<VV> buyer beware tool

[BBRT]

Everyone be careful and remember to support lower control arms where 
suspension springs are held by a shock aborber. If you get the shock off 
with the spring compressed, and it "get's away from you", it can be very 
dangerous.
DR, make sure that control arm is supported.

Chuck S
BBRT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Johnsey USN (ret)" <dilligras at yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 4:21 PM
Subject: <VV> buyer beware tool


I broke the head off one of the lower bolts on a rear shock last week. I 
tried several types of "back it out" bits, to no avail. Now I'm on my back, 
awkwardly holding a drill at arm's length to drill it out.
Normally, such a turn of events would necessitate an extended period of 
quiet thought, in order to muster the powers of cerebration required to 
invent an appropriate series of pejoratives for the responsible party in 
Chevy's engineering department.
Unfortunately, honesty insists that I consider the possibility that I was 
turning the (upside down) bolt in the "righty tighty" direction, due to 
randomly occurring spatial discordance.
And so it goes...
DR Johnsey
'62 Custom Corvan
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I recently purchased some things known as a combination drill and tap. You 
can supposedly drill out an offending screw and re-tap the threads without 
changing tools. Since I deal with a lot of carburetors with screws broken 
off in the body and spend quite a bit of time drilling and tapping, this 
seemed like a dream come true. I purchased the Craftsman brand, thinking the 
quality might be better than a China brand, but the first one I tried to 
remove and tap a broken bowl cover screw snapped in half. Thinking it might 
be a fluke, I tried a smaller one to see if the tap portion worked, and it 
didn't (just stripped threads when the drill tip stopped drilling). So, if 
you are thinking about buying a set of these, my advise is to think again 
stick to tried and true methods, at least for carbs.

Grant
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