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Joe, thanks for the information. Is this boost pump in the tank a priming pump for the high pressure pump? Or is it running all the time supplying fuel to the high pressure pump? Food for thought if the low pressure hose is leaking because of age, I would replace all the fuel hose high pressure as well. Also; I worked for a auto manufacturer for 30+ years and at the time when the refiners switched from methanol fuel additive to ethanol ( by government order) we recalled cars that were 20+ years old to replace our rubber high pressure FI hose ( HYPREX "D") because ethanol eats this and all other hose up.

I love the first two movies. Topper and Topper takes a trip. Cosmo Topper: My wife objects to drinking. George Kerby: Then she shouldn't drink. Cosmo Topper: She doesn't. George Kerby: What's her objection? Hotel Manager: Perhaps you can explain the red on this cigarette. Cosmo Topper: Yes, I... cut my tongue when I was shaving this morning. Marion Kerby: Why don't you stop being a mummy for a few minutes and come to life? Of course, there's nothing wrong with being a mummy if you had any fun getting that way. Cosmo Topper: But I... I didn't, you see. Marion Kerby: No, I can tell that by the way you're staring at my knees. Marion Kerby: Let's go have some dinner. Cosmo Topper: Oh no, we cannot eat on an empty stomach! Marion Kerby: Then we better have a few drinks first! Casey: Can't you look where I'm goin'? Cosmo Topper: Clara, we used to play together once, and we could again. We could drive up to Lake Placid, just you and I. Stop at a roadhouse, dinner, and dance. Mrs. Topper: Drive in that? You're asking me to drive in a car that looks like a painted Jezebel. And drive it to a roadhouse? Why, it'd be like going to the opera in my night gown! Casey: What's wrong here? George Kerby: You are. Take a walk.

I guess, however Pontiac and other manufacturers refer the road draft system as a "Pressure Suction" crankcase devise even though there is little pressure from air from the engine fan.

That's true of the later sixes and straight eight's too because there is a groove to index the breather/air scoop, however if there is a will there is a way and some people put the breather on the filler neck any way they see fit. I once told a guy at a car show his was on backwards. When he tried to remove it , it took some doing to get it off. I have seen other Pontiac engines with the wrong breather that doesn't have the air scoop so there is no air pressure to the crankcase. In this picture you can see the fill neck with it's groove for the breather;

When you said; "I'm confident the crank case isn't getting pressurized" I said; The road draft crankcase ventilation system is a pressure/suction type

I hope your wrong. The road draft crankcase ventilation is the pressure/suction type. Pressure from the oil fill breather / suction from the road draft tube hung just below the chassis ( usually the tube is cut at a angle to help induce more low pressure suction some have a filter like Pontiac). What I find most alarming going to car shows and finding a old Pontiac flathead is two things. One, the breather cap and it's wire mesh are dirty and also disturbing is the "scoop" on the breather is pointing backwards and gets no air stream from the engine fan to pressurize the system. Also what is forgot while doing a oil change is cleaning the breather cap with it's wire mesh, and once it's clean filling it with 10W oil and letting it drain out, this oil film coats the wire mesh so dirt in the air will cling to it and not go into the engine. Cleaning the breather cap and road draft filter are part of every oil change and as the engine gets older it becomes more and more necessary because of more blow-by gasses happens with wear as a natural occurrence.

What you really need is a genuine service manual, However I have seen the relay behind the horns but that doesn't mean cars haven't been tampered with. Sure would be nice if you went back to 6 volts.

The VW air cooled engines also use a oil slinger. I have seen those turn around backwards...….What a mess!

When I was in my first year of college / trade school back 50+ years ago each student had to have a tool box with tools. The first things the instructors would do is inspect our boxes. Pipe wrenches, adjustable wrenches of any kind monkey wrenches etc. were forbidden. The motto was we were going to be professionals and every job uses the proper tool. God forbid a instructor find you using a screwdriver for a pry bar, or a drift. And oh yes, the first question on every written test was our instructors motto which had to be written to the letter. The motto was " Cleanliness is not next to Godliness, Cleanliness IS Godliness". This is especially true when working on a HydraMatic!

Since when was a Grease Monkey ever thought of as venerable??

Charles Moncky hoax The following story can be found in sundry publications from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Although this story was refuted by historical and patent research in the late nineteenth century, it appears to have been inspired by a real person. Charles Monk (not Moncky) lived in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in the 1880s where he made and sold moulder's tools, not mechanics' tools like a monkey wrench. He could not have invented or named the "monkey wrench" because he was born after the term, "monkey wrench", first appeared in print.

Allstate: 1926-1995 (Sears' divestment) Today, when people think of Allstate, they think of automobile insurance. Over the years, however, Sears used the Allstate brand name on a wide variety of products for the automobile, from spark plugs to rebuilt automobile engines. The Allstate brand began in 1925 as part of a national contest to name Sears' new brand of automobile tires. Public response in the contest was overwhelming. Before it was over, 937,886 people submitted a total of 2,253,746 names. Entries came from every state and in 25 different languages. Hans Simonson of Bismarck, N.D., received a $5,000 cash prize for his winning entry Allstate. In 1926, Sears adopted the trademark Allstate for initial use on automobile tires and tubes. The tires-guaranteed for 12,000 miles-quickly became big sellers in the catalog and at the new Sears, Roebuck and Co. retail stores (which first opened in 1925). Sears Chairman General Robert E. Wood credited the Allstate tire with making an important contribution to the success of Sears' retail store program. Sears formed the Allstate Insurance Company on April 17, 1931. Allstate offered low rates, available to customers through direct-mail sales (Sears catalogs) and through sales booths in Sears stores. Allstate eventually expanded into fire insurance. The highpoint for the Allstate brand came in the 1950s and 1960s, when the brand appeared on a wide range of products, including garage door openers, fire extinguishers, motor scooters and camper shells. During these years, before seatbelts, heaters, radios, and air conditioners became standard equipment on automobiles, Sears offered a complete line of these accessories under the Allstate brand. In 1952, Sears introduced the Allstate automobile. Built by the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, the Allstate automobile came in two models: The Standard ($1,395) and the Delux ($1,796) models came with a choice of optional four- or six-cylinder engines and a transmission overdrive. All automobiles came with a 90-day guarantee. As popular as the insurance and accessories were, however, few people wanted to buy an entire car with the Allstate name. Disappointing sales caused the Allstate automobile to disappear from Sears stores after 1953. By the end of the 1960s, Sears limited the Allstate brand name to insurance, tires, and automobile batteries. By the mid-1970s, Sears no longer used the Allstate brand on merchandise. In 1995, Allstate became completely independent after Sears divested its remaining shares to Sears' stockholders, ending the company's 70-year relationship with the brand it created.

First turn signals; They first appeared in the 1900s, when they were actuated either mechanically or pneumatically. In 1908, Alfredo Barrachini in Rome added electric lights inside the arms that turned on as they extended, but operation was still by a cable system. Electric operation came in 1918 when the Naillik Motor Signal Company of Boston added electric motor drive. This system was superseded by two French inventors, Gustave Deneef and Maurice Boisson, who used a linear solenoid in 1923. The final complete system came in 1927 when Berlin-based Max Ruhl and Ernst Neuman combined internal illumination and solenoid operation. The shape of the trafficator arm is closely based upon the shape of the semaphore arm signal used by the Royal Bavarian Railway beginning in 1890. The only difference from the railway arm is that it is halved down its length so as to fit flush with the vehicle's exterior. They were common on vehicles until the introduction of the flashing amber, red or white indicators at or near the corners of the vehicle (and often along the sides as well). They have been increasingly rare since the 1950s, as ever-tightening legislation has prescribed the need for the modern type of flashing signal. Many historic vehicles (e.g. pre-1960 Volkswagen Beetle sold outside the USA) that are used on today's roads have had their trafficators supplemented or replaced with modern indicators to aid visibility and to meet legislative requirements. Trafficators can now be fitted with flashing lights as an upgrade.

The metal panels fitted to the rockers are probably fiberglass, but if you look at many American cars of the 70's where 2/3 down from the doors the rest of the doors/fenders are canted in which exposes the fender, doors, rear quarter to all kinds of road debris kicked back from the tires, most of which are composed of rocks and pebbles which take the paint right off those panels. That was probably the inspiration for those things under the rockers.

By the owners own admission the car is illegal. The owner also said the vehicle is registered with the DMV as a non op. It's a non op because the owner knows if you change/tamper with the emission system he cannot pass emission testing and therefore can't register the car to drive on the road. In ca. and also with Federal emission laws it says you cannot tamper with emission controls. What did he do? You cannot change a EFI car to a carburetor, and while there is no picture of the engine/ engine compartment I bet I could find some other things that are missing.

It looks great, be sure and let the Early Times Chapter of POCI know about this, also it wouldn't hurt to post this in this forum's Pontiac section.

Great job and thanks for saying thanks to all of us.

It's not just a AM radio. It has two "M" push buttons = AM, Two "U" push buttons= FM, and one "L" push button = Long Wave. The "G" Series was produced 1958/1959 The one above is a G7 8550 Blaupunkt Radio Wave "Bands" AM/FM/LW/M/SW. The following is an explanation of the various wave "bands" found on Blaupunkt radios, both US versions and European versions. 1. US Band "AM" = Euro Band "AM", "M", or "Mittel" Frequency 520-1640 Khz, used for Commercial. 2. US Band "FM" = Euro Band "U", or "UKW" Frequency 87-104 MHz (87-108 US), used for Commercial. 3. US Band "LW" = Euro Band "L", "LW", or "Langwelle" Frequency 150-340 Khz, Commercial/Aviation/Weather. 4. US Band "MB" = Euro Band "MB", Frequency 2-2.8 Mgz, used for Marine. 5. US Band "SW" = Euro Band "K", or "Kurz" Frequency Various, used for Short Wave. As can be seem from the above, Blaupunkt radios came with one or more different frequency bands. The basic one-band radio came with the AM band. The next step was usually AM/FM. A common third band was LW (long wave) or SW (shortwave). In Europe, the LW band is for commercial broadcasts, however in the US, the LW band is used for aviation and weather broadcasts. European version radios are marked with the Euro band designators (M, U, L, MB or K), found on the push buttons.

What about the picture on # 8 thread I posted? About as good as your going to get. I suggest the service manual for even better detail. How about this?;

Great! now you are in business! They are great cars!

There were three types of air cleaners. The one with the muffler is a extra cost option. My Pop's 1950 Chieftain Deluxe that he bought new had one. Standard one is the one on the very bottom;

For the intake muffler there is a bracket underneath that attaches to a cylinder head bolt that has a threaded top for a nut to bolt onto.

In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, ATF contained whale oil as a Friction modifier. But since whale oil would break down at higher temperatures, cars produced in the 1970s and later would not be able to use whale oil because of the higher engine coolant temperatures employed to reduce emissions and save fuel. A moratorium on whale oil at that time prevented the continued production of older ATF such as the original DEXRON formulation (Type B), and the Type A which preceded it. Vintage Chrysler products (Dodge, Plymouth, etc.) used Type A fluid, which is generally difficult to obtain now. It turns out that Type A was basically a nearly 50/50 mix of Type F (Ford) and Dexron (GM), so if you have a pre-1990 Chrysler vehicle, you can mix Type F and Dexron to get a near-match for type A. General Motors began marketing Dexron II Type C and later Dexron II Type D to replace the fluids which were made from whale oil.

Another example for a legislator in a state that has no vehicle inspection to create one.

If they have a Chevrolet engine in them yep. Henry would probably say that if he were alive.