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Rained most of the day, stopping about 3ish. Busied myself
cleaning up the garage. Once the rain stopped, I was able to get to
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You saw last time that I'd crunched one of the thrust washers for the
spider gears. I grabbed one from the El Camino but they're shaped
differently. The EC's washers wouldn't fit the Chevelle's spider
gears, so I swapped the spiders out too. Rear end buttoned up,
hopefully for the last time. | |
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I've got my work cut out for me here. This brace is almost rusted
through all the way around. |
The T-bolts for the tank straps are bent or missing. |
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I put the intermediate parking brake cable from the Elky on the car, and
hooked up the pedal. The intermediate cable was a little long, but I
figured it might work anyway with some creative use of the little
hook-things. It took a lot of effort to push the pedal down - the
cable didn't want to move - and then once I realized it wasn't going to
work, the cable didn't want to move back. I'll have to replace the
cable, I reckon. |
Moved my attention to the front of the car, since I was annoyed by
everything else. It's not a good sign when both sway bar end link
bolts snap when removing them.
Would have been too easy if they broke
as soon as I put a wrench on them, but the first one made it almost all the
way to the end - a lot of effort needed all the way through. |
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This was my quitting place - I was running out of daylight. Sway bar
is off, front end is up on stands, rear end is on tires. The straps that are
holding the car from rolling back are in the way of the driver's tire coming
all the way off. Don't really want to remove the strap until I have a
parking brake though. I'll get the wheel off when I take the control
arms off, I suppose. |