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Paul Workman · 05-25-2008

My wife's 69 C3 is up on jacks - engine overhaul in progress, soon as the hoist arrives, we'll get it out and to the shop for some machining. Now yesterday, after my Z's first real shake-down cruise since I bought it, I have "a list" on it too (besides the mods for next winter).

Got some hurting bearings

. I suspect the throwout bearing is "going", and now too there is something up front; the belt tensioner or mebby the alternator???

It never ceases to amaze me how a car can be driven 30K or more a year and maybe get to 150+ before various bearings, hoses, etc, have to be replaced. Yet, on a car with only 38k I'd have some of the same issues one would expect from a DD with 5x as many miles. Father time is apparently cruel to vehichles too, I recon.

Onto another item: I'm not particularly wide across the beam, but those sport seats gotta go (unless I can "tweak" them somehow?). After only a couple hours, those side bolsters pinch off circulation at my hip bone and begin to hurt...a lot! I didn't have the problem w/ the seats in my '95, so the redesign of the seats for those later C4s was apparently necessary.

Asside from replacing the seats, any suggestions for the ('90 style) sport seats???

TIA,

P.

05-25-2008	#1
Paul Workman Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Squires (near Ava MO in the Mark Twain N'tl Forest) - Missouri Posts: 6,493	Vette projects backing up... My wife's 69 C3 is up on jacks - engine overhaul in progress, soon as the hoist arrives, we'll get it out and to the shop for some machining. Now yesterday, after my Z's first real shake-down cruise since I bought it, I have "a list" on it too (besides the mods for next winter). Got some hurting bearings. I suspect the throwout bearing is "going", and now too there is something up front; the belt tensioner or mebby the alternator??? It never ceases to amaze me how a car can be driven 30K or more a year and maybe get to 150+ before various bearings, hoses, etc, have to be replaced. Yet, on a car with only 38k I'd have some of the same issues one would expect from a DD with 5x as many miles. Father time is apparently cruel to vehichles too, I recon. Onto another item: I'm not particularly wide across the beam, but those sport seats gotta go (unless I can "tweak" them somehow?). After only a couple hours, those side bolsters pinch off circulation at my hip bone and begin to hurt...a lot! I didn't have the problem w/ the seats in my '95, so the redesign of the seats for those later C4s was apparently necessary. Asside from replacing the seats, any suggestions for the ('90 style) sport seats??? TIA, P.