<VV> The 3 Greatest Corvair Improvements

[cjcavitt at comcast.net]

Mark-absolutely, there is nothing wrong with comeing out with new products if some people want them, if it makes just a few lives easier its worth it, im not dogging the product itself just doesnt make sense in my eyes but if it works for you then great and thats whats so great in this country is it is your choice and you like it, so you keep installing them in all your vairs and i will continue not :) curt

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From: airvair <airvair at richnet.net> 

> Now that Lon and a few others have had their fun, I'd like to say that I 
> STILL stand by my previous statements. And my cars get a QC bearing 
> regardless. My cars, my choice. 
> 
> -Mark 
> 
> corvairs wrote: 
> > 
> > Again Mark, the factory design is not defective because 100,000 miles 
> > plus down the road the bearing fails. How many other cars have much more 
> > expensive repairs needed sooner than that? At worst it's a 4 hour job to 
> > replace - then you can do it again in 20 years. This, in my mind, is far 
> > from "defective". In Linda's 67 it is still running the original fan 
> > bearing after 175,000 miles and 40 years. Lon 
> > 
> > www.corvairunderground.com 
> > 
> > airvair wrote: 
> > 
> > >That may be, but if it's good enough for alternator bearings, it's good 
> > >enough for blower bearings. Besides, I'd rather be able to replace them 
> > >when and where needed than need to and not be able. The factory design 
> > >was defective from the start in that they "assumed" that it would last 
> > >"forever", (one of their "sealed for life" ideas that I call "sealed for 
> > >death.") 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> 
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