young olds' 68 olds delta custom
#41
you could test your speedo with a gps .
i run on my 69 delta 88 235/75/15 (15 inch rims) and does the job, before that 235/70/15 and didn't work.
I got also the speedo to the drivers side wheel.
i run on my 69 delta 88 235/75/15 (15 inch rims) and does the job, before that 235/70/15 and didn't work.
I got also the speedo to the drivers side wheel.
#44
Not a photo but...
03C
ST 68-36667 BC00004 BODY
TR 360 Y Y PAINT
I really want to now what paint color it is because we are going to be painting some of it saturday and i want it to be right.
03C
ST 68-36667 BC00004 BODY
TR 360 Y Y PAINT
I really want to now what paint color it is because we are going to be painting some of it saturday and i want it to be right.
#45
03C= Build date, March, 3rd week. 68= the year 1968, not sure of the "BC". 00004 is the production sequence # yours is the 100,004 built. TR 360 = interior trim, also not sure as info on big cars is harder to come by. I would guess black, others will chime in. Y Y is Saffron painted body with a Saffron painted roof.
#47
I recieved your response via email but not here, where your paint guy is calling it Butternut. They are the same color, same paint code/ PPG-Ditzler. Olds called it Saffron, Chevy-Butternut, Pontiac- Mayfair maize.
#53
#58
thanks. well some bad news, not too bad, i got kicked out of the body shop for reasons i dont feel like talking about. so body work is going to be slow, im gonna try and do it myself now.
#64
ok the rear chanel is done, ive been working on it every day for the last week. i drove it in to town and put 20 gallons($65) in today. tomarow i am driving it to everett about 45min from my house, should be fun.
#69
ok, the drive was really good. It cruised down the freeway excellent, it did have a little hickup(backfire?) on the way there but not on the way back. I did get a few looks. All in all it did great, i had fun driving and want to do it again. Oh ya about gas mileage, my gas gauge doesnt work right now so i cant figure the gas mileage. after i fix it i will probably check though.
#70
Of course, dropping the tank to get at the sending unit is not a trivial issue, but it may be what it takes to get the gauge working again. But first check the wiring and make sure there are no breaks in it nor a bad ground at the tank. One of the two wires (the black one) coming off the top of the tank should be attached to the frame just in front of and above the tank. This wire can loosen or, more likely, get corroded with age and thus not be properly grounded.
#71
ya ive done work to the engine. I have new spark plugs and wires, i did a carburetor rebuild my dad did the carb adjustments for me, i put a hei in it with a new coil and my dad and i set the timing. That is the most its driven in like five years, its not used to running that much. ive not even put 200mi on it since ive had it and about 100 of them were this weekend
#73
No, it appears not. I just now went to the rockauto.com website and looked up the fuel sending unit for a '68 Chevy Caprice. They have one, but its not the same. The outlet pipe has a downward bend in it. Go to that site and do a search on part number FG105a. Then do a part number search on the number that made-in-the-usa gives, FG106a. There's pictures of both, and you'll see the difference.
If you try to find a fuel tank sending unit for a '68 Olds 88 or a '68 Buick LeSabre at rockauto, you won't find one. You will find one for a '68 Chevy Caprice, though. That just shows you the difference in the size of the aftermarket for these. It's worth it for a company to invest in the tooling necessary to make one for a Chevy but not for Olds or Buick. Fortunately, as we've found out, the FG106a unit, which is what shows up if you select an early '70s full-size GM, like a '72 Buick LeSabre, will also fit the '67s and presumably the '68s.
I just now went to the autozone.com website, and they have the FG106a unit listed, but it's a special order item, so you'd have to go to the store, order it, and wait a day or two to get it. Not a big deal. Cost is $76 plus sales tax. Rockauto has it for $59, and you'd have to pay shipping. I'm guess that rockauto still ends up being cheaper.
If you try to find a fuel tank sending unit for a '68 Olds 88 or a '68 Buick LeSabre at rockauto, you won't find one. You will find one for a '68 Chevy Caprice, though. That just shows you the difference in the size of the aftermarket for these. It's worth it for a company to invest in the tooling necessary to make one for a Chevy but not for Olds or Buick. Fortunately, as we've found out, the FG106a unit, which is what shows up if you select an early '70s full-size GM, like a '72 Buick LeSabre, will also fit the '67s and presumably the '68s.
I just now went to the autozone.com website, and they have the FG106a unit listed, but it's a special order item, so you'd have to go to the store, order it, and wait a day or two to get it. Not a big deal. Cost is $76 plus sales tax. Rockauto has it for $59, and you'd have to pay shipping. I'm guess that rockauto still ends up being cheaper.
#74
You may even be picking up some dirt or rust out of the tank.
But a big consequence of this is that you can never get all of the fuel out of the tank by burning it in the engine, and your 25-gallon capacity gas tank is actually less than that. I did a calculation based on the surface area of the bottom of the tank, and I calculated that it would take 2 gallons of fuel to bring the level of the fuel up to the bottom of the intake pipe (fill the thank to a depth of 1/2 inch). This means that as the last of the fuel that the pickup pipe can actually take in is taken in, there are still two gallons of fuel left in the tank. In short, you have a 23-gallon gas tank as far as usable volume is concerned, not 25.
#75
Your tank's fuel pick-up line cannot go all the way to the bottom of the tank both because, if it did so, it would be blocked by the bottom of the tank and because there is a filter that goes over the bottom of the pipe, and there has to be room for that. Whether it's 1/2-inch above the bottom of the tank or something less, the fuel pick-up line is still above the bottom of the tank. It has to be as it comes into the tank from the top and extends straight down. With this design, there will always be some minimum amount of fuel that the intake pipe can never reach.
But either way need to here feedback when he gets there to see what the problem is on your car not ours
i like using auto parts stores for me one i work for one. Two if its wrong i take it back. No shipping back and if its damaged when it gets there its there problem getting another. I'm sure rock auto is still a good source but one thing to remember is they all do price matching now they can and will adjust prices if ask them to.
#76
ok i droped the tank last night and it turned out bad. everything is fine i just tried to do it by myself and it sucked. i thought there was less then half a tank of gas in it but by the time i got it out and pulled the sending unit out i discovered it was almost full( a pleasant suprise for the most part). And it turns out that the gauge doesnt work because the float, im assuming its a float, is stuck. i should have figured as the needle on the gauge never moves.
#77
It's amazing how much gas can be left in the tank when you think you've drained most of it.
It's not surprising that the float is stuck. It appears to be a common problem with these. I'd get the later-year part described above and put that in.
It's not surprising that the float is stuck. It appears to be a common problem with these. I'd get the later-year part described above and put that in.
#79
were did those post about the sending unit go anyways
were did all of the post from made in usa go, also wasnt this thread use to be 3 pages?
were did all of the post from made in usa go, also wasnt this thread use to be 3 pages?
Last edited by young olds; August 3rd, 2010 at 05:34 PM.
#80
Makes it a lot lighter! But I found that if I get the tank down to about half-full, it's light enough that I can carefully lower it to the ground and then pick it up and dump the gas through the filler neck into a large bucket. If I had enough storage, I would just save it and put it back in the tank when I was done. Or, I would just dump it into the fuel tanks of my other cars to use it up. Then it would off to the gas station for some fresh gas when I'm ready to fill the newly cleaned, reattached gas tank.