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The correct coating for wood spokes is mud and horse poop.
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When my wife's grandfather was born they thought he was going to die, so they wrote "Boy" on the birth certificate. But he didn't die and his legal name was Boy. So they named him Boyce.
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Buick Clutch Replacement in 1924 - How Much?
Morgan Wright replied to IFDPete's topic in Buick - Pre War
35 cents an hour times 20 hours is $7.00. I could have done the job in 15 hours. -
Why use paper? I use rubber in mine.
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These carburetors are designed for gravity flow which is under a pound of pressure. Fuel pumps usually have too much pressure and force fuel past the needle valve in the carb and the float bowl floods and leaks. All the leaky gas can start a fire. Get a vacuum tank.
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I tossed out my cork gaskets and cut rubber ones. I'll use cork when they start making basketball valves out of cork, tires valves from cork, thermos lids and mason jar sealers from cork, and inner tubes. I know they use cork for wine bottles, but they tell you to store the wine bottle on its side so the cork doesn't leak. I bet half the troubles people have with vacuum tanks is the cork gaskets. Rubber seals vacuum 100 times better than cork.
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What Brian was saying is cars don't run without vacuum.
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Take the vacuum tank apart and move the float up and down 100 times and check the valves. It should work every time. I had one that worked 98 or 99 times out of 100 and all it takes is one time not working to mess up your day. I had to tighten (shorten) the springs to get it to work 100% of the time.
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My '40 had no air outlet.
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Leyden, You can see the base of the valve stem is round and not squared off like the rest of the valve stem. The squaring of the valve stem, and the squaring of the hole of the bridge washer, forces the bridge washer to be oriented parallel to the tube. But if the bridge washer goes too low, it can rotate any which way, which is not good, like this. But if I use the 90 year old bridge washer which is swedged with a ring washer, it brings it up to the squared part of the valve stem, and it can't rotate. So, there needs to be a washer there to keep it up on the squared part like this so it doesn't rotate. Here is the old bridge washer / ring washer combo being pressed back into service after 90 years.
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What's missing from my tube setup, and shown in the Schrader illustration that Leyden B posted above, is item J, the ring washer. I wondered if my old 1920's tires had them. I removed one of the bridge washers (item 𝙸 on the Schrader picture) from my 90-year-old tubes, looking for (item J) the ring washer, and this is what I found, compared to the modern bridge washer and tube they sell today, which has no ring washer. I think we need to use these. Somebody tell Coker. Outside diameter 0.93 inch, inside diameter 0.48 inch, thickness 0.15 inches on the outer ring but made of 3 rings, the inner ring thickness 0.08 and middle one 0.097 inch
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When did Buick have righty loosy lefty tighty? Sounds like Chrysler in the 60s
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