{"id":317,"date":"2008-12-29T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/?p=317"},"modified":"2023-03-12T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T22:05:31","slug":"2008-repairs-servicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/repairs-servicing\/2008-repairs-servicing\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">2008<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">May &#8211; replaced front disc pads with Brembo ones,(FM-1000m 0412). The EBC pads were hardly worn, but they only worked when extremely hot and were very poor when cold. The Bembro&#8217;s made a big difference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">July &#8211; Replaced all six universal joints. Although 5 of the old UJ&#8217;s looked OK, there was a noticeable difference with the new ones, and the car felt better, tighter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Fitted new Monroe Sensatrac rear shock absorbers. I spent some time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/corvetteforum.com\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/corvetteforum.com\/', 'Corvette Forum']);\" ><span style=\"color: #669966\">Corvette Forum<\/span><\/a>, researching a good but soft shock absorber. The advice I got was excellent. Will upgrade the front shock absorbers too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">New Polyurethane rear suspension, well greased.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">August &#8211; Fitted new waterpump, Flow Kooler 1688 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summitracing.com\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.summitracing.com\/', 'Summit Racing']);\" ><span style=\"color: #669966\">Summit Racing<\/span><\/a>&#8211; 30% more flow up to 3500rpm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Replaced the rear MAF relay because the warning light came on, this instantly fixed the problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Fitted quick fill fuel cap and two small louvres in tops of doors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Fitted new Bosch style Altenator<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Fitted New Internal Electric Fuel Pump.\u00a0 I foiund a Holden one that was identical including the plug. Hi Pressure in tank for VN VS Commodore 6-8cyl. Repco # FPE-250A\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"#\">back to top<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New UJ&#8217;s, New Altenator and Rear Shock Absorbers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17,11,14,16,15,20,19],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repairs-servicing","tag-17","tag-corvette","tag-repair","tag-rob-healey","tag-service","tag-shock-absorber","tag-uj"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}