<VV> Fwd: Sreaming in low (PG)

[Taruffi57 at aol.com]

My '64 would drop down into low on it's own.  I had to always be quick  and 
pull the shift lever up a little bit to get it to upshift.  Took it to  a 
claimed "Corvair Knowledgeable "Mechanic".     St. Cloud,  Florida - as I 
remember.  After some time not getting the car back I found  that the car was 
at an auto. trans. shop where it was said to have had the  trans. rebuilt 
with something like an $800 bill due.  My wife and I drove  to that shop and 
informed the shop guy that he had our car and that I had not  authorized a 
trans. rebuild.  We drove away in it.  More investigation  into the problem 
uncovered that there is an adjustment that can be done at the  shifter behind 
the dashboard to position the shift lever properly.  Yes, I  read all the 
E-Clip info - prior to all of this happening.
 
Also, I had told the "Corvair Mechanic" that the car had no  
weatherstrippings on the doors and that it had to be parked indoors.  He  assured me that 
it would be.  When I got to the car it was flooded with  
water....INSIDE.......
 
Joe Dunlap
Oxford, Fl.
 
 
  
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A long, long time ago in a Galaxie.... (not even a 500)----  -- Oh wait, 
that's already been done. I had a 110, PG, Rampside (that was a  work in 
progress) that we took to a car show about 40 miles away and we had  several 
Corvairs to show. My wife chose to drive the Rampside back and I drove  a 66 
Monza Convertible, 4 spd , About halfway back on I-10 (speed limit 70  MPH) I 
noticed that she had slowed down a bit , I pulled along side and the  
Rampside was screaming, like 5000 rpm screaming, I motioned her to pull over  and 
asked her what the H*** was going on, she said it started getting louder  
about five miles back  but seemed to be going OK and she had to push  harder on 
the gas pedal so she wasn't too concerned. It had shifted down to  low.  I 
forget what the problem was (probably the E-Clip). Many years  later we had 
the same problem in an Ultravan but it was the governor that had  broken the 
tab off and had slipped out, but that's another story
Ed Lindsay
West Florida  Corvair Club