<VV> 4 barrel manifold linkages

[ScottyGrover at aol.com]

Wish I had made pics.  Best I can say is: disconnect the throttle rod  that 
comes through the firewall at the end where it connects to the lever  
fastened to the side of the transaxle--Grab a bolt, nut(s) and, if necessary, a  
washer, and one of the rollers (which is shaped like a pulley) and fasten it 
 where the throttle rod went.  Get the wire rope and a rope clamp, make a  
loop, wind it around the roller, then secure it with the clamp.  Now get  
out your drill and your angle brackets and visualise a path from the firewall 
to  the carb's throlttle linkage.  It might be a good idea at this point to  
attach a roller to the carb.  I needed two anchorages for pivot points so I 
 drilled two holes for each angle bracket in the turkey roaster, 
pop-riveted  brackets at those points, and bolted two more brackets to the brackets 
attached  to the "roaster." The rollers could be and were attched to the upper 
 brackets.  Using the bracket-to-bracket bolts as pivot points, the rollers 
 could be aligned so as to run the wire rope over the rollers and clamp it 
to the  roller at the carb.  It might be necessary (you'd have to examine 
the  situation) to add extra brackets to get the degrees of freedom to get the 
rope  to line up---patience, patience...... If there's anything I haven't 
mentioned,  feel free to ask.  
 
Scotty from Hollyweird
 
 
In a message dated 6/24/2011 1:34:19 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ray_pilot at yahoo.com writes:

I am working on the same thing.  You wouldn't by any  chance happen to have 
drawings or photos of your setup.  Will have  to try to figure out 
something for me and anything that makes it easier  is what I want.  Thanks.
Ray
New Orleans

--- On  Thu, 6/23/11, ScottyGrover at aol.com  <ScottyGrover at aol.com> wrote:


From:  ScottyGrover at aol.com <ScottyGrover at aol.com>
Subject: Re:  <VV> 4 barrel manifold linkages
To:  virtualvairs at corvair.org
Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 9:58  AM


What I did, was to go to my local hardware  store and get several of the  
rollers used for shower  curtains and a length of wire rope and a few of 
the  
clamps  used to anchor wire rope, also several  angle iron brackets. I  
used  
my pop-rivet gun and a drill to fasten the angle iron  to the turkey 
roaster,  
bolted the rollers to the angle iron,  went underneath to install a roller 
and  the end of the wire  rope to the direction-reversing linkage fastened 
to 
the   transaxle, then routed the rope over the rollers to the carb., where 
I  
had  installed another roller.  When the system was  properly adjusted (I 
used  multiple angle iron brackets at  the pivot points) the system worked 
fine 
for  over 20  years--until I sold the car.  

Scotty from  Hollyweird


In a message dated 6/23/2011 6:59:32 A.M.  Pacific Daylight Time,  
_hennerfeind_joe at yahoo.com_ 
(mip://08bf8340/mc/compose?to=hennerfeind_joe@yahoo.com)   writes:

Hey  guys, all of you help is getting me much  closer to having a running 
engine.  The 140 I bought has the  4 bbl manifold setup but did not come 
with 
any   linkage.  Anyone know all the parts/pieces I need, how to  doctor  
something up myself, or have a linkage for  sale?  Thanks,   Joe
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