[1969] Frt Brake Hose

[David Newell]

And Viton pushrod tube o-rings were released for '69 production but never made it into Tonawanda engines. Sometimes product improvement was indeed the reason a new part was headed for production :o)
Dave

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On Tue, 3/31/15, Kent Sullivan <kentsu at corvairkid.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [1969] Frt Brake Hose
 To: 1969 at corvair.org
 Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 11:44 PM
 
 Another item that amazingly made it
 onto '69s is the redesigned clutch cable
 that has the Heim joint at the pedal. Great idea, but way
 too late to make
 any appreciable difference, especially considering the small
 size of '69
 production -- and the low percentage of '69s that were
 equipped with manual
 transmissions. I believe the clutch/brake pedal assembly
 also had to change
 to accommodate the new cable.
 
 --Kent
 -----Original Message-----
 From: 1969 [mailto:1969-bounces at corvair.org]
 On Behalf Of Mark Corbin
 Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:17 PM
 To: David Brown; 1969 at corvair.org
 Subject: Re: [1969] Frt Brake Hose
 
 All,
 
 Having worked for 30 years for GM, I'd venture a guess that
 it was some
 engineer's pet project, something that he thought should
 have been done
 years ago but they didn't have the money to do it. Just like
 the '69 clutch
 cable fix. There are several other small items on only the
 '69's like this.
 
 You see, every year the management earmarks a certain dollar
 amount for each
 car line for upgrades and redesigns. With the Corvair, the
 management was
 probably unconcerned about the car, so they blindly
 allocated "X" dollars
 towards "federal safety and emissions standards", not
 realizing that most of
 that work was probably accomplished on the '68's. So this
 gave the engineers
 some "play" money to spend (because if they didn't spend it,
 they possibly
 would have been cut back on the projects they really wanted
 and needed to
 put through). So they made sure they spent it, even if it
 was on someone's
 pet project.
 
 It may have been that said engineer in question had felt
 that the original
 design was lacking in some respect. So he had this idea, and
 this gave him
 the opportunity to put it into effect. But whether the
 original design was
 deficient or not is irrelevant. What is important is, from
 an historical
 perspective, if you are going for truly stock hardware,
 stick with the
 "special" design parts. Otherwise, there's no reason that
 you absolutely
 NEED to stay stock.
 
 Bottom line is that I learned long ago that there's the
 right way, the wrong
 way, and the GM way, and that what GM does often times
 defies rationality
 and logic, at least from our perspective.
 
 -Mark
 
 -----Original Message-----
 From: David Brown
 Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 9:27 AM
 To: 1969 at corvair.org
 Subject: [1969] Frt Brake Hose
 
 Hi All,
 
 Just a quick 'minutiae' question that is bugging me since I
 am currently
 replacing my original front brake hoses (*only* available
 from your friendly
 Corvair parts folks).
 
 Does anyone know the history on these hoses?  I have
 spent about an hour
 checking & can't find anything else that might have used
 these.  Are they
 really specific to 69 Corvairs only?  Why would the
 factory make up
 something specific like this for a car they were phasing out
 (and were
 trying to use up all parts specific for the Corvair)? 
 Since the front brake
 hose for 65->68 Corvair is the same part used on the 69
 Belair, Biscane,
 Nova, etc., it doesn't make sense to me that the factory
 would make an
 effort to use something different, and specific for only the
 69 Corvair,
 when there was a huge supply of the 'regular' ones
 available!  Any comments,
 thoughts, history facts??
 
 Regards,
 Dave
 
 David Brown
 #3287
 140/4, Posi Monza cp.
 Wimberley (Austin), TX
 
 
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