<VV> Baffle Installation Snafu

[Ron]

"Seems like a bunch of "good" Corvair techs on this forum should have 
mentioned the tool when I asked
the question the first time. Or was I supposed to guess about it on my own?"

Well, you could have read up on it a bit.  It's in the Tech Guide and the 
tool is illustrated in Clark's catalog.  Also, the interchange of 
information is one of the primary functions of the Corvair clubs.  Have you 
used all of these resources?
RonH



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Byron Comp" <byron.comp at yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Baffle Installation Snafu


> OK, let's see if I can answer/respond to most questions all at one time. 
> Tim
> Shortle asked on another post why they weren't done in the first place. 
> So,
> here goes.
>
> When I got the car running before actually starting all the restoration 
> work, it
> wouldn't shift into first gear and also balked at the rest when under way. 
> So I
> knew there was some kind of problem with the clutch/throw-out bearing. I 
> dropped
> the drivetrain and proceeded to take things apart, but being the newbie 
> that I
> was/am, I failed to notice in what order the heads, push-rod tubes and 
> baffles
> came apart. My BAD! When I discovered that the throw-out bearing snout was
> broken, I decided I didn't want to tackle rebuilding the differential and 
> asked
> a member of the closest chapter of CORSA to recommend a shop who could do 
> the
> work. He did and I made arrangements to take the pieces down to the shop 
> for the
> owner to examine and rebuild/replace as he saw it was needed. He had the 
> heads
> and valves re-done at a machine shop and installed all new rings, as well 
> as a
> couple of bearings which looked worn. I supplied all the parts, purchasing 
> them
> from Clark's. The total labor bill was over $2,100.
>
> When it came time for reassembly, I didn't know about the baffles, and he 
> never
> mentioned them. To be honest, the shop owner was the only one there with 
> Corvair
> experience, and he assigned my job to an older, trusted mechanic, who had
> apparently never worked on one before. Also apparently, the shop owner 
> didn't do
> too good a job of supervising but just let the guy go. All on his own he 
> painted
> most of the parts moly-orange, '"cause it's the Chevy color."
>
> So that's how the mess occurred. But I have one additional question. I 
> posted my
> original question about having to remove the tubes and push-rods to 
> install the
> baffles here about a week ago. I got lots of repsonses about what needed 
> to be
> done, but not until I posted this time about damaging the tubes by 
> twisting them
> with a pair of channel locks did anyone mention, "Oh, by the way, there's 
> a tool
> for doing that; a good Corvair shop should have had one." Seems like a 
> bunch of
> "good" Corvair techs on this forum should have mentioned the tool when I 
> asked
> the question the first time. Or was I supposed to guess about it on my 
> own?
>
> Guess that's all for now. I've included the three responses which are in 
> this
> post. As I said above, there were others in later posts, but I've tried to
> respond/answer those in here also. Hope I don't piss anyone off too much, 
> but
> newbies are still newbies and need all the good advice they can get. I'd 
> rather
> have said, "Yes, someone mentioned that tube extraction tool and I've got 
> one on
> order already.", than to have made the mess we ended up making. You can't 
> see
> them, but I know they're there.
>
> Byron Comp
> '64 Vert
> Gainesville, FL
>
>>Byron,
>>
>>There is a tool for pushrod tube removal which does no damage to the 
>>tubes.
>>A Corvair shop would have one.
>>
>>Later, JR
>
>
>>To me, an orange paint job on a Corvair engine is my first warning sign 
>>that
>>a non-Corvair mechanic has been in there.
>
>>SOMEONE should have provided a pushrod tube tool for this job before it
>>started! At times I've lacked that and instead hace used a screw type of
>>hose clamp to fit on the tubes and used it to pry the tubes off using a
>>screwdriver as the pry bar. Don't go to a "channel lock mechanic"!
>>RonH
>
>
>
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