Last August the power steering rack on the Corvette started to sound…ill. It’s a common failure that’s picked up the name ‘moaning sickness’ (or morning sickness as it can go away when the fluid warms up) at any rate, I didn’t want to risk hurting the car so I parked it til funding permitted. The plan was to buy the rack in December…that slid to January, then February. I finally bought the rack in March and tore into the project proper. (more…)
You put a BIG motor into a SMALL spot. Do you have enough Cooling?
I’m neck deep into a project that no sane person would do. I’m doing a piece by piece restoration of a C4 Corvette from the inside out. One of the main precepts of the project was to make better from stock every part I possibly could. That means more horsepower, better braking, stronger parts, and generally making the car more than competitive with the current cars available from auto manufacturers. It may be a flawed premise, but it’s my premise, and I’m sticking to it. (more…)
I occasionally check into the practical machinist forum (www.practicalmachinist.com) to see what’s up. The South Bend forum has a ‘what have you made lately’ thread. I figured if I put these in the thread, it’d be equally easy to post them here…so, here they are.The YoYo o’ death:
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A 42 year old car, that’s spent some time at rest, will have….issues. While a mid 60′s car is pretty dead simple to work on, a new-to-you dead simple car still takes some effort to figure out. In the 250 miles or so we’ve put on the car, a noise started making itself known. It was a howl that changed with road speed, from 0-30 mph or so, until the rest of the noises at speed drowned it out. There’s no radio to turn up and drown it out, and there’s not enough sound deadener to ignore the noise. 
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I bought a 1 Tb external drive about 6 months ago a year ago. It’s two 500 gb drives in a single box, with a controller, and a $0.60 fan. (more…)