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Steve, I learned to work on cars by reading Hot Rod, Car Craft and Rod and Custom when I was a kid in the '50s. When I bought my first new car in 1968 (a GTO because I needed room for two little ones) I also bought the Pontiac Service Manual. Back then it was $8.95. If you want to learn about...

I agree completely. If I didn't already have two Corvettes in my 3-car garage, I'd be making the trip myself. I had the solution but my wife refuses to let me add 4-post lifts to make it a 4- 5- or 6-car garage. She never asks for much of anything so it's real hard to horse-trade with her...

Steven, I don't think any link I provide will work. Mecum asks you to sign up on their site before you can search and view the cars. It's free and you can do searches by make, model and year for one or all of the auctions. Just go to Mecum Auction: Live Classic, Collector, Corvette and Muscle...

Steven, June 24-25, 2011 Mecum had an auction in Bloomington and this car sold for $9,500. Wrong color interior for your dream car but it was listed as: - One owner - 4 speed - Red/Red - 38,000 original miles

G'Day Mark, I went to the Flaming River site and now I can see how the original rack was mounted. I also see the horrendous angle of the right side steering link -- I thought it hadn't been attached and was just hanging down at that angle. Your setup looks really nice and I like the end...

Mark, That's a fright. I can see the steering wheel is offset a little extra to the right (barely room for your hand to clear the door panel). You might consider a 14-inch steering wheel from a later model if the column can't be moved. Also seems like the wiper door canister dictated the...

Good for you! Glad it worked out.:upthumbs

Brilliant! :upthumbs Any chance you can post some pictures of the conversion? Here in the States we don't have to worry about converting RHD cars but I seem to recall New South Wales having a rule that LHD cars had to have a foot-high sign on the back warning that the car was Left Hand Drive...

G'Day Mark, Glad it worked out for you. Bob's your uncle with the engineer now! Hope he doesn't give you grief over anything else.

I lived in Manly from 1989-91 and realized what a giant pain the RTA could be. Just because I'm missing a left elbow they made me put a spinner knob on the steering wheel and told me my new Toyota had to have the hand brake moved from the center console to the right side of the driver seat...

I'm glad you got it working. I missed your post about the tip unscrewing. Looks like someone installed a repair tip on that cable. Apparently they are supposed to be crimped on and if yours unscrewed, the crimp was probably bad. Might have been your problem all along. Replacing the entire...

The cable has a square end that inserts into the distributor. The distributor end of an original cable looks like this with a little more than an inch formed into a square. The other end of the cable also has a square end but its part of a nylon piece attached to the round cable. I assume...

Bubba Gets a Buffa I needed one as well. I closed my eyes and woke up a month later. Actually I've been working on lots of stuff besides the car so the progress has been minimal. Many years ago I admired the chrome engine goodies on show cars and thought I'd like to add some to mine. More...

Tim, you're right -- I would gladly do without A/C if I didn't live in a sauna 300 days a year. Even up your way it's been warm lately. Our afternoon highs are in the low 90s but mornings starts at 80.

If it hasn't already been replaced recently, I would replace the heater core while you are in there. You should be able to pull the evaporator without having to remove the headers but you might find it easier if you remove the coolant overflow tank. On a bright note, you are working with a...

TNTRUCKGUY, Not sure why you aren't getting responses but I suspect very few folks have installed Patriot headers in their Corvette. Most Patriot headers are for trucks as far as I can tell. Your re-phrased question isn't a whole lot more helpful. I take it you have Magnaflow mufflers and you...

Vetteboy, It's fairly simple. It's been a long time since I pulled the speedometer gear. I can't recall if it dumped a bunch of fluid so you might want to have a drain pan handy. One bolt and a clamp like the one on the distributor holds the gear assembly in place. Here's a picture from the...

Thanks Rod, I love working on cars but luckily I never had to make a living doing it. The older I get, the slower I get but I keep trying new things. Last year it was welding and hopefully this year it will be airbrushing.

I had silicone brake fluid in my 72 for 25 years (up on blocks). Most of the fluid seeped out of the calipers so before I put the car back on the road, I wanted to change to o-ring seals and stainless lines. Fluid in the master cylinder was clear with a slight purple tint. Fluid in the...

The thing that screws onto your tach drive is a cable housing and is supposed to have an inner cable. The cable has square ends on it and it feeds into that cable housing from the tachometer end under the dash. For around $10 you can buy a universal repair kit and cut the inner cable to the...