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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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But not when you hit the floor starter pedal?
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Does the ammeter needle move when you hit the starter?
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I'm no expert but I think when they make these wheels, they heat the metal rim up to 600 degrees to expand it, then they put it around the assembled spokes quickly and let it cool so it compresses back down onto the spokes. I don't know how you'd go about doing that, seems like a job for a professional.
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Towing that way can be tricky if the tires are 40 years old and chunks of rubber are flying off
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Does your book list the 1918 E-49 brake parts? I'm going to head down to Midas this year and have them do my break job LOL. What book is that by the way?
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40 Buick special not charging battery
Morgan Wright replied to Business_As_Usual's topic in Buick - Pre War
There is always the chance it's just a bad battery.