Daves1940Buick56S

This is my buddy Irv's car. I assume it is a 233 engine. The carb is a small 2 barrel. Is it a Stromberg EE-1? Throttle linkage on engine side. There is a vacuum start switch on the manifold. It looks like there is a tag, have to get more pics.

248 unless someone swapped it to a 263

Looking fine for '39!

Maybe the 4 barrel intake is off a 1952 320 engine?

Yup, same on my 1940. On my 1938, samecalso but am about to change to Millers 140 GL-1 on the trans.

If you have the right regulator for the 38s, follow the procedure in the shop manual to set voltage. It should be about 7 vdc. Cheers Dave

Yes according to service info I have. The screw has to come out

Compound carb? Maybe the weighted butterfly on the rear carb is opening for some reason?

How does the tube assy attach to the plenum/firewall? Maybe you can remove it and work it in the shop.

Nope, not a clue. Just about all of my car repair/maintenance experience has been on pre-1978 cars. On my newer cars I just took it to a dealer or mechanic and embraced the suck. I will likely do that with the Lucerne as long as it seems feasible, but once I get to the $1500 a visit stage (got there with my 2003 Caddy DTS) I will have to make a decision. Hopefully not for a while. On the pressure test, I have a kit that I have adapted to the older cars and it works good. I still have the modern adapters. Are you talking about pressurizing to 15# and watching for leakdown or something else? Cheers, Dave

He landed in Orlando FL. Part of Massey-Grindle, I think Dodge, and also a bunch of smaller used car lots. When I went to my grandparents' in Ormond Beach for the summer I recall seeing his ads on the Orlando channels. This was mid-60s to early 70s. Usually he would be in the sales lot as a parade of cars went by with him shouting at 5 miles a minute. He would always climb on top of the last car to end the commercial. Sometimes they were live and I remember on one car the roof caved in!

I just picked up a creampuff 2006 Lucerne. It's a CXS with low miles at a deal I could not pass up. I have been scouting for a shop manual or even an aftermarket service manual but am coming up dry unless I want to fork out $400. Anybody have something they would be willing to sell? Cheers, Dave

Art Grindle! Massey-Grindle dealership in Orlando. I want to sell YOU a car!

Yeah, they both light up with bright lights. I guess Buick wanted to be sure!

O. Winston Link

Glove box light has 3 small balls inside. When it tilts down the balls close the circuit.

Just one addition. Charging a car inductively in a parking spot will be incredibly lossy unless there was some way to lower the pickup coil to ground level, and even then a lot more lossy than just plugging in. If we are trying to reduce carbon footprint it's not a good idea. How much more difficult is it to use the plug anyway? Edit: to be clear lossy means inefficient, in other words wasted energy. I lapse into engineering speak sometimes, sorry!

Bill Hirsch

My doctor agrees with you and says I should get all my rodding in BEFORE 80...

True, Don. But sometimes that rust in the tubes was the only thing holding it together. In 1975 I had the radiator on my 66 Fairlane boiled and rodded. 1 week later I blew out 7 tubes. New radiator shortly after...

Well congrats on the closed bearings. No more oiling!

Interesting. My 1940 gen did have a rear bushing and I replaced it, including drilling the tangent opening and putting in a new oil wick. I think I did a thread on that.

Did u replace the rear bushing with a bearing?

65 degrees today. Finally finished reinstalling the arch bracket that fits over the radiator on my 38 66s. Now the only thing left is to put the hood back on. So ends what started out as a fast block cleanout and turned into a new water pump, radiator removal, cyl head freeze plug replacement, and adding a pusher fan "while I was in there." A 1 week job turned into 4 months. C'est la guerre.