<VV> Carburetor Heat System

[J R Read_HML]

Closed in the summer and open in the winter.  That's about as comprehensive 
as it gets.
Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron" <ronh at owt.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 7:02 PM
Subject: <VV> Carburetor Heat System


> It's a good time to think about the carburetor heat system as it's 101 
> outside right now.
> I looked in vain in Corvair Basics and The Classic Corvair for a 
> discussion on Summer/Winter plates and can only apologize to Bob Helt if I 
> missed it, but it would be nice if some knowledgeable person would write 
> an article on the various openings and what they were supposed to be 
> closed with in the summer.  Even the shop manuals seem to avoid the 
> subject.  I have a '62 wagon which looks as though there never was a 
> factory provided closure method and there must be a big pile of these 
> plates somewhere as at least half of them seem to be missing on other cars 
> I've encountered.  Has anyone ever seen a comprehensive article on them? 
> How many different types of summer/winter plates did Corvairs have?
>
> RonH
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