Seafoam65
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About three years ago I saw an nos horn bar sell on ebay for 1200.00 after a prolonged
bidding war!
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6 hours ago, RivNut said:
Ed......I think the blinker fluid might be low on my Riviera......Can you tell me where
the blinker fluid reservoir is located?
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Gentlemen......I finally figured out the problem! My Ad blocker was seeing the photo box as an ad and was blocking it. I turned off my ad blocker for the ROA home page and now I can see the black box !
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Are you sure that you replaced the correct flasher? Your car has two flashers.....one for the hazard flashers and one for the turn signals. Usually the hazard flasher is in plain sight in the fuse box, and the turn signal flasher is buried in the dash where it is hard to find.
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You have a bad flasher.....if it was the bulb the malfunctioning side would blink extra fast
on the instrument cluster. It is not uncommon for the flasher to work on one side of the car and not the other.
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I just tried the Bing search engine and got the same result when typing in www.rivowners.org.....
I got the home page without the photo gallery box, but with a Bing search I don't get a result
further down that says www.rivowners.org.Gallery.
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Ditto......when I enter www.rivowners.org in the search bar I get the home page that does
not have the photo gallery box, but when I enter www.rivowners.org in the search bar if I scan further down the results on the page there is an entry that says www.rivowners.org.Gallery and
when I click on that the photo gallery page comes up, so it looks like I can get to the photo gallery that way, but I have yet to ever see a home page with the photo gallery box on it. I'm using Windows 10 and the Google search engine.
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In my opinion that was a fair price. Bamboo Cream with deluxe black interior and wood wheel
is a great combo. It looks like a decent starting point for a quality resto, and if done right
could be worth 200K.
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I clicked on Jason's link and looked at the pictures, but I would still like to know how to
bring up the ROA home page that has the photo galleries box. Also, I still
don't have the personal message icon at the top of the screen on this site....
It vanished about 3 months ago after being there for years and I haven't seen it since.
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I don't know what browser I am using......I just type in Riviera Owner's Association on my Google search engine and what comes up is the old home page with no Photo Gallery.
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I eyeballed Gene's and Turbinator's horn bars at the Lexington meet. To my eye they are equally nice looking and well made. Turbinator....when I installed my horn bar before grinding down the base circle, when I tightened the 3 screws down on the horn contact the bar would lock down
and not move. After grinding the base circle down to the same thickness as the original pot metal everything was fine. Both your horn bar and Gene's horn bar are the same thickness and they are much thicker in that area than the original GM piece. If there is a way to make these
bars work without grinding down the base circle ,I was not able to figure out how to do it. The extra thickness throws off the geometry of the horn contact parts in my experience.
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Just to give you a heads up.......Gene has the horn bars as does the Turbinator. Best Offer Counts sells the horn contact parts kit on ebay. Be aware that all of the repro horn bars out there
have metal that is too thick on the bottom of the center round section of the bar. In order for
the horn bar to be able to move and honk the horn, you will need to grind away the bottom
of the center section of the repro horn bar until it is the same thin thickness of the original piece.
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Ditto Jason........no matter how I google search the Riviera Owners Association, I get the home
page on my screen that does not have the Photo Gallery Box. Please advise us how you search for the home page to get the updated page.
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I went to the ROA website and I can't find any photo gallery for this year's meet......
What do I click on? When I click on international meets the newest one is Kalamazoo last year.
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People who claim there is something wrong with DOT 5 don't know what they are talking
about.......I have 47 years of proof that it works, and the brakes on my cars that use it will stop on a dime and give you nine cents change. I used it in my customer's classic cars for 45 years with never one complaint or one hydraulic failure. It is worth every penny that it costs and then some.....as I said it is an absolute no-brainer.
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You need to flush out all the old brake fluid and install silicone DOT 5 fluid. If you do that,
your brake hydraulics will last longer than your human life span. I run DOT 5 in all my older cars
that don't have antilock brakes, and I have old cars with the same wheel cylinders, calipers, and master cylinder for decades and decades......plus if you do have to work on the brake system, DOT 5 won't damage your paint if you spill it on the car......it's a no-brainer. As an example of what I'm talking about......my 69 GTO which has had DOT 5 in the brakes for 47 years still has it's original 55 year old front calipers and the master cylinder and wheel cylinders are 47 years old........never any leaks or problems with the hydraulics. This is why I have no interest in converting to a dual system on my 65 Riviera, as the master cylinder isn't going to go bad with DOT 5 in it during my lifespan.
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Your low beam headlight has two filaments.....one high beam and one low beam. The low
beam filament is burned out.....you need a new headlamp bulb.
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One of the favorite aspects of my 65 Riviera is that I have all the original paperwork, protectoplate, window sticker, and the names of all previous owners, and the second owner,
who owned the car for 47 years and was friends with the original owner told me the complete
history of the car over the phone........It is really cool to know the complete history of a 60 year
old automobile.
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If it does it with the drive belts removed it is most likely to be the harmonic balancer
having torn rubber between the inner and outer discs. I've seen this about twenty times over the years and it is very difficult to diagnose if the outer disc has yet to get off center.
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I don't think I mentioned this, put the tubes on a modern R134 condenser used on cars and trucks since about 1999 are so tiny that you can't even shove a needle into the holes of the tubes. they are literally microscopic. For this reason, when your R134 compressor goes bad, you have to change out the condenser, orifice tube, and flush out all the lines because the condenser tubes are so tiny they cannot be flushed out to remove trash from the compressor failure like on an R12 condenser.
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Did it sell and how much did it bring?
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13 hours ago, Turbinator said:
Seafoam, A capital idea!
I think I'll put one aside so we can make a person very happy. Matter of fact I have a highly qualified prospect as we correspond.
I'm at 443-386-7356 or bobburnopp@icloud.com
Turbinator
It's a done deal......see you in Lexington.
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Mr Turbinator, I have a nice crack free steering wheel and a very nice pit free hub that goes
between the back of the wheel and the steering column. Why don't I bring those and we can sell the complete setup to someone in Lexington? I can't recall if I have the horn contact setup but those are available as a reproduction from "Best Offer Counts" on ebay.
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Oh, and you can buy oil pump priming extension tools for your drill online for about 30.00.
Just wondering why no Toronados at ROA meets anymore?
in Buick Riviera
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In looking at pictures from Lexington in 2013, I saw a long row of Toronados that had been invited to participate.......why are they not invited anymore.....I love Toronados and would enjoy seeing them.