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One of those things, we have all done it. Maybe I should not throw anyone else under the bus but I for sure have done similar things many times. It helps us do better the next time around!
Pat - you are BUILDING A CAR, in your garage........not putting new tires on your push lawn mower.
Give yourself some credit, "embrace the suck" as the military says, fix it and move on...
Having done stuff like that many times myself, I look at it this way. I can reverse the left and right, the up and down and the front and back. That means that out of eight possible ways only one is right. The odds are against me so I don't take it personal when it happens.
One of the best NCOs I worked for in my early days in the USAF ('76-98) once told me "if you've never screwed up something, you've never done anything".
One of the best NCOs I worked for in my early days in the USAF ('76-98) once told me "if you've never screwed up something, you've never done anything".
Yup. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop W. C. Magee
Your problem reminds me when I thought I had a set of rear brake backing plates. What I had was two backing plates for only one side. It was a time crunch deal where I had to get the rear end put together before a certain date since I was moving to another state. So I bought another brake another backing plate for 1958-1962 from (close to you Pat) the Corvette Stop.
Thought, great this will work out. Plenty of time to get the backing plate here and get the rear end put together. Well, what they sent me was a heavy pitted 1964 backing plate. Hmm, didn't Noland Adams work there???? I think he did at the time I bought the part. Couldn't someone just ask him to check the application?
The shipping cost for overnight was more than what the backing plate was worth. So out came the welder and drill bits. We took the extra backing plate I originally had and drilled the correct size hole for the parking brake and welded up the hole on the order side.
I still have that 1964 pitted backing plate in a parts bin. I still shake my head every time i open up the bin and see someone wrote in big yellow crayon words "1964 passenger brake".
Hmmm.....trailing shoe is the longer (correct) one, looks like the shoe retaining springs under the nails are not swapped....that's good.
Can I presume the self-adjuster torpedo is on the proper side ?
They are marked "L" and "R" usually on the end of the threaded part....
Yea, thanks Frankie! Aside from taking pictures prior to pulling them apart, I found the right and left markings while cleaning them.
Originally Posted by Kerrmudgeon
Ahha!........so you're not perfect after all.
Maybe your pecs got in the way on reading that part of the manual?
....kidding of course
LOL! Far from perfect Robbie! Now....where was that manual....
Originally Posted by jimh_1962
Your problem reminds me when I thought I had a set of rear brake backing plates. What I had was two backing plates for only one side. It was a time crunch deal where I had to get the rear end put together before a certain date since I was moving to another state. So I bought another brake another backing plate for 1958-1962 from (close to you Pat) the Corvette Stop.
Thought, great this will work out. Plenty of time to get the backing plate here and get the rear end put together. Well, what they sent me was a heavy pitted 1964 backing plate. Hmm, didn't Noland Adams work there???? I think he did at the time I bought the part. Couldn't someone just ask him to check the application?
The shipping cost for overnight was more than what the backing plate was worth. So out came the welder and drill bits. We took the extra backing plate I originally had and drilled the correct size hole for the parking brake and welded up the hole on the order side.
I still have that 1964 pitted backing plate in a parts bin. I still shake my head every time i open up the bin and see someone wrote in big yellow crayon words "1964 passenger brake".
That's crazy Jim!
I know that Drew is still running the Corvette Stop, and you're right, Nolan was there a periodically.
I definitely would not have been happy, as I'm sure you weren't either!
04-25-2018, 11:24 PM
Damn!!! I screwed up!
