<VV> Fw: Slipping Powerglide Fixed!

[Harry Yarnell]

harry yarnell
perryman garage and orphanage
hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ronald" <r.vijsma1 at chello.nl>
To: "Harry Yarnell" <hyarnell1 at earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Slipping Powerglide Fixed!


> Hello Harry,
> i did't some work today on the car , but it was begun with some bad 
> luck ,
> my replica Delco battery dead , so i have to have an other battry on a 
> sunday but there are no story open on
> sunday that sells corvair type batteries , but my neighbor has a spare 
> so i used that one....
> okay ather i have your mail i started looking for the originele 
> modulator, i don't know what happend to it , what i didt know whas that
> i won a year ago on ebay an originele delco modulator new in the box, 
> which i had allready stored in my toolbox in the car, so
> i jacked up the car, take the shiny "clarks" modulator off it and put 
> this originele Delco on it with evne the stamps on the box says Corvair 
> , clean up the tools and take it out for a spin........waithing for 
> that slip.......ooooooo man....no slip....i just could'nt believe it 
> that it was all the time this tiny modifaction.....it 
> drive...smooth...the kickdown is back.....there is a heavy lost of my 
> shoulders , just had a year ago a engine rebuilding and now i was 
> thinking again a rebuilding and my wife was looking strange to me 
> agian....so i explane the whole situation and that i am so 
> happy.....and in the end my wife says; so your battery is okay again 
> then ? hahahahaha...well Harry thanks for all your input and i will buy 
> your dvd next month, i don't need it right now but maby ( i hope not to 
> soon...) in the near future i need a rebuilding, so next month i will 
> order that dvd...
> 
> 
> cheers!
> take care
> Ronald
> 
 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven" <steven at sashimi.org>
>> To: "Virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>> Cc: "Ken Maxwell" <kobramax at insightbb.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: <VV> Slipping Powerglide Fixed!
>>
>>
>>> "Ken Maxwell" <kobramax at insightbb.com> wrote in message dated Friday,
>>> November 30, 2007
>>> <snip>
>>> I finally got around to taking off my beautiful new, gold, non-oily,
>>> non-rusty vacuum modulator valve. I then dug through my garbage can 
>>> and
>>> finally found my "Titanic" salvaged, rusty, oily, dented, 100 year old
>>> modulator and reinstalled it. Took the car for a drive and it shifted
>>> beautifully! No more slipping between upshifts!
>>> <end snip>
>>>
>>> Me too, Ken!  This afternoon I climbed deep into my shed and removed 
>>> the VM
>>> from my spare '61 PG, cleaned off most of the crud, and installed it 
>>> in my
>>> '69 which has been slipping under light acceleration on the 1-2 
>>> upshift.
>>> Test drove it this evening and the 1-2 slipping is resolved!
>>>
>>> So what is it with the new vacuum modulators?  Are the new VMs just a 
>>> little
>>> bit different or is it something about some of our old PG 
>>> transmissions that
>>> causes them to function best with an old used (broken in?) VM ?
>>>
>>> - Steve brown