Well Dad got the plugs changed, egr changed, and got the AC working. The car idles great, AC blows cold, starts good. To be honest for the car being almost 40 years old how good it is surprises me.
Also got the wheel locks off. How the car has lasted almost 40 years without having the wheel locks pulled off (it had steel wheels too!) is beyond me. Those wheels wont be lasting long thankfully.
The glove box was stuck closed so I got it open finally and found the last 40 years or so of service records. Originally sold in Milwaukee, and found the original window sticker! Thats pretty cool! Found out the only options it has are AC, remote drivers mirror, wood grain, heated rear window, power unlock rear window, power steering (aparently an option), and cloth front seat with viynal rear. Kinda interesting that it was a buick with almost no options.
Car drives great! Gets 21mpg at 73mph with the air on. Only complaint is that it goes through oil. A lot. Like a quart every 100-150 miles. So 500mpg oil haha.
Good thing I bought the 4.1. I am going to get that engine built and get it installed before I can really drive this. I drug my grand national in a box turbo parts so I am going to get started on that.
I am stuck between not driving it a lot and putting as many miles on it as I want and just using used oil until it siezes or the 4.1 gets done. I have like 5 gallons of used oil behind my garage from the last year so It's tempting just to filter it quick to get the little pebbles and stuff that fell into the drain pan when I changed the oil and use that since this engine has so much blowby apparently.
Besides the oil consuption it's sure a nice wagon.
Also got the wheel locks off. How the car has lasted almost 40 years without having the wheel locks pulled off (it had steel wheels too!) is beyond me. Those wheels wont be lasting long thankfully.
The glove box was stuck closed so I got it open finally and found the last 40 years or so of service records. Originally sold in Milwaukee, and found the original window sticker! Thats pretty cool! Found out the only options it has are AC, remote drivers mirror, wood grain, heated rear window, power unlock rear window, power steering (aparently an option), and cloth front seat with viynal rear. Kinda interesting that it was a buick with almost no options.
Car drives great! Gets 21mpg at 73mph with the air on. Only complaint is that it goes through oil. A lot. Like a quart every 100-150 miles. So 500mpg oil haha.
Good thing I bought the 4.1. I am going to get that engine built and get it installed before I can really drive this. I drug my grand national in a box turbo parts so I am going to get started on that.
I am stuck between not driving it a lot and putting as many miles on it as I want and just using used oil until it siezes or the 4.1 gets done. I have like 5 gallons of used oil behind my garage from the last year so It's tempting just to filter it quick to get the little pebbles and stuff that fell into the drain pan when I changed the oil and use that since this engine has so much blowby apparently.
Besides the oil consuption it's sure a nice wagon.
