1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Brougham

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Where did you get the parts/bushings/sleeves for the rear sway bar installation? Do they attach to the inside of the control arms?

I used four 3-grade 3/8 bolts x 3 inches long, with flat washers and spring locks.

For the sleeves - I used 1/2 ID pipe that I cut to around 1 3/8 inch length and inserted this inside the control arms.

The control arms on my car already had holes for the bolts.

 

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According to Wikapedia 77-up is even fire. It should be a matter of matching your firing order on your original distributor on the CCC distributor. Very unique project. So many up here throw in the sbc up here, especially since the factory did it to most to begin with.

Odd fire were still produced in early 1977, some even had a one-piece camshaft as the even fire engines have. Transitional era.

 

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Today was outer tie-rod day. I tried to preserve the current adjustment of the tie rod using a vernier.

 

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In the dark, arriving at work.

 

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Installed the fiber optic light indicators... As sold by GBodyForum member Anubis. Set came with a 1:1 template to position the lens correctly on the fenders. I then punched+drilled holes on the fenders... Tested the location before drilling the BIG hole to route the optic wires.

 

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Then drilled the big hole.







One of the parking light already had a port, the second one needed me to glue it on the light. This also came with the set.

 

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And the final -- BUT DIRTY -- results.

I need to clean up the back of the headlights -- so much dirt is preventing the light from reaching the optic fibers. Only the parking lights are working OK.

 

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Removing some pieces of the car to clean these lights and get the light indicators to work.



Fiber optic CANNOT work in such a greasy context. The car was rust-proofed every year with layers of oil by my father. This is a symptom of this.



And then, it works. I did not get a medal to make fiber optic work in such a dirty contaminated context, but maybe I should. I'll go through a second iteration of that. I'm sure I can get the monitor work better!

 

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My Cutlass has electric rear windows. Well, rear vents.

The passenger side vent did not work. Opened the door to investigate.

Soon found out there was not motor, the owner before my dad had removed it, using a coat hanger to keep the window shut.



Fortunately, my father being a visionary, he bought and kept a spare motor for all 4 windows. He had bought them when there was a whole bunch of g-bodys being scrapped in the 1990's, a long time ago. He gave me all these spare parts along with the car. Looks like a weird part - maybe like some kind of an insect - maybe a trilobite? :



So I installed the unit - it is held in place by weird rubber "nipples" - I've seen better engineering.






And now it's working. Pretty useless, but cool 🙂

http://www.flickr.com/photos/douaireg/10006217744/

 

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Pretty tricky to install these rear window motors, PM me if you need advice, I'll be glad to share 🙂