<VV> Bad Corvair

[Vairtec Corporation]

I was entertained to learn, Smitty, that the main component of the Bad 
Corvair's badness was that the line had come off the vacuum modulator.  
This was quite literally the first Corvair repair item I learned back 
when Corvairs were just cars, decades ago.  Even before I knew how and 
when to change oil, I learned that a Corvair runs poorly if the line 
comes off the vacuum modulator.

I no longer recall how it came to be that I acquired this tidbit of 
knowledge.  Possibly because my father was an automatic transmission 
devotee and the many Corvairs in my family were Powerglides.  But for 
years whenever a Corvair would run poorly the first thing I would check 
would be both ends of the modulator line.  I'd be disappointed if it was 
a stick-shift car because the one thing I knew did not apply and I would 
be out of ideas.

These days it takes me longer to run out of ideas... but I am not any 
better at fixing an ailing Corvair.