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there are 4 pieces of molding on a 1948 76c door and these pieces also fit the 56c door. The also fit 1947 and I believe 1946. One is a triangular shaped stainless that is mid door. then on top of the door is the 2 piece belt trim. One is "U" shaped and is chromed another being half round stainless. The last is a skinny odly bent chrome piece that sort of looks like an old walking stick and fits inside the door. I need the left and right side chrome walking stick and the left side "U" shaped chrome
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My mistake on one thing here. That steel line is not 5/16inch. It is 1/4 inch.
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that line is made of 5/16 steel line from the vacuum pump to the rear of the engine then rubber line straight up to the wiper motor. The steel line is esentally brake line with the brake line flare fitting going into the pump and open ended to accept the rubber vacuum line at the rear of engine. This steel line goes behind the distributer and hooks on to some clips attached to the engine valve cover on the side of the engine. A few bends are required to make it fit tight against the engine cover. hope this helps
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I am thinking the problem with starting has nothing to do with your brake repair. The loud noise while jacking is common with a floor jack. The jack sometime has to adjust itself to the frame with a pop sound as the car weight is put into it or maybe your coil spring slid a bit as you tilted the car off to one side.... I am thinking your problem simply picked this particular time to show itself to you. First make sure the battery is suffient. If ok, then get into the starting system. Lets hope it isnt a seized engine which is unlikely but you can check it anyhow by manually turning the engine a little.
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call Jon at the number above. He can supply you with what you need to help you make a decission on the car.
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A fun car for a reasonable price
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a good hat showing the work it has done is always nice to see but some info if one wants to get grease out of pants ECT is to fill a spray bottle with Super Clean and spray the greasy parts of the cloths as they go into the washing machine. Most excellent degreaser. Super Clean is available at Walmart among other places. Works good on car parts and washing very dirty engines to. As a precaution tho, don't get it on your hands. your skin will be pealing the next day.
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the vacuum switch may not have been faulty. You mentioned "putting the throttle to the floor" If that is when your starter engages your problem lies in the cut out system from the voltage regulator that should hold the relay from engaging the starter when your vacuum switch runs out of manifold vacuum and tries to engage starter because of the open throttle. Keep in mind that the diaphram in the switch uses vacuum to hold the contacts apart. When you floor the throttle the lack of vacuum engages the points.
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Only thing better than a "well broken-in" hat is a "well greased - well broken-in" hat. Good pictures :-)
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I forgot to list the price. $30,000 or best reasonable offer.
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Car has been correctly and acurately restored. Body style is a Toy Tonneau. Color is Buick ivory and Buick Royal blue. Titled. Contact Jon Henry who is selling it for the owner. 508 245 9093
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The gen-reg charging system is a simple system. Do the before mentioned field check and determin if the problem is the generator or the regulator. 99% of the time it is one of these two and almost always it is the generator and almost always it is the brushes in the generator being either hung up or worn down. Changing brushes is an easy "common sense" job. Give it a try.
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I went with the Hawaii blue and it is coming along nicely. It takes a lot of paint to do a 47 Roadmaster convertible. I bought 2 gallons of base coat and it looks like when I am all done painting I won't have to much left over. I wouls like to post a few pictures of the car but I can't seem to get this computer to load pictures on this forum. Wish I could .
Royal maroon is a very pretty color and I am sure Sconners will like his 50 Buick done in it. PPG paints have a big library of paint color formulars the dealers can access. Royal Maroon is a popular Buick color and I am sure PPG can mix it
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before I bought all my 47 buick paint I ordered pints of both calvert blue and I think Hawaii blue both being 47 Buick colors. I sprayed a part of a door with both and asked for family and friend opinions. I got pleanty of opinion then went with what I prefered. It is a good way of actually seeing what the color lookes like.
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every once in a while we hear about a person being killed by a car falling on them. unlevel floor, cement blocks are 2 big dangers. nevr ever use cement blocks. not made to hold the weight and do an instant cave in with no warning while one is under the car. If the ground is not level you have to shim under one end of the jack stand with plywood to make the stand go straight up and down. I have seen cars on slanted stands suddenly decide to roll the stand over in the direction they lean.
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it would be nice to see a price in this forum Joe. Sounds like a nice car.
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The master cyl is on the firewall so gravity bleeding might work but I have found that more times than not the system won't bleed out this way. Best way would be to buy a cheap suction bleeding tool but a one time job can be also done easily the way I discribed
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I am guessing to, that your problem is grounding. You can test it using a jumper wire with alligator clips on both ends.I gave my 47 Roadmasters front parking lights it's own ground wire. Drilled into the light housing and sheetmetal screwed in a wire and carried it over to the frame making sure the wire has a good clean connection. Yes, for the most part the 47 and 48 wiring diagrams are the same.
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before you put those new wheel cylinders on you have to purge the brake lines of all the old fluid. It is contaminated if your seeing rusty water in the cylinder boot. One way to purge the system is to have a person push the brake pedal to the floor while you have one cylinder removed. When the pedal is on the floor put your thumb over the end of the line before he lets up on the pedal. That will suck the fluid into the system from the master cyl resevoir. do this several time till you see new clear fluid coming thru the line. Make sure Mastercyl resevour don't go empty or you will be pushing air into the lines. Repeat on each wheel cyl junction you plan to replace.
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once in a while a good one comes up on ebay.
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What I mean't by "engine color" was refering to the "Chevy Orange and Ford Blue by Duplicolor" you previously mentioned. I know the turquoise is the buick engine color
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that would be engine colors Bill ?
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The instruments in the dash will tell if it is a 48 or and older car. The speedometer, clock and guages all had a bronze color background in 46 and 47 and changed to black background in 48. I am guessing it is a 46 based on the 46 firewall tag that appears to have the origional rivits and, based on the fender script "Super", the car had a 48 nose put on it sometime in it's life.
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I am guessing the fuel tank is free of the corrosion being that is it made of steel. The fuel pump is aluminum and most likely corrosion from that aluminum is the reason for all that "white stuff". Maybe all of us should start to wonder if our fuel pumps are secretly corroding away inside from the acahol gasoline where we can't see it happening?
57 Buick Starter Problems
in Buick - Post War
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If the starter works good when cold and fails you when the engine is warm it is a sure sign that the starter bushings are very worn and the armature is dragging on the fields. The clearance is very close between the armature and fields in order for it all to work. Heat expands these parts and the worn bushings allow for draging together of these parts after the car has got up to temp. A starter dissasembly will tell you if the problem exists. Both the fields and the armature will be bright shinny metal caused from the 2 parts dragging together. A good starter rebuilder can fix it right up for you