<VV> Front End

[Tom Wright]

<snip>  Message: 4
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 19:59:35 EDT
From: AngryCorvair at aol.com
Subject: Re: <VV> Upper control arms, Can't tell right from left. Help
needed.
To: dmacd_us at yahoo.com, virtualvairs at corvair.org
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In a message dated 5/1/2005 1:02:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
dmacd_us at yahoo.com writes:

There is  definitely a difference between the front and
rear of the arm. A trial  fitting did not clearly
identify which was which.

Can someone let me  know how to tell which is which?


if you put them on the wrong sides, the upper ball joints will be too far  
forward.   pick one upper and hold it up on each side and you'll see  what i 
mean.<end snip>

I hope we aren't talking about a 66 coupe. I have mine apart, just about to put it together and I can't see a difference in the upper A arms. Usually if there is a difference, they mark R and L, or no?

While we are on the subject, I read in the chassis manual and the assembly manual that the cross member can R and R easily, as there are cage nuts on top of the frame, so you don't have to have the gas tank out to get at the nuts. Not on mine. Nuts and lockwashers and bolts. No evidence of there ever being a cage nut up there. Is this a Canadian thing? I had a little trouble getting the gas tank out, I was hoping to put it in before the crossmember, but I don't see that happening if I have to get at the nuts up there.

I'm sure the factory wasn't this fussy when they built the car.

Tom Wright
St.Catharines
www.vaxxine.com/tomspage
66 Corsa 140
Corsa Ontario
CORSA