[1969] Frt Brake Hose

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All I own is 69's I. Had 5 at one time now down to 2, however the 68's blue. Interior was more eye apealling than the 69 blue interior which they also elemnated the chrome on the arm rest base.



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On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 Mark Corbin <airvair at earthlink.net> wrote:
Oh, that is hysterical! That is a little piece of trivia I did not know. Just think, if they had made it into production engines, the '69 engines would have, to date, had the reputation for not leaking oil like the '68-earlier engines. Imagine the ramifications on pop culture's mindset! -Mark 

-----Original Message----- From: David Newell Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2015 3:28 AM To: 1969 at corvair.org ; Kent Sullivan Subject: Re: [1969] Frt Brake Hose 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 -------------------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________________ This message was sent by the 1969 mailing list, all copyrights are the property of the writer, please attribute properly. For help, mailto:1969-help at corvair.org This list sponsored by the Corvair Society of America, http://www.corvair.org/ Membership in CORSA is strongly encouraged for 1969 Group members. 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