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The date code = 0507 MAY 2007 FOR TIRE AGE the tires I will have checked tomorrow at a tire sales place yes I have some mechanical savy I have built several hot rods including right now working on a 1955 Dodge C3 short bed pickup with a custom built chassis from a dakota that I upgraded to 4 link suspension I have a peer who owns a body shop so yea I can igure out date codes and weather or not the Optispark is an issue ...I am looking for info on C4 corvettes as this is my first corvette and know the C4 had issues with ignition and other stuff so would like to get info from those who have experience with C4 corvettes thank you all for the in put 
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The date code = 0507 MAY 2007 FOR TIRE AGE the tires I will have checked tomorrow at a tire sales place yes I have some mechanical savy I have built several hot rods including right now working on a 1955 Dodge C3 short bed pickup with a custom built chassis from a dakota that I upgraded to 4 link suspension I have a peer who owns a body shop so yea I can igure out date codes and weather or not the Optispark is an issue ...I am looking for info on C4 corvettes as this is my first corvette and know the C4 had issues with ignition and other stuff so would like to get info from those who have experience with C4 corvettes thank you all for the in put
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So rwc, you still haven't answered the question about the tire age.
I'm assuming you have limited mechanical knowledge.
So on the tire there is some little numbers that signify the week and year of manufacture.
If your tires are more than 5-6 years old, no matter how much tread is left, your playing with fire over 75.
I sure hope you don't end up like a lot of others on the C4 section that end up selling because they can no longer justify the maintenance costs.
Good Luck
BTW the center muffler is a CAT
I'm assuming you have limited mechanical knowledge.
So on the tire there is some little numbers that signify the week and year of manufacture.
If your tires are more than 5-6 years old, no matter how much tread is left, your playing with fire over 75.
I sure hope you don't end up like a lot of others on the C4 section that end up selling because they can no longer justify the maintenance costs.
Good Luck
BTW the center muffler is a CAT
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crawl under his car and put a plastic tie strap around his driveshaft. Sometimes the only way to get these jokers to back off is to give it back to them. I guarantee you he won't have a pair of cutters in his pocket and he'll have to listen to it all the way home.
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well started my tune up fortunately I had a new water pump as the old one was going out the bearings were showing no seal and several missing there is oil in the coolant and the water pump drive shaft is leaking so now new to buy the shaft and seal kit for front timing set found that at least the cap and rotor was replaced with a accel wires looked like original wire set I have a set of Taylor 8mm wires but no optispark distributor ends so looking for the ends on ebay hope to find some or I may be stuck paying 135.00 for a set of MSD wires problem is to repair the drive shaft I need to remove the intak manifold so now need those seals well I found plenty to fix the distributor was soaked in oil and I need to get the harmonic balancer off any one know if there is a special tool to get the HB off I removed the three bolts but can't see how to get a puller on it
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well started my tune up fortunately I had a new water pump as the old one was going out the bearings were showing no seal and several missing there is oil in the coolant and the water pump drive shaft is leaking so now new to buy the shaft and seal kit for front timing set found that at least the cap and rotor was replaced with a accel wires looked like original wire set I have a set of Taylor 8mm wires but no optispark distributor ends so looking for the ends on ebay hope to find some or I may be stuck paying 135.00 for a set of MSD wires problem is to repair the drive shaft I need to remove the intak manifold so now need those seals well I found plenty to fix the distributor was soaked in oil and I need to get the harmonic balancer off any one know if there is a special tool to get the HB off I removed the three bolts but can't see how to get a puller on it
place the wood behind the damper and sharply hit the wood with the BFH spin the engine a third of a rotation repeat the sharp blow on the wood repeat as needed.
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well got the HB off and found that the distributor was rusted inside so replaced the whole distributor as the optical sensor was corroded too much to swap out with the other distributor that doesn't have a Mitsubishi sensor anyway the issues with intermittent miss was most like the corrosion in the cap rotor and threw out the distributor if the new optispark fails I plan to just replace with a coil pack system I found that replaces the ECM... and doesn't use the optical trigger in the optispark
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