<VV> Rear engine mount

[corvairduval at cox.net]

I have never seen a Corvair engine rear mount fail and drop the rear of the
engine on the road. All of these have fail safe bolts/brackets,etc to keep
the engine from falling out. The engine will droop with a failed mount, but
you can still drive the car. Many are on the road this way!

The earlies with the engine dragging the ground had the castle nut fall
off. Or lates when a person replaced the locking nuts with regular nuts and
they loosened and fell off. The mounts were still in the car, just the
engine was no longer bolted to them.

Frank DuVal

Original email:
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From: Ralphsebrell via VirtualVairs virtualvairs at corvair.org
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:59:34 -0400 (EDT)
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: <VV> Rear engine mount



At my mecchanic's garage, he showed me another customer's vair with a
unique mod to the rear engine mount. Looked like maybe he saw the same
article I saw in a "way back" Communique, about a member's idea to keep the
engine from falling on the road should the mount fail. 
How is the collective memory of this wise group? Any ideas?
Ralph    
69/140/4sp

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