A trifecta of failures, ending in the car not being driven to Rhett’s house. I’ll go over it when I have time
I had to move this wire due to recentering the steering wheel. However, I accidentally ripped a wire that started sparking out of my switch pitch selector switch. Had to shut the car off and rewire it. Then when I pushed the brakes in the driveway, it sounded like they were binding and ground the car to a halt. I didn’t know why the brakes were grinding, but the car had been sitting for a month. Lastly, I opened the hood upon hearing the brakes grind, and saw the thermostat housing leaking. I said screw it by that point, and threw it back in the garage. I was furious
Could always be worse.....some days I know not to work on anything at all involved...so I back off and maybe wash a car....usually don't screw that up...... Hang in there.....
New List: ✅1. Free-unseize the brakes or whatever by driving it ✅2. Free-RTV the piss out of the thermostat housing ✅3. A little trans fluid-tranny governor 4. Free-adjust the choke properly ✅5. Gas-AFR carb tune, gotta get that cold start working ✅6. Gas-AFR street tune, gotta make that power 7. Hopefully less than $100-driverside power window ✅8. Hopefully free-aligned it myself based on the Buick chassis manual, lets see if it works. GOTTA MEASURE IT AGAIN ✅9. Hopefully free-adjust the steering box ✅10. Hopefully free-check to make sure it actually steers ✅11. Free-readjust kickdown so it actually works 12. Try to get the radio to work better 13. This won't happen, but headliner? ✅14. The drivers door mechanism Never dull, but at least this work is all towards improvement of existing things that generally work. It’s only time
Good luck John!! Could be worse you could be deep in a GSX resto staring at a pile of parts and body work to be done knowing it's gonna take 5+ years and over a $100K to finish it
Querious what happened to the Brakes. A fresh start will do ya good. Old car. Stuff just piles up. But look at what you have accomplished.
Had a dream last night, the Buick was briefly there, and the high idle worked. That’s how I knew I was dreaming
It is very dependent on the condition of the thermostatic spring. Is your carburetor divorced choke or integral?
I think most fan ate very similar to teddy's, there should be an adjustment to turn that choke richer which will cause it to take longer to pull off........and inthink there is a screw adjustment for the fast idle rpm as well
Definitely a screw adjustment for fast idle, and certainly the tension on the spring as well. I've tried to adjust both, but with not much luck. I might just need to be more meticulous
There is a cam that rotates with the choke linkage. Either the linkage is binding and not rotating the cam, or you don't have enough tension.
When I add more tension, the choke blade goes fully closed. Is fully closed too far for something like this or is that by design?
I haven't been back home to determine that, but it appears highly likely. I just haven't experienced it before.
