[SCG] Assembly manual discrepancies

[Kent Sullivan]

This is certainly true. The other thing that people often don't realize is
that, in almost every case, the assembly manual copies that we have for
Corvairs, purchased from Clark's, are from original manuals that were
up-to-date as of the end of the model year. The manuals were like railroad
timetables--"change pages" came many times during the year and the reader
was instructed to discard the out of date pages, keeping only the newest.

That means we typically have the description of the final design for a
part/assembly but not the other designs within a given model year. Good
example: the change in clutch linkage for FCs. The 1962 manual shows the
second design but the date of the change, according to the page, is May.
This means few, if any, 1962 FCs actually have that design. Most '62 owners
have to refer to a '61 manual to see their linkage.

--Kent
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Subject: [SCG] Assembly manual discrepancies

Got the below message from my buddy Mike McKeel over the weekend, and I
think it bears passing around. BTW, I'm a member of the H.H.Franklin Club,
and one of the comments I heard a number of years ago was that what the
Franklin engineers drew up wasn't always what the factory floor built. They
are lucky in that they have all the factory engineering drawings for their
cars, as some of them were specially built. Over the years, they have
discovered numerous instances where factory original cars contradict those
drawings.

Thus I wouldn't expect the Corvair to be totally true to the factory
documents, either. Such discrepancies that Mike alludes to are instances
that we have found over the years. Don't ask me to describe anything off the
top of my head, though.

-Mark Corbin

Hi there MARK
     Just cause it's in the assembly manual doesn't mean that it was put
together that way from the factory! We have found some "oops" over the
years...Mike

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