Perfect photo, however two hammers of the same weight work best for me. The biggest challenge is to strike both hammers at the "same" time... no big deal!
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Also check for vacuum leaks!
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Two hammers... one pounders work well. Hit the center link on both sides of the idler stud at the same time. May take some practice blows to hit both at same time. It is a pinching-shock that will free the nestiest idlers or tie rod ends. Oh... be sure the castle nut is in place but vary loose. This will protect the threads if you miss with a hammer! I used to live in snow-salt country in a forme
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Oooooh.... NOS Inserts.... Ahhhhhh! Nice
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If someone says "Man your car is smokin".... he may really mean smokin!
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Congrats to Lon on getting Dale's toolings. There is still somewhat of a demand for high quality flywheels. Yes I also do rebuilt flywheels. To clarify.. I do not have a 5 year warrantee. On the other hand I do not have a "Forever" warrantee like Dale had,simply because I don't think I will be living that long! I just say if one of my flywheels fails, I will replace it unle
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Are the Reflectors left hand or Right hand? Sorry... could not help myself!
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My Greenbrier, "What year is it" is a standard question. My Fathers 62 Ramp has the 64-65 engine service door along with the plate lighting for those years. A guy asked Dad what year it was, he said 1962.... and the guy tried to convince him he was wrong because of the later service door we had put on! So... I guess no one puts different year parts on their old cars? Or as an afterthoug
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Another blast from the past! My 1965 Concours Monza with 140, had the chrome air cleaner cover. At a show one time I was parked decklid up and with the rear of the car facing the sun....... the engine deck-lid insulation started smoking..."Really"! It turned out the sun was just in the right position to be reflected and concentrated on a small spot of the origional insulation! I gue
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Not sure if this is your problem... buttt it gives me a chance to tell a story! Many years ago I did a carb job on one of my Corvairs. Had some major distractions throughout the job, so I was pulled away again and again. When I finally go to starting the engine it would idol but had no power. The left bank did not fire. After running for 10 - 15 minutes, I could hold onto the exhaust manifold wi
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Yes, the chome center part is the hard one to find these days!
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Yep... gas shocks from the 70's Dodge. I use KYB heavy duty all around for the Vans. On the Rampside Heavy duty rear and standard duty up front. Seems to work better for ride in the pickup's. 34 years and 230,000 miles in my van and have only had to replace two of them. Valveeta get's driven a bit!
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I have a couple vary good used ones. I also have a NOS in the box 12 plate oil cooler. I consider it as a near worthless NOS part because once it is used, it is the same os the other used ones I and lot's of others have. So it's new but no one can use it!! Ha!
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Curtis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- U-Joint yokes can be warn and bearing cups are moving around. It is getting harder to fine good yokes that are not warn at the u-joint cup area's. I say it's the first thing to check and the easiest. Corvanture Dave =============================================================================== > Since i bau
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Ay Lon... Been there.... done that. Not fun, however for me the worst was drinking that clear transmission fluid the day before!!!!! I could only handle about half of the bottle of the nasty stuff.... and all worked out anyway! Tho I did my own version of the space shuttle launching after that go juice! Wishing you a good checkup and forget about it for 10 years! Dave P.
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Dad Burn it!!! Jeff... I'm going to have to miss your open-house AGAIN!!! If it were only next week... dernn-it! Have an appointment for Saturday that I cannot break away from. Ya know how it goes.... everything seems to fall on the same weekend!! Have a great event, and I do plan on dropping down your way one of these days. Dave Palmer
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As I recall....64's had two styles of corvair letter emblems on the trunk. One style had round mounting studs, the other had flat paddle like mounting studs. Clark has reproductions, bit I don't know if they have both.
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ejn, There are no dumb questions. Carry on friend.
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I have installed a lot of new fan bearings and remember the same problem you mention. I solved this some 28 years ago by putting a couple small drops of locktight on the bearing shaft going into the aluminum top cover. Never had a problem removing them years later and never had a bearing slip up out of the cover. Steve is right about the aluminum and the interferaence fit of the top covers being
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With all the parts from a doner car, STD to Auto is easy. In Late models, Auto to Std is easy!
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Sand blasting puts grit in every nook and crany. It will shake out years after the body work was done! There is also a good chance of warping the metal from heat buildup when sand blasting sheet metal. Media blasting is an alternative but is $$$$. For my early cars I prep-ed and painted for show and go, I chose to strip the louvers or air inlet's with a chemical stripper, followed by endless
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Oh come on guy's... it's a 60's economy car!!! I love my Greenbrier and have put 300,000 miles on it and will never get rid of it.... but I just cannot compare it to anything modern or wish it had things like air bags or a 3 speed auto. It is what it is. Now as for modifications..... the possibilities are only limited by time and my wallet! Interesting to me.... I recently
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I was aware of the MaxJax lift. It is made and sold just 20 miles from my house. Looks like a really great lift and definetly goes higher than the EZ Lift, and is rated at 6000#. However what I wanted was something that was far more portable. I can loan the EZ to anyone and can haul it anywhere. Also the EZ takes less room in my garage when not is use, compared to the Max. For me... I cannot
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You may be ok. You may also lose a valve seat down the road. If the engine has origional cast pistons... one of them may fail down the road. But again.... you may be OK. I have seen Corvair engines run like nothing happened after being ran shortly with out fanbelts. I have seen others have problems in just a few hundred miles. If your engine was recently rebuilt properly, you may be ok. It sounds
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Have seen some installed over the years, however the FC seats are made to fit over the top of the wheel wells. The other than FC seats I have seen installed have all required hammering down the top of the wheel wells to accommodate the thicker seat frame of the from something else - seats. It works... but about all of them I have looked at shows the tires having hit the now hammeredlower wheel w
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Years ago I installed a dash light bulb and socket in each of the outside corners of the FC tail lamp housings. I wired it to my brake and signal's. Now I have about 1/3 more brake and signal light coming from my tail lights. Quite simple to do! I have been thinking of upgrading the added light bulbs to LED's. Have installed a lot of LED "safety" lighting on the motorcycle! I
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Never had a problem with them. Just put 135,000 on my 95hp Van engine before tear down. I don't know what conditions others have, but I have found engines where the exh. tube from the head can be burnt away. This is the part the exh packing slips on. I still have quite a few sets of new OEM packings. Kinda went crazy buying them years ago. However I like using the asbestos free Clarks thes
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Ay Phil. I bought Boytcho's EZ Car Lift last year to help R&R the engine from my Greenbrier. The thing works fantastic. As you know I used to have the two post commercial car lift. Had to sell it because I lost use of the building it was in. Like Seth said earlier... the two post unit would not fit at my house either. This EZ Lift does. So I have had the experience of both kinds of l
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Just an idea... Back when I was in school in Up-state NY. and didn't have much money... I found a free pair of early shocks. I cut the flat tabs off the bottom mounts and pressed them out. I then pressed out the bottom tube from my old late model shocks and pressed them into the bottom of the earlies. I had to find a washer to back up the rubber so that the pressing would not dislodge it f
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Those rivets come out easily. Just tap them from the side and then use a flat blade screwdriver between the head and the bi-metal thermostat plate to pry the whole thing away from the head. To re-install, I have punched or compressed the rivet hole in the head... just a bit. This way the rivet can be tapped or pressed back into the origional hole. This will work for multiple bi-metal thermostst
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