Sponsored Content
r
I purchase a 69 Vette with side pipes that had been stripped for painting. The side pipe covers were off when I received the Vet. My question is: do the side pipes bolt to a bracket then bolt to the car? The assembly manual shows the bolts going through the cover to the car, but my side pipes do not have holes that extend through the side pipe. Any help would be grealty appreciated.
Ron Bidwell
Be the first to like this post
Sign In to Like this post
Sign In to Like this post
SPONSOR AD:: (Our Sponsors help support Vette Registry)
Lifetime Member
Moderator
Send PMModerator
Duncanville, TX - USA
Joined: 11/8/2003
Posts: 22720
Vette(s): #1-1974 L-48 4spd Cp Med Red Metallic/Black deluxe int w/AC/tilt/tele./p/w-p/b/
Am-Fm/map light National/Regional/Chapter NCRS "Top Flight"
#2-1985 Bright Red/Carmine Cp.L-98/auto
Member: NCRS, NCRS Texas, Corvette Legends of Texas
The pipes are held to the car by "T" bolts, that fit into slots on the frame, at the front, and back of the rocker area. There are a couple of bushing/insulators that go on the bolts, and then the pipes go on, then a couple more bushings, and nuts. The pipes themselves should have two brackets welded to them to fit onto the two bolts in the frame.
The covers bolt to the body, where the rocker panel moldings would normally be on a non-sidepipe car, and use the same screws, in the same holes.
hth
The covers bolt to the body, where the rocker panel moldings would normally be on a non-sidepipe car, and use the same screws, in the same holes.
hth

Joel Adams
C3VR Lifetime Member #56
My Link
(click for Texas-sized view!) NCRS
"Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comforting to cry in a CORVETTE than in a Kia"
Be the first to like this post
Sign In to Like this post
Sign In to Like this post
r
Thanks for your relply. It seems I am missing the insulators that the cover bolts to that then bolts to the car. I may have them and just didn't know what they were. Thanks again.
Ron Bidwell
Be the first to like this post
Sign In to Like this post
Sign In to Like this post
O
On mine, they look a lot like the upper rubbers on a shock absorber only bigger.
Be the first to like this post
Sign In to Like this post
Sign In to Like this post
in Forum: C3 Electrical, Body and Interior
Sponsored Content