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MacGyver used an innertube to raise a car he we trapped under. If it worked for him I'm sure it will work for you.

Bumping this to the top for my own selfish reasons. 7

I asked a question in a thread started by someone else and they kindly gave me a detailed answer ripe with information that I now need. I do not know the name of the OP. I was trying to look it up under my own posts but I was not successful. How can I search for my old replies from 2-3 years ago?

Thank you for posting, that is a fantastic resource. I can't believe I've never run across it before.

I have to agree that it doesn't always make sense to change something that is working. But cordless tools have reached the point where they work as well as corded, and I would never try to talk someone out of buying new tools. Makita is the only power tool company that is still who they say they are. All the others have been bought and sold so many times that nothing of the original company exists. I work in the tool retail industry and what it means to us it that Makita has far and away the best customer support. We send a tool back to their repair center and it's usually back to us within two weeks, most of the time free of charge. The company rep is available and responsive. We easily sell 100 Makita 36 volt framing saws for every 1 corded Skil wormdrive. Milwaukee is the worst for service. They are closely affiliated with Home Depot, so if you're not Home Depot you're SOL. But a lot of guys do like their tools. All the others are somewhere in between.

That is a beautiful car and the good photos have been very helpful.

My son and I rode our bicycles to a vacant lot we were working on. Upon arrival he had a flat tire. There was a heavy hemp rope looped around a fence post so he cut it to length and wrapped it inside the tire. Got him back home. Sometimes it's hack, sometimes it's necessity.

Thank you gentlemen.

The manual is a little vague about the arrangement of internal parts, this is a pretty good guess.

It was manufactured in Kansas City and spent most of it's life in Kansas. I bought it in Denver but it hadn't been there long. No indication that it lived anywhere other than Kansas. In addition to dismantling what appears to have been a perfectly good car, someone rattle canned the entire frame and suspension, linkages, parking brake cable, etc, so I ended up having the frame painted. The transmission was finished about a week ago. The engine is the original to the car and has standard pistons so I assume it's still a 364. It was changed over to the larger 401 valves at some point before I got it. It was reassembled with lithium grease and was almost seized from the hard grease on the connecting rods. It took a month of soaking and cleaning in warm ATF to get the rods freed up. If you look at the engine in the back (not the Jaguar straight 6) the oil filter housing and oil filler caps were the color that is now on the valve covers, it appears the original color is what the valve covers are currently. The block color was added at the rebuild. I know Buick engine colors is a popular debate topic. It came with a trunk full of parts that I am starting to sort through.

Three years later it looks like this. The exhaust system was missing and I could use pictures of the hangers, especially above the rear axle. And I need to know if I have the intemediate rod set up correctly before I install it.

I bought this car in 2019 as a project that had been started many years ago and then abandoned. It was straight, rust free and partially disassembled. Three years later I'm making some real headway on it and that is where I'm going to need some help. Some parts were missing, some parts from other cars were included, and some things were reassembled incorrectly. I'm not good at keeping up with a thread so additions will be spotty. November 2019:

What color is this? Is it an original color for 57? I might have to use something similar.

I'd love to pick this up minus the engine and transmission, for maybe 25% of the asking price. Neat looking car.

(picture wouldn't post, I'll make another attempt later) Finally got the engine mounts and transmission mount cleaned up and they are plated in what appears to be brass. First thought is to prevent ferrous metal contact on the engine. Not sure if that makes any sense. And, were these mounts painted originally?

Hometown Buick has the interactive color chart but it loses something in the translation, none of the colors actually look as they would in the real world. I'll take a look at the color charts and see if they match up.

I mean the Buick technical name, assuming they're factory colors. And the color number if anyone has it.

They are not. The bump stops fit in a little dish on the A arm. The bars were in the same bag with the stops leads me to think they're related but I sure can't find anything.

You're thinking of McDonald's in Detroit.

This will become a recurring feature. I bought a 1957 Buick Special in pieces and now it's going back together. The first are these two bars. They were in the bag with the lower A arm bumper so I assume they're part of the front suspension.

One of my cousins walked in on two kids trying to steal his truck. He works as a personal bodyguard for Fortune 500 executives. The kids didn't get the truck. I'd like to hear the story but he doesn't talk about his work.

Popping this back to the top, hoping to have the front end back together in the next few days.

Wanted to make sure all the internals are in the right order before it goes back together. And is there a source for replacement metal dust covers? Mine are are slightly irregular.

How do these scams work? I always assumed they would request a deposit to hold it. There was a Mercedes for sale locally that was obviously a scam so I was curious how it worked. I contacted the guy and he said the car had been moved out of state but there was no request for a deposit. I replied in some vague fashion that I liked the car, expecting "I'll hold it for $500," or something like that, but he never got back to me. But this is still a gorgeous car.