Bleeding the brakes
With the brake lines in and the calipers rebuilt, it was time to bleed the brakes. I opted for the old two person method so I grabbed my son and …
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Brake lines and Proportioning Valve Install
With the calipers rebuilt, it was time work on replacing the proportioning valve, caliper brake lines and the cross front brake line. It seemed pretty straight forward right until I …
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Rebuilding the Calipers
Once the parts came in, I started in on rebuilding the calipers. The back seals and pistons were not to bad when I opened them up. The calipers all had …
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Calipers, brake lines and proportioning valve, stop me if you’ve heard this one.
In the last post I talked about the master cylinder rebuild and the fact that the rebuild ultimately did not allow the brakes to bleed. While trying to diagnose the issue, …
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Master Cylinder Rebuild
With the car running well, the last piece of the puzzle was getting the brakes to work. In preparation for bleeding the brakes, I filled the master cylinder and didn’t …
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Winter is finally breaking, time to get back to work.
It has been a while (almost 10 months to be exact) since I have posted any updates and progress on what has been done to get this beauty back on …
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Tackling the tank replacement
Original tank after removal I am three weeks into getting this old C3 started up again. I hit a small delay while waiting for the new tank kit to …
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Tank ‘o Sludge
I received some supplies from Amazon yesterday so I could drain the gas tank, lube the cylinders and change the oil. After sitting through cold and rainy little league game, …
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Welcome to your new home
Our newest member to the family arrived home on Friday 6/2/17. It was definitely a family affair as we headed to the barn. It has been 23 years since she …
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