<VV> Springy Thingy in my Grease Cap

[Charles Morgan]

FWIW:  The '66 Assembly Manual shows the springy thingies as part of the 
radio option (U63).  I assume that means that if the car came without a 
radio it also came without springy thingies.  According to the manual the 
proper name is "static collector assembly" and there is one for each front 
wheel (though I don't think I ever saw a car with both).  Interestingly the 
part numbers are different--I guess that has something to do with the 
speedometer cable drive.

Charlie Morgan
Beaver State Corvairs

At 02:48 PM 3/24/04, JVHRoberts@aol.com wrote:
>Well, it does a little more than that as well. In the day when these cars
>were designed, electrical systems weren't as well designed nor as robust 
>as they
>are today. Given that the dash ground on an LM Corvair is nothing to brag
>about, there was the potential of sending current down the cable, and 
>potentially
>through the bearings. Ball and roller bearing designers recognized this long
>ago as a quick way way to kill a rolling element bearing is to pass current
>through it when it was rotating! This is why the right one doesn't have 
>the same
>grounding spring.