hidden_hunter

What sort of oil pressures are people generally seeing?

isn't one of the seals there supposed to be felt as well? I vaguely recall reading that in one of the parts books

We found it much easier to diagnose what was going on with the electrical system by using an analogue multimeter, couldn't get a great reading with the digital multimeter

Obviously the car hadn't been running in that first period photo, she would have been burning up with all those clothes on and the heat coming off that engine

Yeah I would have thought the gearbox would have thrown more people than the pedals It's good theft protection!

Does anyone actually manufacture new cores that are actually similar in design to the originals? I think that's part of the difficulty in (swallowing) the price is that even with a recore it's not the same as what's on the car. There is a guy up in Queensland that makes hex cores but they're considerably larger than the original.

I'm actually Australian so the only borders I can cross by driving are states One of the other posts referred to Canada so I got my wires a bit crossed

There are a few posts on the forums around some of the difficulties members have had bringing cars back across the border (mostly related to paperwork from memory) that would limit its marketability. The list price is quite strong and starting to approach Caddy money for a similar vintage car.

Some of the stuff I've seen people bring back on the flight back from the states would almost make lugging that back look normal

I haven't had it off but I didn't think the speedo cable was anything special, just a fairly standard square drive flex cable? possibly something else could be adapted to fit

It's pretty straight forward piece if you get the bits from bobs, basically knock out a pin on the shaft and a couple of screws. Should be easy, just be very careful with the backplate as the metal is very fragile

The general concensus seems to be that you should see the odd drip from the gland in the water pump (out the front of the shaft) Be very very very very (and I can't stress this enough) careful if you're looking for replacement parts for the water pump, we found that there is at least 3 variants for 1926

I thought it looked like that, possibly related to the seemingly bent push rod and someones started to take it apart

I've checked the book "Buick, the Australian story" (excellent book btw, and not just Australian info http://speedreaders.info/2666-buick-the-australian-story/)and the 1925/1926 period was a transitional period for Buick here. GM export (GME) was phased out and replaced by GM Australia, who later acquired Holden to become GMH. So with the change over, dealers and suppliers changed so that probably explains why some are McLauglin's and others are from Flint from around that time. Ours is definitely an Australian delivered car (complete with the original dealers tag on the dash) and appears to be a reasonably early 26 model based on what we've seen from the serial numbers. On a side note, the book also makes reference to how Australian made bodies were 'higher quality' (though full imports were available and cost more) and that apparently GM actually took a Holden bodied car to display in the states.

I'd be curious to hear more about this car - it appears to have at least one bent push rod, so it'd be interesting to see what the rest of the mechanical condition is like

Ours is 1452076, it was sold new in Melbourne but other states may have had different arrangements

I think by 25 we had Flint Buick's not McLaughlin here in Australia (with Holden bodies, fisher was available but cost more). Our 26 is a Flint car with a Holden body

It's not a 26, the bit that goes into the heat riser looks different.

Not sure if it's aluminium or just nickle plated but it has a knurled edge and a small hole a couple of mm across. Internally it has a butterfly like piece of metal to secure it into a notch in the filler spout

we did find the repro quite difficult to get in the right spot, and were running warm as a result It also had a tendency to push itself on

Bob's has a repro as well

I should have also mentioned that the keyways are reasonably narrow and I suspect with a bit of force would get worn down/snap off

I don't know what the price of buick's is like in the states but I think you raise an interesting point, at that price you are starting to get into some other desirable marques. On the face of it there is a substantial amount of work remaining to get the car to a show ready state, if you had to put $40k into the car to restore it you're starting to get into restored cadillac la salle convertible money

Not sure if it's a 26, the pushrod and spark plug configuration don't look right. It looks like they're exposed on this engine where as on a 26 the spark plugs are normally recessed behind a cover

If it's the same as earlier cars, they slot into keyways and then have a small bolt holding them in place.