What Did You Do To Your Chevelle Today

[shadowgray396]

Took the Chevelle out for another cruise today and seem to still have oil leaking from the left valve cover I think. Made the mistake of reaching under it with a hot exhaust pipe. I was trying to stay away from it and now have a burn on my left wrist. To anxious to try to find where it is leaking.

[Ken Hayes]

Just pop your covers and install a new set of gaskets.......ya can never be too careful. (HINT) Do this on a cold motor..........you avoid burns that way :-)

[carpoor]

Originally Posted by shadowgray396

Check this post out, asked the same question.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...ease-help.html

I know the one on the side goes to your TC Solenoid behind the carb and maybe the wires you are trying to figure out are the ones for it.

No TC Solenoid or wiring for it that I can find. I have an orange wire that runs along the passenger side valve cover. I have a black wire that runs along with the blue wire that goes to my oil sender. And tan wire that runs along the driver's side valve cover, and is too short to be associated with the AC compressor. (I think the tan wire may go to the AC idle solenoid on the carburetor. The other two have me stumped.

[chevymaher]

Weather is to bad to put the trans I working on. So today and tomorrow I get to work on her.
I am so happy right now. I pulled off a true piece of artwork.

The guy i bought these 2 cars from apparently could not load a car to save his life. Both the SS and this car had a dent in the quarter behind the door in front of the wheel well where he loaded them when he got them. Exact same place. Not a bad dent just a scrape really but enough to warp it and be a pain in the rump. Right where 4-5 complex curves meet.

I had it fixed and sprayed it with water, used a spotlight on it and couldn't see it in the shine. But running my hand over it I just didn't like the way it felt. inch wide X 4 inch area. It felt like it warped the metal back from it and there was high spots in what looked like perfect metal. Have I mentioned i am wave chasing. Anyway I was getting 4 spots I didnt like far from the repair area, but i knew it caused it. I skim coated the mess and sanded it back down.

I know somebody out there knows how i feel right now. I could do a flip. It is fixed.

Couple more places and I ready to clean the garage. Start taping and high build time. It just seems like forever I been doing this. But I see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

[Ms Grumpy]

Let the fun begin.....

[shadowgray396]

Originally Posted by carpoor

No TC Solenoid or wiring for it that I can find. I have an orange wire that runs along the passenger side valve cover. I have a black wire that runs along with the blue wire that goes to my oil sender. And tan wire that runs along the driver's side valve cover, and is too short to be associated with the AC compressor. (I think the tan wire may go to the AC idle solenoid on the carburetor. The other two have me stumped.

I was talking about vacuum lines, Lol. Did the link help at all for the vacuum lines? Looks like a stock 72 motor in the photo's. Best I could find so far.

[carpoor]

Originally Posted by shadowgray396

I was talking about vacuum lines, Lol. Did the link help at all for the vacuum lines? Looks like a stock 72 motor in the photo's. Best I could find so far.

Yes Ray, it did help. I figured the one on the side was for the air cleaner. The link you supplied verified that. It also showed the one on the front of the carb I was unsire about is related to that AIR system. (It will be plugged off as I do not have any smog junk on my car.) I also dug around and found the TC solenoid wiring, it looked like a similar plug as the wiper motor. The tan wire I was wondering about does indeed go to the fast idle solenoid on the carburetor. So now I have just two wires to figure out. (The orange wire on the passenger side, and the black wire on the driver's side.)

I am going to attempt to start it Saturday, if it runs without those two wires... I will just tape them up in the harness.

[fleming23]

It was a good day to get the Hulk out for a drive!

[shadowgray396]

Is the orange wire a long one? I'm thinking it goes to the heater fan motor? You can see the orange wire in the lower left of this picture running along the bottom of the heater box.

[carpoor]

Ray, I will get a close up of the two wires tomorrow. Would I have that same wire if my car is factory air conditioned?