<VV> Water from carb base/ & 1/4 panel interchange

Tony Underwood tony.underwood at cox.net
Sun Jul 5 23:12:09 EDT 2009


At 09:51 PM 7/5/2009, Dave Ziegler wrote:
>Then why are the rear wheel openings different???
>
>Dave.. .
>On Jul 5, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Tony Underwood wrote:
>
> > At 12:59 PM 7/5/2009, David Houston wrote:
> >> My neighbor and fellow corvair owner recently purchased a 1962 Monza
> >> SW that had borne the brunt of a lifetime of  NE winters.
> >> Mechanically it runs well but he showed me what he thought was a
> >> fuel leak at the base of the carburetor and intake manifold. It was
> >> water, not fuel, that was running out the base. We removed both
> >> carbs for a rebuild and discovered that a butyl/gasket compound was
> >> used on a prior removal/rebuild. Is this water a common byproduct of
> >> the combustion process or caused by the lack of gaskets?
> >
> >
> > Water was *in the carbs*??    I have no ideas on how it got there
> > unless it was deposited there by mis-hap.
> >
> >
> >> Secondly, the left rear 1/4 panel is rusted out very badly from the
> >> wheel well to the bumper. I looked at the 1/4 panel of a 1962 700
> >> sedan donor car. It appeared that the sedan panel will replace the
> >> stationwagon panel. Are we correct on this observation?
> >
> >
> > Yes.    All the wagon sheetmetal below the beltline outside of the
> > tail light areas and rear hatch/cove is shared with the '61 sedans.





Humm...   so I DID scrue up...


I did mean the lower rear quarter and not the fender, and yes the 
wheel well opening on wagons is different in that it's slightly 
higher than the sedans iirc.



tony..


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