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Old 04-19-2013, 01:19 AM
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nothing like a clean undercarriage!
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Old 04-19-2013, 02:06 AM
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is it done yet!?!?!?!
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After installing the new backup light switch, the shifter installation is finally complete! I was concerned about fit-up with the console, but the shift lever is right where it is supposed to be. Imagine that. I also decided to ditch the nylon shift rod bushings and install the hardened steel ones.

Got the driveshaft installed as well.

Slow but sure progress.







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so clean looks awesome!!!
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Following installed:
Gardner exhaust
Fuel tank
Delco air shocks
Wheel opening moldings
Rally wheels w/ polyglas tires

It's getting there...



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Very nice Jeff!!!

I bet it's so close you can count the hours until completion.
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Wow really nice
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Are you driving the camaro yet?
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Are you driving the camaro yet?
The short answer is no. The longer answer is yes, but I only got around the neighborhood. I got the carb tuned and the timing map set, then I noticed that only one front brake was working. Leaky front wheel cylinder. Fixed that, but the clutch chatters like crazy. Really bad. So bad that I won't drive it.

I replaced the clutch, flywheel, & TO bearing back in the day, about 20 years ago. I have a feeling that I didn't get the TO bearing on the clutch fork correctly. So, now I have to pull the transmission. This time, I'm not messing around. I'm going to:
1) Have the new GM flywheel resurfaced (just to be sure)
2) Put in a new Luk clutch disc & pressure plate
3) Install new bronze pilot bushing
4) Install new GM clutch fork
5) Install a new US-made TO bearing.
6) Install new GM pivot ball stud
7) Install a NOS GM transmission input bearing retainer (the 'tube' that the TO bearing slides on).

Hopefully that will do it. I have all the parts. I just need to do the job, which I'm not looking forward to.

I'm in the middle of some house projects, so the clutch job is being delayed a little.
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Old 09-10-2013, 03:54 PM
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Good to here its mobile but sux that you have to tare into the clutch. Those dam house projects always get in the way of the real work lol.
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