<VV> Re: Clutch troubles

[Gary Swiatowy]

If you make it to Buffalo and need a clutch cable, let me know via e-mail or 
call 716-439-5194 as I have a very good used one I just pulled off my Corsa 
I am parting out. Been on the car about 5 years, last 2 not being 
driven...................I will be at the convention and live in the area.
Gary Swiatowy

> From: Tim Verthein <minoxphotographer at yahoo.com>
> Subject: <VV> Clutch Saga Continues
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
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> OK, it stopped raining long enough to get out and have a look. All the
> puleys in the passenger compartment look perfect...new in fact, as does
> the cable. I pulled the cover on the floor/firewall under the dash and
> tried to follow the cable down to the bottom, where it appears to be OK
> at that pulley too, although I can't *really* see in there.
>
> Backed the car up on the curb in the parking lot..got under, and
> adjusted the slack out of the cable and it seems to be OK. I see no
> indication of the cable itself going to heck on me..of course I haven't
> pulled the pan under the car to get in and look, but at the ends and
> the pulleys under the dash everything looks groovy.  pedal feels much
> better and I can easily shift.
>
> Then..decided..what the heck..long as it's on the curb, and there's a
> NAPA two blocks away, me n the wife walked up to get some spray lithium
> grease..figured I'd hit the various linkages and what not under the car
> while it was handy....and on the walk back it starts pouring rain
> again!  So we get back to the hotel, soaked..I climb under and give it
> all a good spray while laying in the running water!  Now drying off,
> changing, and test drive commin' up.  Plenty of Yenko guys
> arriving..and if it gets nice out, may get it up in the air somehow and
> have a close look at the pulley at the floor at the front of the tunnel
> pan, but from what I could tell from above it was OK there too.
>
> Just bugs me how suddenly it would get so far out of adjustment. Or is
> this something that can happen? Or can it happen gradually until it
> gets to the point where one can notice it?
>
> Tim..drying off in Twinsburg
>
> ===
> You *can* repair a flip-flop with a capacitor!