Brian_Heil

Can we get 0.012?

Reading it and doing nothing and not reading it and doing nothing give the same result. The weak hide behind the former in hopes of being taken for the latter. They’re reading.

Thank you for having made that offer to the Board Bernie. More interesting background. if you think about it, the Board could have made a motion and voted to accept your kind offer and have a free recognition program but instead voted to cancel what could have been a free program. Perhaps some of those who voted no will reconsider at a future meeting.

A leaking heat riser tube would be diluting the charge with inert exhaust gas. I know you checked it for rust holes but could it be leaking in some other way? And I’m sorry to disagree (still) with all the comments about fuel starvation. When you lack fuel, for whatever reason, and open the throttle, the excess air/oxygen since there is not enough fuel present to consume it causes an immediate lean mixture and a lean mixture pops and bucks. It does not provide smooth weak power. And I still think # 1 and 2 plugs are trying to tell you something as well.

Thank you gentlemen for the background information. Perhaps I should not have used the word ‘logic’ in my initial post. Someone was kind enough to send me a recent HCCA article on their Century Plaque Program. 1,898 Recognitions presented to date. Seems the HCCA is capitalizing on the concept, growing engagement, making members happy. Why they don’t even require membership. They use it as a recruitment tool. Logical.

Or set everything to 0.012 and go find a hill?😁

If you have yet to touch the lash, can you repeat this, get the no hot re-start and quickly run a compression test?

So 4 years of which 2 of the 4 Meets got cancelled. Not much of a trial in my opinion.

What year did it start Larry?

Can anyone shed some logic on why this award and recognition was cancelled after only a couple years? It was my understanding it was to encourage the participation of 100+ year old Buicks at National Meets. A great idea in my opinion. Thx! Signed, Befuddled in Flint

For Sale My new badge thingy Right up there by my name No low ball offers please I know what I have here, well actually, no, I don’t, but I think you need it, well somebody thinks you need it

Flat ground you don’t miss the two that are loafing.

So what’s going on with #s 1 and 2? I’d look from cap to plug and everything in between. Those two are not pulling their weight. On the hill you may only be getting power from the other 4.

Well so much for Dr Heil……

Could also be wrong float level or float hung up that don’t allow enough fuel. But again I think the leaness would pop and buck.

My experience with fuel delivery issues is the carburetor opens for the grade but extra fuel is not metered to match due to a restriction somewhere, but here’s the catch, when I’ve experienced this, the resultant lean mixture pops and bucks. Larry is just seeing a lack of power. Also when I had the burned valves, I had difficulties starting. I also had a cracked cap drive me nuts with all sorts of interesting issues based on temperature and humidity. just my 2 cents.

Compression check data? I had 3 burned exhaust valves and experienced something similar.

Set you a PM

Said the man who sold me the Duplex tire mount contraption I now own. LOL.

Speaking of round rims. Be careful if you have/ use a rim spreader to get a split rim ends back lining up/together. You can egg shape a good rim very easily. The trick is a slight advance on the spreader and then tap all around the rim with a mallet so the load of the spreader is equalized to the friction of the tube and tire on the rim. Things need to slide and stretch 360 degrees around. A little more spreader, a little more tapping. Be as gentle as you can be. Baking soda or baby powder on the tube is a must. Talc is off the market now.

I have a Duplex like the top pic Hugh posted. I can get it to work on my 1923 Model 45 but to do so it’s at a goofy clocked position. Not straight up and down. If I was going on a safari I could make it work. I did a 1485 mile circle tour of Lake Michigan solo and never had a single issue with anything but brought my rim spreader just in case and just the single spare. I’ve had two flats in 25 years where I’ve had to use the single spare. One was a pinched tube that took a year to fail the other was a year or two ago where I ran over a bolt as long as your pinky. The car started to hop. That darn bolt was so big, it made two holes in the tube one on the tread side going in and another on the other side leaving the tube. Patched the entry hole but couldn’t figure out why it still leaked. Never saw that before.

One of the first issues I had with my 1923 Model 45 25 years ago was throwing the leather fan belt. I was on a rainy tour and the leather belt had stretched and was as slick as well, wet leather. My guess was the belt was older than me. I went into a local auto parts store with the old belt and picked out a modern ‘rubber’ serpentine belt about an inch wide off the wall that was just a tad smaller. Put in on the car with the grooves out, set the tension spring and that was 25+ years and 40,000+ miles ago. No idea the part number as I’ve worn the printing off the smooth side years ago. Don’t be hung up that you can’t find a modern belt as wide as the pulley. The modern inch wide belt is strong enough to be used as a tow strap.

This ‘action’ and the posts regarding it, made my day. Unbelievable.

If you don’t fill all the old holes about half of your new tacks find an old hold and don’t hold.