Had a box of parts and finally started fixing things

1) broken air cleaner housing bolt.
2) rear hatch drains
3) battery cutout switch
4) rear window weatherstrip (Thanks Willcox, good quality)
5) front air dam
6) removed all 4 wheels & cleaned 5 yrs of tar and road dirt from the inside of the wheels.
7) removed the spare tire and spare tire holder.

Still to do

Replace dash pad
Air pump delete
Hood emergency release
Under seat straps
Backup light bulb
Air dam center support
Trash catcher for the front air intake
Rear exhaust hanger strap, old strap is stretched about 2 inches and the exhaust pipes are welded. This wont be fun.

 

Good for YOU! You will find this is time well invested. I want whatever you drank to get started on these projects! My list is not getting ANY shorter, actually it is getting longer. I have to just get out there and get started!

Oh, and what are the "Under Seat Straps"?

 

I pictured some weird ejection seat mod or maybe a seat cutout for a relief poo bag...

 

I'm assuming they're the bands that go under the bottom of the seat to hold up the cushion.

 

Thats them.....

I also have a 3.07 pumpkin to replace the 2.59 but thats a big project.

 

Great projects ! one at a time , by the time you are finished you will be very pleased
and then you will forget that you once had them !

 

changing pumkin "small" project?

 

Its a big project but thought I'd throw it into the list.

 

Amazing how similar your list is to what I need or have recently done to my '88. Curious what you are doing on the seat straps? Are you just replacing because they are stretched? My dash pad has a crack but it is amazing how expensive it is! I am fixing to put my rear hatch on (had the hinge part repainted) and was thinking about drilling drain holes in the corners like some folks have suggested -- just hate to drill since it didn't come that way.

 

Most corvettes that are as old as our's will have the same problems. The old seat straps are streched a bit and the seat cushions are rotting and crumbling. They'll get replaced when I redo the carpet in a few years. I picked up a dash pad from someone parting out a totaled C4, my original has a 6 inch crack in it and is covered by a floppy cloth dash pad.
Washed the car after working on it, must say the water drained out of the corners and I didnt need the turkey baster to drain the water so I gave if back to the wife.

 

The rear drains are completely hidden by the rear hatch weatherstrip. I like mine a lot.

 

I need to do the drains around the hatch as well.

You'll love the 3.07 gear coming from the 2.59

 

One thing for sure, if you own an older Vette there is never a shortage of small projects to be done.

Spent my day doing a few small projects. Getting windows retinted so I thought it was a good time to adjust/tighten both power window assemblies, install new anti-rattle cushions, replace the tiny lights & courtesy lights in door panels, fix door glove box doors, and the big small project; figuring out why the key won't open the passenger door. Turns out the C clip popped off the key cylinder. Took an hour or so but got the alarm switch, lock linkage, and new clip put back on.

Next small projects:
Rebuilding steering column (Need help with that....read on)
Fixing clutch start switch (Can start it without pushing clutch...just need to fix wires. Previous owner had a kill switch installed)
Pulling Bose head unit out and sending away for rebuild (Any suggestions?)
Installing new seat cushions and new leather on seats.
Fixing headlight motors
Figure out why horns don't honk (Have new switches. Hoping putting those in when doing column will fix it)

Heading on to Centerforce clutch and flywheel.

Steering column - Had to install a new column a few years ago. The guy I hired put in an auto column, mine is a 94 6 speed. It was fine for a few months until one day the key wouldn't come out. So the key is always in it which proves troublesome since the computer unlocks the doors when key is in ignition. I just pulled fuse to power locks. When doing brake booster I discovered he had hacked my original PassKey ingition into the "new" column above the pedals. Does anyboy know if I can just put my manual ignition switch into an auto column or do I need to tear them both down for parts to rebuild my original?

 

Scratch off the dash pad from the list, I'll take a break and do the air pump delete pully on Friday. Anybody wanna see a pix of the two dash pads sitting next to each other?

 

My Horns stopped working when I replaced my steering column. Turned out to be a ground wire that goes down through the steering wheel. it has a plastic 'bayonet' like sleeve (Think how your lightbulbs go in with a push and twist) that had not seated and popped out. It wasnt obvious until i played with it for a while and got it to stay in. Now they're fine.
Hope this helps.
EDIT: Replacing the steering column was a condition of my buying the car. I helped the PO put it in. He had bought it used, and I remember him saying that he had to get one from a 6 speed to match the one coming out.
He also had (previously) installed a PASS override switch that he hid under the dash. Enabling the override allowed the keys that came with the steering column to start the car (despite the mismatched pellet in the ignition key). Later I bought a key with correct pellet that the computer was happy with and switched the override back so it would provide some small antitheft capability. I dont know what distinguished auto from 6 speed, but he believed it was important to get the correct column.
Car drives fine now, except the high beam switch recently stopped working. GRRR.
Good Luck