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I'm working on swapping a Brake Booster in a Corvette. C4's have this huge frame rail that sticks up above the floorboard on the outside. So I'm...
I've got nobody to blame but myself on this one, I'm afraid. I upgraded the original calipers to C5 Corvette ones awhile back and must have...
I'm pulling the power steering rack on the Sled. In order to get the pitman arm puller over the tie-rod end to remove it from the knuckle, I...
This. I have a maggie on an LS1 and it has a vacuum operated bypass to reduce parasitic drag. All it uses is vacuum. Nothing else. However....
It's for all those times you have two bolts about 6" away from each other. Set it and forget it, then go tighten the other side. Think of the time...
These pics are only worth a couple hundred words. Looking at the indicator more closely, it looks like I can completely disassemble it. Further,...
I'll try to get a photo on here. It's like they solder the wires to the bulb socket, then fill the area with rubber to weatherproof it. I don't...
What's a guy to do when the turn signal has an intermittent short? The wires go into rubber (or butyl, or whale blubber, or bakelite, or...
This'll be about the only time I'll be on topic on this board, so I'll run with it: [img] [img]
You don't happen to have any pictures of the inside, do you? They're often prettier than the outside on the carved wood cars. [img]
Comon guys, we live in the fewcher, what do they SOUND like? (this sounds better if you have REAL speakers hooked up.) <object width="400"...
I figger MOST car brands couldn't stay in business if they were as bad as their detractors say. A theory I've been testing to good effect. Had a...
I had a similar thing happen. Refilled the tranny and it died in less than 1000 miles. My hoseclamps didn't hold and it dumped the fluid out in a...
Pity, it's so far away, the HEARSE was BUILT for this kinda thing!
Thanks! I think we've determined the diff is in good condition, and the car doesn't see a lot of miles anyway (with 9 mpg and $4/gal gas), but I...
1966 Cadillac Fleetwood 75 (Hearse)
This is more for the search engine than anything else, I'm spectin' it'll drop like a stone. Took the Axle out of the Hearse and over to a...
You must have had the stickshift. My 89 Vette (with 2.54 rear-end) could get 29 mpg on the highway pretty reliably and I maxed it out at 32 mpg...
Note to self: Buy a respirator, stat! I've got a pretty aggressive sanding wheel and a die-grinder for prep, the axle's been diptanked so I doubt...
The Axle's back after it's hot-tanking. The specialist's opinion of the Cadillac 'Controlled Differential' was "I've never seen anything like...
Nah, don't blame ebay or the intake. I wanna think I fixed three or four fukups before the motor got running right. Intake leak, vacuum leak, two...
You do and I'll kick yer ass with this cane I got here! :p
Just don't call him an old timer. I dunno about the rest of y'all, but oldtimer-hood seems to be catching up on me, pronto. (as is my collection...
I'm with fab32. What I thought was the timing mark in the Harmonic Balancer turned out to be a valve phasing mark put on by the builder. When I...
I take pictures every 6 months and I don't any two have ever looked the same. There's a rice burnin' Subaru and an Avalanche in the driveway. (And...
Not having first hand experience, the lore is to paint the pipe from the collector back, lightly, then go for a ride. The paint will burn off at...
I had the wife help me chuck the Live Axle from a 66 Caddy 75 into the back of the truck. My wrist hurts like hell and she'll have a softball...
Well, yes and no. The car's up in the air, the axle's out of the way, but damn, swinging a big hammer, sideways, while under a 6000 lb car gives...
ugh. wonder if a C-clamp with a cheaterbar would be enough to press it out? Seems kina stupid to have a situation where you can't never service...
There's a Nut on the other side (which I was able to remove) But since the whole thing is 'captured', If I can't get the 'headless bolt' out, I...
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