<VV> Oil filler cap

[Frank DuVal]

The gasket is an available part from our vendors. You can try to cut 
your own also.

I have had the brass spring (disc shaped) go bad in a cap.

Swapping parts sounds good to me.

Frank DuVal

On 1/6/2012 3:51 PM, J R Read wrote:
> I used two caps - took the gasket portion out of one and crammed it into the
> other one in order to get it to seal better.
> Later, JR
>
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> From: "Bill&  Chris Strickland"<lechevrier at q.com>
> To:<virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 1:11 PM
> Subject: Re:<VV>  Oil filler cap
>
>
>>> a generic gas cap that sorta fits, but it doesn't seat firmly, and I
>>> think I'm getting some oil spray leaking around it.
>> Leaks around Corvair oil filler caps are not unusual, neither are
>> attempts to eliminate such leakage, which is what your tin foil sounds
>> like.  Personally, I consider such leaks as evidence of the improperly
>> designed PCV system on the Corvair, but I digress.  Without having one
>> in my hand, I would assume (dangerous territory) that Clark's is
>> referencing that their caps are not shiny, newly galvanized units, but
>> typical used ones.  If you want NOS, look in the NOS catalog, where even
>> those parts are 40 or 50 years old and are not likely to be shiny&
>> newly galvanized, because they are no longer "new", just previously
>> unused.  I would not expect any of our esteemed vendors to be selling
>> "nasty" parts.
>>
>> Bill Strickland
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