<VV> Shop Manual, Corvair Basics Manual, VV

[Jim Davis]

Based on 50+ years on experience - too loose is much better than too 
tight.  The warning light tells you when it too loose and the alternator 
bearing tells you it is too tight.
Jim Davis

On 9/3/2015 11:07 AM, Steven J. Serenska via VirtualVairs wrote:
> VVers:
>
> I had some work done on my '65 Vert (blower bearing) and it wasn't 
> until I returned home that I noticed the guy who did the work left the 
> fanbelt tensioner and guides completely untightened.
>
> I looked at it for a moment and thought I would just drive it back. 
> Then I figured out that the cost of gas, time, plus the risk of the 
> belt slipping off entirely outweighed all other factors.  I thought, 
> "How hard can it be?" and opened up the Shop Manual.
>
> The Shop Manual advises you, and I quote, to "place a 1/16" shim 
> between the belt and the rear guide then using a bar and a strand 
> tension gauge adjust blower belt to 55 lb. +/- 5lb. (used belt) and 
> 75lb. +/- 5lb (new belt".  Since I don't own a tension gauge, I 
> thought, "Crap, it can't be this hard, I'll look in the Corvair Basics 
> Manual."
>
> The Corvair Basics Manual sensibly advises you to "leave enough slack 
> so that you can just turn the generator/alternator fan with one 
> finger."  Bingo.
>
> I'm back on the road and still enjoying this awesome top-down 
> weather.  It's funny, in the 20 minutes it took me to do this, I kept 
> thinking, "And if the Corvair Basics Manual turns out to be wrong or 
> misses something, I can always post on VV."
>
> Thanks to all who contributed to the Basics Manual and to all who 
> patrol these waters looking to help.
>
> Steven J. Serenska
> 1965 Monza Convertible, 110/4
> 1966 Corsa Coupe, 140/4
>
>
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