BuckeyeROC

Looking good!

LOL. Like I said in chat, I felt like Tone Loc in "Funky Cold Medina". I expected a female inner tie rod and a male tie rod popped out.

Thank you. Hopefully these work. If not, I might have to get a new steering rack, I just don't know what else might work if these don't.

Spent a few hours researching online and a bunch of time at some parts stores, nothing. Although I THINK I at least know the proper thread size on both ends of the inner tie rod and the length I need. I used that info on Moog's site to find Moog-ev343, which oddly enough happen to fit a 97-07 Vette. So we have an 86 Vette with a an 88-92 Vette steering rack that was rebuilt weird, and I'm about to try 97-07 Vette inner tie rods.

Thanks man! Yes, and no. LOL. Barely made out a part number on the rack, 26008290. Comes up as an 88-92 Vette, however, looking online it looks like this rack SHOULD have female inner tie rods, too. Still looking...

Looking around the net, I'm starting to think this isn't the stock steering rack. They all show female inner tie rods for an 86 Vette.

Sigh. So we went out today to replace the tie rods and start putting the front suspension back together. First thing, neither tie rod jam nut nor outer tie rod would move, AT ALL. After measuring each side, I reluctantly had to cut the inner tie rods to get them off with the tie rod tool, came off easy after that. I bought the Moog #EV124's, per the Moog website for a 1986 Corvette, which are female. However, the stock inner tie rods are male. So now I'm trying to figure out why Moog sold me lesbian parts and what I actually need here. Moog site: https://www.moog-suspension-parts.com/moog-ev124 20 by BuckeyeBOSS, on Flickr 21 by BuckeyeBOSS, on Flickr

How do you like dem apples Ferrari?

The plot thickens... https://www.autoblog.com/2019/06/01/cadillac-ct4-ct5-v-series-prototypes-teased/#slide-7588382

Well, we were doing great until my wife decided that we just HAD to start building a deck (not a small one) on Memorial Day. I just don't have the time and energy to work all day, squeeze in workouts, work on a deck and rebuild an 86 Vette, and go to soccer games almost every day. Also had to reroute (dig a trench) for about 20 feet of sump pump line and fix a rotten piece of wood on the back of the house before continuing the deck. Slept 10 hours last night and worked out or worked on something the entire day and night today. It's definitely catching up to me. That said, since Slowmotion was closed last week, we took the upper and lower A-Arms to Precision Machine Shop in Edison, Ohio and had them do the ball joints and bushings. Picked them up yesterday after work. Today we only had a couple hours to work on the Vette b/c of the deck. My wife, daughter, and I cleaned up the A-Arms, spring retainers, knuckles, and wheelwells. I pressed out the front sway bar end bushings, burned out the old rubber, cleaned up the insides and outside, and then pressed in the new bushings. Not sure what the proper name is, but the sway bar mount bushings aren't going to work on this Vette. Going to get a hold of PST on Monday and see if they have the proper ones or not. If not, the old ones are in good shape. 4 by BuckeyeBOSS, on Flickr Dirty vs clean knuckle 1 by BuckeyeBOSS, on Flickr Pretty A-Arms 12 by BuckeyeBOSS, on Flickr 5 by BuckeyeBOSS, on Flickr Nope, not going to work.

That's cool, keep trading up until you get to an LS7 I'm not up on how the internals may be different, but is there any reason why you would NOT want the motor with more cubes?

Yeah, without the big motors, you might as well just save a ton of money and buy... well almost any other sedan, they are pretty much the same.

I don't follow Caddy news, but saw these new reveals. No V8's? Will the V8's come later? https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/2020-cadillac-ct4-v-ct5-v-debut/ https://www.autoblog.com/2019/05/30/2020-cadillac-ct4-v-ct5-v-revealed/

This is AWESOME Kerry! Those ZR-1's were very cool for the time, and still are. Any pics of it?

ENORMOUS day for our project car. We got the front suspension torn down. I was dreading this part of the project the most, and it turns out it was for good reason, it's a HUGE PAIN. But we muscled through it and got it apart. Had to make a trip to the hardware store for a 21 mm and 19 mm socket, never needed/used either before in my life. And Chevy did some unkind things like using a 15mm head bolt with an 18mm nut (and kind of hid the nut and made it tough to get to). After reading Clay's project thread and looking at my current tools, we are just taking the A-arms to a machine shop this week and having them clean them up and replace the bushings and riveted ball joints. I just don't have the time and patience right now and the money will be well spent IMHO. Still need to replace the inner and outer tie rods and sway bar bushings. Looking closely at the front brake rotors and pads, they are "alright" I guess, but I'm just going to get new ones. It's just WAY too convenient to do them now. 20190526_130359 by BuckeyeBOSS, on Flickr 20190526_171850 by BuckeyeBOSS, on Flickr 20190526_171837 by BuckeyeBOSS, on Flickr 20190526_213757 by BuckeyeBOSS, on Flickr 20190526_213809 by BuckeyeBOSS, on Flickr

No pics and nothing sexy today. Flushed/bled the brake fluid with some Prestone DOT 4 and the new Motive Power Bleeder Kit. Man that bleeder kit worked nice and easy! Cleaned out the bleeder kit with denatured alcohol when done. It is hot as balls out, we are done for today.

Looks great man!

She decided she was fine without AC in the car, so we ordered up an AC Delete Pulley, Dorman #34224. We'll measure for the belt once installed. If nothing else, it at least buys us another year before spending the money to replace much (if not all) of the AC system. Plan tomorrow is to flush and bleed the brake system and start teardown of the front suspension.

No, no, no.

The brake pressure switch/sensor came in tonight and we had the VERY rare night with no kids' events, so we got to work. First we put the sensor in the master cylinder. Then we had to make a gasket for between the booster and firewall, since nobody makes them anymore. Then we installed the new booster (hopefully the last time I have to squeeze upside down under this dash, but somehow, I doubt it). Then bench bled the master cylinder and buttoned everything up to specs. We ran out of time tonight, but either Friday night or Saturday, we will flush/bleed the entire brake system.

Congrats! Sounds good.

I really dig your 3rd gen collection. My 89 IROC is the only car I'd like to find and buy back. I say screw it, third gens are cool, take the one that runs great and own it. "Perfection" is highly overrated at some shows.

Performance is cool. A Porsche CR-V/HR-V though, and at those prices? Hard pass from me.

Appreciate it Clay. I'm 100% taking our A-arms w/ riveted ball joints somewhere to do them right and quickly. Worth the money for that part of the project to me.