<VV> Use of a Smaller Spare tire

[Sethracer at aol.com]

An important side note. If you do have a spare tire that is smaller (or  
larger) in diameter, it should be installed on the non-driven end of the car. 
If  all your wheels are the same size on your Corvair, and you move to a 
smaller  spare, a flat on the rear should be replaced with a front tire 
(appropriately  inflated) and the spare put on the front. Driven ends of the car 
(the front on  FWD) should always have two tires of the same diameter. 
Otherwise the  differential is working very hard to try to equalize the rotation 
speeds. It can  destroy a positraction.
 
- Seth  
 
 
In a message dated 10/5/2014 4:01:25 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
virtualvairs at corvair.org writes:

I have  in the past happily used a compact spare from a GM midside in a  
Greenbrier, where its skinny profile allows the engine compartment cover  
to be lifted without rasslin' it past the spare.

But as to Bill's  reminder that, in the past at least, we have seen 
Corvair owners use FOUR  of them in CORSA's Economy Run, if this practice 
hasn't been outlawed in  the event rules it should  be.

--Bob


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