Hahahaha luckily for me, I'm still short enough and young enough to get one with just one leg out the car and one in leaning sideways, but I'm sure as I get older I'll have to adjust to that method lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by popo8
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Hahahaha luckily for me, I'm still short enough and young enough to get one with just one leg out the car and one in leaning sideways, but I'm sure as I get older I'll have to adjust to that method lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by popo8
Thank you!Quote:
Originally Posted by SlickWilly
I'm 5'9" and about 175 lbs. and I manage to squirrel my way in and out without too much trouble, but there are days where it doesn't exactly look graceful haha. Much harder in a Camaro or Firebird in my opinion because it's not very often I get a parking spot where I can open the door all the way and get out, so I open the door halfway and do this quick little step-and-turn on one foot to squeeze out :lol: The vette's doors are so much shorter and easier to open even with a car next to you :D
Really.. Im 6'4" 249 lbs.... and gimped up... and it aint no thangQuote:
Originally Posted by SlickWilly
Larry (Popo8) Co-owner
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So is it just me or does it not REALLY feel like it's your car until you've had to take something apart to fix it? :lol: The Vette officially feels like it's part of the family now that I've had to tear into her a little bit :)
Yesterday, Monika and I went to the store to pick up a cassette to 3.5mm converter for the Corvette so she can plug it into her phone and listen to music while she's cruising. We get home and she goes to put it in the car and it gets jammed somehow. I figured damn, maybe she put it in backwards or something. It wasn't ejecting and it wasn't playing properly either. It would play from the cassette for about 3 seconds, then automatically switch over to the radio for about 5 seconds, then it would switch itself back over to the cassette for another 3 seconds, then back to the radio, etc. etc. in an endless loop. After many failed attempts to try and remove the tape manually by using a butter knife and a small hook to pull the cassette with, it wasn't budging.
Skip to today, I came home from work and decided to just yank out the head unit and pull it apart to get the cassette out. After getting it apart, I still had to pry the crap out of the tape to get it out of the player, but finally did. I then put it all back together and back in the car to test the cassette again the opposite way in from how Monika first put it in. This time it wouldn't even fully engage the tape. It would only raise up halfway and get stuck again, but I thought this may have been due to the fact that the cable was now exiting the cassette housing from in the back of the player, so maybe the cable was jamming it up. I pull the cassette out and take it apart to reroute the cable out the bottom side of the cassette so it'd be exiting properly in the player, then test it again. Still nothing, stuck halfway up and not engaged. Wtf?
I pull the cassette out again and rip out the head unit one more time to open it up and mess with putting the tape in and ejecting it while it's open so I can try to see where it's grabbing and getting hung up. This is when I discover that Monika really did have it in the right way the first time, but for some reason while it was all in one piece, it wouldn't completely seat on the pins and engage properly. I said ok, fuck it. I'm gonna put the cassette in and seat it properly while it's apart and in the open, then build it all back together around it. Once back in one piece, I put it back in the car and tested it and voila! We have music! So I told Monika to never eject the damn thing because we don't have any other cassettes to use anyway and put the console all back together.
All in all, it was kind of a fun way to spend the night, I got to learn both how to take all this apart and what the inside of a cassette player looks like (I'd never had to take one apart before lol). Also got to learn how damn simple those cassette converters are inside as well :lol:
Next thing on the list is getting a replacement tail light housing and gasket ordered to fix the outer right side tail light that's broken. The 2 plastic "posts" that you bolt into from inside the bumper had broken off just above the end of the bolts, so it's just floating and falls out easily when driving. Found a site selling the housing and gasket shipped for about $36, so not too bad. After that, hopefully I won't find any other little things to repair in it haha.
so has she driven it anywhere alone yet?
Larry (Popo8) Co-owner
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Oh yeah, she has lol. I'm not blockading her from driving it without me haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by popo8
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lol... awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackbird96WS6
Larry (Popo8) Co-owner
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So after spending all last weekend doing preventative maintenance (all fluids flushed and filters changed), we cleaned the Vette up inside and out and pressure washed the hell out of the engine bay and underbody. I also spent a good solid hour vacuuming the interior (although these pics are a day after I vacuumed, so my wife got some more dirt on the floormat already >.< lol). Also spent about a half hour with a hard wire brush and brake cleaner scrubbing the calipers. They look a lot better than they did when they were just solid brown, but I was too tired to go absolutely nuts on em. But it's a hell of a lot cleaner now all around! I also installed the new tail light housings which were broken, so no more floppy tail lights lol.
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As you might be able to see from the underbody shots, there are a few leaks that are eventually going to be on the to-do list, but for right now, I'm just gonna live with them and make sure the fluids don't get low. What can you expect from a 161k mile car :lol:
It looks fantastic man!!!
What exhaust is it running?
Larry (Popo8) Co-owner
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Haha thank you! :D To be honest, I have no idea if it's running the stock exhaust or if it's ever been changed. It's nowhere near as loud as my TA, so I'm guessing stock exhaust? But the previous guy said he had just put new cats on it last month.Quote:
Originally Posted by popo8