1966 Corvette L72 Light Refresh

[jer]

Ha! After drooling a bit over your gauge pod, I looked at the gauges I just received in the mail today.....I beat you by over 2000 miles!!

[Canuck]

Nice!!!!!

[dykstra]

Super cool! Looks fantastic Tim!

[napa68]

Slowly creeping to a finish on this stage. This car has proven to be a fighter. The gas gauge is now working. The replacement I received was NFG, so that had me double and triple checking all of the continuity and resistances again. Luckily, a friend over in Eagle River had an NOS gauge in his stash.

Furthermore, the wiper motor that came in tested good on the bench. It was acting all sort of funny in the car. The major sign, it would not park. So that came apart to only find the small spring was missing for the park solenoid. There was not even any evidence it was in there (like to broke). So, I dug through a spring assortment I have here, and was able to "engineer" it to work. Shazam! Works just like it should now.

Lastly, USPS managed to lose a couple of items on mine in the last couple of weeks Of course, one of those items is preventing me from finally securing the gauge cluster into the dash. The other item they lost for a week was all of the paperwork and images I sent in to Al Grenning for his CCAS Validation's on the engine deck, trim tag, and POP. Luckily, that surfaced and was delivered on Friday.


Just killing some time today, I decided to play around with a light steam on the carpets to see if I could get any sort of improvement. Nothing notable to report there. Still really nice original carpets in this car nonetheless, and don't want to risk going backwards using any sort of carpet cleaner.

[TimG]

I had the same issue with a wiper motor rebuild, Tim. The park spring came off in transit and the motor had to come out for a quick fix. I'll never install another without checking to be sure the spring is in place.

[MosportGreen66]

Tim and I had a nice convo about this '66 L72. This seems to be a very nice original car! Congrats to Tim for a gentle clean to preserve that chassis and original educational value.

[napa68]

Moving closer to the finish line........an inch at a time.

The cluster is secured in, and thus got the steering column installed. To only find out I must have tweaked the main shaft and thus the directional switch. Horn was stuck on. Took it apart and yeah, the switch was boogered. So, I am waiting for that to come in. I did get the clock back and installed. At least that worked out to plan!



Here is an ink stamp on the fan clutch. This decodes to December 2nd of 65.
L=December
2=2nd day of month
F=1965


The car has 1 pair of original keys that came with it. Ironically, Marsh Hallman made an error on entering the ignition key codes of the dealer invoice.




I am tickled with the body (among other obvious items). The paint has some checking here and there, but overall is really nice. Great detectible bonding seams and of course the original dealer emblem





Last but not least, the affirmations came back from Al Grenning for the engine block, trim tag, and POP.


Of course all of this progress cannot go unpunished I fired the car up and the carb was not happy once again. I said piss on it. Pulled it off and sent it out to Phil. While rebuilding a carb is certainly in my skill sets, I have concluded in these parts that are 50-60 years old need to pulled down to nothing, machined back to be square, and be the focal point of a seasoned pro. In short, I feel like I should do that with most any carb that comes through the shop.

[scuncio]

Man! Nice work as always. I agree with your take on carb rebuilding. Mine seem to have a countdown timer and I start having problems in a few months, whereas Eric Jackson’s rebuilds are still 100% years later.

[Tuna Joe]

Originally Posted by napa68

Slowly creeping to a finish on this stage. This car has proven to be a fighter. The gas gauge is now working. The replacement I received was NFG, so that had me double and triple checking all of the continuity and resistances again. Luckily, a friend over in Eagle River had an NOS gauge in his stash.

Furthermore, the wiper motor that came in tested good on the bench. It was acting all sort of funny in the car. The major sign, it would not park. So that came apart to only find the small spring was missing for the park solenoid. There was not even any evidence it was in there (like to broke). So, I dug through a spring assortment I have here, and was able to "engineer" it to work. Shazam! Works just like it should now.

Lastly, USPS managed to lose a couple of items on mine in the last couple of weeks Of course, one of those items is preventing me from finally securing the gauge cluster into the dash. The other item they lost for a week was all of the paperwork and images I sent in to Al Grenning for his CCAS Validation's on the engine deck, trim tag, and POP. Luckily, that surfaced and was delivered on Friday.


Just killing some time today, I decided to play around with a light steam on the carpets to see if I could get any sort of improvement. Nothing notable to report there. Still really nice original carpets in this car nonetheless, and don't want to risk going backwards using any sort of carpet cleaner.

Great car! Trying to learn here.
What would/could happen to the carpet if you were to shampoo it?
Thanks

[napa68]

Originally Posted by Tuna Joe

Great car! Trying to learn here.
What would/could happen to the carpet if you were to shampoo it?
Thanks

I've had mixed results, and feel I have damaged the rugs in previous cars. I gotta admit, I have become a bit of a connoisseur about certain original items, carpets being one of them. I can thank Tim G for causing this disorder I have not given up on improving the rugs, but I can live with them the way they are.

As a side note, Tim G is also responsible for my fetish revolving around non DOT tires, original shocks, the aforementioned carpets, fasteners, and a gaggle of other items that defy common sense to a reasonable adult. Seriously though, Tim is a wheelhouse of knowledge and certainly has upped my game. Most importantly, just a great guy and a genuine friend