Larry Schramm

WELCOME TO MICHIGAN!! Home of some of the greatest car shows and the biggest cruise in the world, The Woodward Dream Cruise. Where did you move to? If you are in the Detroit area, give me a call and we can have lunch. Larry

Now that does not make any sense... but that is what I use to get the rear wheeles off my vehicles and George made the puller for my truck. Another way that you might get the rear wheels off is to loosen the rear axle nuts at the wheels and leave about 1/8 of an inch clearance between the nut and the wheel. Then go out and drive the car in circle 8's. Should have a chance of them breaking loose. Good luck.

I keep two in the garage. A dry chemical and a CO2 and have used the dry chemical once. Great investment in common sense!!

I must say that the visit Joyce and I had with Marty & Dale was extremely pleasant. We had a great discussion on cars and travels. They were very gracious hosts to the city and showed us around the local sites which was greatly appreciated. Thanks so much to them both. The rest of the trip was uneventful which meant it went great.

Looks like a great truck project to me.

The chart that JENZ38 put up is great. The operative question on AC 46 spark plugs or AC R46 plugs is the R46 plugs has a resistor material inside of the spark plug insulator that was used to help reduce ignition noise in radios, etc. Both plugs in my opinion can be used interchangeably. They are both the same size and heat range. For plugs with an S after the number, the chart says extended tip. This is easy to see because those of us that have been around spark plug manufacturing call it a skirted plug. If you look at the area below the threaded portion, there is a smooth land that extends from the end of the threaded area to the end of the spark plug shell. If the number of the spark plugs are the same, the heat range is the same. Just a little more reach. On the comment about having AC-46 plugs in their car and they got some AC-48 & AC-49C plugs, these are plugs that run hotter. If you compare the tips by looking from the bottom electrode area, the higher the number the skinner the insulator around the electrode, therefore the hotter plug. The C after the number indicates that it was a "commercial" sparkplug. In the older days if you had a car/truck that was burning a fair amount of oil and fouling a sparkplug, you could put a hotter plug in that cylinder or maybe the whole engine to nurse it along until it was either overhauled or disposed of. So if the car had a regular AC-45 plug and over time it started to foul out the plugs, you could put in an AC-46, or AC-47 plug in depending on how much the plugs were oil fouling out.

I was a Buick service rep in the early 80's and looked a lot of Buicks and I never remember seeing one of those on a car... I do not think it is factory.

Very similar to locks used all the way through 1969 Corvairs for the spare tire.

I agree with Joe on ECM's usually not being the problem. I know of some that were built with cold solder joints that could fail over time, but those are the exceptions and those problems happened years ago. You can usually find that problem by GENTLY TAPPING the ECM with the palm of your hand and if the car stumbles or stops, then it is probably the ECM. Other than that, new software programming usually changes some fuel/air parameters for performance or emissions.

Does it have aftermarket A/C? I do not ever remember seeing that on an original car...

With the flat fenders, I would agree to 16- early 17 Buick

The films said that the lumber came from Michigan's Upper Pensilula.

Ran across this thread. What a fabulous car and interesting build article.

Does not look like anything that I have seen on a factory vehicle. Might be some sort of aftermarket product like a theft deterrent ???? Just guessing.

I can attest to Marks comments on using wine corks and super glue. Did it on my truck and it works great and it is not that hard to do. This is especially true if you have a floor model belt sander.

From memory, the car that really put the coolant resevoir tanks into prime time was the Chevrolet Vega. It was very sensitive to low coolant. I believe that that was the car that helped to make the pressurized cooling systems with the overflow tank standard on all cars.

So true. I tried to sell two Corvair stationwagons for parts for just the price above scrap and could not sell them. (they were not in good condition) The are now gone and sold for scrap. Needed the room.

I would just get it myself. This is an afternoon job that can be done on your own time schedule. Just my opinion.

Keiser, You are truly amazing. Thanks Larry

Got this from a friend. Any ideas?

Kris Kringle?

Gil, You have me attention. Can you say more about when and where? Multiple work assignments so would need to look to schedule? Larry

Cool......."-) :cool:

Or new cars :-)

I am not interested in this at all. This is another step in Orwell's 1984 coming to fruition.