<VV> "Spring clip" on left front hub

[Harry Yarnell]

If it's the right clip, it should have three legs; the outside one's curved 
to fit the groove in the spindle nut, and a shorter center pin to go in the 
spindle hole. It just finger presses on.

harry yarnell
perryman garage and orphanage
hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edelstein and Payne" <eandp at mindspring.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 12:02 PM
Subject: <VV> "Spring clip" on left front hub


> Folks,
>
>     My son and I are finishing up the front suspension on his car, and 
> hope to get it re-installed this weekend.  After adjusting the wheel 
> bearings, we put in cotter pins to hold the spindle nut.  We then realized 
> when we went to put on the dust cap on the left hub, that because the 
> speedometer cable goes through that hub, you can't use a cotter pin.  In 
> fact, we had purchased a new "spring clip" that is supposed to function to 
> hold the spindle nut in place, but when we tried to install it, it would 
> not "lock" or stay in place.  We looked in the service manual and in the 
> CORSA Tech Guide, but could find nothing that helped.
>     This has got to be something simple that we are just missing, but can 
> someone explain how this funky looking "clip" is supposed to be installed 
> so the nut won't come loose and the wheel fall off as we're driving down 
> the street?
>
>                    Thanks,
>                     Travis Payne
>                      65 Monza Coupe
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