RockinRiviDad
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5 hours ago, RoadShark said:
interfered with the steering box on my car.
What year car do u have?
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3 years? ugh!! I’m soooo jealous. I’m going on double that time frame & no where near the finish line haha
CONGRATS!!! Happy for u. Looks bitchen!!
Any interior & underhood pix?
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Is anyone running these headers on a first gen? ?
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Beach or bath towel in your choice of color?
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I sped on over to Kansas from Cali in my bucket of bolts Riv & snuck into Ed’s house to steal these pix while he was napping off the effects of his pain pills.
just kidding. Collected one from Russ Martin’s site & Chris Nolan gave me the other. My kickdown & SP never worked. A buddy suggested we get it all back to stock & working right before we add this aux switch. So I’ve been enjoying the stock setup for now. Aux switch coming soon haha
Ed: hope the leg is ok & u don’t need pain pills.
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Jaw dropping…mouth watering custom work…I am in awe…she came out beautiful!! Congrats.
I read she performed well on your Road Tour too. I’d love to try that someday.
I sure hope u can find time to answer a couple of Q’s of mine. PM me here or on LatG. Thx
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1 hour ago, Seafoam65 said:
I don't see a grounding strap.
Good eye Winston. Here is a pic of the coupler before I installed the second half from my old coupler. The new one have a different grounding that is sandwiched between the two halves. U can see the gold anodized metal strap in pic
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Oh yea…I see what u did…u edited your post after I read your original reply…sneaky
ok…now I’m picking up what your throwing down
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50 minutes ago, RivNut said:
The reference in the article says "non tilt" cars.
Im sorry…not sure I follow…
reference in what article?
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19 minutes ago, RivNut said:
non tilt '63
Don't know why one wasn't used on the tilt column cars.
Awesome!! Thank u.
Is it ONLY on the 63 non tilt?
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6) I am scared to death about taking these window regulators apart & messing up the alignment. I read it’s a PITA to get them all back together correctly. So I did the bare minimum to pull the motors & had Steve rebuild them too.
I also bought new mohair liner rubber liner for the front & rear window channel. Wing window rubber seems in good condition
All my rollers are in good shape. None are broken. A little WD freed up some of the rollers that felt tight
I plan to replace the plastic grommet where the side view mirror remote cable passes thru. Looks like a standard grommet from the parts store will work.
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5) Rebuilt seat base. Electric seat motor, trans & gearbox rebuilt by Steve Lorenzen. Thank u Steve.
My teenage son helping out.
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4) When I pulled my steering column out I noticed there wasn’t anything keeping engine heat & road grime from finding its way thru my steering & into the passenger space. So I cut 1” foam into a donut shape & shoved it in there. A little wheel bearing grease helped steering shaft spin smoothly.
I should’ve paint the column…I was lazy ?
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3) I learned how to rebuild my rag joint (steering coupler). I really didn’t want to rebuild it. I tried to buy a complete one. But I found I had to use half of my old one to make the new one work. I will start a “how-to” thread on how I did it if someone is interested.
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2) Finally got a rebuilt “quicker” ratio steering box. My original box was 3-5/8 turns (lock to lock). It’s been said multiple times on this forum that if the number of turns on the input shaft (lock to lock) are 3 or less with the steering box on the workbench then the number of turns (lock to lock) will be less once the steering box is installed.
My first hand experience proves that info is NOT true.
Rebuilt steering box was 3 turns (lock to lock) on my workbench. Guess what it was once installed…yup…3 turns (lock to lock) ?
But at least I don’t have a leak anymore…?
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Latest updates:
1) Finished sound deadening the floor boards…yes, I’m driving around like that haha. Someday I’ll get to the trunk floor
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I’ve got my inner fender rubber baffles installed. But I can’t figure out where these others ones go. Can someone post a pic of where these are suppose be installed pls
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Any pix of the charcoal panels installed in the Riv?
sweet ride btw…??
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8 hours ago, Seafoam65 said:
wife gets fed up with the project and informs the restorer that from now on it is her way or the highway
This pretty much sums up the rumor I last heard about Rob J’s build…not sure of details
8 hours ago, Seafoam65 said:I actually completed one of these frame off restos on my 69 GTO convertible, but lost my first wife about the time I was wrapping it up! To this day I have no clue why she left!
Sorry to hear about your loss. I’m sure the GOAT had nothing to do with it…haha
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Put the fuel cap back on?
sorry…couldn’t resist haha
how about trying a new fuel cap? The gasket on yours may be bad
65 Transmission control switch
in Buick Riviera
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Nice pix. I did the same thing to mine a couple months ago. I wish I could add to your pix. But I was more excited that I got the switch to work & wanted to install it for a test drive that I forgot pix ??♂️