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'51 Special submitted a new listing: 263 Crankshaft FREE FREE FREE - 263 Crankshaft FREE FREE FREE View the entire listing here...

The shop manual says, with respect to front wheel bearing installation for a '51 Buick (and likely many other models) "always install a new wheel bearing oil seal." It goes on to say: "To avoid damaging the oil seal packing use Packing Expander J 3082 to install bearing inner cone in seal...

I have to replace the side spear pieces behind the gravel shields as both are in tough shape. Problem is I found far more body holes to fill than usable clips. The clips slide into the edges of the trim, are rectangular, 1 and 5/8 inches long, 7/8 inch wide, have a spring from one side that...

The heater control valve on my '51 Special is stuck in the full heat position. (This is not good in the summer.) The cable is free but the control valve itself will not turn. I have not taken anything apart yet. Any suggestions on how to free it up?

I very recently stopped at a body shop/rod builder/restoration shop to ask about some work on my 51 Buick Special 2 dr. sedan. It needs rust repair near the very back edge of the trunk floor and in the panel just below the trunk lid, about 2 square feet of metal repair on the side of the left...

I'm about to replace a cracked door glass on my '51 Special Model 48D 2-dooor sedan. I know I should buy some glass setting tape for the glass to door regulator installation. There are various thicknesses offered, and prices are all over the map. (From $1 per roll to $1.50 per foot.) Does...

Well, now that my 51 Special is back on the road after many years, it is plain that the shocks are a bit sloppy, and the fluid levels are low or very low. The manual says to fill with "only G. M. or Delco Shock Absorber Fluid." These products are no longer made. I recall someone once mentioning...

My 51 Special is getting more and more fun to drive (particularly with a front-end kit installed by someone who understands kingpins). That gets me into details that I have previously ignored. Here is the latest: the lighting switch. Mine currently works just fine for the headlights/parking...

The car is a 1951 Special. The problem is the hood will not stay in place when it is open and resting on the support hinged on the center of the cowl. When initially opened and placed on the support, all appears fine. But, after a time spent working on the car with the hood opened, the hood will...

I am considering picking up a '47 Super. It doesn't run. Assuming an engine overhaul is necessary, can I replace the babbited rods with insert bearing rods from a '49 or '50 248? I ask because the price of re-babbiting, or converting the original babbited rods to accept inserts, looks scarey...

I couldn't find any existing thread, so I though I would start one. My '51 Special 263 lacks an exhaust manifold valve. I cut it out of the way after I spent many hours unsuccessfully trying to free the thing. Well, that may work in the summer, but not here (North Dakota) and not now...

The backstory is that, after I bought my '51 special at auction in 1992, I soon discovered that it would regularly starve for fuel, acting like it was out of gas no matter how full the tank. I tried lots of things: rebuilt the carb and fuel pump, had the gas tank steamed out, then etched and...

My pace for putting my '51 together has been slow. I had the back bumper re-chromed in 1996, and am just now getting it back on the car. Here is my problem: There is a 24.5 inch rail that mounts between the bumper guards, and on that rail was mounted a piece marked "Guide L-43," which in turn...

I recently installed a generator of a 1950 Buick on my '51. Other than installing a narrow-belt pully, I made no changes to the "new" generator. However, I did disassemble it to clean it up as it had been sitting in a hoodless engine compartment for many years. It had a very recently (in use...

I just completed rebuilding the 263 in my '51 Special. It was running just before teardown. I re-installed the original distributor (Delco-Remy 1110815), and a new coil that had only minutes of use before the teardown began (I wanted to make sure it would run before tearing into it, and I had...

In order to match up my speeedometer to the 3.6 to 1 ratio rear end in my 51, I need an 18 tooth driven gear. Problem is, I'm not finding an 18 tooth driven gear for a manual transmission. Can anyone tell me if the speedometer driven gear assembly can be disassembled. (The manual says: "The...

Help. I need what buick refers to as a "release rod nut lock" that fits on the small end of the clutch fork ("clutch release yoke"), and is a spring steel pair of fingers. The same small bolt that holds it to the fork also holds the leather boot that fits into the bell housing. I cannot find a...

The "crown spring" pressure plate used on these Buicks remains available, provided you have a rebuildable core (or $275+ or -). We know that the pressure plate used on a 1989 Jeep Cheroke 4.0 ltr. six, with 5spd, bolts right on, because that application is described by Rande in his post last...

I know the engine paint scheme for 1951 Buicks, but I have not seen information about paint color (if any) on: 1. The clutch cover (Buick calls it the "housing (lower)"). I know the bell housing (per Buick, the "housing (upper)") is turquoise, but I have never seen a clutch cover with any paint...

In the process of overhauling my 263, I need to replace at least some, and perhaps all, of the freeze plugs. I have two problems: 1) I can't get the freeze plugs out. Drilled a hole in the middle, tried to pry on the plug. But it is badly corroded, and just collapsed. Tried another, same...