Chevelle updates

[VintageMusclecar]

Nothing like doing a job over because of garbage repop parts.

Notice anything--eh--amiss here?









Notice how the frame bracket for the clutch Z-bar has bent severely inboard towards the engine.

To recap: someone had pilfered the original Z-bar bracket from the car's frame before I bought the car. Naturally, I was unable to source a good original bracket (we won't even talk about the rest of the clutch linkage...), so I was forced to go with a repop. At the time, there was only one available, and it was notably thinner (--1/8&quot; to be specific--) than an original component. Something told me this was going to come back to haunt me later...as usual, I was right--as the pictures show. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Thankfully, someone now reproduces the bracket in the original 3/16&quot; thickness. I picked one up a couple of months back and called in a favor from a friend to cut off the old bracket and weld the new one on for me (he's a far better welder than I am).

New bracket in place:



Remnants of the old bracket--effortlessly crumpled like tinfoil.



Now comes the fun of trying to get the inner fender back in place w/o borking anything up in the process.

Can't let the cat out of the bag just yet, but there may be more updates in about a month.

More soon--I hope.