<VV> corvair fuel pump

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

>I agree, FC's are better than Lates, which ... I will get into
> too much trouble with the club!

My 8-door is much regretted, but in the end I had to sell it for several 
reasons:

a) we had a tyre burst in a modern car, followed by a trip into the barrier 
sideways at 65 mph and then a rollover and a spin back across the (French) 
interstate on our roof. The whole family escaped with minor cuts and 
bruises. In an FC we'd have been dead, no question. There would have been 
doors flying everywhere!

b) I got so fed up with the pilot bushing giving trouble (I got clutch drag 
over and over again, and I got really fed up with pulling the tranny). Never 
did get to the bottom of the problem, but sure got fed up trying! Then it 
blew a jug because it was overheating long-term without me being able to 
identify the cause (too late, I found out that it was because a piece of 
insulation had fallen down over the inside of the air vent in the side!), 
and my patience snapped!

c) was the biggest reason. The ride on our dreadful roads was just 
unacceptable. The way the van used to get a bouncy motion set up as a 
consequence of the short wheelbase and longer length made it virtually 
undriveable in places here. There is a particular place here where there is 
a lane that I drive along every day, with a steepish hill and a bend at the 
bottom with three gradually increasing bumps (undulations, perhaps). The 
oscillations that used to get set up increased in intensity with each bump, 
and on the third one my head used to hit the roof (yes, really).

So I regretfully sold it. Wish I still had it, and in some ways I agree that 
FCs are better than Lates which are better than Earlies, but I am coming 
round to the proposition that Lates are better than everything else...

Finally, here's my 8-door if you want to see it: 
http://20cc.com/shroom4.htm - it's the primer brown one in the middle. I 
love the way the guys I sold it to have their showroom's URL as 'shroom'! 
They are trying to set up as Corvair specialists in Scotland - good luck to 
them on that one! They bought the van from me 4 years ago and it looks as if 
it is still rotting in the same Scottish field...

Cheers

Alan

'65 19000-mile Monza sedan + 20 or so water-pumpers
Lately owner of 64 8-door Corvan 95





>
> My local flaps has a GREAT fuel pump, with the "beaded" diaphragm
> {Thanks Spell Checker!}  They try hard on other items, but are best
> left to plug wire kits. other stuff unfortunately dosent quite fit.
>
> Bob
>
> 61LOADSIDE
> 66 4-door
> 65 vert group red
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Western Canada CORSA
> <westerncanadacorsa at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> The vendors stopped making rebuild kits because they cost the same as a 
>> new
>> pump.
>>
>> ONLY buy your pump from a Corvair vendor.  The stuff you get at your 
>> local
>> parts store are crap and I'm guessing you have found out, fail in short
>> order.
>>
>> The other option (ask if you're interested) is to switch to an electric 
>> fuel
>> pump.
>>
>> Let the great debate begin anew!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Joel
>> P.S. FCs are better than Lates, which are better than Earlies.....
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
>> [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of 
>> awhite500 at comcast.net
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:19 PM
>> To: corvair questions; corvair qu; Kenneth E Pepke
>> Subject: <VV> corvair fuel pump
>>
>>
>> Hi ,
>>     I would like to know if my fuel pump can be rebuild ,if so who sell 
>> the
>> parts ,like diaphragm.I have replace twofuel pumps and I still have a 
>> leak
>> ,at the rear of the pulsator cover or pulsator diaphragm
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