<VV> "drivers"

[J R Read_HML]

Check the two bolts that hold the starter in place to be certain they are 
tight.

Get the car to a warm place and put some epoxy on your tank leak.

Later, JR

CCE CORSA CORVANANTICS SCG member
'61 Rampside Standard 4/110
'65 Monza Convertible 4/140
"Keep the Love Alive"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Underwood" <tony.underwood at cox.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> "drivers"


>
>
> One thing the cold did do was demonstrate that the starter solenoid
> needs to be cleaned or lubed or something since it didn't wanna
> engage fully a couple of times (happens now and again when temps drop
> distressingly closer towards single digits) and one time when
> coasting back down from its failed attempt to move the bendix gear up
> to the flywheel the starter bushings "chattered" with a 'whoobble"
> noise.   Something to attend to when its flywheel gets fixed come
> warmer weather (slight rattle has become evident during idle of
> late).    Need to hustle up and bolt up another flywheel sooner or
> later since the last bolted flywheel I had went into the '62 ragtop 
> recently.
>
>
> Oh, did I mention the pinhole in the bottom of the tank...?  The ONLY
> pinhole I missed a year or so ago when I spent an evening brazing the
>
> Now, the screw is starting to weep fuel... tank bottom doesn't drip
> but it's now staying damp with fuel and actually wet around the
> screw, and after it sits overnight you can smell it if there's no
> breeze.    ...need to fix that...
>
> And, 1960 tanks aren't that easy to come by.   This one will get
> fixed again.    Just another little inconvenience us cavemen have to
> deal with.   Maybe yet another of those new year resolutions?   Then
> again I said last year that I was gonna paint it...
>
> tony..     pondering the fact that the 4-door made it to the
> half-century mark and seems totally unconcerned about it