C3 restoration nightmare

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by C3C7NIC

Yep. Assuming they need replaced as one plastic tip is snapped off.

I like the originals but for a trouble free electrical circuit, it might be best to buy new....

The plunger switches control several items, interior overhead or foot/under dash lights, door ajar light on dash, key buzzer, alarm (if equip). Just to help confuse you a bit, they operate on the ground side!

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by C3C7NIC

Youz can mail me some hand lotion and a bag of dicks.





Yep. Assuming they need replaced as one plastic tip is snapped off.

They go together like salt and pepper or peanut butter and jelly.

[SnikPlosskin]

Originally Posted by MadInNc

…and ya have have a chance to improve…. Instead of the vacuum ca, hoses and light BS, check out this link. Guy on CF patented the mechanism and sold rights to Detroit Speed

Corvette Electric Headlight Kit - Install - Detroit Speed - YouTube

Easy peasy and always work

Best mod I did to my C2

Originally Posted by C3C7NIC

It’s been a frustrating PITA to put it lightly. Insurance is helping a little, but I’ll still take a nasty $$ hit having to pay for this work twice.

It’s getting nearly impossible to find quality/dependable service these days!

I feel this to my bones. My car was sideswiped hit and run. Had a very experienced fiberglass painter fix and repaint. We stripped every bit of trim off, removed the interior including dash, windshield - major disassembly.

Painting took almost a year. Then I started reassembly. That took three more years because scope creep. I did all the work myself. I ****ed up the paint in a few areas.

I rebuilt and restored the cluster, dash, entire interior, added factory side pipes, the biggest Micky Thompsons that would fit, sold my original Torque Thrusts and bought new ones with different offset (made money on that), new taillights, LEDs EVERYWHERE, etc., etc.,

Now the paint has a crack on the rear. **** me. I haven’t even driven it yet. Plus I have a 1/4” of runout on the right rear. It will need trailing arms. $$$ can’t drive it because it’s so bad the brake locks up.

The car runs, looks, sounds amazing. But I’ve been too sick and broke to get it back on the road. I’m hoping to tackle the rear end while the temps are down.

I’m sick over the paint job. I’ve never had a nice paint job. This one is beautiful but between my clumsy ass and the adhesion crack (the new paint adhered really well but there was some areas we just scuffed (the car was stripped to the bare fiberglass during its first resto and never had any adhesion issues.) and the theory is the paint under let loose.

I’m over it. I will drive it with the cracks and scrapes. At my age it will be the last build I do. I can’t do it again so it will have to do.

It kills me to see the car just sitting in the garage now for six years. I hope this is the year I get it back on the road.

Your saga is very much like mine. I had zero skills, zero tools but I did all the work. Everything on the car is new and or upgraded. I rebuilt the doors completely - new felt, stainless, handles, everything.

I wanted the factory side exhaust for years. I even found some door panels on eBay I refurbished and dyed. (I could not afford repops so I made my own but hated them. Now they look stock).

[C3C7NIC]

They found the trim plate!

What is the correct rivet to put this thing back on the car?

This is the plate that goes on the drivers side door jamb.

[RMVette]

Originally Posted by C3C7NIC

They found the trim plate!

What is the correct rivet to put this thing back on the car?

This is the plate that goes on the drivers side door jamb.

Hmm.... can't find if they are the rosette rivets or round. I thinking they are supposed to be round now on a C3.

[Big bob]

Nope round ones there vin has the star.

[RMVette]

Originally Posted by Big bob

Nope round ones there vin has the star.

Yep....

[Grey Ghost]

I just remember the C2 was rosette. Look for some NCRS pics or info.

[C3C7NIC]

Originally Posted by RMVette

Hmm.... can't find if they are the rosette rivets or round. I thinking they are supposed to be round now on a C3.

Seems you are correct. Plain rivets.