Move on

[Macbuick]

The following weeks will be used to work in my new house (mostly new paint on the walls), upstairs and .... also downstairs, where i will have a much nicer place to work on my cars...but i have to paint the walls and floor of the 1500sq ft garage....
I will post pics asap

[Macbuick]

This is the new house:



this is the garage :







another part of the garage (i will make an opening at the end to gain acces for cars without needing to move the Buick ):

[Macbuick]

So i started to work again on the Buick, but things can't always go right !
My Ron Davis Radiator doesn't sit right in his upper mounts in the upper radiator support ....





I bought it from TA Performance, so it should have sits in a Buick !

[tlillard23]

nice garage. ashamed? you haven't seen my car yet, yours look like a dream.

[Knaller]

Agree! Nice garage. Not to mention the cars....

[Macbuick]

The radiator is ok

mocking and cutting....







i think i will replace the carb hat....it's ugly with the spacer, i prefer an one piece hat....problem they all have a 3.5" diameter for the hoses, so i will have to also buy and adapter 3.5" to 3" as my tubing is 3".

Next step : bolting the intake and the valve covers....so i can go on with the rest....

[Roadbuster]

Originally Posted by Macbuick

So i started to work again on the Buick, but things can't always go right !
My Ron Davis Radiator doesn't sit right in his upper mounts in the upper radiator support ....





I bought it from TA Performance, so it should have sits in a Buick !

Looks like you need different rubber isolators. Here are some that I bought and what came with my 68 GTO.



Looks like you need the long ones with the big openings which I cannot find.

Love the new garage! Great work space!

[Macbuick]

In fact one of the lower rubber had moved and that why the radiator was not in the right place...
I didn't noticed it whan bolting the upper bracket

My rubber are right I wanted to replace them but they where out of stock by TA Performance (Buick specialist), i will check on my El Camino if chevys are the same.

Thanks anyway for your help !!

David

[Macbuick]

so the intercooler is connected, i cut all the tubing to the right length...

Do you know of any small tool to make a bead, or rolled up at the end of the tube ? Is there only a Woodward-Fab Bead Roller Kit which can do it?
I cut some tubing which had bead on each side but now one side is missing his bead !

Any help will be welcome !!

Thanks

David

[Macbuick]

time to fit the intercooler with some fabrications...






I had to cut the tubing and make some beads at the end of the tubes, I used a bead roller.