<VV> 1962 vair

[Mark Durham]

Eric, welcome to VV and the Corvair community. You will find lots of help
here. I would suggest a picture of your engine compartment is in order, or
at least a pic of the cap area. So we can see the issue. There should be no
holes in the cap and it will mist oil if there are openings there. I would
replace the cap.

I have a 62 Coupe, 4 speed, 102 HP, which is original and standard config
accept I added a alternator to the car.

What other problems are you having?
Are you used to Corvairs?  They are a different animal, and what may seem a
strange noise may be typical for the air cooled engine. But then, many of
the ailments of other cars, carbs, transmissions, differentials, clutches
,wheel bearings, etc, are typical of most older cars.

Mark Durham.


On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Eric Nelson <a78coupe at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>    I am new to all this so please bare with me. The guy I got the car from
> only had it a short while so I cannot ask him much about some of the funky
> things I seem to have.  Does anyone know why there is a valve of some kind
> in my oil cap? No hoses just this valve with 2 ports. I seem to get a small
> amount of oil on the engine like a lite film. Could this thing be the
> culprate? The car runs great or seems to anyway. Is this a major problem
> brewing?
>                        Thanks
>
>
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