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David72Vette:
Hi,  

I've recently purchased my first Corvette a 72 Roadster.

Im going through the manual and ticking off all the items listed under servicing however I cant seem to find the drain plug for the diff.  Can anyone give me any tips.

While under the car I also noticed that one of the control arms has rusted through.  Does anyone know a place in Australia where I can get a set.

Thanks for you help
Dave

Cameron 77C3:
You could try:-

Corvette Alteration, 9971 8218 Scott. Dee Why

Ponti World 02 4257 1230 Dave. Albion Park

David72Vette:
Thanks for your help.

Has anyone removed a trailing arm before and are there any tips for young players.

Cheers
Dave

MADLT1:
hi david72,were you from and tell us about your vett,colour engine wheels that sort of stuff,pics would be good.:x

David72Vette:
No worries MADLT1,

I’m from Melbourne and about 12 months ago I decided I wanted to buy a Corvette.  I've always been a Harley man and I've imported a few Harley's from the States a 53, 51 and a 71.  Considering the success I've had with the bikes I decided to do the same thing with the Corvette.

After a little bit of research (probably not enough) I decided I wanted a 72 Roadster Manual.  Engine size didn’t really bother me.  I quickly found that that unless I had mega bucks to spend, I was going to have to buy something that was good driver quality.

I started looking on the net and came across a nice looking Red 72 Roadster manual with a 350.  The car was far from perfect but the interior was redone and the paint job was pretty good (Car is red but it was originally orange) and after speaking to the guy a number of times I decided to buy it.  I've spent many hours restoring old Harleys back to original condition and I wanted something I could play with and not drive myself crazy over.

Anyhow to cut a long story short I paid my money, got it sent to LA where a friend has a shipping businesses and got her sent out.  It arrived about three weeks ago and I’m pretty happy.  The car runs really well, changes nicely and looks great.  Now to the down side!!  I've pulled the windscreen out and found a bit of rust in the windscreen frame, no big deal I've cut the rust out and welded in a few pieces and it’s as good as new.  I got under it last night to drain the diff oil (didn’t know that you had to suck the oil out rather than removing the drain plug) and while the chassis looks in pretty good shape one of the trailing arms has a rust hole.:{

It needs to be replaced and while I’m down there I've decided that I'll do the uni joints, rubbers, wheel bearings etc etc.  After having a read through the manual I’m getting a little scared. (Rebuilding the top end on a Harley seems easy).  There are millions of vintage Harley forums so I thought I'd come into work this morning and see if there were any corvette forums - and here I am.

Here are some pics of the car

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