67 Parking Brake Slide

[Gerard F.]

Shall I cut the replacement as short as the original?



Thought I'd cut the replacement a little longer in the front, as I always have a gap with the parking brake set with the original. Would a little longer in the front interfere with something or lose points. Do you judges look for that gap?

Funny, the cut on the original is on the passenger side, and the replacement has the cut on the driver side. Interesting.

[Joe L.]

Re: 67 Parking Brake Slide

Shall I cut the replacement as short as the original?



Thought I'd cut the replacement a little longer in the front, as I always have a gap with the parking brake set with the original. Would a little longer in the front interfere with something or lose points. Do you judges look for that gap?

Funny, the cut on the original is on the passenger side, and the replacement has the cut on the driver side. Interesting.

Jerry-----


I would leave it a little longer. You can always trim it again if there is any problem or interference, but I don't think there will be.

I don't know anything about any "gap" being judged. However, I believe that the side the "slit" is on IS judged. I think that some of the reproduction pieces have NO "slit"; you cut the "slit" on whichever side you wish using a razor blade.

By the way, the GM seals ("sliders") are the piece used in PRODUCTION for C3 Corvettes; they are SERVICE for 1967 and require the t r i m m i n g.

[Gerard F.]

Re: 67 Parking Brake Slide

Joe,

Found that if I trimmed it any longer, that it would interfere with the front bracket for the p brake console.

Actually the original cleaned up pretty good, so I reused it. I'd rather have the points off for condition rather than originality with the slit on the wrong side.

Back in place with the console:



Now I have got to do something with the original brake handle. Maybe give it a good cleaning. Notice that it doesn't have the chrome tip. That's the way it came.

All in all, the console came out pretty good. Not perfect, too many little pits and scratches:

[Kevin M.]

Re: 67 Parking Brake Slide

Hey Jerry,

Very nice, glad you reused the original. Never could understand why GM didn't allow for more return in the slider it looks like a mistake with the brake on and you confirmed that it can't be fixed. Are those your original seat bottoms? I need new inserts and I'm trying to save the rest.

KM

[Gerard F.]

Re: 67 Parking Brake Slide

Kevin,

Even the photos in Noland's book show that gap when you set the break. Like I said, if you cut the slide longer it will interfere with the console bracket.

On the seat bottoms, they are new seat covers on my original foam which I did myself about 5 years ago. After struggling with new foam on the bottoms (just about pulled a shoulder) to no avail, I reused the original seat foam.

To build up the old foam, I cut pieces of +/- 3/8" camping pad foam, and glued it around the outside of the old seat foam. Came out nice and smooth.

New foam on the backs was a snap, and I saved the new seat foam for the future. Some day when these seat covers stretch out enough, I'll put the new foam in. But the seat bottoms look so good with the augmented foam, I may never get to that.

Here's some tips:

Never do seat covers in the winter time, do them in the summer when you can lay them out in the hot sun.

Use Lemon Pledge on your vinyl seats. Also great on your dash pads.