[FC] PCV

[Dennis Dorogi]

Vair-iations, the newsletter of the Niagara Frontier Corvair Club recently
printed a tech article on how I modified a pcv valve to the fixed orfice of
the late models. I wanted to keep the stock appearance of my rampside so I
cut the original style pcv valve in half and gutted it, installed a carb jet
in the small end, drilled out the jet to .062  and brazed the valve back
together.  The valve looks completely stock and has the advantage of being
easily removed to clean the orfice or to change the orfice size.  It seems
to be a satisfactory solution to the troublesome pcv valve on the 63
corvairs.  The complete how-to-do-it article is printed in the January issue
of the newsletter.  It is just a refinement of what Lew Rishel and Tim
Colson were doing on their vehicles.  Dennis Dorogi


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben and Lynn Stiles" <lbstiles at verizon.net>
To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 7:59 PM
Subject: [FC] PCV


Greetings and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I got word weeks ago that the smell in my heat that I got under load was
perhaps a faulty PCV valve. I finally got to taking it out and inspecting it
yesterday. Long story short, I went to the auto parts store and found three
or four that LOOKED like the valve I took out. None of them had the overall
mass of the "original." (Due to cheaper new stuff, I assume).

I am wondering what the difference between these valves might have been. The
auto parts guys could not properly cross reference it to Corvair, so I
picked one and brought it along. It is now installed, but as yet untested.

What PCV valve is recommended? Fram? NAPa?

Thanks. See you down the FC trail...

Ben


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