What Did You Do To Your Chevelle Today

[69chevelless]

I was going to a car show with my kids and we were convoying with a friend in a 63 grand prix and I heard a squeaking and kind of clicking noise on the 69 when going 90 on the highway. It started the day before when racing my other buddy on The highway in his cutlass. It stopped when I got of the highway so i thought it was alright. It was the same noise I heard last year in June but then it completly went away. I thought it was a brake sticking that usually happens after the winter and that's what me and a few others friends talked about when at the show yesterday. Well on the way home we took it slow and then all of a sudden it got really bad and the noise was really loud and squeaking and all the other people on the highway could hear it with the windows up. I still went by 3 more exits to try and get to a town the half hour ways from my house but then I started to lose my steering and brakes and lots of smoke started to come out so I crossed over 4 lanes of traffic and got on to an off ramp and pulled up the curb to the side. A friend stopped and looked at it and said it was the spindle and bearing which is an easy fix. Me and my son sat in the woods for 2 hours in are chairs waiting for a tow truck. We still got all the thumbs up and beeping of the horns to are car sitting there. The first tow company that Hagerty chooses backed out cause of improper equipment and the second tow company switched drivers after and 30 mins which they were supposed to be there in that time. We eventually did get towed back to my house. Car is being picked up today at 3 and is going to my friends new car shop that he just opened up. He's real good with old cars. Wish me luck.

[SS Shaun]

Originally Posted by Bullcrappy

Hey Shaun, they sent me 3/8 hardware with my shocks which i was happy cause the stuff up there was mismatched and boogiered up.

But the 3/8 stuff that came with the shocks doesn't fit thru the top shock perch... i got grade 5 - 5/16 bolts that will fit. its that or ream the upper shco mounting spt out a lil...

what did you use or reuse?

i reused the bolt that was there. i didnt want to fight with it so i just used the one that was there.

Originally Posted by 69chevelless

I was going to a car show with my kids and we were convoying with a friend in a 63 grand prix and I heard a squeaking and kind of clicking noise on the 69 when going 90 on the highway. It started the day before when racing my other buddy on The highway in his cutlass. It stopped when I got of the highway so i thought it was alright. It was the same noise I heard last year in June but then it completly went away. I thought it was a brake sticking that usually happens after the winter and that's what me and a few others friends talked about when at the show yesterday. Well on the way home we took it slow and then all of a sudden it got really bad and the noise was really loud and squeaking and all the other people on the highway could hear it with the windows up. I still went by 3 more exits to try and get to a town the half hour ways from my house but then I started to lose my steering and brakes and lots of smoke started to come out so I crossed over 4 lanes of traffic and got on to an off ramp and pulled up the curb to the side. A friend stopped and looked at it and said it was the spindle and bearing which is an easy fix. Me and my son sat in the woods for 2 hours in are chairs waiting for a tow truck. We still got all the thumbs up and beeping of the horns to are car sitting there. The first tow company that Hagerty chooses backed out cause of improper equipment and the second tow company switched drivers after and 30 mins which they were supposed to be there in that time. We eventually did get towed back to my house. Car is being picked up today at 3 and is going to my friends new car shop that he just opened up. He's real good with old cars. Wish me luck.

dude i am so glad that you are ok! keep us up to date as to what happened!

[RBeckman]

Went to NPD at lunch and got a new antenna since I broke the one last year when I tried to straighten the mast out....also bought some stuff for the Camaro.