Rambler Father/Daughter/Son Build

[Oldsmoletick]

http://www.americanpartsdepot.com

kennedyamerican.com

http://www.ramblerparts.com

http://www.blaserauto.com

To name a few :wink: I've dealth with blaser, as well as A.P.D both good people.

 

[DRIVEN]

I would suspect it's a common GM solenoid. A pic would help though. It's been a ling time and I can't remember for sure.

 

[viperedvette]

Thanks, both of you!! Here is a couple pics I just took with my phone.

 

[viperedvette]

Here's a couple pics of some other projects the kids and I worked on this summer.

Started with this........

and ended up with this.........

......Bought the car for $150.00.....$200 for rims and tires.....$100 for body kit.....lowered the springs, and we tried out our new airbrush kit! :lol:


Here is an 84 Virago I picked up at salvage for $400.00.....I bought another complete frame including rims and tires for $50. We swapped out both front and rear rims and tires as they were both pretty mangled, and ended up swapping out forks as well. We made our own straight bar for handle bars, cut off the rear seat and excess frame, bought a piece of black vinyl and recovered the now solo seat, re-mounted the rear lights, found an old shovelhead fender I had kicking around and am going to mount it on the back, blacked everything out with flat black, and once again tried our airbrush skills again! Sorry for the bad camera phone picture 😳 but i will take some new ones when I replace the batteries in my camera :wink: ......

We stumbled on this old retro chopper bike in one of the junk yards scavenging for parts. It was all in pieces and rusted up pretty bad. we bought it for $5.00 and cleaned it up really good, and repainted it. The kids had a blast with this build......and are still trying to ride it!.....it's amazing how hard one of these things are to balance and steer!! lol :lol:

 

[DRIVEN]

Well, the end where the wires go looks like GM but the rest is different. Sorry for the misdirection.

Looks like you guys had a busy and fun summer.

 

[james@pst]

I would try Kanter Auto Products. They carrying starters and the odd ball solenoids. They are in thier new catalog but not on the internet yet. 1-800-526-1096

 

[viperedvette]

I would try Kanter Auto Products. They carrying starters and the odd ball solenoids. They are in thier new catalog but not on the internet yet. 1-800-526-1096

Thanks, I will trysome of those places and Kanter Auto.

Well, the end where the wires go looks like GM but the rest is different. Sorry for the misdirection.

Looks like you guys had a busy and fun summer.

No problem, thanks for the help. Yes it was extremely busy and fun! We also got a lot of fishing in as well 😀

 

[hereiam]

I bought a 52 5 window chevy pickup that had sat for over 5 years in a field with the breather off and the rocker cover off. It was seized. I filled the motor full diesel fuel, until I couldnt another drop in it. After about a week I could turn it with a wrench. Left it sitting another week but turned it over everyday and stoped it in a new location. The following week i drained all the fluid out of the motor. Couldnt believe what came out. Filled it with new oil and fresh gas, put the rocker cover on and it started. Blue smoke everywhere but in a matter of a couple of minutes it was running clean. The diesel fuel had unseized the pistons, rings, and what every else was seized. Ran it for about 1/2 and hour and change the oil again and it was good to go. Drove it for about 4 years and then sold it. Never had a problem with the motor.
Seems to me that diesel fuel works good.

 

[rustyroger]

I bought a 52 5 window chevy pickup that had sat for over 5 years in a field with the breather off and the rocker cover off. It was seized. I filled the motor full diesel fuel, until I couldnt another drop in it. After about a week I could turn it with a wrench. Left it sitting another week but turned it over everyday and stoped it in a new location. The following week i drained all the fluid out of the motor. Couldnt believe what came out. Filled it with new oil and fresh gas, put the rocker cover on and it started. Blue smoke everywhere but in a matter of a couple of minutes it was running clean. The diesel fuel had unseized the pistons, rings, and what every else was seized. Ran it for about 1/2 and hour and change the oil again and it was good to go. Drove it for about 4 years and then sold it. Never had a problem with the motor.
Seems to me that diesel fuel works good.

I did the same trick with a perkins diesel powered van years ago. It had been so long since the oil was changed it had turned almost into tar in the engine, I took out the drain plug and nothing came out!. A quart of diesel fuel thinned it down enough to let me drain it, another oil change after 20 miles brought out unbelievable amounts of crud. That engine went on for another 50k miles before a valve seat dropped and destroyed it.
Nearest thing to snake oil I've ever come across. 🙂

Roger.

 

[Blew86442]

Very cool! All the projects. And welcome rambler kids! 😀