Father & son having fun

Proud of my Rear End: This weekend, I finally received the part I needed to finish the rebuild of my rear end.  This has been the most challenging of things so far, mainly due to getting the right parts and torqueing the pinion nut to compress the crush sleeve.  Since this is a 1964 corvette, this was a transition year for the rear end and the parts seem to be a mystery to the parts people...mainly Corvette Central ( Corvettecentral.com ).   64 Corvette code CE (4.11:1 Gears) Changed out the side shaves for u-joints with caps   Apparently, GM changed from a 17 spline pinion shaft to a 31 tooth spline some time between '64 & '65.  The 17 tooth spline was used on older corvettes (solid axle) but must have had a different dust shield.  So, when you order this yoke, they sell the 17 tooth configuration for '56 thru '64 even though the '63 & '64 had a different dust shield. I had both the bearings and the pinion dust flange ...

The Rat's Nest: Activity has slowed with the early summer holiday, graduation, planning vacation and oh yeah, work.  In between the memorial day weekend activity, I found time to start trimming down the engine harness.  I had a slight change in the LS engine controls to start out with.  Since the engine we bought ended up being a "Drop Out" which came with everything to run the engine (wiring harness, PCM, Drive By Wire pedal and control box).   (Picture Coming Soon - Lightning from all the storms here in Houston got in our house and took out the router, switches, ATT modem, pool controller, home theater controller (basically everything connected to the network), and server which had all the pictures...we'll see how Code 42 backup works out if the drives are cooked )   After laying out a painter's drop cloth on the floor (you would understand if you met my wife), I started working through the harness and some wiring diagra...