my chain reaction
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Drifting
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From: Fairview Heights Illinois, near Saint Louis MO, STL C3 Shark
my chain reaction
My car always "drifted" a little on the highway. This winter I decided to have a buddy come over and diagnos the issue. We decided I had an extremely worn side yoke allowing the camber adjustment to go out and thus the drifting.
Prices may not be exact b/c I can't remember and don't have the receipts right here:
Side yoke: $100
New seal: $5
New diff gasket: $3
Pull diff apart and see one yoke has NO C-CLIP!!!!!!, other yoke is worn. So I replace the C-Clip on the one yoke,and replace the other.
Get that done, test drive the car and STILL does the drifting on the highway.
Take it to my buddies shop that does alignments, the alignment guy notices my rear end suspension is WAAY out of alignment and my strut rods are bent.
New asjustable Strut rods $100, but TA bushings are fine, Stainless steel shims and bolt for the alignment $40
start to replace those before getting teh alignment done. Get started, end up cutting the shock mounts to get them off
New shock mounts $80 for 2. Except when they arrive, the left hand side has the "flat spot" on the wrong side so it would work better as a right side. I grind a new flat spot and it works great.
Go for a test ride - GRRRRRIIIIIIND. back in the garage, remove wheel, remove caliper, remove rotor the grinding was spring from emergency brake that must have come loose with all that baning to get the shock mounts out. remove that put everything back together and test drive. Well, since I removed caliper there is now air in the line so I tryto bleed the brakes. BOTH of the first two bleeders BREAK off. Trip to A-zone. get new bleeders and try to remove the old ones with an EZ out. EZ out BROKE.
Called local parts place, they have a rebuilt liftetime warranty caliper. Buy it $60. luckily I had previously bought new TA brake lines cause it broke when I removed the caliper this last time ($10)
Now it's all back together brakes are good, strut rods replaced and off to the alignment shop on Tuesday - I have my fingers crossed.
yoke $100
Seal $5
gasket $3
shims/bolt for alignment $40
Strut rods $100
Shock mounts $80
bleeders $10
caliper $60
new brake line $10
total $408
BUT I have a classic Stingray in the garage!!!!!! priceless
Prices may not be exact b/c I can't remember and don't have the receipts right here:
Side yoke: $100
New seal: $5
New diff gasket: $3
Pull diff apart and see one yoke has NO C-CLIP!!!!!!, other yoke is worn. So I replace the C-Clip on the one yoke,and replace the other.
Get that done, test drive the car and STILL does the drifting on the highway.
Take it to my buddies shop that does alignments, the alignment guy notices my rear end suspension is WAAY out of alignment and my strut rods are bent.
New asjustable Strut rods $100, but TA bushings are fine, Stainless steel shims and bolt for the alignment $40
start to replace those before getting teh alignment done. Get started, end up cutting the shock mounts to get them off
New shock mounts $80 for 2. Except when they arrive, the left hand side has the "flat spot" on the wrong side so it would work better as a right side. I grind a new flat spot and it works great.
Go for a test ride - GRRRRRIIIIIIND. back in the garage, remove wheel, remove caliper, remove rotor the grinding was spring from emergency brake that must have come loose with all that baning to get the shock mounts out. remove that put everything back together and test drive. Well, since I removed caliper there is now air in the line so I tryto bleed the brakes. BOTH of the first two bleeders BREAK off. Trip to A-zone. get new bleeders and try to remove the old ones with an EZ out. EZ out BROKE.
Called local parts place, they have a rebuilt liftetime warranty caliper. Buy it $60. luckily I had previously bought new TA brake lines cause it broke when I removed the caliper this last time ($10)
Now it's all back together brakes are good, strut rods replaced and off to the alignment shop on Tuesday - I have my fingers crossed.
yoke $100
Seal $5
gasket $3
shims/bolt for alignment $40
Strut rods $100
Shock mounts $80
bleeders $10
caliper $60
new brake line $10
total $408
BUT I have a classic Stingray in the garage!!!!!! priceless
