So here it goes, my project thread (2nd gen)
1st Gear Member
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 127
From: FoCo, Colorado
Tomato = Tomato. The GM service manual still calls it a backing plate with the caliper and drum like parking brake. It would be totally sane if parts were identified by only one name. Parts and service departments have had this issue since forever.
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Overdrive Member
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 4,848
From: off the grid
I bought these emblems from fbody warehouse. There used but no on makes a repop front emblem so I was fooling around Friday night and came up with this sort of fix. Follow along.
Yes the Bud is required.
I used a pick to gently pry the face off the emblem. I went around the outside a few times to get the old glue broke up.
Not real hard.
Then for some paint marker.
The recesses between the strips could have been cleaned up further and gone over with silver. I didn't because this is a rear emblem and it is repoped.
Then some mothers on the rag and a little elbow grease. It brought back the shine. The pics don't do them justice. The front was pretty dull and crappy looking, I will totally put this one on the car.
Next I'm going to try pulling a plane Camaro emblem apart and turning it into a Z emblem.
Yes the Bud is required.
I used a pick to gently pry the face off the emblem. I went around the outside a few times to get the old glue broke up.
Not real hard.
Then for some paint marker.
The recesses between the strips could have been cleaned up further and gone over with silver. I didn't because this is a rear emblem and it is repoped.
Then some mothers on the rag and a little elbow grease. It brought back the shine. The pics don't do them justice. The front was pretty dull and crappy looking, I will totally put this one on the car.
Next I'm going to try pulling a plane Camaro emblem apart and turning it into a Z emblem.
3rd Gear Member
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,062
From: Morris, IL
Bud?!? Blarg!
NBL. I figured out that I'm a beer snob a while ago.
The emblems came out great, I will definitely keep that in mind. There is nothing like fixing something like that yourself, when buying new ones cost money.
NBL. I figured out that I'm a beer snob a while ago.
The emblems came out great, I will definitely keep that in mind. There is nothing like fixing something like that yourself, when buying new ones cost money.
3rd Gear Member
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,062
From: Morris, IL
Hey, I bought a cup wheel for my angle grinder, it made short work of the undercoating and the stuck on sound deadener. Floor looks really nice and solid though.
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I was going buy a cup. IDK why I haven't. I have a stiff knotted end brush on my die grinder. It was working great, except it was slinging goop on my irreplaceable dash. Add to that I'm the new guy in my neighbor hood, my die grinder is LOUD and then there is the compressor.
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Posts: 4,848
From: off the grid
The floors are one of the reasons I bought it, and the A pillar. 
Steve, power tour is coming here June 9th. Toss the kids in the family truckster and come on up.
I'll buy. The bar up the street has beer from 30 countries. If you drink them all you get a plaque with your name on the wall.
Steve, power tour is coming here June 9th. Toss the kids in the family truckster and come on up.
I'll buy. The bar up the street has beer from 30 countries. If you drink them all you get a plaque with your name on the wall.
