You big city folks with your Boston and Aerosmith. Out here in the sticks I prefer good old Country and Western.
Billy you do excellent work. I love your car I have a 68 442 Holiday coupe owned since 1977 it too has the parchment/pearl interior 4 speed 455 with 3:91 posi rear and a gear vendors O/D . I drive it all over many many road trips over the years. Put together a 68 Cutl*** convertible for my wife many years ago red with Parchment/Pearl interior white top. 455 with a turbo 400 and a moon gear in the rear. Car was originally a 350 2 speed I never got around to installing a posi once the gas prices went crazy I just left it alone. It's a pig outta the hole but top end is fun just takes awhile to get there. Also have a 67 Delmont 88 convertible Dad bought new it's Gold with Parchment interior white top. They are all fun to drive and show their age bumps and bruises but we drive them as much as we can. Joe
@oldsjoe that sounds like a nice stable! I have always played wit the idea of a GV for my Olds. Around town it is fine but 70-75 on the freeway is way over 3500 on the tach and my gas gauge takes a nose dive! I run 3:55's, one of my favorite around town gears but that gear vendor sure is a temptation. Feel free to post up your Olds pics here. I don't see enough of them.
I took the Olds for a drive Sunday and I braked down. Literally! Front discs locked up, red hot, smoke pouring out of the fenders, great! I suspected the line locs but it looks like the calipers just froze up and the M/C is a bit rusty. New parts coming. while I’m at it I’ll flush the old fluid and purge the lines. I did brakes in 2009, that wasn’t a ton of miles back. Rats shoes still look fresh. you like my “rubber” under coating? Lots of tires have their all for that rust proof coating. I took the routers in for turning just in case they warped after getting that hot. New pads came with the calipers. I got a new proportioning valve with the M/C. Should be here tomorrow or Wednesday from CPP so I can re***emble. I put 69 brakes on the front end when I first built the car 27 years ago. It had drums up front originally. 68 calipers were a PITA, the single piston calipers are much easier to source as they fit just about everything GM built for over a decade.
Always good to refresh the undercoating in the wheel wells a few times a year! Keeps the senses working!! Joe
Oh, that aint hijackin! It's more than welcome. Looks like you got a wrinkle in that front fender or is that the light?
Hmmm. I don’t remember bottoming out that oil pan. Glad the drain plug wasn’t on the bottom! It doesn’t leak. Which, since it’s an Oldsmobile is saying something. Everything else leaks. I’d like to have been in the QC dept at GM and had a word with guy that thought 28 valve cover bolts should keep it from leaking Not!
Summit sent two right calipers the first time, and for the wrong application (thick truck rotors). Correct ones should up today. $200 for a pair of red powder coat calipers with pads/hardware/banjo bolts and coppers. Long wait but it’s raining cats and dogs out there anyway. Besides, the M/C is on back order. Seriously? You’d think the car was 100 years old. I’m just happy there are still parts available.
Here's a cool line loc mounting idea. I did this in 2009 when I did the brakes last. I used a GM proportioning valve bracket on the right side of the M/C to hold it. Looks like a factory option…ish. I went through a gravel guard phase when I built the olds, even the ****** cooler lines are covered. Don’t judge.
Billy I've looed at the picture of the line loc set up and that is very clean. But I can only find one line that would go to the master cylinder, or was the rear one removed for accessibility? Just curious. Joe
One line leaves the front reservoir of the M/C and feeds the line locs. The out put line from the line loc feeds the proportioning valve, and from there the two front brake lines are routed like normal. I did notice last night while taking everything apart (again) to correct a leak, that I did have to cut a portion of the extra P/V bracket off to clear the master as it was not meant to be turned around backward like that.
Waiting for the M/C to show up. Decided to give the diff cover a little sand and buff. That’s normal right? I didn’t get carried away, this is not a show car, just a nice driver. Just the flats and the ribs. No paint fill, just compound. Traditional.
Yes, anyway they were 20 years ago. They only fit Olds axles though. Chevy never made a cool cover, not Pontiac or Buick (I think). No idea why. Yes, they are very cool!
Joe, do you know if the header panel, that panel above the windshield on my 68 Olds that the soft top closes against, is it the same as Chevelle/GTO? It is upholstered from the factory, and I never liked it. Camaros have a SS piece that looks much nicer. I found a Chevelle piece online, new, I was thinking ab out buying it, chroming it and installing it. That is a lot of expense if it won't fit. Any idea if it will work?
I hope that master cylinder shows up soon. I’m running out of things to do. The olds has polished aluminum valve covers, a polished aluminum rear diff cover and now a polished ****** pan. Again, just the ribs and the flat logo area. I also made some braces to keep the air dam from vibrating. A couple pieces of flat stock, welded to a couple thick washers at the ends. The air dam has holes already that lined up nicely with the sway bar brackets. It has been years since the olds was on the lift. Nice to have the opportunity to freshen her up “down under”.
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