| Re: I get the "I'm a dumbass" trophy this year |
Subject: Re: I get the "I'm a dumbass" trophy this year by xccter on 2011/8/22 22:53:33 That hardly gets "THE" dumbass trophy. I doubt that would get an honorable mention during an average year.  Don't waste any time beating yourself up over it. It's a BIG club. I took some meat off my parking brake shoes on the '71 last Saturday just driving to/from a Corvette show right here in Annapolis. I installed a new leaf and coil springs recently, and a new differential cover after I snapped the flange off the old one.  The body of the car sits up a good inch from it's previous height, and I never though about that effectively lengthening the distance from the PB handle to the rear brakes. I smelled brakes when I got home from the show and traced the smell to the rear axle. It was an easy fix to adjust (lengthen) the short cable from the PB handle. Lucky I only had to travel 1.1 miles to the show and back. Still made me feel like a dumbass though.  Good luck with the pinging @ 3000 thing. Mark |
