<VV> Water from carb base/ & 1/4 panel interchange

[Tony Underwood]

At 12:59 PM 7/5/2009, David Houston wrote:
>My neighbor and fellow corvair owner recently purchased a 1962 Monza 
>SW that had borne the brunt of a lifetime of  NE winters. 
>Mechanically it runs well but he showed me what he thought was a 
>fuel leak at the base of the carburetor and intake manifold. It was 
>water, not fuel, that was running out the base. We removed both 
>carbs for a rebuild and discovered that a butyl/gasket compound was 
>used on a prior removal/rebuild. Is this water a common byproduct of 
>the combustion process or caused by the lack of gaskets?


Water was *in the carbs*??    I have no ideas on how it got there 
unless it was deposited there by mis-hap.


>Secondly, the left rear 1/4 panel is rusted out very badly from the 
>wheel well to the bumper. I looked at the 1/4 panel of a 1962 700 
>sedan donor car. It appeared that the sedan panel will replace the 
>stationwagon panel. Are we correct on this observation?


Yes.    All the wagon sheetmetal below the beltline outside of the 
tail light areas and rear hatch/cove is shared with the '61 sedans.




tony..