<VV> No Group Red for Me (PG in Low)

[Barry Gershenfeld]

I spent the previous weekend dropping the engine from the donor car.  It 
took two evenings to get there.  This weekend, I attacked the problem in 
earnest, removing the transmission from the donor power train, removing the 
engine from the convertible, taking off the bad PG, putting on the working 
one, putting it back in the car, and buttoning up.  I even put the bad PG 
onto the bad engine and bolted it back into the donor vehicle, so that the 
entropy of the garage did not increase.

Wonder of wonders, I can still find my parts.  I changed the gasket between 
the PG and diff; then I had a backing plate stud turn on me when 
reinstalling the axles.  I had squirreled away some studs that I got from a 
friend's parts car (so it's happened before) and I was able to find them as 
well.

http://www.kdcomm.net/~barry/red/

Not that seeing pictures of Corvair work would enlighten anyone on this 
list, but it is a record of the proceedings, and this effort shows how you 
fix a daily driver.  You'll note that the parts function even if you don't 
clean them.  And it took me years of practice to learn this lesson.  Most 
similar projects take 5 weekends if I "just want to clean things up a bit".

I drove it to work on Monday!   Cheated myself out of a slot in Group Red 
again, but that's OK.

The first photo was from a separate event.  I have more pictures if anyone 
cares.  And my web page software is something called "vi".

Barry