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Is that 49 w truck front end a factory build? Thought Chev was still building wood-bodied wagons on passenger car chassis that year?

Oldsmobile: 1949- 88 convertible 1960- Ninety Eight convertible 1970- 442/Cutlass convertible 1972- Hurst/Olds convertible 1974- Hurst/Olds modified colonnade coupe 1977- Delta 88 modified coupe 1985- Cutlass Calais modified convertible 1988- W-body Cutlass Supreme convertible w turbocharged Quad4 1997 and 2000- Aurora 2001- Bravada 11 times is a pretty good showing.

PC, fooey. I've known enough Native folks to know they have a lot of wisdom, no matter how it's said. Some of these PC folks OTOH don't have sense enough to pour water out of their shoes that got left in the rain. I've seen hot water chokes, lot of Fords had them, but why would a carb have a hot water jacket around its mixing chamber? Was fuel atomization that iffy in those days?

And the Prince of Darkness reigns for ever and ever, as long as the people love their English cars... Why do the Brits drink their beer and ale at room temperature? Because they have Lucas refrigerators! Keith, that was an excellent post. Simple and concise, automotive electric 101 put in terms a layman should be able to understand. My vote for post of the day, or do we still have that?

A tank cleaning is in order. That musta been one hail of a bumpy RR crossing! I don't know enough about prewar cars to know if they have sock filters on the in-tank pickup tube.

That Burick is telling you it wants to be the one riding, instead of being the one ridden! Can you hear the electric pump running? Sounds like you may have taken a hard bump and jostled something loose. Ignition/fp wiring, crud in fuel tank, a stuck carb float all come to mind. And as you have found, old car people are always willing to stop and help another old car.

Just curious if the packaging says Western Auto anywhere, as Wizard was one of their brand names. I'm accumulating WA Wizard hand tools as I find them.

I well remember 9/11. I had a rare day off and had promised a young friend I'd help him detail his car. I was in the shower and he was watching TV when he started beating the bathroom door and hollering come out. I came out just in time to see the 2nd plane hit. Told him we might have to postpone the detail as I was probably gonna get called back in to work. Ten minutes later I got the call. I've been watching some of the documentaries on AHC tonight and the rage I felt 19 years ago is still with me. I was taught to not hate, but when fanatical fundamentalism does something like what happened Sept 11 2001, it is nearly impossible not to. It's why I think hatred-based extreme faiths need to be squashed. You do not murder nearly 3000 people, plus later casualties as a result of the mayhem, and expect a reward except in a perverted version of faith. My own Episcopalian faith was sorely tested that day. Bin laden should never have received a religious funeral. The head should have been severed and the body tossed to the sharks. And I fully expect this post to be censored, so read quick.

No apology needed. Psychopaths like that do not deserve to live. Cut the head off, throw the body in the fires since he likes it so much.

Every year around this anniversary I hope and pray evil people won't give us a repeat performance. This year with everyone being already beat down by the plague, I'm really afraid. Hope it's baseless. What I see and hear every day has convinced me anarchists are here, intent on doing away with civilisation. They want no laws or law enforcement, and to be able to do as they please with impunity and no fear of consequences. That is not how a civilised world works. I'm sure they'd see us and our love of old cars and other historic things as a problem to be eliminated and destroyed at all costs. Kyrie, eleison.

Oh, lord, this boy is thinking evil thoughts... Ryan, any chance you're thinking of engineering in college? I think you have the mindset for it. There was a VW Bug here years ago that had a BBC mounted amidships and I think had a Toronado drivetrain. Everyone said the thing was gonna kill its owner, but what got him was the ultralight aircraft he built, powered by the VW boxer he took out of the Bug. Ryan, if you go V8 'Vair, a Toro/Eldorado transmission might be an option. They're hard to kill.

If space is a concern a lot of 70s-80s carbureted Fords use a small diameter inline metal filter that should work well in the wheel well location the guys have suggested.

Please don't put that leak looking for a place to happen on your car. Get a simple clear plastic to start, then later go to a metal body filter. Those 3-piece glass and chrome potmetal filters ought to be illegal. One overtighten and you have a chip or crack that creates an air in-leak on pump suction or worse a fuel leak near a hot engine.

Right you are Jack! TCM and FXM are adjacent channels on my DTV and they both show older films, so yah I get 'em mixed up sometimes. Turns out the Dodge wagon is a hardtop wagon, and an Imperial shows up in a couple scenes too as John McGiver's car.

TCM currently showing 1962 "Mr Hobbs Takes A Vacation" with the dynamite comic combination of Jimmy Stewart and Maureen O'Hara. They're driving a 1960 Dodge wagon, and their daughter and SIL driving a kinda shabby 50 or 51 Country Squire. Watching Stewart fight with that gas engine driven water pump is hilarious.

After Padgett said that, I had to go look. The 'Vairs with four barrels were very interesting. Then I found one with SIX carbs, idling at 500rpm and muttering, that snapped the tach from idle to 5k like immediately!🤯 I was impressed. Young Ryan- stuff like that is why 17yo should not look at car porn sites!

With all the protests and unrest in Oregon it's easy for us in the East to numb ourselves to it. Then the fires start, we realise we have old car forum friends there and in danger, and the numbness and indifference goes away. I don't often cry, but the coverage on today's noon news nearly brought me to tears. I cannot imagine living in such apocalyptic conditions. We all know the wildfires are a natural cycle and nature's way of cleaning up for new growth. But if any of those fires were intentionally set, that's a mark of a true psychopath.

Ryan. While you're checking points etc, look close at the inside of the distributor cap, making sure it's clean, no cracks and no carbon tracks. Remove and wash in hot soapy water if you see anything questionable. A hairdryer will dry it out good before reinstalling. Mark the spark plug cables and firing order before you take it apart to make reinstallation easy. Check the plug cables with an ohmmeter while you're in there; more than 15,000 ohms resistance per foot of length is stretching things with points ignition (and you're increasing your skillset 😎). Then, since you say it's doing this after it heats up, the ignition coil is also suspect as Locomobile mentioned esp if it's the 55 year old original. It can be tested with the ohmmeter. I'm guessing Corvair uses a regular GM 12v external-resistance coil? John or Padgett?

No, but all Rochester carbs after early 50s had that design fuel filter inlet housing, whether it was paper element, sintered bronze or in case of 4GC, a fine mesh brass screen. I think where Padgett was going is the spring, if equipped, is needed to keep the filter element tight against the filter housing so it doesn't bypass fuel. I bought a reman QJet thru Holley's ProShop years ago. I tore it down for clean/rebuild in late 2017 and found two things that surprised and irked me. Although the inlet spring was there, they had put the short paper filter in a LONG filter housing. No way was that filter not bypassing. I'm convinced the suction side filter kept that carb functioning all those years. 2nd thing was I had specified an electric choke as my choke heat tube was toast. That choke never worked well no matter how I set it and in subfreezing temps would never kick off fast idle, after 30 miles or more of driving. Teardown revealed HPS had put an electric choke coil for a 2GC on it, which works opposite the way one for a QJet does. Put the correct choke coil on it and after 17 yrs of half working, that engine cold-started the way it should. 'Course shortly after, the rear end took a dump...

A trick I learned from a GM Zone service manager was, once you got new filters installed at the carb inlet, put an inline filter on suction side of the fuel pump. Catches crud before it gets to the carb filter so those last much longer, and doesn't affect fuel delivery in normal driving. Less you're boogering around with those carb filter inlet housings, less chance of messing up threads and having a leak or worse a ruined carburetor. I use clear plastic ones so I can do visual on them, and they stay full of fuel so I don't worry about starvation. And I'm lucky enough to have never had one plug on me!

Not at all, young friend. A 1" open-end wrench and a correct-size line wrench (aka flare wrench) makes this a reasonably simple job. Just don't crossthread the fittings or overtighten the filter housing in the pot metal carb, and you'll do fine. You're at the right age to start accumulating tools. Swap meets and flea markets are a good place to find quality tools for not much money. I'm perfectly happy using a well-cared-for older tool, esp if it says MADE IN USA on it! You still got that Riv, bud? For a 17yo you have awesome taste in cars!

Check with the Hurst/Olds Club of America www.hurstolds.com . They have a lot of documentation on the Oldsmobile Pace Cars though I don't think they go as far back as years you're trying to document.

I'm not familiar with Buick factory service manuals, but if they are like Oldsmobile, fuel line routing drawings should be in it.

One unasked and unanswered question here. Has any previous owner "upgraded" this car to 12v electrics? And with cut and dangling wires behind the dash and negative grounding, sounds like someone has. My advice? Get an accurate wiring diagram and, if it's available, a NEW REPRODUCTION wiring harness. It may save the car and garage from burning. I like doing wiring repair, but I hate correcting somebody else's cobbled-up and half-assed mess.

Did anyone come up with the instructions? Inquiring minds want to know! Hope it doesn't turn out like my search for a Kenwood receiver schematic. The thing was a one-year offering in late 1980s and KW apparently didn't support it for very long. If you can find out who made the analyzer for Balkamp there's bound to be a manual out there somewhere.