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Frank DuVal

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  1. Interesting, Larry, I thought S meant extended tip, as in the electrodes were further out from the shell. As in you can see porcelain when looking perpendicular to the shell. Maybe they also have the unthreaded part of the shell so it is the same S?
  2. No. There were improvements during those years. Now can it fit? I do not know.
  3. Well, I'll give information on Clarks' Upholstery, but from the Corvair side of the bucket seat isle. You need strong hands! You will be pulling and stretching up inside that seat back. The back may seem simple, just pull it on, but there is a lot going on inside there that you have to do. Then you have to stretch it to join the ends at the bottom. The bottom of the seats and the rear seats are not enclosed, so they are easier. I did not say easy!😉 A fellow Corvair guy in Virginia was an upholsterer and he said the seat backs were hard on hands. But he still jumped in and helped me and the seat owner get the covers on during a Corvair meet. A mini Tech Session. That was about 10 years ago. A helper is great, like in this example, as one needs hand strength or two hands. As stated above, get all the internal parts you may need. I thought (please confirm!) I just saw Clarks does not have the cloth covered wiggly (listing?) wire. I may have these terms confused, as some wiggly wire is bare, or maybe it was once covered and now bare when I removed it.😮
  4. Just like Weller soldering guns, the tip nuts HAVE to be tight! I see the tip nut wrench in the ad, but do not see wrench flats on the tip nuts???? Have Channellocks? That's what I use once the flats wear off the Weller tip nuts. Yes, I have used 8200 series guns for over 60 years. D550 when I need bigger heat. After that I use the 300 watt American Beauty Iron. Maybe tin gutters?🤣 Now, the newer crop of Wellers, having been cheapened, have "Allen" screws instead of the old 3/8" nuts, but they can come apart internally, which is bad, same as loose tip nuts, high resistance = low amps = low heat, E=IR and all that. Pick up an old 8200 with actual tip nuts at a yard sale or such.👍
  5. Well, until recently (OK recently in the last 30 years!) there were only two major fluids, Dexron (I II III and the superseded Type A) and Type F for Fords. So Dexron was the go to fluid for changeovers, as friction modifiers were not needed to shift properly in hydraulic systems other than transmissions. Then all these Vehicle Manufacturers decided if Ford had their own fluid then so would Toyota, Honda, etc and so forth and to keep these automatics running right you needed the manufacturer's fluid. AAAHHHH! ❗ So, Dexron. The III is fine. aka Dexron III/Mercon, or Dex Mec (or is that Tex Mex?) Dex Merc. 🚗🛠️🏎️
  6. Allan, stick around. AACA likes Oldsmobiles. And several people post on Buick forums that own them, like Rockettrader and Joe Padavano. Trying to teach my daughter not to turn the steering wheel until the car was moving was difficult, as all we had at the time were cars with power steering or Corvairs to drive (or projects...🤣). Those can be steered lock to lock while sitting still.❗
  7. In the mid 60s most gray wires in the dash area were the dash lights, that come on with the parking or headlamps, and is dimmable by the headlamp switch. Does this answer your question? ❓
  8. RIGHT! 👍 Unless this Buick Rivera is wildly different from GM cars of the electric wiper era, (yes, that's a LOT of years!), you put the hot to the hot lead of the wiper motor and a ground to the lead (or leads) to the dash switch! The grounding of the motor to the cowl is to make the PARK function work!🛠️☃️🚋 Also grounding the lead to the WASH switch makes the WASH solenoid pull in while the motor is turning, which it does due to the PARK switch now calling to wash the window. 😉 And I hope your battery charger can supply at least 15 amps.
  9. That's what I have used, some solid copper or steel wire. Or even welding/brazing/tig wire (of some solderable alloy). No, not MIG wire, those straight lengths. Soldering is better than tape, as the hole is usually small. Well, on second thought, a length of .030 or .035 MIG wire might do the trick too, since it should be a straight piece of pipe from top to bottom of column. That you might also be able to loop at an end and crimp onto the new horn wire.
  10. You must be up north. I have never seen sheet metal for sale in auto parts stores, much less specifically aluminum killed sheets. I used to buy 4 x 10 sheets from the HVAC suppliers. They also had non galvanized.
  11. That was just a 1/8" "Allen" head screw. aka Socket Head Screw. Very common. Also come in Button head and Flat head designs. You could use the "L" shaped 1/8" "Allen" wrench (aka Hex Key) just fine on most GM cars. Well, they made the tools the appliance manufacturers bought to assemble them in the first place.😉 No use making a fastener that has no tool to install it. Need more "weird" head screws, look at this page from McMaster-Carr: https://www.mcmaster.com/products/screws/ Oh yes, the 12 point screws found in engines these days....😮 🛠️🏎️🚗🚋☃️
  12. NEITHER! So the answer is Hot Water! SO hot it is called steam cleaner. THAT gets the job done! I have a small Alkota like the current model 122 I bought used 35 years ago from the local Alkota dealer. I had borrowed a locomotive looking unit and it did the job of cleaning used cars of the detailing products they did to try and avoid needing a body shop, but didn't succeed, so now we had to fix it. Washing just wouldn't get the Silicone compounds off the car and under the hood. So off to buy one and the dealer had this "little" model used. Yes, there was a learning curve to not hurt the underhood electronics, but even the Nissan Q45 recovered....😮 This unit will strip grease off of parts so nice! Pressure is lower than the cold water units, so not so much worry about forcing water into crevices. BUT! Read all the instructions of how not to burn yourself. The big unit I borrowed was used to clean restaurant hoods of grease, and the workers in short sleeves wore red arm tattoos because they would contact the wand metal parts trying to get up into the ducts. 😉 🚋🎠🚗🏎️
  13. I don't follow what you are saying. Flipped what? The image you posted is the exact same as the one in the first post. Same parts in the same relation with the same labels and the parking brake lever is to the rear of the assembly (mounted to Secondary Shoe). Right rear brake assembly.
  14. Utter nonsense! They could not have sold a Buick with such a limitation. Especially a Roadmaster or Skylark! Well, it was still a guy with a hacksaw and welder. He just probably kept the hacksaw in the tool box and used the plasma cutter. What is the fascination with disc brakes? First you get ideas from people that a Dynaflow won't get to 60 MPH, then you suddenly need to stop in 50 feet? Millions of miles were put on these cars with stock drum brakes. And I wonder what the shop was thinking when they put a subframe in a Buick? It seems to solve NO problem, yet makes more problems. Power brake and power steering options would have made a much nicer driving Buick. You know, king pins are not that hard to replace. I drove a '56 Special for years and never thought it was slow. If I needed more power, I simply pressed the go pedal to switch pitch the turbine. The switch pitch Dynaflows also had a very unique feature. They switch pitch in any gear set. Drive, Low and ........... REVERSE! What other transmissions have a passing gear in Reverse? ❓ The 53 is not switch pitch, so it is slower off the line. Makes up for it soon, though.
  15. Generator wire, makes sense. I was wondering why you would need 14 AWG for a points wire. Points wire needs to be flexible since something moves on vacuum advance action, that moves the wire. I use Test Lead wire for that, 16 or 17 AWG.
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