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Maintenance / Something Around Locating Pin on Leaf Spring

« on: October 16, 2021, 12:03:46 AM »

I took the monoleaf rearend out of my 68 RS and found what looks like a bead of metal around the locating pin on the leaf spring brackets on the axle tubes.  It is light grey in the picture and is on the bottom of the leaf spring keeping me from getting it out of the bracket.  It is fairly uniform around about 90% of the pin, but the last 10% it thins out to nothing on both springs.  On the left spring there are two drops of what looks like weld spatter (one is shown at 11 o'clock) on the spring.  I made a couple of passes over it with a file to make the bright area at 11 o'clock on the bead.  Neither the assembly manual or chassis repair manual say anything about putting something around the pin after the spring is in place.  Can anyone tell me what this is so I can figure out how to get the (broken) springs out of the brackets?  Thanks

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Maintenance / Removing Bolts from Leaf Spring Cup

« on: January 02, 2021, 09:37:40 PM »

I'm beginning the process of removing the rear suspension from my wife's 68 RS to clean it up and replace the 50 year old rubber parts.  As expected, the bolts in the leaf spring cups just spin so I'm going to have to either drill them out or grind off the heads.  I've never seen what is under the cup as far as the size of the holes where the j-clips are inserted.  Is the hole big enough to remove the old J-clips and remains of the bolts, especially if I grind off the bolt heads?

I'm open to any other suggestions as well.  Thanks!

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Restoration / Subframe Removal

« on: April 20, 2016, 01:58:58 AM »

I'm working to make a '68 RS driveable for my wife and as I dug deeper into the car, I found that the #2 body mount points in the subframe are mostly rotted out under the bushings.  The engine, trans  and radiator are out and I disconnected the steering at the rag joint so the steering box and power steering pump stays with the subframe.  I have not removed the doghouse from the car.  The plan is to put 2x4's between the rockers and subframe and use my lift to raise the body off the subframe.  The question that I have is how much do I need to support the doghouse when it is off the subframe?  I'd hate to kink the tops of the fenders, but on the other hand, I'd also rather not spend a lot of time building a support structure that isn't really necessary.

Thanks

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Restoration / Upper Control Arm

« on: May 07, 2015, 03:28:47 AM »

I need to replace the right upper control arm on my wife's 68 RS.  Goodmark has one that has the ball joint riveted in which matches the current part.  All the other replacements that I've found have the ball joint bolted in.  I've seen some criticism of Goodmark body parts and am wondering if anyone has used their control arms.  If so, how was the quality and fit?

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Decoding/Numbers / Need Help with Partial VIN Engine Stamp

« on: November 15, 2014, 04:14:22 PM »

I'm thinking about buying a '69 Z/28.  The engine was assembled in Flint in late December of 1968 and the car was built in Norwood in February 1969.  Everything makes sense except the partial VIN on the engine block.  The VIN matches, but it is prefixed with either 4EC, 4EO, 4E0 or 4EG.  I've looked all over the web and through the Camaro White Pages book, but can't find any clues as to what this might mean.  Thoughts?