Larry Schramm

Took the '13 out for a drive today on Mothers day with my bride. It was a beautiful day. The offspring were over earlier for brunch with us. Had to stop and get some gas.

Dipping the parts to paint them had a bigger plus and that was to reduce paint emissions when drying, along with no overspray which would be wasted. Current body painting in the assembly plants uses an electrostatic method where the vehicle body is charged maybe as a ground and the paint gun a positive so the the paint as exiting the paint gun is attracted to the vehicle body. This also reduces overspray. I do not remember which is pos/neg body to paint gun so it could be opposite. Currently I would guess that all vehicle assembly plants use water based solvent paints to reduce emissions.

The reason that the manufacturers went to 12 volt to 6 volt is because the wire sizes could be smaller which saves on the cost of copper in the wiring. Period. Look at the size of starter cables between a 6 volt system and a 12 volt system as an example. Crappy wiring be it 6 volt or 12 volt is still crappy wiring. Fix the problem, not the symptom. Some of the things that can be done is to check all of the terminals to ensure the mechanical connection is clean & tight, solder the terminals to the terminal, and be sure there is no areas with damaged insulation. If you try to solder an old terminal to the wire and you can not solder it chances are that the mechanical connection is bad. Replace the terminal and you will have clean wire and terminal that you can solder. Soldering fixes a myriad of ills including bad crimps, etc.. Bad crimps can result in high resistance in the connection which causes things to not work right. That is why I recommend soldering any questionable connections.

Take another picture of the remains and lets see where you are. I still believe that some heat and a correct size of vice-grip would be the answer to your problem unless the remains are broken off at the block.

Cool car. Time to run the wheels off of it so you can learn about putting new tires on an old car. We are here to help and answer any questions you might have.

No, they just looked at it and said OK. Inside and outside are now galvanized. PS: it was bone dry, no gas fumes.

Welcome to the Horsless Carriage world. Join the HCCA and the AACA if you have not already done so. Lots of help in both places.

I have trailered our brass cars (1915 & back) tens of thousands of miles and never had a problem other that the straps might become a little loose going over some rough road. Just retighten.

I took the tank for my 1915 truck and had it hot zinc dipped - galvanized a number of years ago. Still looks good inside and out. That is the only way that I would coat a tank.

Did you heat the block 90 degrees in the area of the gauge prior to trying to remove it?

The correct information on GM transmission fluid is that you can use anything that is newer type of fluid, but you can not use the older fluid. That was the specification criteria. For type A fluid transmissions and at the time power steering units you could use type A, but Type A can not be used on any newer vehicles. That means for example if your vehicle says to use Dexron 4, you can not use Dexron 3 and smaller number Dexron including Type A. Back use of a higher number than the unit calls for fine. You can use all the way up to Dexron 6 in your vehicle and you should be fine provided the transmission is in good condition.

Better?

I would put the Buick at 1917/18 4 cylinder D-35 or E-35. Can not tell for sure because the fenders are not visible.

When I taught automotive classes I told my high school students that the most important system on a vehicle are the brakes because if you can not get it started you can not get into trouble, but.. if you can not stop you are in trouble.

AAhha Walt. a 1931 is a new car. My wife and I have driven our 1913 Buick & 1915 Buick truck for hours in rain from everything from a drizzle to a down pour. That is really experiencing the car as designed and driven in the day. This was during a tour last month.

Might want to buy the book "Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands. How to do business in more than 60 countries" and read the chapters for the countries you will be visiting. Good general book. Not perfect but will give you a good understanding on manners, customs, etc.. 80%er. I made it a required book for my International Business Classes when I taught at the local university. All of the students had to make a presentation to the class on usually two of the countries.

That is true, but if you bump by accident the warford or ruxtel out of gear, no brakes. You do not stop until you coast to a stop or hit something. Remember that the brakes for the T is inside the transmission.

If you want to see a lot of vehicles, go to the Old Car Festival at Greenfield Village/ Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Museum. Put Sept 7 & 8th on your calendar. There will be between 500-700 vehicles 1932 and older with lots of vehicles in the Horseless Carriage era, 1915 & older. This is the one time that private individuals can drive their cars through the village so you will be able to see the old cars being driven. You will be able to talk to the owners about their vehicles and learn more. Click on the link. https://www.thehenryford.org/current-events/calendar/old-car-festival/ Look me up, I will be there with the Buick truck.

Was there today. Good to see a lot of people I knew and picked up a few things that I was looking for.

Absolutely true. They have a 10 year life design.

I had a small utility trailer that I had full of miscellaneous car parts and car related stuff that I had cleaned out the garage and other storage areas. After a couple of swap meets I marked almost everything between $1-$5.00. After selling only one item at the last swap meet I took the trailer home and with a friend sorted the trailer into four piles. The first pile consisted of the 2 or 3 items that I kept. The next pile was stuff that I gave to my friend that sells on ebay that he thought he might be able to sell. The next two piles was the scrap metal pile and the other pile went to trash. I figured that if I could not sell it at $1, it was not worth much or there was a lot of that item out there and my time was worth more than that. I now had the use of my trailer back.

Depends on equipment like a Warford transmission or a Ruxtel rear axle, etc.. And your priorities. There are reasons they are available as an accessory.

If I had this problem, I would add some heat to the engine block in about the area of the sending unit remains, not on the remains and then use some vice grips to gently work it out with back and forth motion moving it counter clockwise slowly.

Where are you located?

The original Buick at the top of the article on the right with Marr & Buick on the car has been lost to history....but there is an exact replica with an original period engine at the Sloan Museum in Flint. https://sloanlongway.org/1904-buick-reconstruction/