Chris Hammond is

Chris Hammond

Chris Hammond is a father, husband, leader, software developer, photographer and car guy. Chris focuses on the latest in technology including artificial intelligence (AI) and has spent decades becoming an expert in ASP.NET and DotNetNuke (DNN) development. You will find a variety of posts relating to those topics here on the website. For more information check out the about Chris Hammond page.

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Today I went over to Nick's house for a while to work on removing the motor out of his 1995 Cobra. That took us FARRRR too long, stupid mustangs. We actually didn't get it all the way out before I left, the ram on the cherry picker died on us when we were probably 95% done. He ran off to Cummins Tools to look for another one, I went home to work on the Corvette.

I took the Monroe Sensa Tracs off the front end and put the stock Z06 shocks back on the car. I figured out, thanks to a tip from Alex, the easy way to mount shocks is by compressing them and holding them closed with a zip tie. That made things a lot easier!

I did run into one issue taking off the Sensa Tracs. I thought I had lost a nut and washer off the top of the left front shock, when I went to remove them they weren't there, just the bushing was sitting where the nut and washer should have been. Luckily though, I had just used too small a washer and the nut/washer had somehow managed to work itself through the bushing and I found them still attached, but below the bushing. I can't image that would be possibly on most cars, but the bushing for the upper shock mount on the Z06 is in two peices, one with a fairly large center. I'm really lucky the bushing was still on the car!

I also took a few moments to try to clean up the greese that was thrown about on the right rear of the car. I put some RTV on the crack/split of the CV boot with hopes of sealing that off as a fix.

I'll take the car out and drive around a bit tomorrow to make sure the shocks are working properly and make sure the boot is not leaking anymore. She also needs a bath, and perhaps some wax!

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Corvette Z06

Posts, photos, and videos of my 2004 Corvette Z06 that I owned for less than a year. It saw more autocross than any other car I've owned except for the first 350z.