<VV> fan mount bolts...

[Ken Clark]

Cash--I know they can work loose as I am rebuilding a '63 motor that I don't think had ever been out of the car and the engine had a lot of oil running over it over the years.  The engine is basically still good, but when I started stripping it down some of the bolts weren't much more than finger tight including the ones holding the engine top cover, so I'm sure that they work loose or were never properly tightened in the 1st place.  The bottom pan and valve covers were the same way.  The owner must have added quite a bit of oil over the years.  My winter project will be going through my '65 Corsa 140 and tightening bolts and replacing a number of gaskets that I know have been in this car since new.  Ken Clark
 

> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:51:05 -0500
> From: cash.case at sbcglobal.net
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: <VV> fan mount bolts...
> 
> I noticed that my car kept leaking oil and I couldn't find where. Then 
> I heard an ominous chirp and thought... there goes the fan bearing. I 
> took everything apart down to the engine top. The bolt that hold that 
> piece on, I think about 12 or 16 of them, were all loose. I have no 
> idea how many years those have been loose.
> Turns out that the fan bearing feels fine, but the alternator shaft 
> slides in and out about an eighth of an inch. I think the alternator is 
> my problem, but since I have a new engine top with a new bearing 
> anyway... and I'm there already... it's going on.
> 
> Can anyone tell me the torque specs for the engine top bolts? I've got 
> a book, but it's still packed in a box from the move... and I couldn't 
> tell you where the box was if my life depended on it.
> -Thanks in advance-
> -Cash Case
> 1 always under repair '65 140.
> 
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