Chassis almost complete, April 10, 2019

After 6 days reconditioning parts, ensuring we had the original and  correct nuts/bolts for the chassis, i started to bolt on the chassis components (of course with the help of Pat and Andrew at Tony's Corvettes).  The photos below describe some of the components bolted on.

Still needs completion of the brakes and some of the front suspension, but we made quite a bit of headway this week.

Another picture of the front end without me in the picture.  :)

Rear of the chassis, Andrew working on the control arms in the front.

Demonstrating how the lower control arm ball joint cotter pin is properly bent with a deep socket.

Lower ball joint completed cotter pin.

Setting up the spring compression tool.

Original mounting block for the control arm.

These are the nut on the control arm that are unique and difficult to find.  The example on the right is easier to see the 3 triangles on the nut.  In addition, these are typically copper plated.  The one installed is black phosphate coated. I'm working on getting copper plated originals.

One item I added this week was the factory paint marks on a number of the components.  Here the green paint is typical for the steering box for 1963 Corvettes.

The cotter pin in the end of the relay rod.

Blue paint daub on the front left spindle.  The photo below has the green paint daub on the right spindle.  Note that this is a Z06 car and the colors are the opposite for Z06 cars vs non-Z06 Corvettes.

The green paint daub on the front right spindle.

Blue paint daub on the top "hat" of the rear shock.

Tie rod ends.  You can tell these are original 1963 Corvette tie rods by the hump just before the threads.

Andrew working on bolting on the elephant ears on the front brake backing plates.

Front backing plate with the "C" pin which are just about impossible to find.