<VV> 3 on Tree -No Vair

Wed Feb 17 11:01:09 EST 2010

Glad they didn't use that linkage on the Corvair. . . .

I was a little small to help him, I was only 12 when we sold the ChevyII and 
bought a used 62 Corvair 700 coupe.   Yes, they allowed me to start it and 
warm it up at 12 but I couldn't drive it anywhere.

We bought the Corvair off my Uncle.  He bought it new for his wife, I have 
the original bill of sale.   The Corvair was pretty good when it was newer, 
but after that kid attacked it one Halloween night, it never was quite the 
same.  (We didn't have a garage at that house, just a carport.)  We think he 
messed up the vacuum modulator in the Powerglide and loosened the bolts on 
the bottom of the oil pan.  Didn't pull the oil pan off, just loosened the 
bolts.  One was found half a turn from falling off when the mechanic found 
the problem.  Just because he got his license pulled for his 3d moving 
violation in a year.  (He wrapped the passenger seat of a 55 Chevy Nomad 
around a pole one fine summer evening one house down from ours and we were 
out talking to the neighbors.)  Waste of a perfectly good Chevy product that 
was.  He did repair it, he tried running me over with it 2 years later when 
I was going to high school.

Charles Fregeau
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank DuVal" <corvairduval at cox.net>
To: "Virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 07:33
Subject: Re: <VV> 3 on Tree -No Vair

You just needed to see what he pushed. He moved the 1-R shift linkage to
the neutral position.

I have lots of practice doing this  for myself and other people back then.

The linkage could stick in any gear. Don't know which linkage is stuck?
Just jiggle both linkages and the sloppy one in in neutral, make the
other one line up with that one. Simple. Make sure the hand brake is set
or someone is still in the driver's seat.

I have also adjusted the bottom bearing in the column to take up the
slack that causes this problem. On one Plymouth I took the column out
and re drilled the bearing holes to get it tighter than designed. They
work slick then....

No wonder JC Whitless sold so many floor shifter kits. Let's throw in
new parts instead of fixing the old. Especially since the new parts look
cool. BTW, the floor shifter kits also wore out and did the same thing.

Frank
Who still owns several three on the tree cars

airvair at earthlink.net wrote:

>I once had a '75 Nova stripper with a three on the tree. It had the nasty
>tendancy to lock up in reverse gear. You could put it in first, but it
>would also still be in reverse. The first time it happened, I had to back
>it 10 blocks to my garage man's shop. He got under the hood and pushed
>something back into place. He said that the design was over 40 years old,
>and all GM had done in that time was make it cheaper. And this from someone
>who had worked on cars such as the Cord and Brush. The stupid thing would
>do it at least twice a year, so I didn't keep the car very long. To this
>day, I still don't know what he pushed.....
>
>As far as the Corvair goes, I had a '67 500 stripper once with a
>three-speed. In the dead of winter once, I was parking it in my space
>behind my house, rowing between first and reverse, and suddenly I had the
>entire shifter in my hand. The entire lever housing had rotted in half. So
>I jambed it into the floor and stirred it around until I had the gear I
>needed. Then my buddy and I had to change it out in -20º temperatures out
>in the outside air. (Had no garage to work in.) 'Bout froze ourselves to
>death, and could only work about 15 minutes at a time before we had to come
>inside and thaw out.
>
>Manuals are such a PITA....... Thank heaven for automatics! (G)
>
>-Mark
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>>[Original Message]
>>From: Vairtec Corporation <Vairtec at optonline.net>
>>Subject: Re: <VV> Falcon restoration, now 3 on Tree
>>
>>Dennis Pleau wrote:
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>>>I learned to drive three on the tree in a Falcon Ranchero.  I'm not
>>>
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>sure I
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>>>ever drove another car with three on the tree.
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>>Want to consider a nightmare of a shift linkage?  Many years ago I drove
>>a first-generation Ford Econoline van with a 3-speed column shift.  The
>>Corvair 95 shift linkage was duck soup compared to that thing!
>>
>>--Bob Marlow
>>
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