nickelroadster
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Well now if you are talking 12" I can probably help you. Maybe the best thing to do is for you to get all the measurements again just to be on the safe side.
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I didn't realize that about the headlights [I have a 1923]. The only time I had seen them was on a Super Sport. I would like to see a picture of your interior. Mine is one the the best looking original leather interiors that
I have seen. It is a kind of medium brown.
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It is always nice to get a thank you.
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It appears that you have headlights off of a Super Sport model. The car is not an S.S. as it has running boards but the headlight with the Olds emblem on them are from an S.S.
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I would not expect his cruising speed while towing to be very fast!
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George,
I don't know if my Olds and my Oakland rear ends were exactly like your Buick rear end but they are alike to each other with the exception that the Oakland one has a little extension on it to allow for a driveshaft. This extension comes right off and then a torque tube (as in my Olds) can be attached. I am using a brake drum and one hub from the Oakland on the Olds. I have seen Weston-Mott rear ends on smaller Buicks and they look pretty much the same. You would really need to make sure that you had the right size axles. Do you have a picture or any measurements from the Buick? I could give you a picture of the Oakland rear end if you like.
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How is the interior?
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One of the few things on a car that would be okay to use JB weld or fiberglass on.
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I have a 1915 Olds and a 1916 Oakland rear end which appear to be the same. I would expect a 1915 Buick to look very similar. I am pretty sure that you Buick had slightly different size housing half where this one shows pretty much the same size housing sides. The brakes look pretty weird also. It doesn't look like it would take a torque tube either. I have no clue as to what year it might be.
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dibarlaw,
I am sorry. My brake drums are 12" in diameter. I thought that they came from a fairly big Buick but evidently not. Good luck with your search.
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Oops!,
I plum forgot about it but will do tomorrow. I believe I have two.
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I just realized I might have one of these. Let me pull the wheel down from a high shelf and measure it tomorrow.
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As I said before, it looks a lot like my 1916 Olds but it has a short shaft. I have never heard of a long shaft for a 16. The owners manual does not show it either (doesn't mean that there couldn't be one).
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Fond memories of the Tensleep area. Caught lots of fish on the Nowood Creek! I expect you have the the only antique car in Tensleep.
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I was looking on the tag but it is not clear. It looks somewhat similar to one from a 1916 Olds v8 but is much longer. Are you sure it is a v8 distributor? Do you have the cap?
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Post a part number.
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Before Sloan came in, most of the GM units were "full service ". They built all kinds of different cars. Especially notice Buick.
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A Carter #7D04AS04 pump is good.
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I have a 1923 that is almost a carbon copy of this one except for having disc wheels. This engine was smaller (233 inches versus 247 inches for the big eight . totally separate engine than the Northway. They advertised it as having the highest horsepower per cubic inch of any American car. Somehow that doesn't ring true but be be right for run of the mill kind of cars. Oldsmobile spent five million bucks buying specialized machine tooling with this engine. Sloan decreed that they couldn't keep building it after 1923 and they sold those new machine tools to Wills-SaintClaire for a million bucks.
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I would like it better if it didn't have radials on it.
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I would try and talk to old guys who still make keys for old cars. maybe not ever one would be able to help you but I suspect that someone can. One I can think of is Jesser's Classic Keys in Akron OH, phone 330-376-8181.
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You don't want these to be easy to remove! Heat would melt the Loctite.
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I would not use Loctite as you are supposed to use heat to remove nuts that have been Loctited on. I would use the same method they came with or peen the ends of the bolts as they do when attaching brake drums to wooden wheels.
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You should post this in "parts for sale" rather than "cars for sale".
I have seen. It is a kind of medium brown.
Mystery early motorhome
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I was always under the impression that the Beverly Hillbillies vehicle was an Olds economy truck. It has the same engine as the 43A car and almost the same engine as a Chevrolet.