<VV> Pinkish

[Tony Underwood]

At 09:06 PM 11/30/2009, Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
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>In a message dated 11/30/2009 4:38:15 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>vairologist at verizon.net writes:
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>It was  advertised as a 3 spd Powerglide.  She said, do you want it?  I
>said, where the hell would I ever get repair parts for it?  That was the  end
>of the conversation and my interest in the  transmission.
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>Yeah - Why would you want something that Chevrolet never really produced
>anyway, and there is only one of them around?
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>Good call, Smitty!  <grin>




If I had the chance and the money on hand I'd not have 
hesitated.   Even if the transmission was inop I'd still go for it.

I don't believe that GM would have deliberately made it so that it 
would never be rebuildable.   What could go wrong?   Clutches, 
bands?   Logic would suggest that much of it would likely be 
corporate GM stuff and things that weren't off-the-shelf would likely 
be things someone could fabricate, and even then I'd bet that not a 
helluva lot would go wrong that couldn't be corrected one way or another.

If they can modify a T5 to fit a 'Vair, somebody somewhere could 
likely fabricate whatever such a transmission might need to make it 
function again.   If not, it could live in the corner of my basement 
until *I* could figure a way to fabricate whatever it needed, after 
calling in a couple favors from my career machinist bud who thinks 
Corvairs are kinda cool but spends his spare time manufacturing fire 
arms from templates and diagrams.   I've had him do some aluminum 
welding on some heads along the way and he knows stuff.

I suspect he could fabricate a few obscure things if need be.    I 
once watched him use a cad pgm to carve out a batch of hypoid gears 
from bar stock that drove rollers for an assembly line beltway 
system.   He'd dump the  fresh cut gears into a vat with polishing 
media to deburr them then sent them across town to another shop that 
heat treated and phosphated them, came back looking like something 
NASA would have used.    He's pretty good.



There's not much that couldn't be fabricated to fix something like a 
one-off automatic transmission... and who's to say it wasn't made 
with mostly corporate GM parts anyway?   GM did the same sort of 
thing using two Powerglides in that "clutchless 4-speed" they cooked 
up for the Super-Duty Tuck-under Tempest race cars.

There's almost always a way.



tony..