<VV> Flaming River Box note -

[Charles Lee]

Flaming River sells boxes to everyone, but Clark's is a Corvair Specialty 
retailer, which is why I expected more from them.

Flaming River steering shafts cost a few hundred $$$

Clark's catalog says their box is "ready to bolt in" so I called and the 
tech guy said "No" and he said that the flat has to be ground locally.

However, I just spoke with Mark at Clark's and he assured that the Flaming 
River Box does in fact have the flat ground as required for 1967-1969, and 
the tech guy who said that they don't grind it should have asked what year 
it was before giving the wrong information.

See the last picture in this page for the 'flat' on the column :
http://www.yourbuyersinn.com/Cars/Corvair/1967MonzaSteeringWheelRemoval.htm

See this page for the 'flat' on the Flaming River box :
http://www.yourbuyersinn.com/Cars/Corvair/1967MonzaSteeringQuickSteering.htm

Hope this helps ?
Charlie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris & Bill Strickland" <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Flaming River Box note -


>
>>It requires that a flat be ground to fit the shaft,
>>
>
> This is why Flaming River markets to the hot rod folks and such, where
> it is simply assumed that whatever you buy, you will do whatever needs
> to be done to fit the part to your application, and the part is sold in
> it's most generic form.  Fortunately, we are able to reap the side
> benefit of having a new Corvair steering box available. [Thanks, Seth!]
> Self ground "D" and "Double-D" connections are sop.  So are multi-piece
> steering shafts.  Check out the full Flaming River catalog for more info
> -- I'm sure it is online.
>
> Bill Strickland
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