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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
You make it look easy, Drew
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
I've only pulled one or two of those old style rear ends and heavy is putting it mildly.
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Like I need another thread to follow.
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
I'd love one if I could snap my fingers and it would be out of my way when I didn't need it.
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
I really want to weigh it, but how? Bathroom scales won't cut it. Anyone got a cheap solution to figure out what it weighs?
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
This has become my favorite thread. I check this one before checking the truck forum anymore.
This person might be interested in some of your old parts, he seems to be needing everything. http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/4799077035.html. |
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
I've stripped the 4 barrel intake and carb off for sale, and both exhaust manifolds are good and worth around $300 to $400 each. Apparently they crack easily? Anyone need a 300 HP 361 ci Buick nailhead??? It did still run before I pulled it.
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Gotta love getting paid to pull parts!
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Drew..Stumbled across this 57 Buick Special with a jag front and rear installed...just in case you need other parts...https://westky.craigslist.org/cto/4850069679.html
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Sorry for being a slacker this week, but friends invited me to a Montana ski trip in Whitefish near the Canadian border and I just couldn't resist!
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
I was really curious just how much this hunk of junk axle and torque tube setup weighs, so I bought a 700 pound scale to hang off of my engine hoist point in my garage ceiling (I planned ahead when I built the garage). I weighed both the 1957 Buick set-up and the 1994 Jaguar IRS.......
Guess whose completely different differential, driveshaft, braking system, suspension system, blah blah blah, made in 2 different countries (USA vs England), 37 years apart, weighed within 3 pounds of each other??? Take a wild guess...They couldn't be any more different.... and yet one weighs 350 pounds (Jag) and the other one (Buick) weighs 353 pounds!!!! NO WAYYYYYY. That is seriously crazy! 3 pounds! You couldn't have done that in a million years if you told 2 engineers to design completely opposite assemblies but they must weigh within 3 pounds of one another. Hey, at least I'm saving 3 pounds.
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
That is crazy!
I bet you will save even more after all the crud is scraped off.
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
And gaining way more in cool!
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Scraping the crud off the Buick torque tube will only make them closer in weight!
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
The cool factor will be way up - and better ride, handling, braking, and NHV.
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
NASA spends millions to save that much weight. You got a bargain!
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
I wonder how much unsprung weight you shed. As much as that car weighs, it might not matter too much.
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
I'm thinking there's more than 3 pounds on it, could the torque tube actually be lighter?
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Saturday night picture time!
I've got Rosie the un-riveter working with me today. Grinding down the rivet heads and then hitting them with the impact chisel to finish off the head. Then switch bits to punch them back through. 22 in all. Cut the middle of the crossmember out so we could pull it out one side at a time. Good day, lots of gunk to be scraped off still.
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
We left the front cross brace installed so we wouldn't have to worry about our frame rails moving around.
One more thing removed, pretty soon we won't have any car left.
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
You and Biz have really been busy ,looks like fun.
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