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bttt to help a friend. Any radiators for a 52 buick?
You open the coke first Next you make a hat outta the tinfoil. Now that the CIA can no longer find you by the chip thinggie in your head you can...
uh.. not sure bout where you are.. but round here, and just about everywhere I've ever been, most cars can't be audible at idle from more than 75...
ok.. so once again.. here's the list of places that have an adapter. I know about the stinkin adapters. That's not my problem. I wanna know...
hood ornament.. looks like early 50's buick to me.
ok.. hydro has to go, pulled pan, lottsa metal and crud. So... rather than pay big bux to rebuild it, or wasting the next year doin it myself,...
notebooms.... this is a 61 block, never rebuilt, bout 60k miles. I'm guessin bad rings too. It idles smooth, rev's great, sounds smooth w/ no...
howabout coca cola and aluminum foil. Did pretty good on mine :)
bttt any ideas?
bttt... any ideas?
man.. mongo that thing's just beggin for some shiny black paint and new chrome. Hope it gets it cuz that'll be one SICk lookin car.
refer to cadillac 390 questions for additional b.s. and more questions.
pasadena... thanx. I guess I'm more interested in swapping to an electric pump cuz it'll clean up the look of the engine so much. What with the...
uhm... what would be so bad about running a big thick jumper cable? You only need one side to run to the front, as you can attach a lead to the...
Okey dokey. Here's the latest. Got the starter rebuilt, threw it on, checked for top dead center, set distributor right on, bolted it down,...
ok.. here's the wierdest part. Pistons are tore up on those two cylinders, but the cylinder walls appear perfectly clean!!! I cleaned em up w/...
lil neighbor kid types. Climb all over the seats like they were on a jungle jim. I mean.. yeah ok.. I said he could sit in it, but not CLIMB in...
anybody else.. any ideas?
gotta question for yall. Something just aint makin sense. Bought my 60 cad in 2000. Ran good, everything worked (xcept the antenna), drove it...
kinda o.t. but I drove my 89 regal through an NC winter with no hood. Threw a tarp on it if it was gonna rain, or snow, but never had any...
ok.. what's the deal with fiberglass vs bondo. I know bondo absorbs h20, and fiberglass supposedly doesn't. So.. wouldn't it make sense to...
ok.. now to sound like a complete idiot... which I guess I am, what's the plus of running a roller timing chain, as apposed to stock? I guess...
johnnycola checked the intake, no leaks that I can tell. I used new gaskets, and torqued down the intake bolts to about 50 lbs.(short wrench...
ok.. pulled the spark plug, got the number 1 set to top dead center, firing order is right, but the rotor wasn't pointing right. I pulled the...
Ok.. finally got the trans off, thanks to the response bout splitting the fluid coupling. Did the trick, slid right off nice and easy. Now...
Ok... I've pulled my tired old 390, outta my 60 sedan. Marked everything carefully, wires, vacuum lines, carb linkages, etc etc etc. Out it...
Donkey chains on avoidin the Rainbow bridge at niagara. Funny that my wife had mentioned checkin out naigara, as I though it'd be a lil more fun...
petejoe... word I heard is that that goes into effect as of January 1st, so it shouldn't affect this trip. Also that old passports are just as...
not exactly sure where I'll be crossin the border yet.. got any suggestions? as for rims and tires.. shouldn't be a problem. Just lemme...
Ok.. I gotta get from Wilm, NC, to Hamilton, Ontario, CA, and back, and I plan on doin it the first week of December. Crazy... yeah of course....
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