<VV> 3.27 in a Greenbrier--4spd

[HallGrenn at aol.com]

Sorry folks,  I should have said that my '64 95 HP Greenbrier has a 4  speed. 
 I liked the 3.27 better than the current 3.55 but I would not  recommend it 
for a PG nor would I recommend it for heavy loads and  trailering.  Though my 
Greenbrier works for a living hauling people,  picking up and delivering stuff 
and it is used to tow a 14' sailboat on an  aluminum trailer to the beach, it 
does not work hard.  With the old 3.27  differential I would be in 3rd gear 
climbing the mountains in western Maryland,  WV and Pennsylvania.  I don't know 
what the Rockies would be like.   The few times I have loaded the 'Brier to 
the limit of GVW it has not had to  climb a mountain.  On a trip to Florida on 
I95 with a 1/2 max load of  furniture for my mother's retirement home it would 
cruise at 70-75 just fine and  I took to 85 a couple of times when sandwiched 
by 18 wheelers (they wuz playing  wit me).  It now has 135,000 on the engine 
if the odometer is to be  believed.  I make sure the 95 HP engine is kept in 
tune with balanced carbs  and clean cooling fins etc. to avoid overheating it.
 
Thanks for the feed back on combinations as well.  Maybe I'll get used  to 
the 3.55 over time--it is a positraction.:)
 
Bob Hall
Group Corvair
Washington DC Suburbs
'64 Brier
'65 Corsa
2 '68 Monzas



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