Why does a horn have a relay? A horn is a vibrating relay.

You may have been able to rebuild your gearbox. Eitherway, unless there was a ridiculous amount of slop in your steering I wouldn't have messed with it.

Those windshield wiper motors are hard to come by, but I could have yanked a few just last weekend.

Like the rubber on the steering knuckle. Good luck finding that cheap, I replaced mine with thick strips of leather. Its just there to absorb a small amount of shock.

To save the horn switch contacts?

Not something that really burns, to be honest.

It's probably so the power for the horn doesn't have to be run through the steering wheel. Much easier to just have a switch that triggers a relay somewhere else.

Motorcycles don't typically use relays for this purpose.

Horns are powered by the battery.

Who said anything about the relay being for the motorcycle? It's for the Corvette.

I am lifting out the engine today. I decided I'm just going to yank the thing out and completely rebuild it. I can also paint the block and the compartment while I'm at it.

Pictures tonight.

Nice!

Don't use cheap paint.

I want to shoot myself in the face every time I have to put fuel in my car so I sure as **** ain't working on one. This attitude probably stems from my old man, who is actually quite the mechanic, yelling at me a lot as he supposedly tried to teach me about cars when I was a boy.

Pulled the engine out. Pictures in the gallery linked below.

Went very well. Very straightforward. These old engines are cake to work on.

Going to need to replace my intake; it has a crack. $85, big deal. I also need to replace my piston rings and head gaskets. I am going to pressure test my heads on Monday because of this (warning: very sad, although Rob and z@n will probably laugh).

There is a silver lining to that cloud, though. It turns out a previous owner got the heads ported, had the cylinders bored .030" and installed badass forged pistons.

I also, apparently, have badass headers, valves, and a pretty sweet McDonald's Iced Tea cup.

It was cranking out 340+hp at the wheel before the problems; after I install new rings, camshafts, and have all of the surfaces machined I should be getting about 400 ponies.

http://picasaweb.google.com/svaladez/EngineRemoval#


Also, this is my favorite shot:
[quote=The Friend formerly known as The Friend with the Beard]Make sure you get a picture of me drinking water while you guys are doing all of the work.[/quote]