Recent content by dplotkin

A new mechanical regulator can smoke on initial startup & use as the factory coating on the resistors buns off. Likely nothing wrong. A new ballast resistor will do similarly. Dan

Fresh from the body shop after backing it into the side of the garage. AC and posi the only options. Dan

On a separate thread I outlined how I found and fixed it. It was a combination of burned and too small a conductor feeding the instrument, parking & stop lights hidden under the bundle on the back side of the fuse block. The headlight intermittent was the bulkhead corrosion. Dan

This 3 year tale of woe wound up today with resolution that I want to share with the rest of you. I've owned a 68 New Yorker for 15 years and have put 55,000 hard miles on a 98,000 mile car. After owning and driving it for years, about 5 years ago I replaced the burned out side marker lamps. Not...

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I have an intermittent in the parking and stop lamp circuits through the firewall bulkhead connector. Any tips on separating the connector halves at the firewall without breaking anything? Dan (68 New Yorker)

Sounds reasonable to me. Dan

Very nice, love how they retained the 60 tail lamp lenses on the 61, but then again what else could they do? Dan

The 61 New Yorker wagon is beautiful, any photos of yours? Dan

The 300G is a beautiful car and the red one in the above photos comes from a Hemmings blog of 2015 in which many folks who know these cars have weighed in. Among them are Andy V, who is an accomplished student of the letter cars (actually a teacher). You may want to read the comments there. So...

Yukon had bearings and seals for my 62 Bonneville Dan

Try Yukon Gear and Axle Dan

Wait a minute. You must be Steve with the photo set of your car I used while working on mine. You have a beautiful and important car and I would implore you to leave the brakes as is. Your photos are very important to the hobby. I bought my F last November after looking for 20 years. I wanted...

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Tell U what...if the car had come to me with its original brakes I'd have left them alone. However a prior owner put an AAJ Brake kit (Volare 11" disks & GM single piston calipers on his bracket) but retained the single pot drum master with its built in residual valve. So when we couldn't push...