<VV> Alternator mounting bolts

Henry Kaczmarek dockaz57 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 15:53:30 EDT 2016


Or....you can start a discussion with Corbin about Sport Sedans.......

On Nov 4, 2016 3:07 PM, "EVERETT WILSON via VirtualVairs" <
virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:

> "call it a fried milk sandwich"
> Can you make that sandwich by cooking it in a turkey roaster and stirring
> gently with a hockey stick, while pulling it across the garage floor with a
> drag link?
> :)
> Everett WilsonNorth Richland Hills TXDown to one - 64 Greenbrier 110/PG
>
>       From: Smitty via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>  To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>  Sent: Friday, November 4, 2016 12:16 PM
>  Subject: <VV> Alternator mounting bolts
>
> I had one of those unique bolt clearance problems on one of my cars.
> Putting a socket on the bolt head was an actual interference fit.  Had to
> drive the socket onto the head.  Decided this was BS and switched to a 1/2
> drive for the beef.  Used the drive extension along with a mechanics pry
> bar, and taught the turkey roaster extension and cooler door, a lesson in
> compliance.
> Speaking of Delcotron Generators, that's a lot of extra characters to write
> just to say alternator.  I think saying "turkey roaster" is preferable to
> saying "cylinder head cooling air flow controller".  Shroud?  Found a few
> dead mice in there but never any dead people.  We all know there is no such
> a component as a hockey stick in a Corvair.  There is a device that sorta
> looks like one if you squint your eyes.  A lot of people call them castor
> control rods or brake reaction rods.  Is that more correct than "diagonal
> strut"?  My favorite of all is the incorrectly called "drag link".  How
> that
> name got attached to the "relay rod" I haven't a clue.  Dumb assed GM parts
> engineers called it a drag link.  Clarks picked it up for their catalog.
> You can go back in automotive history as far as they have pictures with
> names on them and a drag link is a drag link.  FCs are the only Corvairs
> that have one.  But if you want to call it a fried milk sandwich, then call
> it a fried milk sandwich.  Just make sure we both know what you are talking
> about before you do that.
>
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