The WORST Suspension FAILURE on a C3 Corvette I Have Ever Seen!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- The owner of this car made a panic stop, and heard a huge clunk. I had only heard of this happening but had never seen it in person until now. Check it out!
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Never mind the suspension. He braked so hard, half the paint slid off the hood!!
Hi Ben! Did you inspect the assembly and check the bolt/nut torque on the other side as well? Good job Sir!
I have seen it many times at the dealership in the 70's and 80's. Simple fix, he either left them loose OR he used the bolt assembly to force the bushing back into the A arm. by doing this i will force the bolt to snap after a period of time. From the arch in the A arm it was not pressed into the A arm as it should have been. Be safe, love the videos!
SAME here i live in the Orlando Florida area don't have a corvette shop had one want say there name they was very very SHADY
@@dukeman7595 ok thank you i will check them out
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This is why I don't let other people work on my cars.
That frame has no rust on it, pretty amazing. I live up north so its impossible to not have rust lol
Great stuff, Vette suspension and brakes are the only pains they have . Somebody did a crappy replacement job.Forgot to tighten and torque for sure. Restoring a 70 LT1 4 speed as we speak , i got the car with all new suspension and drive train thankfully, Now looking for interior parts , any one have any?, i live in Canada..Subbed and shared ..Cool channel...Will go work on the car now
This is why a corvette owner needs a good mechanic repairing their car...Not just a dumb shadetree guy working on it.
That just happened to me screw came out
Definitely could have been so much worse.
After doing the work on the driver side did you check the passenger side??
Hey Ben, I’m installing the same MaxJax lift as what you have and also have a C3. Can you tell me your spacing that you installed yours from end plate to end plate. Thanks
Just me, but I would a checked the torque on all the control arms to make sure they weren't loose anywhere else.....
She was just posing for you. @0:18
This kind of stuff happens when you drive a plastic impala.
Stance.
I immediately went out to my garage and checked my 70 vette. No problem but tomorrow morning I'm checking the torque on the suspension bolts. Thanks Corvette Ben. Btw I've had mine since 1979. Not a restoration but a survivor. All the previous owner ever did was gas and oil. Runs like a charm. 😃😎🤞🤞🤞🤞
Man, I wish you lived closer to me so you could work on my 99 c5. Hard to find a good Corvette mechanic.
@@dukeman7595 me too, l could keep him very busy.
Check the other side. Just in case.
First time I've ever seen this happen. Looks like the front control arms were rebuilt and the bushing bolts were left loose until the weight was put back on the suspension. Then they forgot to tighten them. Luckily not too much damage.
Another great video, Ben.
You're a smart dude Corvette Ben keep the great content coming👍💪
I'm guessing the person that did the suspension repairs did the upper radiator hose and wiring too!
Remember when we could get decent gloves? Me neither.
I just had pretty much the same thing happen to me on my 1970 except I was just coming to a normal stop at a stop sign and heard a thunk and a pop (which was the upper control arm coming off and breaking the fan shroud). Luckily, it didn’t hit the radiator. Following your instructions to fix it. Thanks for the video.
WOW! Just happened to me two weeks ago on my 69! Had to hit the brakes hard low speed in town and...."pop"!!!! RF upper control arm came apart. Bought this car last year restored. A-arms had been rebuilt but apparently they didn't know what they were doing. I ordered a new set of upper A-arms from Top Flight and all is good now. Needless to say I went over the torque on every suspension component up front after this incident.
These always back off with time and vibration. Torque and Locktite (red) Every few pms, I run through the front suspension bolts and torque them.
Its called....racing camber....very popular mod among weekend canyon carvers
Hi Mr. Ben. Love your videos. I have a question not related to this suspension issue. I just got a 79 vette and there is a knob / button next to the heater / ac control. I have no idea what that button is for ?? I would guess you know. Could you enlighten me please with your grand puba wizardry corvette knowledge Sir ??
I have a 1970 Nova that had control arm bushings redone 5 years ago. Those end cap bolts on the upper control arm pivot bar need to be torqued to proper spec and should be checked occasionally. Mine came loose a couple of times a few months after the job was done. They stayed tight all these years but I recently found a torque spec and they still tightened up a little more than I had them. Probably same thing here. Those rubber bushings pushing and twisting against those big washers can twist the bolts out even if they seem tight enough. In hindsight, if they'd been torqued properly they might never have come loose but probably good to check every so often.
HI CORVETTE BEN GREAT VIDEO ON FIXING THE DAMAGE ON THE 77 VETTE. GLAD YOU COULD FIX IT. TAKE CARE. HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO Y'ALL
I’ve had something kinda similar on my 74… turning around in my drive way, >5mph, and one of the lower a arm mounts snapped off the subframe.
Great informative video. As someone who is looking to learn a bit more about cars this was very helpful and entertaining!
Wow thats not good glad you can use a torque wrench unlike the last guy lol
Great, now you have me second guessing. I did a complete rebuild on my front end several years ago including coils and I am pretty sure I torqued everything, or did I? LOL. Well nothing has happened yet, knock on wood.
Same thing happened to me. I had rebuilt the suspension, first time I'd ever had a suspension completely apart. The one front bolt hole had some glass beads in it from the bead blaster, and it didn't torque properly. I felt it coming loose and was almost stopped when it popped off. I was able to find the bolt and pop it back on and get home. Chased the threads (thoroughly this time), used a little Locktite, 20-odd years later, still going.
Back when I was a kid in high school nearly 50 years ago I was riding in a 55 chevy that did the same exact thing. upper control arm bushing bolt had came out and when we turned the corner the wheel folded over and we stopped very quickly.
Dayum, poor lighting.
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I need to get my 1976 on the road.
How much for one of your cars Ben you do good work
What a weird story
Great job Ben
Happened to me left side
Motor mount?
Is it a 77' or are the Sting-Ray badges fake?
76 front clip
I have owned three C3 Corvettes. That issue may have been cause by improper assembly, but all three of mine had serious front end problems when I bought them. Every one of them had at least one upper control arm bushing where the rubber was completely gone. It was metal to metal. The ball joints and tie rods were completely worn out and just flopping around. I replaced all the ball joints, tie rod ends, center links, and all the "rubber" bushings with polyurethane bushings. A guy I worked with at the time had what I believe was a '78 Caprice, it was only 2 years old when he bought it, and shortly after buying it, his wife was driving it, and the left side upper ball joint literally broke in half. After work we went out to look at it, and spent several hours in the dark with flashlights chiseling the rivets out, pounding the stud out of the spindle, and installing the new ball joint. GM quality back in those days was TERRIBLE. Unfortunately it's even worse today, but some of that is due to all the new garbage technology they are using.
I noticed the bottom of that car looked pretty ratty, with a lot of dirt and trash everywhere. It looked like the underside had been painted over dirt and rust and the paint was peeling. I seriously detailed the underside of all of mine. Fortunately I had access to a hydraulic lift.
I had a Chevelle that did the same thing I was a teenager it was my first car I just bought it for $100 and on the way home pow I taught myself how to fix it I have never had to walk since⛽🇺🇸
Nice repair. Do you have a source for the assembly manuals? When I worked at Chevrolet Engineering years ago, we used the PDM's a lot.
Seen this happen but not from a part failure, a frame failure where a guy went over a speedbump and the wheel folded in on a 78, as a wield either hadnt been done right or it cracked or came undone overtime and folded inwards around the A arm and the engine mount itself, a straight total out, which kinda made me think, okay the same GM quality I hate is in the Corvette, great.... turns out when those people were designing the thing when they went from the C1 to the C2, as all a C3 is is a Corvette with a new body on it
they deleted an X brace that was key to the structure of the car underneath, and kept it that way until the C4 generation came out
and it causes issues like that to come about from basic wear and tear and fatigue with the wields on the frame, like you need to check your wields people, its GM and when people found out about that car and saw it, they checked their owns over
and they found two others with the same issue in mid progress, one in resto, which had the body off and man was that wield coming undone as plain as day, and by telling a friend to check his, I actually saved a 68 he had owned since 72',
he did say he thinks it was the rust that did it however but nontheless its still worth checking over
and you wonder why the Cowl shake is so bad sometimes on these older vettes though, the frame might be perrished and people dont even know it given the main thing holding it together is the body itself like on that C2 they showed on here that went in for a resto
only to have the frame fall in two when they took the body off like something out of a james bond film with roger moore from 1985'
on my '74 that I owned when I was a kid. the lower A arm mounting actually pulled loose from the cross member, or in other words the mounting of the lower A arm actually failed, the solution was pull the motor, weld in an entire cross member from a '72 frame that we found. if you run across a '74 that has a welded in cross member contact me!!! it might be my car from 30 years ago. I want it again. the car ended up in southern oklahoma when I sold it.
Hi Ben do you have any videos on proper jacking procedures as so not to damage or break the rear composite leaf spring?
As far as suspension "eyebrows to the hairline" events go, this one had a couple, but still it has nothing on the . . . . um "freefalling" rear transverse spring vid. That one made me jump out of my chair and try to run.
I had the bolt that holds the rear bushing in come out of the lower front control arm...79 vette. the shaft was still engaged with the control arm. so, I did a complete rebuild. after watching this video, I am going to recheck the bolts.
never seen that happen on cars with that type busshngs in the suspension but i have seen a few drop the lower ball joint because of the nylock nut stripping the thread i always get the ball joints with the castle nuts
Nice. Those are some top CSI skills you used to figure that out! You earned 🏆
Car basically popped a hip.
Nice alternator wiring
Paging Dr. Ben Dr. Ben to the ER.... Good video !