a little more resistance than with the rubber bushing and your toe in is adjusted by loosening the ...

Thanks - the spherical bushings make sense, but we should probably just order the normal rubber ones. The I'm working on the car for someone else, he had ordered the poly ones.

I have another question, concerning the bushings in the struts and the one on the main arm. We have the Clark's poly bushings (C1899P and C2051P) and after installing them I started thinking (yup - I know that's probably where things start to go wrong) that those solid bushings will make it impossib...

I'm still waiting to get the bearings and seals. When they come I'll try that method - it sure makes sense to me!
Thanks everyone.

Maybe I got lucky on the one side I have apart, but I didn't have much trouble getting the yoke off or the spindle out of the housing. I made a 1/2'' plate with the four holes to match the u-joint bolts and used grade 8 1/4 - 20's. I threaded the center of this plate 5/8 fine to match a shaft from a...

Thanks a lot - the pictures helped. I have the one apart now. It's not such a big job once you know what you are dealing with.

I am working on the rear strut arms - replace all the bushings, spindle bearings, seals etc. I have one unit out on the bench and have the u-joint yoke off, but now need to push out the spindle. The book we have shows a tool J-21831 (two of them actually) being used to jack between the spindle and t...

I got it out today, supporting it with a bunch of wood and jack stands. It's a Corsa with a 110 - 2 carb motor (TO422YN). It turns real easy, like it has no compression at all. At least it's not stuck tight! The dash panel has a tach and a a gauge that says "manifold pressure inches hg" Wa...

I'm not exactly trying to make it easier to take the unit out, it's just that I don't think the outside body rails will hold the weight of the car. It's really rusty. Wisconsin salt has taken it's toll for sure. When I look under there, I don't see any place to put a stand that I would trust.

We are working on a nice 65 coupe, but now we bought a lm convertable for parts (cheap- $300). It has a 110 motor and a four speed. It's really rusty and my friend wants me to strip it for parts. The bottom is so bad I'm leery of supporting it on stands and going under it. I am considering tipping i...

Those are 1/4 -20 bolts in aluminum. I don't know what the book would call for, but 100 foot pounds is extremely tight - no little bolt in aluminum could possibly be tightened that much. Maybe it said 100 inch pounds? The holes could all be heli-coiled to fix them. Usually when something like an oil...