Given up on the 'vette......gone out in the boat!
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
"Every Picture Tells a Story, Don’t It?"
OK, we managed to get the car Registered just before Christmas, just in time for Summer Cruisin’.
I knew that there would be a few little issues crop up when the Corvette was finally on the road, but I wasn’t quite prepared for the events that have/are taking place.
The first time the engine was fired up, it sounded really strong. I was quite excited by this, thought this Corvette was going to be a "goer". Things have deteriorated since then, but we’ll cover the engine issues off in another episode.
There were only two things on the car that weren’t reconditioned during the rebuild.
The Differential sounded OK on the very short drive before the car was pulled apart, so I didn’t touch that.
The right hand side Trailing Arm had stickers on it indicating that it had recently been reconditioned, prior to importing to Australia, so I didn’t touch that either.
You can probably guess where I’m going with this ……….. there is, shall we say, “excessive” movement in the rear right hand wheel, most likely caused or contributed to by the hub bearing and or the diff.
And the diff is leaking around the flanges.
Yep, the car is in the process of being pulled apart........again!
The pictures tell the story.
I knew that there would be a few little issues crop up when the Corvette was finally on the road, but I wasn’t quite prepared for the events that have/are taking place.
The first time the engine was fired up, it sounded really strong. I was quite excited by this, thought this Corvette was going to be a "goer". Things have deteriorated since then, but we’ll cover the engine issues off in another episode.
There were only two things on the car that weren’t reconditioned during the rebuild.
The Differential sounded OK on the very short drive before the car was pulled apart, so I didn’t touch that.
The right hand side Trailing Arm had stickers on it indicating that it had recently been reconditioned, prior to importing to Australia, so I didn’t touch that either.
You can probably guess where I’m going with this ……….. there is, shall we say, “excessive” movement in the rear right hand wheel, most likely caused or contributed to by the hub bearing and or the diff.
And the diff is leaking around the flanges.
Yep, the car is in the process of being pulled apart........again!
The pictures tell the story.
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