[FC] FC Shifter Brace

[Ken Hand]

 I have driven and seen the brackets and braces on the earlier manual FC's. What it looked like it was for is to keep the engine from moving back and forth and ultimately to keep the shifter from moving back and forth thus staying in gear. The tolerance that it was supposed to be adjusted to was something like a 1/8 inch from the xmember, if memory serves me correctly. For the most part they are not really needed if you don't have one. If you do, you may as well use it and adjust it properly. I think I remember something in the maintenance manual about the adjustment.

The above said, I have driven manual FC's and had them pop out of gear on bumpy roads. When that would happen you wouldn't really want your hand near the shifter. And, if you kept your hand on the shifter it still came out of gear because your hand would dampen the shifter movements and make it come out of gear also.

 

Ken Hand
248-613-8586
www.corvairmechanic.com
 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris & Bill Strickland <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
To: corvanatics at corvair.org
Sent: Tue, Oct 26, 2010 2:26 pm
Subject: Re: [FC] FC Shifter Brace




>I have never seen this problem myself but have heard about it -- FC's 

>popping out of gear.

>



I've driven a couple of FC's with the brace (as indicated in the Clark's 

reference) on them, but never connected to anything, and the only place 

I've come across the "popping out of gear" feature is in the Clark's 

catalog, where they only "believe" they were used -- of course, they 

have the rubber bushing to connect the brace and crossmember for sale.



I suspect they were the brainchild of an overly cautious engineer, 

worried about the function of his "mystery shifter" feature.



If your brace is different than the one in Clark's, a picture would be 

appropriate for identification.



My initial thoughts, Back When, were that they were for some sort of 

skid plate mounting to protect the shift and throttle linkage at the 

transmission, but, if they were important, why didn't the cars have them?



Bill Strickland

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