Hello folks!


I inherited a very nice 75 L-48 4 speed. I'm a very accomplished mechanic.

I might as well make my first post count by asking a doozy of a question. The factory manuals leaving me wanting when it comes to stripping a birdcage down on a 75.


Can you guys recommend any good books that detail taking the fiberglass off of a 75 birdcage and giving in a good resto? As I said the car is in pretty good shape, but I really hope to hang on to what I consider almost a heirloom and time stands still for no car LOL.

 

There is a factory Assembly Manual laying around here somewhere that you can get from all the biggy vette suppliers: Ecklers, MidAmerica, Corvette America, Corvette Central....the list goes on and all have websites. It's a big, 4-500 page detailed assembly manual for the car itself, all one page as built and proposed then cancelled drawings for the factory assemblers. It is as horribly and bureaucratically laid out as any NASA/milspec/gubmnt bid engineering thing without any real index so everyone has made an index for it. It's really a great work on nearly every part of the car.

There are also a mass of other reference works for C3's - but that type of diagram is probably what you are looking for. On re-reading this I realize I had not stressed this is much, much different from the Service Manual and Supplement (the '75 uses the '74 SM and the '75 Supplement.) This has no text or procedures to set timing, change seatbelts, whatever - the Assembly Manual is all drawings with only short blurbs of directions to put various assemblies together.

There was a thread on here or CAC (Corvette Action Center) on tearing down to the birdcage in the last month or six weeks, so you might do an extensive search.

 

Welcome to the Forum

 

Welcome to the Forum...any pics of your vette? Congrats

 

 

Would love to come "watch" you do this, and maybe hand you a wrench now and then. I also have a '75 L48. Where do you live?

 

Geez.....just got here, already messed up and posted in the wrong forum LOL.


Thanks for the welcome guys.


I'm hoping this 75 won't need that much help when I can take the fiberglass off the birdcage. I won't be able to do it for a long time anyway. If it does need metal repair, I can MIG pretty well.

I'm having a hard time visualizing these procedures based on the assembly manual, which I already have. I'm hoping someone like Eckler's has a book that concentrates on this particular job for a mid 70's vette. I need a book with pictures LMAO!!!


The good thing is, this car hasn't been in the rust belt and has been garaged for most of it's life

 

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...836&forum_id=3

There's a guy who just finished, if you haven't seen this yet...I'll bet he had an earlier post when starting it...try emailing him

 

Welcome to the forum


Here are VERY detailed photos:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...e&forum_id=119

 

welcome!
have you seen this site yet?
http://www.mcspeed.homestead.com/Photo_Gallery.html
go to 69 vette, he has some nice pic's of that job.

 

Thanks for all the pics, funny or otherwise!!


I'm going to get under her pretty soon and look at everything I can.


I'm the kind to study up on something a long time before I tear into it.

 

welcome to the forum. take your time and look it over very well when you do take it apart plan on takeing your time and doing it right.
this is a job that you do not want to do again. at least not to the same car. if you do it yourself you will save a load of money and you will know it will not be patched together with a bandaids. just take your time and have a nice budget before you get started.
or just jump in and take it apart you will gain a load of experence by learning as you go. i drove mine about 1 mile and while i was looking it over discovered a lot of rust and the thing that broke the camels back was finding a compresion union in the main brake line on the rear. that is when i decided to go ahead and do a frame off before i started to drive it.
again welcome to the forum. wilson a.

 

welcome

 

roll up your sleaves and pull out your wallet! welcome heres a pic of my baby

 

Welcome to the insanity!

Lots of luck w/the new money pit!