<VV> Re: Clutch troubles

[Dave Ziegler]

I believe Tim has a '64, your Corsa cable won't work.

Dave.. .
On Jul 22, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Gary Swiatowy wrote:

> 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
>> Message-ID: <20060722160819.7829.qmail at web31005.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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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!
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