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Brian_Heil

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  1. Wishing you all the best Buick Brother! If it’s any consolation, my father had the exact same thing happen to him.
  2. What are your stem clearances? Think about adding felt washers to the stems.
  3. Never had an over voltage issue. Can’t help. My expert is Jason Smith who runs Automotive Electrical Rebuilders He does excellent work on all the early starters/generators/horns/motors
  4. Bloo, the 3rd brush is on an adjustable arched slide with a set screw to lock it in the position desired. The lowest I can get my 3rd brush 1923 to regulate to is ~8.5 amps down the road. I can adjust it up to 20 if needed. I run a halogen bulbed vintage spot light that consumes about 7 amps. Nice to have the added safety of a day time running lamp. It's quite bright. The remaining ~1.5 amps is tolerated by the battery well. My solution.
  5. Sharing another pic from last year’s event. Wayne Funk’s Model F in front of the Durant Dort Carriage Co. office on Water Street in Flint. We had a successful planning meeting this past Friday. Full speed ahead. Buicks on the Bricks!
  6. Dean Tryon did an in depth air/fuel study on early Buicks.
  7. A lifter bore center can also be slightly off center to the lobe center line to cause lifter rotation with both the lobe and lifter faces being flat. I'm not certain which (the above convex method or flat) Buick was using back then. Perhaps someone here knows. Measure. Are all the intake lobes identical? All the exhaust lobes identical? Measure all lifter faces. Flat? Convex? Same? Welcome to every engine rebuilder's dilemma. What caused the isolated issue? Are the others (whatever, you pick. Valve, lobe, lifter, spring, bearing ...) ready to fail next or not and if not what caused the issue found?
  8. Word to the wise on cam re-grinding If there is a case hardening done, as there often is, to the lobes when new. You need to make certain you have a similar case hardening hardness and depth of hardness after the re-grind.
  9. Where will tow rig and trailer parking be located? Thx!
  10. Exactly as I was taught. Watched a new guy melt a box wrench doing just this on the positive battery post nut when it swung and contacted the grounded frame. That wrench was as orange as a carrot.
  11. 21,845 domestic 4,294 export per Seventy Years of Buick
  12. Not sure everyone wants to arrive before 6:00 am in order to parade in on Saginaw Street. The good news is we will have reserved parking in the plaza lot next to Factory One. So arrive at your leisure and parade down Water Street to your reserved parking space.
  13. Check out the discussion on this topic at the link to the main post above. Just click on the main body of the picture.
  14. Looks like it could be the Tyska Buick. We are overdue to have an excuse to gather the early Buicks. The Buicks on the Bricks has its own dedicated area on Water Street with lots to offer as noted in the link at the top of this thread. Our early Buicks will have a special dedicated parking area. Letting us know you are coming will secure you a space there. Should anyone have a question, please don’t hesitate to PM me or ask it here so others can see the question and answer. Trailer parking for out of town guests can often be a headache or concern at a hotel. We have made arrangements for secure trailer parking offsite. This will also enable you to do more and stay longer. Come early and make it a multi day vacation by also visiting the GM Heritage Center, the Henry Ford, The Gilmore, Stahl’s, Frankenmuth and the Olds Museum to name a few. All within driving distance for a day trip to each. Some will agree the Henry Ford takes two to do it justice.
  15. I saw a 1923 Buick ‘Frankenstein’ with a modern Ford rear axle under it. The thing I remember is the axle lined up with the stock Buick rear spring perches.
  16. BCA Membership is not a requirement to participate in this free event.
  17. Just click on the pic to go to the main post.
  18. The 2024 featured Buicks will be Brass and Nickel era Buicks with several not often seen early Buicks brought out of storage by the GM Heritage Center and the Sloan Museum. Special early Buick history presentation by GM Historian Kevin Kirbitz and, Special Guest Speaker Bill McLaughlin of 1929 Buick and McLaughlin Buick fame will also give a presentation. Here's a great excuse to bring your early Buick to this event, have special marquee parking and enjoy great Buick hospitality!
  19. I respectfully disagree. Number of cylinders, compression ratio and the displacement of that ratio are directly proportional to current draw of the starter. Pull the rope on a lawn mower and then hand crank a high compression Cadillac V8 (if you could).
  20. A '68 Caddy would have a 472 cu in and 10.25:1 compression. My '23 Buick is ~half of both of those and two cylinders less. My knife switch has never gotten hot. Maybe by Buick starts quicker too?
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