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J Franklin, thanks. I'll give them a call on Monday

I'm in Silver Spring Maryland, but I don't want to be limited by that. I can send the parts anywhere in the lower 48. Dave

Hello all, I'm looking for a shop that will pour new babbitt bearings on the con rods for my four cylinder Ford Y. The babbitt metal is coming off in chunks. It's a small car with a tiny engine, 933cc. The crank journals are nominally 1.499". (I told you it was small, ha!) These have a little wear on them so about 15 thou less. As I said I'm looking a shop that can do this job. Thanks, Dave

Thanks everyone for the good information. And thank you Wayne for the heads up regarding the brass plated steel rivets. That sounds like an important thing to know ahead of the job rather than later on riding down the road. Thanks again guys, Dave

Hi all, I'm putting new brake linings on the brake bands of my 28 Buick and I'm looking for suppliers of brake rivets. Any help is appreciated. Dave

Hi all, I'm looking for one 700 15 BF Goodrich Wide whitewall tire in good or better usable condition. Dimensions: rim size 15", outside diameter 29", tread width 5 1/8", WW width 4 1/8" I'm currently running two good ones, one almost new one and one with the wear bars showing. The venders are all back-ordered indefinitely. I'd hate to have to buy a whole new set. Anything out there? Dave

Hi all, I'm looking for one 700 15 BF Goodrich Wide whitewall tire in good or better usable condition. Dimensions: rim size 15", outside diameter 29", tread width 5 1/8", WW width 4 1/8" I'm currently running two good ones, one almost new one and one with the wear bars showing. The venders are all back-ordered indefinitely. I'd hate to have to buy a whole new set. Anything out there? Dave

JimmyG, While you have the windshield out it would be a good time to replace the flat plate glass with safety glass. Your insurance company will appreciate it, not to mention your family. Cheers, Dave

Denny, Grimy has the method. If your car has wood spoke wheels with a split rim and tire there is a counter weight on the wheel to compensate for the weight of the split rim latching mechanism. So, it has to be balanced as a unit, tire, rim and wheel. You also may have to back off the brakes so the wheel spins freely. Dave

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Location is important too.

Lookin' good. So how does it run? Dave

Rod, Here is someone else's idea. Maybe this is what you're thinking? Dave

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Here are a few pictures of a car I'm working on. I flipped the intake and set up the carburetor linkage. This is a popular way of setting up the linkage. The carb is a Carter BB1 bolted directly to the manifold without an adapter. I picked up the air filter at Hershey last year. I think it is a Plymouth or a Chevy. If anyone recognizes it please chime in.

Did you try Dave Tachney? He might have a transmission. Call between 5 and 7 pm. He doesn't do email. 763-427-3460 Dave

For something like this I like Kanter. Their after sale service is way better than Bob or Cars. Not even in the same league. Dave

In her book on Marr, Kimes did say that he bought Marvel stock at the the suggestion of Billy Durant. She says that “Billy had given him sage advice that would work out very well: buy Marvel Carburetor.” This could be thought to mean buy the company but I think it meant buy stock in Marvel. This happened several years before the 1920 recession when Durant lost GM the second time, according to Kimes. Later “Marvel fell victim to a takeover” and Marr sold his stock for $126,000 which he used to pay for the construction of his new home on Signal Mountain Tennessee. This happened in the late twenties. Although Kimes doesn’t give a date she does say that is happened while the law suit regarding construction of the home was going on and that was in 1929. None of this leads me to believe that he owned the company, to the contrary, only that he owned stock. Dave

The West Michigan chapter still sells them. $22.45 shipping included. Their ad is in the back of The Bugle.

Interestingly the smallest Buick of 1941, the model 47, had 15” wheels. Go figure.

Earl, you say the trouble started after you bought gas. Could it be a case of bad gas? I tore my hair out for months trying to figure out what was wrong with one of the Volvos. I went through the fuel system and ignition. Several times. No luck, then a good friend suggested I check out the gas and sure enough that was it. Moral of the story, check the easy cheap things first. Something I had forgotten. Dave

It looks like a 28 standard. That is the location of the "sending unit." The fuel gauge is on the dash which is nice when it works. Otherwise it's the same as 27 and earlier. Ya gotta get out and look. I use a dipstick. Dave

John, I see what you mean about parallel, hmmmmm. And it says Pillar Lamp Door Switch, so that could be jamb switch. As you say in the 7 passenger sedan and/or limo. IDK Dave

Jack, Bloo and company, I drove it up to Baltimore this morning on the battery to the shop that checked out the generators. The I95 traffic was light, thankfully. I got there and they were able to take me right away. The tech (old guy with slightly more hair than me) came out with a helper and his multi meter and got right to work. We all kept our distance like we're supposed to. He checked a few things out and in about 15 minutes he had sussed out. Now here is the embarrassing part of the story...... The wires at the generator were reversed. Damn I'm sure I checked that out but I still I had it backwards. Mark you were right, it was the wiring. That was what I was thinking too but I forgot Occam's Razor, the simplest answer is most likely the right answer. Sorry to get everyone excited for nothing. Anyway, Here's the good news, it was a 75 mile round trip, 95% of which was interstate at 60-65 mph, I used 4.48 gallons of gas. Do the math, 16.74 mpg. Something must be wrong here that can't be and yet there it is. I'll keep an eye on it and see if I can repeat those results. Thank you, all. You guys are the best. Dave

John, The dome light switch is on the door pillar, on the passenger side, if memory serves me well. Just to be clear it is not jamb switch. It is a little sliding on/off switch on inside of door pillar. Standard series closed cars as well as masters. I believe it is wired in series. Dave