[FC] Wheel Bearings

[Clark Hartzel]

The best change on '64-65 FC's is the floor mounted gear shifter.  I had the
"mystery shifter" in my '63 Corvan and you never knew what gear you were in,
while my '64 Rampside shifted nice, just like a car.  I'm sure by the end of
production on the FC that there were all kinds of weird components used just
to use up stock and get them out the door.
I agree on FC axles being used on cars as I did the same thing on several
dune buggies.  You have to make a spacer to take up the difference in
length.  Bob Marlow has the FC axle conversion on his '64 race car.
Clark Hartzel

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From: corvanatics-admin@corvair.org
[mailto:corvanatics-admin@corvair.org]On Behalf Of James Davis
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 6:58 PM
To: corvanatics@corvair.org; corvanatics@corvair.org
Subject: RE: [FC] Wheel Bearings


Clark you need to crawl under a 65 Greenbrier.  It is a late model
differential case, although the holes for the late model suspension are not
drilled and tapped and it carries some 64 components inside.  The 64-65
FC's have a different 3-sp and 4-sp than the cars.  Having have several
FC's, I consider the 61-63 as earlys and the 64, 65 as lates.  Lots of
differences between the two.  Billy Bruce's 63 Monza has FC axles in it so
they can be made to fit.  The stock car axles could take the 350 ftlb of
torque of the engine.
Jim Davis


At 12:53 PM 5/4/2004, Clark Hartzel wrote:
>All FC's are considered early models as they have the same suspension as
the
>1960-64 cars with the swing axle trans.  Although the engine went to 164 CI
>in 1964, it still has the early sheet metal on it.  The 1965 FC did have an
>alternator on the engine but the transaxle is still like the early model.
>The axle bearing does go long side in.  If you put it on backwards, your
>axles would stick out too far and the brake drums won't fit.
>Clark Hartzel
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