Maniacmechanic1
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Pick your poison Rick.Well there is a new concept ! Glad you told me or I would have never thought of that.
Aeroquip.
Fragolia.
Earls.
Or Electric.
Pick your poison Rick.Well there is a new concept ! Glad you told me or I would have never thought of that.
Seems like you would wait until you plan and rebuilding the engine and then clean the engine bay at theam increasingly leaning toward taking the engine out this fall to clean up the engine bay, tidy up the wiring and address leaks.
Seems like you would wait until you plan and rebuilding the engine and then clean the engine bay at the
same time. That way you only have to go thru pulling the engine once. There's certainly little additional
cost to pulling the engine twice. Just sounds like extra work.
the intended mods sound reasonable,
Id check the parking /hand brake shoes,
I know I've found several , over the years,
that were absolutely and totally worn out on c3 corvette's ,
the owners had never even looked at in decades (...)
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Yes... that same concern for efficiency occurred to me too. I think I simply can't resist pulling the engine (despite not replacing it or rebuilding it for a while yet...) because there are so many things that need attention.
The shifter still needs some attention; rebuilding is cheap and access much better with the engine out.
That vibration has me puzzled; I want a closer look at the clutch and will probably replace the harmonic balancer with a larger one. By the same token, I want a closer look at the engine mounts.
I saw a broken spring hanging from the headlight assembly; that needs attention as well.
The bolts to the bottom of the steering column are missing !!!!
Water is leaking in between the birdcage and the firewall... that needs to be sealed.
I want to clean and POR-15 the frame. It should be easier to rebuild the suspension and swap in a Borgeson with the engine out.
The wiring is terribly untidy - I want that sharp; it is easier to do that sitting in the engine bay.
There are random holes in the firewall that need to be sealed off - we were freezing our butts off at anything over 50.
I want the fiber optics working.
Hmmmmm - I think my plan is to carefully go through the engine bay and when I am through, the only thing left will be to enhance the engine. #exciting.
So true.owning and restoring a corvette is a bit like a marriage,
theres always something thats in need of your attention that you never imagined,
going into the process of getting everything functioning smoothly
,and its always going to take more time, effort, and cash that it looks like,
it should have, from the start., and anyone looking at the process,
of either, has no concept of the time and effort youve, been required,
too put into getting either to function smoothly
I like the Unitized construction of a C4 Corvette Grumpy.owning and restoring a corvette is a bit like a marriage,
theres always something thats in need of your attention that you never imagined,
going into the process of getting everything functioning smoothly
,and its always going to take more time, effort, and cash that it looks like,
it should have, from the start., and anyone looking at the process,
of either, has no concept of the time and effort youve, been required,
too put into getting either to function smoothly
I think you have to remove the interior Dorien.I also thing it is a personal thing... what the previous owner of the corvette might have been comfortable with it, I am not. The car runs and handles all right... but clearly so many things are approximate.
Same goes for marriages... some people accept raucous relationships. I don't.
Different standards I guess.
I look forward to yanking the engine now. I guess I was looking forward to the corvette being a reasonably comfortable, reliable drive before taking it down.
Does anyone know if there is a way to examine the birdcage for rust? Specifically around the windshield ? Without doing something stupidly damaging? The amount of water that got inside of the car during the stormy weather was concerning.