The people that make the Motor's automotive service manuals still reprint their early model edition. It covers roughly 1935 to 1950. This manual I'm sure can be sourced from several places. I'd start with amazon if your a computer guy. If not there try Motor themselves or go to a local repair shop and find out who their local Motor manual rep is ( it's usually stamped inside the front or rear cover) and get his number and call him. This book will have plenty of info you don't need, like V-16 Cadillac stuff, but all the info is dead on for accuracy. This is the exact book that a very large number of repair shops actually used when repairing these cars when they were still in everyday service. This book might be fairly pricey, but it's worth every penny, but with care will last longer than your ability to work on cars. I have noticed that the newer reprints have a gold cover on them, not blue like my old well worn original. I hope that is not indicative of their price. If that route doesn't work I'd find out for sure what year the engine is and go to a swap meet and look for a book vendor that has actual Buick factory service manuals and buy the one you need. There's almost always a book guy at any decent sized swap meet I've ever been to. I am now going to give an unsolicited opinion about putting straight 8's on engine stands. If you have your garden variety hobby engine stand, I think you are flirting with a dangerous situation. These engines were never designed to go on that type of stand. This should tell you why the "in frame overhaul" was so popular back in the day. And these stands were never designed for these kinds of engines. I would say at the very least get a good solid front support under the nose right away. Any time you have an engine that sticks out farther that the front leg of the stand you have a very unstable condition. Hell, throw a come-a-long over one of the rafters in the ceiling and hook it to a long bolt in the front of the engine if nothing else. I've worked in shops most of my adult life and have seen some crazy stuff when it comes to engine stands. Most of it easily avoidable. If you have a giant industrial quality diesel truck stand then disregard my comments. I have an older friend that spent 40 something years at the local GM training center teaching nothing but Buick service and I once asked him about this. He told me the comment about the in frame overhaul business. He also said that the factory didn't have recommended stands until the straight 8's had side mounts and then it was a giant horseshoe looking affair that bolted to the side mounts and flipped the engine end for end, not like rear mounted stands. The weight ain't the problem it's the leverage from the length. Use the best grade 8 bolts you can get and keep all women and children well away if you are going to persist in this endeavor. If you are gonna tear it down for inspection and overhaul then get to it. Get her torn down and off the stand. If you are just storing it and using it to using it for bragging rights to your buddies, then set it on the floor or build a factory crate motor looking stand out of 2 x 6's and put some casters on it if you need to move it around. Moving it fully dressed on a stand is downright dangerous especially for the hobbyist. Sorry for the rant. Good luck and happy Buick motoring!
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