Corvair Forum

Hi y'all, Been a bit lazy, introduced myself and taken advice but given little back so far so time to post some updates... I shipped my car back last August and not really done much to it. Have had a few teething problems but hey ho, onwards and upwards. image.jpeg Well, I thought we had charging is...

Fair one. My engine has covered +/- 126K, does that make it slightly worn or well worn? It doesn't belch smoke etc but naturally I don't know much of its history...

Hi Bertle,

Congratulations on your purchase. I'm also from the UK (Essex) and have a 65 Monza convertible.

I do not see how the flywheel positioning would affect the timing. The valve/piston/ignition positioning is done at the other end of the engine. OR am I missing something? You said you'd partially rebuilt the engine? Had the flywheel out? I can only talk from experience. My experience was with a Re...

I've had similar on another car (non Corvair). The flywheel had been removed for a skim and new clutch but replaced one bolt round (or there were six bolts but the flywheel was not bolted on in the potion it was removed). So the dizzy was set to a dwell angle that seemed totally out of place with th...

Thanks guys. :goodpost: I know a couple of DAF owners who run theirs on diesel oil too and swear by it. The tolerances on the DAF aircooled engines mean that the factory spec will never be up to date. I know exactly what you mean Dave as I have lost one DAF engine through heat seize. That was after ...

Sorry Brad, I should have switched on my English/American translating tool before posting. By mineral oil here we mean non-synthetic. :doh: My DAFs like it so I'm inclined to give it a whirl... I'm starting to get to know my Corvair better now and I will announce my plans when I know what they are.....

Thanks Brad. That's a shame as I have shed loads of that oil and it's not cheap (over £20 for a 5 litre tin). I will look for a semi synth 10W40 then. I always shied away from those on my DAFs as the engines were not built to such fine tolerances as modern engines and would just promote leaks. Then ...

My 65 110 Monza is running low on oil and needs topping up. It's the first time I need to do it and I'm new to these. I've got some mineral oil that I use on my air cooled DAFs, will this be ok in my Vair?

..only to the local supermarket but nice to take advantage of the half decent weather.

A shame indeed. There's quite a following in the Netherlands I'm lead to believe. Bit extreme going to another country to hook up with other owners but distance wise, nothing compared to some that you guys must cover attending nationals.

Hurrah!

Thank you Scott, it's a lonely experience owning a Corvair in the UK!

Greetings to All Although there is no UK Corvair club as such, I would like to bring UK owners together with a view to creating a UK Register initially. Then if interest and numbers are sufficient, we could aim to organise a meeting sometime in 2016. I have tried to contact as many UK owners as pos...

Here we go, a definite air cooled theme in my collection...

I saw Mr. Cotrefeld in June and he was most accomodating, giving a tour of his workshop and showing off his Stinger, a nice chap. He's sold most of his stock to Clarke's and is running the business down towards retirement. He has a customer's car to finish restoration work on but that's about it the...

Fair point, I guess there are some mental adjustments to make from my side. My other classics are of the Dutch 1970s variety and they are very direct on the steering.