madmrak351 said:Around 77 I had Tampa brake and spring build me a F41 rear spring that was 1 inch shorter overall for better tire clearance along with notched trailing arms that I copied from a Guldstrand design.
They changed their name to just Tampa Spring in the past few years. In case anyone goes looking for em
Something to think about. If you are replacing the rear wheel bearings the OEM assembly is a tight press fit and clearance is set by selective shims. We chucked the spindles up in a lathe and papered the bearing surfaces down to a tight slip fit. This made subsequent disassembly and replacement or repacking of the bearings much easier. Also setting proper clearance generally requires changing the shims at least twice.
madmrak351 said:Something to think about. If you are replacing the rear wheel bearings the OEM assembly is a tight press fit and clearance is set by selective shims. We chucked the spindles up in a lathe and papered the bearing surfaces down to a tight slip fit. This made subsequent disassembly and replacement or repacking of the bearings much easier. Also setting proper clearance generally requires changing the shims at least twice.
65-69 Corvair is same design, and the same mod is done. Makes setup a lot easier to get "right" vs "in spec".
The internet says you can't change out the fuel lines with fully removing the body or mangling the lines.
Does this mean that I am sketchier than the internet?
Because even I will admit this was a litle ehhh...
And now for a new game called "This don't happen down here."
This is the fuel feed line. Im guessing that this was caused by ice?
Can any of my friends that DON'T live in the sub tropics confirm this?
I'll say it again... this car has been off the road a LONG time.
Mouse house #... oh heck I forget. Here's another one.
Brake lines... fuel lines... Done!
In reply to a_florida_man :
That is certainly an ice rupture in the line. Pretty rare even here where we have many freeze-thaw cycles in a season.
In reply to TurnerX19 :
This was a PA car for 99% of its life.
Brings back burst home water pipes in Indiana winter memories.
New seals ....
New HD differential cover / leaf spring mount.
I might have a lot done by the end of today.
Mouse condos
left frame rail and rear cross member.
Country mouse lived in the rear crossmember. He made his house outta straw!
Having been a southerner the majority of my life, l have never seen that fuel line ruptured thing before. Yet another reason to stay where I am!
In reply to madmrak351 :
Exactly!! Me too!
That was just nuts.
Nighttime pics not so good... but it's in there.
It felt really good to get a big chunk back in!
On deck...
In case that tag gets hidden, let me remind you that there's no gear oil in the diff. 🤘🏻😎
A little more forensic information....
The trailing arm on the right is from a big block car, as evidenced by the two holes at the end for a swaybar mount.
Adding in the gold door on the passenger side....
and the poor repair to the passenger side quarter panel dog leg,
(you shouldn't see any gap here)
It's safe to say the right rear wheel took a decent shot way back when.
This is also the side with the 1973 Delco shock.
If the front shocks turn out to match the left rear Monroe shock from 1971 we will then have a pretty good time line for the crash happening in 1973.
Nope OEM from 1969
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Put some shoes on you're making me nervous!
Also the plumbing in my workshop looked just like that fuel line when I bought it. The freeze even pushed the solder joints apart. I've never seen it on fuel lines but I'm guessing the long sitting period is why - water separated out of the fuel and froze locally?
These 55 year old u-joints did not want to come out! RUSTED!!
This is the best ujoint tool I have ever used.
Hope you are using solid cross u-joints in the axle shafts. I broke a pretty fresh hollow cross zerk greased inner on a reasonable hard 2/3 up shift. Fortunately it was on the passenger side, it flailed around and beat a significant hole in the jack box before the outer broke the flange and tumbled out the back. I was glad it wasn't the battery side. Switched to solid cross u-joints, no more problems. This was a slightly warmed 327 with a lighter than stock flywheel. Not a fire breathing big block.
In reply to madmrak351 :
100% Spicer Solid Cross, half shafts and drive shaft -- no zerks
I'll just add that yes that fuel line looks like an expansion rupture. The beauty of ethanol fuel, water just mixes in and gets burned. Unless you drive one of those things that floats where water gets in the fuel, those stations only sell the ethanol free...the one place where it can help a lot. Off to the minor rant thread.
You are not curing my itch to own a C3, my wife even likes the look of them.
In reply to akylekoz :
I agree it was almost certainly from an ice rupture. However since it's been off of the road for a very long time I'm thinking it has more to do with accumulated condensation than with ethanol.
I hate ethanol.
In reply to a_florida_man :
Solid cross 👍 Glad to hear that!
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