1978 Silver Anniversary Corvette - Mechanical Resto - Part 4 - Disassemble Rear Torque Control Arm

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In this video we review the special tooling you need to rebuild a C3 Corvette Rear Torque Control Arm and we tear this one down and see what a 45 year old unit looks like on the inside.

[@irabel01]

The foam cutouts were worth the price of admission

[@Engineerd3d]

Man that Vette is going to look and run better than new once your done. Lovely work as always.

[@jamesbush268]

Nice work!

[@lesdmark]

When you were contemplating the parking brake, I was thinking to myself that due to the difficulty of access for that assembly I would at minimum clean and regrease all the pivot points. I don't think you broke the shoe I think age did. I am guessing those can jam inside the rotor if the pad comes loose just like the european cars. As far as I know that is the only GM product in that time period to use that type parking brake mechanism. Also you are correct that we could watch someone else, but I choose to watch you do it!

[@ImpalamansGarage]

Yes only a handful of American cars used rear disc brakes in the 1970s - Corvette being one of them. I think Corvette offered rear discs as early as 1963. I finally noticed that broken brake shoe after I got it over to the bench. lol

[@ronnymb67]

The suspense is killing me. Is it the 10mm that's missing? 😂

[@ImpalamansGarage]

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