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Maintenance / Speedo assembly and my dripping transmission. help

« on: April 18, 2006, 06:03:35 PM »

I posted this earlier and tied it to my restoration of my dash. I'm hoping to get a few tips on the " maintenance" forum.

 I disengaged the speedometer cable from the speedometer and now my assembly drips transmission oil from the side of the tranny where it attaches to? even after I reconnected the cable back into the speedometer?

Anyone have any tips as to what I need to do to stop the bleeding would be very helpful. I have yet to even touch the transmission so I'm a real newbie at this.

Nick p.


 

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Restoration / Re: Speedometer HELP !!

« on: April 18, 2006, 01:11:32 AM »

Phillip,

Thanks for the link. so far it seems a mystery that usually has a few factors. Now my biggest problem is that the transmission is dripping like a slow fauct from the speedo cable entry into the tranny? it started , as I mentioned in my first post when I seperated the cable from the back of the actual speedometer. I just thought I may have created a gap at the entrance to the tranny (TH-350). but I reconnected the cable and the drip is actually worse??

crazy, is it possoble to tighten this assembly? I've lost so much fluid, i might as well drain the rest and refill the tranny since I had planned to do this later?. never have done this before and tranny's make me really nervous?

thanks

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Restoration / Speedometer HELP !!

« on: April 17, 2006, 04:13:22 PM »

Question for anyone that has had the same problem:

I recently took off the entire dash and cleaned and refinished it and put it back into place over the weekend. Unfortunatly, I noticed that the speedometer was pointing straight down as opposed to the zero mark.

I have three questions.

1. did I break something internal in the actual speedometer or will this fix itself when I get the car moving again? 

2. Actually it has always been "off" by about 12 MPH. If I drive the car and the speedometer shows 67, then I'm actually going 55. How do I adjust this is the above question is not a major problem?

3. I noticed when I detached the cable from the speedometer, my transmission leaked. did this loosen the connection to the side of the transmission and do I need to do anyhting special to ensuree it does not lean any more?


I just reattached everything last night and hopfully reattaching the cable stopped the leak??

thanks a ton for any help. I hope I dont need to replace the speedometer !!


Nick p.

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Restoration / Re: Instrument panel question(s)

« on: April 04, 2006, 07:11:21 PM »

Okay,

I'll work on this tonight. I could not find that in the manual I have. I have the "F" body manaul but could not seem to find it at all.
this will help. I did find the bolts and they are going to be a bear to get at since the windshield is in the way. I'll get a fancy tool at the auto part store to reach these and that should take care of the last step in releasing the entire inst. panel.

My guess it will take me 3 times as long to put back together than it did to take it off !!

I have a problem maybe you can help me with that relates to the kick panel. On the right kick panel, I wanted to pull this and restore it. I have air cond. so the air vent unit is a part of this. the problem is I cant get the until out of the vent. I feel like I need to pry it out but i'm afraid I'll break a piece of the plastic off??  The door came off as the instructions called for in the manual, but the long round vent sleave that reaches into the actual duct is a bear to get out. 

any clues ?

thanks again..

Nick p.

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Restoration / Instrument panel question(s)

« on: April 03, 2006, 10:16:53 PM »

I have two real quick questions involving the restoration of my instrument panel.

1. I can’t seem to be able to get the front light knob off. Does it unscrew??
2. I can’t get the entire left “astro vent” mechanism to release. I can’t find the screws?

Any tip on actually taking the entire instrument panel display off so I can clean and restore it and putting it back on would be a huge help.

Thanks,

Nick p.

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Restoration / Re: Cleaning "Hounds tooth" vinyl seats

« on: March 30, 2006, 10:25:15 PM »

"comfortweave vinyl" is what it must be. Its not cloth at all and the weave is opnly in the butt and center back. the outline is standard black vinyl.

I'll test the products mentioned. that should do it just fine !

thanks

Nick p.

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Restoration / Cleaning "Hounds tooth" vinyl seats

« on: March 28, 2006, 06:51:31 PM »

Any good tips on cleaning the seats, specifically the "hounds tooth" style?

I was going to use something similar to saddle soap but thought that this would be difficult to get out of the small crevices in the design?



Nick p.

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Mild Modifications / Re: HELP with suspension upgrade?

« on: March 22, 2006, 10:45:16 PM »

I keep seeing KYB pop up in terms of new shocks?

Compared to Bilstein, how would you rate them? or any other brands out there?
Nick P.

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Mild Modifications / Re: HELP with suspension upgrade?

« on: March 22, 2006, 09:49:03 PM »

That’s exactly what I was hoping to hear.

I'm going to start with new shocks. My original rubber bushings look like a bunch of squashed beetles and I will defiantly go for the new front end kit too.

Thanks for the help.

Nick p.

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Mild Modifications / HELP with suspension upgrade?

« on: March 21, 2006, 11:19:34 PM »

I desperately need to improve my suspension in my '69 Camaro.  My car springs up and down the highway like my 3 year old bouncing on my lap and every time I hit a  Texas bump, I scrape the pipe!

The question I have is what the heck do I need to get to keep it from spiraling out of cost control and still have a descent handling car?

I really don’t care to keep everything stock, I have leaf springs (multiple) on the back and I was told to replace those with a coil over set?  So how do I know which height to get so my car maintains the same stance in height? I don’t want it much higher and I don’t think it can go much lower. I simply don’t have the clearance room because of the low headers.

Any advice and favorite links to vendors would be appreciated. The magazines have so many adds I cant think straight!

Nick P.

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Maintenance / Re: Battery draining issue

« on: March 21, 2006, 11:09:28 PM »

Very nice...yea..I had the unique abality to have 120 smooth-bore by the name of Abrams under me at all time in Iraq..

I  like my Camaro better !

But Camaro's dont destroy T-72's like that Abrams did..thats for sure !

Nick P.

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Restoration / Re: To Dye or Lacquer?

« on: March 17, 2006, 09:08:52 PM »

Perfect..

thanks for the help!

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Maintenance / Re: Battery draining issue

« on: March 16, 2006, 07:32:12 PM »

It appearse the issue was my "head space and timing: x-military guys will know what I mean.

anyhow , I was cranking the ignition key too far back and taking the key out. this , it seems, was keeping the generator light on (barly dimm to see unless dark) and draining the battery after a day or so.

I found this by accident actually.

thanks for the help

NP

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Restoration / To Dye or Lacquer?

« on: March 16, 2006, 07:28:54 PM »

Question for anyone out there:

I plan on touching up some interior pieces of my camaro. mainly the kick panels and the cerenter consol?

the question is do I use a black dye or a lacquer finish. aslo what prep work can I do to ensure a good stick?

any Web site links would be appreciated too.

thanks

NP

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Maintenance / Re: fuel pump gasket is leaking oil

« on: March 14, 2006, 06:04:54 PM »

Okay..thanks for the advice on the fuel pump JohnZ and Gibster.

The screen shot helps and the pump is exactly what mine is.