This post will cover the 1963 Corvette chassis assembly marks. When the GM factory was assembling the chassis of the Corvette or any other vehicle for that matter, they would torque check certain nuts/bolts at various locations on the chassis. Upon having checked these various nuts or bolts they would brush a dab of paint, […]
The 1963 Corvette chassis assembly continues out here at the shop. We have finished up assembling the front suspension and have moved on to installing brake lines, hoses, and steering. This is a great accomplishment as now the Corvette chassis begins to look like and actual chassis instead of a bare frame. We installed the […]
We have started our 1963 Corvette front suspension assembly. This can be a rather slow meticulous process, but it pays off in spades in the end if you only have to do it once. We have started off by installing our upper and lower control arms, springs (with assembly marks), steering knuckles, steering arms, backing […]
In this post, we demenstrate the process taken to redo and reconstruct 1963 Corvette Brakes, Seats, and Assembly Marks. Here we assembled the front brakes, rebuilt the hubs, installed the hubs and brake drums, marked the steering arms and spindles with assembly paint, and upholstered the seat bottoms. Here is the seat bottom with the […]
In this post, we’ll show and demenstrate the process taken to install and repair our 1963 Corvette Front Suspension and Seats. We have put the assembly marks on the front springs, installed the springs, spindles, brake backing plates, steering arms, and sway bar linkage. We also have rebuilt the ball joint on the steering relay […]
In this post, we will show and demenstrate the process taken to install our 1963 Corvette Control Arm. We installed the ball joints on the control arms, installed the control arms on the frame, installed the shim packs on the frame, and painted the seat frames and tracks. We were able to get the tool […]
In this post, we will show and demenstrate the process taken to install and dissasemble our 1963 Corvette Control Arms and Seats. We have finished assembling and painting the control arms, installed the upper control arms, and disassembled the seats. We noticed that the two lower control arms had different styles of cross shaft installed. […]
In this post, we will show and demenstrate the process taken to assemble and install our 1963 Corvette Control Arms and Differential Cross Member. We assembled, painted, and installed the control arms on our 1963 Corvette . Also we installed the bushings in the differential cross-member and installed the next day. This is the photo we […]