What Did You Do To Your Chevelle Today - Page 281

shadowgray396 · #**2801** 06-18-2016, 03:07 PM

Spent the morning pulling the starter out the car. Not much room to get it out not to mention laying on my back working on it. Wish I had a shop and a lift. Starter is drawing to many amps, so now I will need to get it rebuilt and put into the car before next weekend.

shadowgray396 · #**2802** 06-20-2016, 11:19 PM

Starter over at the rebuild shop. Should get it back tomorrow.

Hank70SS · #**2803** 06-21-2016, 07:26 AM

Rebuilt another horn assembly. Now to get them blasted and painted then I'll have functional horns on the Chevelle.

paulywood · #**2804** 06-22-2016, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Hank70SS

Rebuilt another horn assembly. Now to get them blasted and painted then I'll have functional horns on the Chevelle.

I don't have any horns so one of these weeks I'll have to go junkyard diving and see if I can scrounge some up. They want an awful lot of money for the reproduction ones!

flash · #**2805** 06-22-2016, 05:49 PM

My buddy Lou told me last saturday that my Elky made him sad seeing it almost dragging the ground as it needed new springs and the air shocks replaced .He knew I had the parts but due to my surgery I could not install them so he suggested that I bring it to his home shop and put it on his lift and he would change them for me .We decided on today for this to happen ,he put my new station wagon springs on and the new coilover shocks to replace the ever leaking air shocks .Man does it ever ride good now and looks much better too .I basically held the light and handed him tools and stayed out of the way .It's great to have friends like Lou and I am going to return the favor helping him on his outbuilding when Im all healed up.

Hank70SS · #**2806** 06-23-2016, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by paulywood

I don't have any horns so one of these weeks I'll have to go junkyard diving and see if I can scrounge some up. They want an awful lot of money for the reproduction ones!

I haven't looked at the repros in a few years. I know they use to be pretty generic, not really a reproduction of the original Chevelle horns. I have a couple extra passenger side horns, non-functioning. You pay shipping and you can have them.

Hank70SS · #**2807** 06-23-2016, 07:27 AM

John, you're a lucky guy to have a friend like Lou.

shadowgray396 · #**2808** 06-23-2016, 02:42 PM

Nice friend, Always good to have friends willing to help.

flash · #**2809** 06-23-2016, 07:09 PM

I agree ,Lou is a good guy ,I met him at a swap meet a long way from home and gave him some part I had for free and I got to talking to him later that day and found out he only lived a short distance from me and we began hanging out together at our local cruise in and found ourselves fast friends ,that was about 2 years ago.

71-SS350 · #**2810** 06-25-2016, 05:51 PM

Finally got around to putting a coolant recovery system / tank on my '71 Chevelle. I know they did not have one from the factory back in the day but I like the idea of being able to top off the re-cored 4 row Harrison all the way and a bit of reserve in the recovery bottle. Also keeps an air bubble out of the radiator and hopefully will lessen any corrosion to the shiny new cores. I used a w/s washer bottle and mounted it to the lower portion of the pass. metal inner fender below the battery. Put a couple rubber washers between the mount and the fender. Same system as I put on my restored '71 Chevy fleet side 4x4 which works great.