Fixing the slop in the rear suspension of my 1966 Chevy Corvair! 

Four-door late model corvairs are beautiful in their own right. Glad to see it a restoration and TLC going into one.

Scott’s Hot Rods makes an excellent complete rear end replacement unit.

I like the grease zirc fittings on the upgraded control arms , I also like them on the sway arm bushings

Great instructional video

4 door corvair is now hard to see nowadays and yours is beautiful. Love your corvair.

+ 1 for the photo with all 4 windows down. Rebuilt mine with stock type parts including springs. Being a salt belt car, I did not reuse any fasteners. Clarks had a bolt kit, was worth it for me.

Beautiful Corvair, I always liked the looks of the later model sedans. I had a friend who had a 65 with AC, very nice car.

awesome video

Beautiful car! I love the LM sedans.

I had those headers on my 65 140bhp Corsa, excellent flow.

Your mods are like having your cake and eating it too :) I always wondered about that bracket and I always shied away from the control rods because of the problems I heard about them. Oh, and by the way I love Corvairs!

Came here from Corvairs Owners Group, great video.

Great looking fix..

Good vid, I have done this operation many times. Your old school jack stands scare me!

good video very helpful .. when you talk about a noise .. I have aloud moaning noise .. like a car with no power steering fluid...I have a 65' corvair thanks

It has not been enough to view your recent videos. I had to dig back to this one. Just checking your consistency in approach.

The sleeve on the control arm end could be spreading the bracket making the holes too far apart.

seems like properly sized spacers washers and or bushings, might’ve been a worthy consideration. the head of the bolt with the flat side and cam washer tells the tale. it is at best a grade 5. altho with what appeared to be a flat smooth head, and those threads nearly gone, likely grade 3 wld be more like it. maybe give a thot to a fab / machine shop for some made in the USA critical application hardware and properly hardened bolts. corvairs long and always have been worthy of the good stuff.

like the corvair

The way to install the bracket is to loosely install all bolts with no arms attached. Then tighten down the bolts in an X style and then install the control rods. Apparently, you haven't read the instructions that came with the bracket nor have you read the instructions Clarks' has on their website.

well done

Clarks claims that bracket that relocates the attachment point is "the least expensive handling mod for the buck". It's in their catalog.

Rear axle constantly shears on my 63 Corvair.

Leave the first three bolts loose so you can get the fourth one lined up.

Loosen the lock bolts on the control arms so they can take the twisting away from the end sleeves.

Thank you for posting your wk. on the Corvair. I own a 1964 here in M.B. CA. While watching your vid. I thought something was wrong with it as it went dark with the back ground music in two spots. Would you recommend the same up grade for mine? I hope you have time to pist more work to your Corvair😁

Thanks for the video - good explanation on why your previous setup with the 'vette arms wasn't great. Two comments - why not just use two stock inner mounting brackets rather than re-drill the Crown one? (also easier to install one side at a time). And as for the install - I would have thought if you had loosened the jam nuts on the bars, they would be able to twist allowing an easier alignment with the inner bracket?

Does anyone make a yoke and bearing assembly that is made into a disc brake conversion? Drilling new locating holes in the old bracket makes a lot more stress around the old holes doesn't it?

Where did you get the auto performance parts bracket? And what model is the bracket?

Very intriguing. Does Tom make the whole lower control arm or just the thread on ends? Did you mean Speedway Motors for the control arms?

Turn the bolt around and tighten it.. it will compress the bracket.

I hope everything is still going well with you and your car. I hate to say it but you have put out some misinformation on the way you installed your lower control arms. The metal sleeve inside the poly bushing should be tight against the inside of the control arm mounts. The poly bushing pivots on the metal sleeve, thats why you have a grease zerk on each end. So the bolts should be tight enough to pinch the sleeve so it doesn't rotate. If you have a small gap between the mount and poly bushing this is normal. And as one of the other replies mentioned if you had the rod ends loose you wouldn't have had to drop the rear of the engine. Probably could have mounted the bracket first then the control arm last. Other than that good video. We all can learn from each other as I know others have from your video. God Bless you and your family. Happy New Year.

I tried to find the Tom knoblock control arms everywhere on his site and I couldn't find them what is the part number and how do I order them please

Can you provide a link to the fellow who made the ends for you?

What wheels are you using?

What size rims ?

Nothing wrong with the factory control arm with new bushings. This seems like a lot of work for little reward.

Oh man, I wish you would have taken her out and talked about it

How do I order these?

Not "stupid", but "resourceful".

ok, I know its been a long time since I worked on my 65 140 Corsa, but why didn't you install the center mount that connects to the transaxle FIRST!!! and it looks like that mount doesn't line up with the transaxle, and the holes are too big for the bolts!!! you have too many wrongs before you should even start! mike

The very first thing I would do is buy some better jack stands. I would NOT risk my LIFE to these cheap jack stands.

Turn the bolt around and tighten it.. it will compress the bracket.