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    Trailing arm rebuild

    I had to soak mine with PB Blaster twice a day for 3 days, plus some gentle taps with a brass or rubber mallet before it broke loose. Spray it down in the morning before you go to work, and in the evening when you get home. Also, make sure the parking brake is off.
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    Trailing arm rebuild

    Hello and welcome to CAC! Removing the rear rotors isn't hard. If a previous owner never took them off, they will be riveted on, so you may have to drill the rivets out. Ensure that you index the rotors with respect to the lugs so that you put them on exactly the way they came off - ie. the...
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    US COrvettes

    Although I have never dealt with them, GSDiva, one of CAC's moderators, works for these guys. You can send GSDiva a PM and probably get some of your questions answered. Sales Corvette Mike New England Toll-free: 877-427-8388 Cell: 617-872-8252 "Corvette Mike New England"
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    FRUSTRATIONS

    Here are the details on what I was talking about. This is a .jpg. If you want it in a .pdf, please pm me with your e-mail address. PS - I paid about a dollar a rod at a tool show, instead of the price shown here.
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    drums/pads in disk hub can this be

    From the factory, the surfaces of the brake rotors were turned while the rotors were attached to the car in order to create a plane that is perpendicular to the rotational axis of the wheel. That is why the rotors were riveted on. If you have the rotors turned on a machine off the car, or if...
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    Clutch Woes

    I had the same problem with my '78 after letting it sit for only 7 months while I was deployed. I solved it basically the same way Bill75 suggested. I rolled her to the end of my (fairly short) driveway, put the car in first, held the clutch in, started the car, and by the time I drove into...
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    FRUSTRATIONS

    There is a product that is often sold at gunshows and toolshows and such. It's sort of a cross between a welding stick and an overgrown piece of solder. It is made for "welding" aluminum, pot metal, brass, copper - just not steel. You heat the work pieces with a propane torch and rub this...
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    drums/pads in disk hub can this be

    Rotor runout is the amount of wobble in the rotor as it spins. You check it with a dial gauge. Unlike modern cars, the C-3's brake calipers are mounted solidly to the car - they do not slide left and right. Consequently they have pistons on both sides of the calipers - most modern cars have...
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    Squeak - possibly the speedo cable?

    I think I'll put the car on jackstands and disconnect the speedo cable from the tranny and ease out on the clutch to determine if that is the source of the squeak. That would be easier than taking the dash apart. On second thought, I have to take it apart anyway to replace the turn signal...
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    Squeak - possibly the speedo cable?

    I have a squeak in my front end that varies with speed. I could have sworn it was the left front wheel. I replaced the front wheel bearings. Honestly, the old ones didn't look bad at all, but I had already bought the new ones, and they weren't expensive enough to warrant making a trip back...
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    79 Delco 8-Track Radio

    It's normal in my 78. By normal, I mean it always makes noise while the antenna is going up or down. I don't know if there is a filter missing or anything like that.
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    1974 Delco Radio Question

    Since the car had an aftermarket modern radio in it, check the speakers. The old radios require speakers of a different impedance value (ohms) than the new radios. Whoever put the new radio in the car should have also put new speakers in it.
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    Help on my "New" Car!

    Thank you for setting me straight, JohnZ!
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    Help on my "New" Car!

    Welcome to CAC! I'm at work and going off of straight memory, but I think the torque on the front wheel bearing castle nuts is around 12-15 ft-lbs. There is a process for tightening them - something along the lines of tighten to the specified torque while rotating the wheel, then insert the...
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    Anyone know NY shop "not just vettes"?

    Fight it through e-bay and paypal simultaneously. And write down every e-mail address linked to the seller. I had one bad e-bay experience, and the guy had one e-mail address assigned to his e-bay username, a second to his paypal account, and at least two others that showed up on correspondence.
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