What did you do to your Buick today?

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by derek244, Oct 25, 2021.

  1. WQ59B

    WQ59B Well-Known Member

    Picked up 455 engines/blocks #4 thru #6 today. How many spares is 'just enough'? ;)
     
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  2. jaye

    jaye Well-Known Member

    Went to start the Skylark…nothing Replaced the red top battery, it was less than two years old, had a yellow top that lasted 7 years
     
  3. mbryson

    mbryson Owner of Ornery grandma Buick

    I've had very poor luck with the Optimas the past 3-7 years. Have an O'Reilly's Super Start Platinum AGM battery in the Jeep now. It's been surprisingly decent for 3-3.5 years
     
  4. Brett Slater

    Brett Slater Super Moderator Staff Member

    Installed the new foam seals I got from @ramairbri a few months back.

    I got the shortest seals due to the B4B. They fit great and there's still a small amount of "squish" from the seal plates.

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  5. derek244

    derek244 Gold Level Contributor

    I have cleaned out all the gunk from the bolt holes in my timing cover. There was so much that I has to use my 9mm barrel brass cleaning brush on a drill to get it out. Hopefully the engine will be running by Monday. I have been dragging my feet.
     
  6. derek244

    derek244 Gold Level Contributor

    Those are proper seals. I could only get the reproduction ones from Year One back in the day when I did the air cleaner on my GS way back in the day.
     
  7. Taulbee2277

    Taulbee2277 Silver Level contributor

    Put together a pile of parts and ended up with a roller, every body panel is from a different car.


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  8. Briz

    Briz Founders Club Member

    Yesterday I told the guy whos doing the dyno on my T-hawk to pack it up and I'll be there next weekend to pick it up. This entire project has been one big pain in the Azz
     
  9. quickstage1

    quickstage1 Well-Known Member

    Not really today, but over the last few weeks I put together what I call a backyard rebuild of a 455 to get my car running again. New bearings and rings in a standard bore block with used everything else. Got it running Saturday and did the first burnout Sunday.

    Ken

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  10. Mark Demko

    Mark Demko Well-Known Member

    This past Saturday I didn’t do ANYTHING, had no ambition too, didn’t even open the garage.
     
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  11. Mark Demko

    Mark Demko Well-Known Member

     
  12. 66electrafied

    66electrafied Just tossing in my nickel's worth

    Went to a little car show yesterday, followed a buddy out and was limited to his top speed of 30 mph. But hey, where do you see a 100 year old car on a public road?

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    The bike in front of the Model T is a 1929 Indian, - and it's gorgeous.
     
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  13. FLGS400

    FLGS400 Gold Level Contributor

    I tore into the left front suspension tonight, to see if I can figure out what is wrong with it. Nothing glaring, yet.
     
  14. Super Bald Menace

    Super Bald Menace Frame off oil changes

    This is the only thing I have accomplished on my Buick in the last 2 weeks. Water pump fan studs installed.
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  15. FLGS400

    FLGS400 Gold Level Contributor

    At least it's something!
     
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  16. FLGS400

    FLGS400 Gold Level Contributor

    Finished up the left side front suspension, and tore into the right side. Still didn't find anything that would cause the steering issues yet. I suspect that the issue is in the steering linkage, but I'm going to check all the ball joints and put some Loctite on all the lower control arm bolts, and retorque.
     
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  17. Briz

    Briz Founders Club Member

    Last week I took the Wildcat back to the upholstery shop to get the botched carpet job redone. 2 days later they call and said the carpet that was reordered was the wrong red. What do I want to do?
    Bolt the drivers seat back in the car and I'll come get it until the correct carpet comes in. So thats what I did. Its been 2 long since I purchased the carpet to return it so I'll have a complete kit for a 65 - 66 Wildcat / LeSabre to pass onto someone that can use it
     
  18. John Codman

    John Codman Platinum Level Contributor

  19. Mark Demko

    Mark Demko Well-Known Member

    WHOA slow down, these things take time:D:p:p:p
     
  20. Fat Rusty

    Fat Rusty Well-Known Member

    I learned.. or should I say re-learned how to... get to the heater A/C control. Remove the radio, glove box, dash pad, ducts.... and put it back together again. My back hurts, I think it is time to do more streaching. It has been a long time since I got to work on one of these... but very rewarding.
    I do appreciate all the help from here. The search feature is wonderful for directions!
    And I do now have a functioning A/C
     
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