Frank DuVal

25 year old truck, you mean check the truck for cataracts/distortion of the lense. Very common. Not much had sealed beams 25 years ago!😉

Porter, as in My Mother The Car? 🤣 Sorry, that is firmly in my head since I watched the show staring Jerry Van Dyke as a child. Both brochures are a treasure for our library! 👍

The air motor that operates the flap in the air cleaner?

If you are speaking of the Aurora conversion, that conversion removes ALL of the original parts inside the radio, installs a new "radio" inside the old case that runs on 12 volts. Then Gary (or any of the other people who do these conversions) adds a 6 volt either polarity converter to go from the 6 volt car system to the internal 12 volt needs. So, yes, it works on positive ground 6 volt cars. I think of it as the LS1 with 6 or more speed transmission conversion. Drive it anywhere, listen to anything. Maybe they should add a vibrator hum input for background noise like it should sound! 😉

Joe, you posted a Mercury tailgate picture with the idea it is worthless junk due to rust. I don't see your point. ❓ And the wood looks fresh, hasn't been there for years.

And??? Your trash hauling service looks that close? Seems like regular trash to me. Or take it to the "metals" scrap yard and get a few cents. Currently 46 cents per pound for small insulated wire around here. Unless next to the battery, like the corroding/turning green of the battery cables, I have not seen the copper corrode to where it is not functioning. I do see the copper get a black color (maybe from the plasticizers?) that is very hard to clean in order to solder to it. All Corvairs are over 50 years old, and except for connections being dirty, most of the harnesses are just fine. The harnesses get replaced because of previous owner/fiddler modifications and dirty (corroded) connectors. Now, the cloth covered harnesses of the 50s and earlier, that rubber insulation under the cloth is just falling apart, replace those fire hazards! 🕷️ 🕸️

There is a Reatta forum in the BCA (Buick Club of America) topics just down this forum's Antique Automobile Discussion page (you are in General Discussion now). Many Reatta specific answers are to be found there, or at least others with similar issues and solutions.

Adding heat shrink will not make the wire more bendable. It is the insulation that is hard, not the stranded copper.

It survived to be a parts car if nothing else. You don't see any good parts?

But I like my beer cold..... That's a lot of small refrigerators. I know what you mean, David, I do not have a Siri or Facebook! But, if it means surviving a fall, I would get Siri and still no Facebook. Then I would just deal with ads for what I just talked about popping up on some forums, or the Weather channel. 😉 🪡🚗 🛻🚄

Um, You mean the Blue Ridge Parkway run by the National Park Service?❓ 1. The Blue Ridge Parkway does not go into West Virginia 2. Tractor Trailers are prohibited on the Blue Ridge Parkway. But, maybe you came down to Front Royal Virginia on US15 then US 340, past White Post Restorations, then US 522, slowing those tractor trailers while going uphill, and got on the Skyline Drive and continued to Afton, VA where the Blue Ridge Parkway starts (northern end) and continued down to where I-64 takes off west to West Virginia, I-77, etc. to go further west. Or continue even further south and take I-77 west. That's a long drive at 35 MPH! ❗ Yes, I'm being picky, but I live near there now and used to travel the Blue Ridge Parkway in the winter in my worn out '50 Studebaker Champion when I was in college in Charlottesville. That was an experience, when I could figure how to get on the closed Parkway (due to weather) and motor on white knuckle..... 😱 Ahh, youth and college days! ❗ 😃😃😅😅😄😄

Bloo for the win! 😄 Anybody with a Studebaker w/OD would have known this. 👍

Yes! It sure looks like 1. cutting wire going to A1 on turnsignal switch, to remove brake function from turn signal circuits 2. cutting yellow and darg green going to taillamp assemblies and wiring those to appropriate amber assemblies. 3. extending white wire going to third brake lamp to both the cut yellow and dark green wires on the taillamp assemblies. Well, it's worth a try! 😄

It holds plenty of brake fluid. Enough for a large slug of fluid to feed the front calipers. If it leaks , a seal is bad, since these are sealed master cylinders! They started sealing master cylinders sometime in the early 60s, if not earlier. The sealed masters have the bellows under the lid, as air never touches the fluid. As with any fluid, check with the car level.

Once you have the wiring diagram, disconnect the brake switch feed to the turn signal switch. This will make the wiring to the rear stock lamps just turn signals. Now run this wiring to the amber lamps. Then run the third brake lamp wiring to the existing rear red lamps. Do check the wiring diagram to make sure the third brake light is fed not from the turn signal switch.

Have you tried transmission parts places? You would be surprised what old parts are still stocked, or could be made. Fatsco comes to mind. https://www.fatsco.net/ I still get Transmission Digest and am amazed at ads from time to time for new designed parts being made for Powerglides, Turbo Hydramatics, etc.

It has to do with the design of the firewall. Why, well I do not know. While the slant means the level of the fluid is not parallel with the top line of the master, it still holds enough brake fluid to operate safely. If you look at it, it is tall. And these are usually "quick take up" masters, with the large front reservoir and the small rear reservoir. The large front feeds the front calipers, while the small rear feeds the rear drum brakes.

I am asking because of another forum experiencing "limited resources" (and that may not be the correct terminology) where the forum slows and stops and resources limited warning appears. The IT people at the head have made the forum registered users only because they blamed the slowdown on Bots and unregistered automated guests that were there to mine resource (like phone numbers) out of the posts. Yes, going register only has improved speed, but at the cost of people doing a Google (or Bing Duck) search coming to a page that says register instead of being able to read posts as a guest. This follows 20+ years of running outdated software with no resources limited issues and now with new up to date forum software the problem came on like gangbusters. So, has this limited resources been an issue here? ❓

Yep, cam bearings are like step ONE of any rebuild.... except in Corvairs where there are NO cam bearings, just aluminum journals machined into the block, which are now wearing large.... wish there were inserts now.... 😱 Silver hunh? They are mostly bearing color chunks, but I see several green pieces, like the green triangles in my vibratory tumbler. Moving the laptop screen at different angles they are still green. But I can understand different monitors display very different colors. 👍

Bearing material is green? ❓

??? Of course one can. You combine the Left and Right signals into one mono signal. I do it all the time. 5 volt regulators are also available for the small current draw of this receiver. Here is an (oops I mean 5 pieces, you only need one) example: https://www.amazon.com/Regulator-DROK-Converter-Step-Down-Transformer/dp/B0758ZTS61?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=AFHAE9RJVUMB&th=1 The Desoto is positive ground, so you will need to isolate the ground of the receiver from the ground of the radio. The two would normally be connected together through the shield of the audio cable, but you need to use capacitors to connect the two instead of the shield of the coax. Yes, one needs some electronics background to connect these parts together. And there are more deluxe Bluetooth receivers with FM, AUX, SD card too. https://www.amazon.com/fosa-Bluetooth-Decoder-Lossless-Display/dp/B07LG566DS/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=bluetooth+receiver+FM+aux+module+5+volt&qid=1697253059&sr=8-4

Or you could just buy the Bluetooth receiver and wire it to the volume control inside the radio. Example: https://www.amazon.com/MakerHawk-Bluetooth-Receiver-Amplifier-Speaker/dp/B08D94PGCG/ref=asc_df_B08D94PGCG/?tag=&linkCode=df0&hvadid=416691785242&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=561623336538955088&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9008197&hvtargid=pla-1274986281557&ref=&adgrpid=95587150044&th=1

Thank You! 👍 🕷️

Even some that use your phone as the video screen. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=endoscope+camera+phone&hvadid=570432210921&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9008197&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=2669209781336575911&hvtargid=kwd-332793614777&hydadcr=18473_13462192&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_48r80s7mzd_e

Something about 9" Klein Hammer in my back pocket just felt right. There, IFIFY (I fixed it for you) 😆 You can drive staples, hit a screwdriver to open knockouts/tighten locknuts, etc. Oh, they also can be used as pliers.... 🤣 Me too! And this is why it is good to have tools other than Snap-On or Matco also in your tool box, because I don't like seeing a mechanic bend/weld an expensive wrench when a mid-line or cheap wrench will work in a new configuration. Bend a $45 wrench? 😨