<VV> My Bad Corvair Story

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Mark,
    My motto is to always start with checking the  easiest and cheapest 
stuff to replace FIRST and only proceed to the more  difficult/expensive parts 
once the easy stuff is shown to be OK.
    Frank "cheapskate" Burkhard
    Boonton, NJ
 
 
In a message dated 10/18/2012 7:26:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
62vair at gmail.com writes:

Like  some others, my car has run but not real well, ever since I overhauled
the  engine. There have been backfiring, weak idle, poor mixture  
adjustment,
timing wander, an intermittent miss, and poor starting. It  seemed that
every time I made an adjustment, the symptoms would change, and  I could not
get the car to idle below 850 rpm.
The carbs had been  replaced as a part of the overhaul, so i went thru them
again,  the  distributer was replaced, a colder set of spark plugs
installed, cap, rotor  and wires checked, replaced points with a pertronix
unit. I found a NOS  advance for it.  I sprayed starter fluid around carb
bases and the  balance tube connections for leaks, found none. I thought I
had gone crazy!  I poured over tech notes and forum talks, to no avail.
Bad Corvair turned  into good Corvair when I finally removed the pcv valve (
I had tightened  the clamps on it several times) and capped the line with a
bolt.
I've  never had a pcv fail. The engine was sucking air like crazy thru it.
Now  the engine idles nicely, and with all parameters set, drives like  it
should. Total cost, hundreds, real cost to fix, 4.89 at NAPA.
Mark  Durham


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