Frank DuVal

Sure sounds that way. A Dynaflow only uses clutches or bands to shift into Reverse and when you select Low. All other times it is the torque converter doing the work. And it just needs clean fluid. Dexron III aka Dexron-Mercron. Type A is NLA and has been since the early 70s. Type F has friction modifiers for shifting Ford transmissions (hence F), and since the Dynflow doesn't shift, no need for type F. Patience, Cleanliness and Organization.....😉 Take pan off, clean screen and button it back up. Unless the ATF smells really burned and is dark brown, then yes, rebuild time.

The time we were driving in England was our honeymoon in a rented small car (at least it had four wheels...). We were last in a 4 car line heading up a hill on a road similar to the grandchildren picture, outside of Bath (don't go into Bath in a large car!) except hedges taller than the car on both sides, almost touching the small car. As we got to the top of the hill the hedges were gone so we could see. At that point a car turned onto the road heading downhill. I guess the rules are people going downhill are not to back up the hill. Everyone stated backing down the hill, so I had to also, all the way to a driveway or such (might have been another road 😁) where I could wait for everyone else to get out of the way of the car coming downhill. Then we all went back up the hill again.👍 Please see Oxford Blues!

Um, no, same efficiency! A 6006 (6 volt) is 20,000 candlepower on low beam, 40 watts and 27,000 candlepower on high beam, 50 watts. The 6012 (12 volt) is 20,000 candlepower on low beam, 40 watts and 27,000 candlepower on high beam, 50 watts. 2008 Wagner lighting products catalog data. Those 50 watt 12 volt lamps I sold for the RV industry (and I used them in drop lights too with alligator clips) were the same candlepower as the 50 watt 120 volt lamps I sold. 😉

Really ABear? I'm shocked! 🤣 OK, I was writing a dissertation like you to say wirenuts are in the NEC (110.14) when I noticed you agree with me and were stating those suitcase IDC connectors were not NEC approved.😉 Erase.....Delete....😧 This is why it is so important to understand words/terms used by other people. Yes, John, I have only ever heard the Scotchlock term applied to those suitcase IDC connectors. And I started selling electrical equipment in 1976, having used wirenuts, etc since I was a child. It helped the supply house was in walking distance.😉 Of course, I never heard of a 1900 box either! But 4 square, GEM, handy, etc all the time. But as long as the person who needs the part, the person ordering and the supply house uses the same terms, all is well!!!!!!!👍 Buchanan B-2 were the first wing type wire nuts I used. Then the other brands followed. I have heard the Buchanan term for wire nuts, and now I have heard the term Marrette also (Canadian). I would blame it on the King's English, but that is a manufacturer's name.🤣 WE have some at work due to our purchasing people going for lowest price.... At least they are a good wirenut. The first Scotchlocks were those round IDC ones Ma Bell used, invented in 1958. Those have sealant inside and work well on 24 AWG sold wire Ma Bell used.😁

Um, you saw a particular size? Here is the Ideal UL sheets, goes from teeny tiny wire all the way to #6AWG for UL ratings. https://www.idealind.com/content/dam/electrical/assets/WireTermination/P-5560 IDEAL UL Approved Wire Combination Listing03.05.21.pdf

Must be one of those colloquialisms. Google Scotchlocks and you will see pictures of what we are discussing, the suitcase connectors! I cannot find any Google reference to Scotchlok being a wirenut. Marrettes, yes! For you Canadians.😁

50? Where did that number come from, Facebook?🤣 These first generation Dynaflows are sluggish, but they will get up to freeway speeds. I agree, 65/70 is the sweet spot typically. 60 was a very common US highway speed when these cars were new, and people drove over the speed limit then too!😁 Especially big cars like Buicks.

This is a recent development. Started by looking at the statistics of injured and dead electricians by the safety people of the plant. Supposed to make the system dead before opening anything over 50 volts. Now how does one trouble shoot that? I do get very cautious when opening the 1000 amp 480 panel at work to add another circuit.... transformer 30 feet away so arc flash will be really really hot.😧🛠️

I've never used Scotchlocks on residential or commercial work. That's wirenut* territory. Scotchlocks (suitcase) I've used maybe 5 over the years when I needed to tap an existing conductor in a car for something, but usually just temporary. I've removed hundreds..... and crimp or solder the connections. *and now Wagos, especially LeverNuts, for certain applications (hanging off a ladder trying to hang a fixture one hand holding fixture, one hand holding the wires, one hand holding the wirenut....,)! I bet you are a split bolt person! Ha! 😁 But this isn't electriciantalk.com where the Wago controversy continues.🤣

Here Here!!!! And the other colors also. 😉 Red, brown, beige, yellow,,,,,, I call them suitcase connectors. Because they look like suitcases you close, and because the guys using them should be packing their suitcases and getting out of town before I find them.🤬

Yes, welding FLASH!! How these got past safety I do not know. Must have been approved by 20 year olds..... Add a good ground to the headlamps and fix other voltage drop issues. The 6 volt sealed beams (6006) themselves are just as bright as their 12 volt counterparts (6012). 50 watts high beam, 40 watts low beam. Just need 6.1 to 6.3 volts at the terminals while working. Even on 12 volt 50 year old cars I am now taking the headlamp switches apart to clean and lubricate them. There are also Halogen and LED versions. Now, who knows if the LED versions have the right focusing. They seem to be made by people with no need to be approved for highway use. The H6006/H6026 Halogen does, as it is a Wagner Lighting product. But, really need to make sure there is no voltage drop in the system, as these do draw more current at 6.3 volts (60 watts high, 50 watts low). The Halogen is H6006 or H6026. Amazon has the best price on H6006 from what I see (price + shipping).

This has got to be someone installed the wrong colors, not stock! 😧 I have seen it also. They bought whatever was in stock at the parts store to get it running that day. "Sorry boss, they only had this length we need for the - terminal in red". ❗🛠️ Lesson here is to ONLY look at the battery terminals, not the color of the battery cables!!!!!!!!!🚒❗🛠️

Hey, Hook, give credit! That comic is from XKCD.com. Randall Munroe is also a NASA engineer (physics degree).

On a typical 6 volt car, the large current connections are what?, 8 for the starter circuit? Two on the battery, one on the chassis, two on the ground connection chassis to engine block, two (or one) on the starter switch/solenoid and one on the starter itself. Most of these are readily accessible! And two of them will be fixed when converting to 12 volts, so that is only 6 more connections to clean. And see next comment, voltage drop is still an issue even though it might start on 12 volts. FIX IT! Those acid eaten big cables will continue to deteriorate on 12 volts too.... Just delaying the inevitable. If the connections under the dash are bad, the a new harness is needed EVEN if you convert to 12 volts, as this is a fire waiting to happen!😮 Voltage drop across a connection does not get better with age, and V * I = Watts of heating. FIX IT! 12 volts is a crutch, period, just like those weird 8 volt batteries! Just throwing parts at a problem rather than fixing it.🤬 You ARE right on the D38999 connectors, I've used lots of them. Not on cars, hmm, well maybe on winch remote connectors.... Race car builders use them a lot! Gold over nickel, with stainless steel holding the females (sockets) tight.👍

Oh, GM nomenclature is all over the map in the parts books!🤣🤣🤣 But, The Super fender has three portholes and the Roadmaster has four. Lucky in these years there is no "pooch", just flat surface that can be drilled/cut for the Roadmaster application. But, you know the assembly line did NOT (have time to) drill for the Roadmasters, that must have been different parts back in 1953. 🤔🚗🚓

Well, that is the lower fender. If the upper fender was the same part Super to Roadmaster, then the number of pre-punched holes would be the same. 😉 What is a lower fender anyway?❓

Nope, never heard of the Champion mine, but I have heard of Kyanite! A local Virginia product. I even had lunch with the owner, Gene Dixon Jr. (dressed in coveralls and boots) one day in 1977. We went to the local store and he had sardines and I had potted meat and crackers. Best lunch with a millionaire ever!👍👍 https://www.kyanite.com/ https://www.kyanite.com/blog/our-history Sounds like Dilwyn Va took over when the Champion mine closed. 😉

Bluetooh, as in Harald Bluetooth. He ruled Denmark from 958 to 986. Theory being he united all the tribes of Denmark into one kingdom, tech people used his name for a method for all technology stuff to communicate with each other. MP3 is Motion Pictures digital file, third version (there is MP4 in common use too). Actually short for MPEG (Moving Pictures Expert Group). Oh, I guess that is still not English, just more acronyms! 🤣 A Victrola will skip with the undulations of the road (unless you drive a Lincoln according to the commercials back in the 80s), so I will use my Edison cylinder player..... The needle might pop off the cylinder vertically, but since it is driven by screw threads it cannot "skip". 😉

Lots of Olds Cutlass Sierras (and the rest of the GM family, like the Celebrity) had roll up windows in 1988. Same with Chrysler mini-vans. I replaced several of the manual mini-van regulators in the shop, they would fail. Now by 1998.... 😉 The 2011 GMC Sierra WT (work truck) I bought used because I needed a truck NOW and it was a great price has, roll up windows. Didn't bother me. Not even the lack of remote locking system. It is just like the 1984 F-150 it replaced. 🤣 One can buy little FM transmitters to broadcast to your radio (and EVERYONE next to them. 🤬) or Bluetooth transmitters if your car is Bluetooth. Just feed them with little sources of audio, Ipods, memory stick adapters, phone, etc. Or not....😁

I have not seen a big car with a stick since the mid 70s. Sure, lots of mid sized and below, and what they call luxury sedans, but are still small (to me!). I like to stretch out my legs. 😁 I thought the Buick LaCrose and Lucerne was too small after driving Park Avenues.😉

It's not the clutch failure from stop and go traffic, it is the knee failure! If you are in stop and go traffic with a clutch and your knee/legs don't hurt, then that is just a little heavy traffic with no real stops for short periods of time (not long enough to put it in neutral and take your foot off the clutch). If you are in agony, then you have real stop and go traffic, and for an hour at least! If your commute through stop and go traffic is 20, 30 minutes, then again, not stop and go traffic, just a little slow down. Anyone can handle that. Think of it as leg exercise! Come here to I-95 when it snows! I'll show you hours on end in stop and go traffic. People with clutches are screaming in agony!😧

If you bother to go to an auction by all means get registered (well, unless that cost hundreds of non-refundable dollars..) as you just never know how the prices will run, depends on audience.😉 True of non- car auctions too.

A device with windings that makes motive power from an electric current is an electric motor. 😉 When I was an Engineering student the schematic of an Owen Magnetic was in one of the reference books in the library. Very interesting!👍 I shall quote Wikipedia, who quoted Harry B. Lent: The drive mechanism had no direct connection between the engine and the rear wheels. Instead of a flywheel, a generator and a horseshoe shaped magnet were attached to the rear of the engine's crank shaft. On the forward end of the car's drive shaft, was an electric motor with an armature fitted into an air space inside the whirling magnet. Electric current, transmitted by the engine's generator and magnet attached to the armature of the electrical motor, providing the energy to turn the drive shaft and propel the engine's rear wheels. Speed for the car was controlled by a small lever adjacent to the steering wheel.

Atlanta! I am usually in the middle of traffic there around Labor Day. Only place I have been where the Interstate traffic is doing 90 MPH through downtown at 11 PM! I guess that makes up for the stop and go at 5 PM.🤣 When I was using my 70 Buick Estate Wagon with the 455 10:1 and three on the tree, if someone borrowed it, it was clutch time! That 455 and highway gearing would smoke a clutch in city traffic easy. "It's OK, I know how to drive a clutch" they say....NOPE! 😬 The original owner averaged a clutch a year in Charlottesville. 😁