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1988 Convertible for sunny day drives
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<blockquote data-quote="Live Wire" data-source="post: 204719" data-attributes="member: 6133"><p>Welcome to the forum! Your story is similar to mine... Recently retired construction electrician, but with 24 years in CF reserve, as a CIC officer. I've been working on my newly acquired 85 C4, and I'm not really interested in bringing it back to stock, but I want to have it as a functional, but fun car with my own touches and conveniences, to drive daily if I want. Not being a Corvette guy, ever, (past: Dodge, Ford, BMW) I couldn't turn down the deal to buy this car. It had a lot of small problems, including several wiring glitches and the wiper motor problem like yours. I've replaced the sound system, which was totally butchered, and most of the interior light bulbs with LED's as I found the interior lights just too dim. This week has been about draining and replacing dark and waterlogged brake fluid with new DOT5 (no ABS so no problem), and sprucing up the engine bay with some paint and polish, as well as re-setting the ignition timing as the engine was pinging itself to death under hard acceleration. Turned out it was set at about 14 degrees BTDC (ridiculous!). Anyway, have fun with the tinkering, as we all don't have much else to do these days.</p><p>Enjoy!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Live Wire, post: 204719, member: 6133"] Welcome to the forum! Your story is similar to mine... Recently retired construction electrician, but with 24 years in CF reserve, as a CIC officer. I've been working on my newly acquired 85 C4, and I'm not really interested in bringing it back to stock, but I want to have it as a functional, but fun car with my own touches and conveniences, to drive daily if I want. Not being a Corvette guy, ever, (past: Dodge, Ford, BMW) I couldn't turn down the deal to buy this car. It had a lot of small problems, including several wiring glitches and the wiper motor problem like yours. I've replaced the sound system, which was totally butchered, and most of the interior light bulbs with LED's as I found the interior lights just too dim. This week has been about draining and replacing dark and waterlogged brake fluid with new DOT5 (no ABS so no problem), and sprucing up the engine bay with some paint and polish, as well as re-setting the ignition timing as the engine was pinging itself to death under hard acceleration. Turned out it was set at about 14 degrees BTDC (ridiculous!). Anyway, have fun with the tinkering, as we all don't have much else to do these days. Enjoy! [/QUOTE]
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