Project C4, 85 Corvette

[Steve85]

Took care of an exterior issue that's annoyed me for a while.

The rear bumper wraps around to the rear wheels and bolts up to the quarter panel. The flange on the quarter panel that the bumper bolts too lost its bond so the bumper/belt line alignment was off. More suburbaneck engineering to the rescue..
Before:


Testing the bracket design


Bracket uses existing stud and is bolted to a very convenient flange. elongated top bolt hole for adjust-ability, lower bolt allows for the proper angle.


After



Also as part of the AC install I found a nice little mouse behind the AC chomped through a tiny hard vacuum line. There is no connector to repair this and a new line would require running a new vac line out to the heater core flow control. I tried a little trick...seems the vacuum line is same size as a yellow heat shrink connector. The shrink and the glue sealed it up. It was a delicate operation trying no the melt the vacuum line.



Working my way through little projects here and there. I can also finally run the the ECU software and the serial to USB adapter on Windows 7.