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Decoding/Numbers / Re: Camaro Birthday

« on: November 19, 2016, 09:17:22 AM »

Hi 69Z28-RS, That's fantastic information, many thanks for taking the time to look all that up and even tell me what day it was on the 16th in 1966.

I will have a little celebration on that day !

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Decoding/Numbers / Camaro Birthday

« on: November 17, 2016, 06:46:39 PM »

Its just dawned on me that my Camaro is 50 years old a few weeks, the trim tag suggests its a week 2 December Build, the Vin is :124377N150838.


 Is there a way to refine this "week 2 dec" date to a day or a shift ?


 It would be nice to know a more precise date to call its birthday. Do any records like this exist ?

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General Discussion / Standard Fuel gauge questions...

« on: July 31, 2016, 03:40:45 PM »

Hi all, I have a standard early 67 Camaro fitted with a speedo and fuel gauge and since I have had it the fuel gauge seems to read whatever it likes.

Did the gauges read min and max between the lines or are they supposed to use pretty much the whole of the dial face ?  If I fill it right up the needle will point to around 5 o-clock and if its empty it will read below the min line, maybe to around 10 o-clock.

It doesn't look like any of this has ever been fiddled with, dash is original and the sender is undisturbed.

The gauge reads high and low but its massively exaggerated, is this normal or do I have a problem ?

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General Discussion / Re: Steel seat back top hooks

« on: May 26, 2016, 08:19:35 AM »

Both fronts were like it and the screws that hold them on were not actually long enough to really grip the seat frame so when I took the second hook out of the stack the screws went in further and the hook was nice and solid and not wobbly like before.

I have put the seats back together now with only one hook and the backs are fine, no looseness or wobble or any rattles.

No ideas why someone fitted two hooks stacked up to each seat but hey, I have 2 spare hooks now for the next car I put steel seat backs on !

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General Discussion / Steel seat back top hooks

« on: May 21, 2016, 08:32:21 PM »

I have the seats on my standard 67 Camaro (Week two Dec 66 build)  apart to do a re-trim and when I took the steel seat back off I noticed the top middle hooks were doubled up, for some reason the factory had fitted two of the stamped steel parts to both front seats sort of stacked up.

Was this a standard thing with the steel backs or have I just found a quirk of the line that day ?

Its ironic, my other car had the steel seat backs and hooks missing by the time I bought it and although I found a seller on ebay for the seatbacks themselves I could not find anyone to buy the hooks off.

I made a pair following a template a kind fellow forum goer posted and these have been in use now for a few years although they took some time to make.

Now I may have two spares and nowhere to use them.  Isn't life funny sometimes !

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Maintenance / Re: Worn Column shift lever.

« on: March 22, 2016, 08:42:36 AM »

Now I have a different computer in front of me I can get this to load up ! 

More looking last night for suppliers for a new lever but I cannot find a single place, even ebay !

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Maintenance / Worn Column shift lever.

« on: March 21, 2016, 09:14:41 PM »

Does anyone have a good idea or solution for the problem of a worn  gear selector lever on a column change ?

Mine has been sloppy for a while and you don't need to pull the lever back to select between Low, D, N and R only to get the trans out of park.

I took it apart and cleaned it all out and spotted the problem is wear and chipping to the edge of the stepped part that engages with the ring.  The lever can sort of bump itself between the lock teeth.

Below is a picture of the ring and the stepped end. I can find a single vendor selling either the ring or the lever with stepped end anywhere. 

Car is a fairly early 67 with a  327 and Powerglide, all original and never been fiddled with until now.

EDIT:  I cant seem to add pictures right now because of a fault with Photobucket, when it stops "having a moment" I will pop a pic on here. Sorry about that.

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Originality / Re: Hurst blower motor cage ?

« on: February 13, 2016, 09:46:42 PM »

Thing is there was no damage to wiring anywhere.  I checked it all out after I found the major rodent evidence but its all as it left Norwood.

there has not even been much human interference in the wiring which is even better !

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Originality / Re: Hurst blower motor cage ?

« on: February 13, 2016, 08:45:38 PM »

When I bought the car from a guy in Sacramento I had it shipped over to me in England and it was in "as bought" running pulled out of a yard/barn condition, a friend picked it up and put it in a container and the next time it saw daylight was here in the UK.

The first thing I did was clean it and I removed a huge quantity of walnuts, probably two wheelbarrows full and they were all eaten, just the outer shells left.

Problem was the shop vac wouldn't suck them up so I had to remove them all by hand.

Then I removed the seats and got another half wheelbarrows worth out.

Next job was to work out why none of the side windows didn't go down, yup, walnuts, the doors and 1/4 panels were full.

When I decided to do the heaters I knew what I was going to find.

Strange thing is that I never found a single dead rodent, no little skeletons, no remains, nothing. just nests and nuts.

All told I pulled at least 4 wheelbarrows full out of the car (not heaped by the way, level). and my seat wadding was in the rockers and above the headliner.

Next job is to gut the interior, steam clean the floors and roof and replace everything soft.

Car itself drives like a dream though and although she a little smoky its reliable.

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Originality / Re: Hurst blower motor cage ?

« on: February 13, 2016, 06:44:12 PM »

I am glad this discussion went as big as it did, my cage was eaten and the logo was dirty and scuffed so that's why I thought it was Hurst.

Now I see the two logos side by side I can see the differences.

Thanks for the tip about the earthing, I had thought the one wire system was not ideal and was considering adding my own hidden earth anyway, now I definitely will.

Here is a pic on my cage :

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Originality / Re: Hurst blower motor cage ?

« on: February 09, 2016, 07:55:40 PM »

Is it !  Ah ha !

The Logo looks a lot like a Hurst logo, its quite small and probably where my mistake was made.

Thanks.

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Originality / Hurst blower motor cage ?

« on: February 09, 2016, 06:27:47 PM »

I have been fixing up the daily driver 67 Camaro and finally getting the heaters sorted, they were filed up with mouse food/nests and the flaps were stiff and there was no airflow so a complete job was needed.

Fenders off, boxes out, shop-vac used, then a dip in the disinfectant bath for a day or two and its all looking better.

One of the things I found was that the rodents had eaten the plastic fan cage so today I removed its remains and put in the used tin one I had in stock.

Closer inspection of the remains of the old one showed a part number and a Hurst logo.

Did Hurst make fan cages for GM back in the day ?  I am sure as I can be that this car has never been taken apart, all the sealer and nuts look totally undisturbed, the core was a Harrison that matched numbers with the car pretty well so I think this is original.

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Originality / Original Keys ?

« on: October 21, 2015, 06:00:54 PM »

Can anyone tell me what keys originally came with an early standard 67 Camaro, (Early Dec 66 Build date) please ?

I am trying to fix up the car and none of the keys do anything except the ignition key and that needs a good wiggle to make it work.

The ignition key will not fit in any other lock, the other keys don't do the ignition and don't do anything else.

I have 3 types of key, a round head, a round head with a knobble on and a sort of hex head, the hex head is the one that works in the ignition.

I cant get into the trunk via keys so I got in by removing the seat and then taking the lock out, I use a screw driver to get in now.

The glove box lock is missing totally.

I think I might buy a full set of lock but my main question is how many keys did a Camaro have and what did each key do ?   (ie: doors/trunk/glove box on one key and ignition on a different one or was it all on one key).

EDIT TO ADD:

Sorry, I forgot the actual report section on here and only looked in the forums for my answer, I have now found out from the excellent report what ought to be there.

Many thanks.

http://www.camaros.org/keysandlocks.shtml

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Restoration / Re: Finding a replacement heater core frustration

« on: April 19, 2015, 01:52:16 PM »

The old core is 6 5/16 wide and 2 1/2 deep.

The end cap is badly cracked where the top pipe goes in and my radiator guys tell me its not fixable.  Shame because the core is great !

I might try to get a used Harrison one with a busted core but good ends and sweat them off, then present the whole lot as a kit of parts to the radiator guys and say "here, sort that"

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Restoration / Re: Finding a replacement heater core frustration

« on: April 19, 2015, 08:23:38 AM »

For the record I still have not found a suitable solution for this so I am watching this thread (and the one on the other site) with interest.  Maybe I will get kucky and find a good original one, if not perhaps an after market one with "close enough" measurements will have to do.

The car is still a project and the one in my other 67 seems ok so I am not in a huge rush but it would be nice to tick this off my list that's penned on an old hood !