I am reverting back to this thread since we are not restoring this car for another year or so.

I took it out for a drive and a little testing tonight. I wanted to see where it boosted at and what the vacuum readings were on it. I pulled the boost gauge and installed an accurate vacuum and pressure gauge. at idle it has a 20 inch vacuum. I did…[Read more]

Another question, Does anyone have a source or part number for the gasket to this? I can make one easy enough but wondering if it is a gasket that someone is making? I can’t remember what I done for our automatic car?

Does the Cutlass have the smaller nipple on it also? I was thinking the Cutlass only had the big one

The manual cross member is also rubber mounted but it is a different bushing setup than automatic.

I was wondering about that. I know the T-10 transmission was in many cars and figured something matches up. I believe the Muncie 4 speed also used the same one. I googled that number with the Anchor brand and is still a good number. Anchor makes 99% of all mounts I think. Thanks

That is interesting, I picked up an NOS trans mount from Fusick several years ago when we rebuilt the engine in the automatic car. It came rounded like the one you show for 4 speed car. I wonder if I have the wrong one in it now. Maybe I need to find one for the automatic car and use that one in the 4 speed car? I will look at mine closer and go…[Read more]

Are your cars Lansing cars? The guy telling me about the two different style on the big cars is thinking that it may be a difference in build plant suppliers. I got our automatic car down and looked and it has the spring ring style on it and I believe it is original also. I am betting that either style was found on the f-85 line like the big car line.

I will let you know if I come up with another one but not likely going to find one. A guy has passed away that had loads of 70-72 442 parts and when they started digging they found that he has some NOS Jetfire stuff. So far they have only found one of each part they find. They are coming up with some incredible stuff. Not lots of it but the parts…[Read more]

He just sent me pictures and it looks just like the one in our automatic car. I assume it to be correct for our 4 speed car also.

Journey With Olds. It is the OCA (Oldsmobile Club of America) magazine.

You may check your local autozone. Mine had them in stock and even listed them in their computer system. I believe they fit many years and models.

I picked up some super cool NOS parts out of Hawaii. I will not use the tank on this car but I will use the cap and emblem. Now I want to find an NOS trunk lid Jetfire emblem.

I would like to know this as well. I will be replacing my rear control arm bushings but not looked into this yet. For the front, I have been watching eBay for the past couple years off and on. I picked up NOS ball joints and some steering parts from there. If time is on your side, you can pick some of this stuff up from eBay for reasonable prices.…[Read more]

Yes, I am getting it also.

Sorry to hear about the tank. I have a leak on our 4 speed car tank. I pulled out an extra I have from a 61 Buick Special and to my surprise, the filler neck is the same between them. This one is from a 27,000 mile car and was undercoated very early in its life. It is a pain getting the undecoat off but will use it till I restore the car and…[Read more]

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Very nice looking! I am looking forward to restoring our 4 speed car but it is going to be even longer now. We are taking both cars to the Homecoming show next year so I will have to wait on the restoration a little longer.