<VV> The 3 Greatest Corvair Improvements

[Chris C]

Inquiring minds want to know.  What is the price difference.  I don't 
need one right now, but hell, the 63 is bound to need one some day.


airvair wrote:
> Now that Lon and a few others have had their fun, I'd like to say that I
> STILL stand by my previous statements. And my cars get a QC bearing
> regardless. My cars, my choice.
>
> -Mark
>
> corvairs wrote:
>   
>> Again Mark, the factory design is not defective because 100,000 miles
>> plus down the road the bearing fails. How many other cars have much more
>> expensive repairs needed sooner than that? At worst it's a 4 hour job to
>> replace - then you can do it again in 20 years. This, in my mind, is far
>> from "defective". In Linda's 67 it is still running the original fan
>> bearing after 175,000 miles and 40 years. Lon
>>
>> www.corvairunderground.com
>>
>> airvair wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> That may be, but if it's good enough for alternator bearings, it's good
>>> enough for blower bearings. Besides, I'd rather be able to replace them
>>> when and where needed than need to and not be able. The factory design
>>> was defective from the start in that they "assumed" that it would last
>>> "forever", (one of their "sealed for life" ideas that I call "sealed for
>>> death.")
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>
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