Name : Timo Age : 38 Location : Finland Joined : 2008-10-04Post Count : 732 Merit : 24
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:21 am
So cone to uno's garage on fryday after work. foudn out that actualy some parts had not arrived yet. so i did not start any works whit engine. replaced just new lifters on hood and trunk. So i just took it and cone up north again to hills to snowboard like i do normaly every free weakend. Friend made some pictures tho..
well one whit me tho.. anyways if the last parts arrive even on midle of weak then i will go and get it done.
Snowdog Addict
Name : Timo Age : 38 Location : Finland Joined : 2008-10-04Post Count : 732 Merit : 24
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:59 pm
Today finaly opened 1st time a supercharger. still not all parts have not arrived. but started to change those what i had. so i opened the SC. seems it's not that easy as i thoght. but whit some modedd tools i got it open whitout taking to many parts off.
and...OMG! well i had never opened a SC befor....and the ex owner...the RUSSIAN guy. he told me that he buted a 'new' SC on it. the only new thing was the SC oil what was in it. did not smell as bad as ppl tell. belive or not but..that guy had repeared the coaplar!...well i think he toght he did. he had replaced some metal pipes or somethign in the holes! no wonder that the SC mad a very bad sound.
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Then Pressure whashed it whit 120C hot water and oil remover. air dryed it looks good again. after that cone for a ride. seems ignission wires or somethings are still wet cos did the same thing what it did when had bad wires. well when its dry im sure everything will be fine. anyways after coplar change the engine was not that noisy anymore. have do thank Rick for buyign an shiping the coplar, oils and exterjor temperature sencor.
hope the other pullys and outer tierods arrive soon.
one video after whashign the engine
Rickw Guru
Name : Rick Location : Lancaster, MA Joined : 2008-09-13Post Count : 6282 Merit : 119
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:51 am
The ex owner really fixed (f-----d) that coupler up nice, heh. Don't know why it made so much noise..........
AA Administrator
Name : Aaron Age : 47 Location : C-bus, Ohio Joined : 2007-01-13Post Count : 18452 Merit : 252
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:58 pm
Car looks great, Timo! Good to see our members working together to find and deliver parts to our friends across the ocean. Hope everything is up and running for some fun driving in the spring.
'70 Ninety-Eight Holiday Coupe 455cid • 116k miles ^^^ SOLD ^^^
albertj Master
Name : Location : Finger Lakes of New York State Joined : 2007-05-31Post Count : 8687 Merit : 181
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:56 am
Regarding the "drives like when it had bad wires" - when I wash engine, I use compressed air and a blower nozzle to blow the water out of the wells where the spark plugs sit as well as off the wiring. A wet-dry vacuum with a blower cone should also work fine.
Albertj
Snowdog Addict
Name : Timo Age : 38 Location : Finland Joined : 2008-10-04Post Count : 732 Merit : 24
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:56 pm
albertj wrote:
Regarding the "drives like when it had bad wires" - when I wash engine, I use compressed air and a blower nozzle to blow the water out of the wells where the spark plugs sit as well as off the wiring. A wet-dry vacuum with a blower cone should also work fine.
Albertj
i did it tho. blowed most of the water off the engine whit compressed air.
Snowdog Addict
Name : Timo Age : 38 Location : Finland Joined : 2008-10-04Post Count : 732 Merit : 24
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:46 pm
IFinaly figured out a way how to keep lows on when switch on hig's. this saves my hid's cos they do not need to have warmup after switchign back to lows and get more light outbut when have them bouth on.
i made some pictures and a video clip tho. so i show how i did. just need some wire, conectors and a reley. 1.connect one wire whit the Positive (+) do not mix the wires up use a red color wire for that.
2.take off the plug on the high beam bulb, take the cover off the wires. cut off whit a sharp knife some of the plastic cover on the positive wire(POSITIVE is allways a color, negative is BLACK). on right sides high beam is the positive wire yellow. connect another wire whit it, after conecting seal the connection whit tape.
3.pull of the right and left sides low beam plugs from the bulbs. cut off some of the positive wires cover on bouth sides and connect one wire whit them.( this ONE WIRE has to be connected whit RIGH and LEFT bulbs POSITIVE wire)
4.Then take another wire, good if you use black or gray. this will be the GROUND(negative (-) ) wire. connect it somewhere where you get good ground.
5. after that you should have 4 wires. Positive wire from battery (+)(RED) Negative wire from ground(-)(BLACK) One wire from Highbeams positive wire. 2 wires from Lowbeams (right/left)
If you did not do this before then connect right and lefts lowbeams wires whit eachother under one connector or what ever they are called in english. but connectors on all the wires. then you need a reley.(a siple 2 way reley whats normaly used for installign extra high beams on cars or what so ever)
6.connect the wires whit the reley. on the reley what i used low beams are in centre, ground on left, highs on right and positive is up.
7.seal the connections whit some tape again and connect the wiresagainst the cars body so they cant move/shake. after that when you turn on lights there will be lows on, when pull the lever the highs come on and lows stay.
works for me now. sorry about my BAD writing in english lol. hope you all get the point what i meaned.
Snowdog Addict
Name : Timo Age : 38 Location : Finland Joined : 2008-10-04Post Count : 732 Merit : 24
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:05 pm
heya all today i spend some time again on car. got all the things changed now what i had buyed. right left inner and outer tierods.
was easy to change the outers. whit inners had problems, cos there is not much space for using any tools to open it. changing them made the carhandle sharo again.
then changed rear brake pads. that was very easy.
then pulley. was not a hard job tho. took just some minutes.
well anyways after that day had a pile of old parts lol.
there is still much what i want to do. there are some areas on the engine where the oil leaks out. the AC system dos not work cos its empty. need to go refill it, guess i need to get new brake rootors on front tho. feels like they are bended. and if i change them would like to get some sloted/cross trilled rootors and stainles steel covered tubes.
talked whit uno today alot tho about the car. i decided that i will let him paint the whole car. it as scratches everywhere. will not change the color just truy to find a same bearl green. think it look nice whit this color. some days ago found the sport muflers at a shop tho. i will buy them and start whit the exhaust building if i find someone who will sell me 3'' stainles steel pipes.
btw... dos rivs glowebox have a light inside it?? i see that there is a switch what should turn a light on when i open it?
albertj Master
Name : Location : Finger Lakes of New York State Joined : 2007-05-31Post Count : 8687 Merit : 181
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:54 pm
Snowdog wrote:
albertj wrote:
Regarding the "drives like when it had bad wires" - when I wash engine, I use compressed air and a blower nozzle to blow the water out of the wells where the spark plugs sit as well as off the wiring. A wet-dry vacuum with a blower cone should also work fine.
Albertj
i did it tho. blowed most of the water off the engine whit compressed air.
I'm out of ideas; must be something else.
Albertj
albertj Master
Name : Location : Finger Lakes of New York State Joined : 2007-05-31Post Count : 8687 Merit : 181
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:40 pm
The glove box light works only when the headlights or parking lights are on. To test it pull out the headlight know 1 or 2 stops, THEN open teh glovebox door. Light should be on. If not look to see if it is broken or missing.
Albertj
Snowdog Addict
Name : Timo Age : 38 Location : Finland Joined : 2008-10-04Post Count : 732 Merit : 24
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:26 am
i have opened the glowebox many times, even when engine and lights on...but newer have seen any light there. i truyed to to look inside it, but did not find a spot where the bulb is or could be. just have no idea. could anyone make somehow a picture of inside glowe box to see where the bulb should be. is it somewhere in centre? or on side?
albertj Master
Name : Location : Finger Lakes of New York State Joined : 2007-05-31Post Count : 8687 Merit : 181
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:28 am
THe bulb is on the understructure of the dash, so that it lights up the glove compartmetn when open.
When I got my riv, mine did not work either and I had to hunt around there the socket and reinstall it in the holder under the dash. You will have to do that too I suspect.
I do not know that any RIvieras came *without* the glove box light. But maybe, if there was some sort of "light package" option. I don't know. I do know it took me some time to find the socket and re-install it. You have to empty the blovebox, and look and feel around for where it goes and where the fixture went.
I hope someone can post a picture if only to show that you don't really need a picture to fix this one.
Albertj
Snowdog Addict
Name : Timo Age : 38 Location : Finland Joined : 2008-10-04Post Count : 732 Merit : 24
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:32 am
well last time i truyed to find it. i truyed to feel whit hand where the bulb or the socket is. then truyed to go along the wire what comes from the switch of the glowebox. well its a small problem but i just dont like anything to be broken or not working hehe..well will go to unos place and check where it is.
Snowdog Addict
Name : Timo Age : 38 Location : Finland Joined : 2008-10-04Post Count : 732 Merit : 24
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:44 pm
today cone to drive on SEA lol. cos its been like 2 months from -1 to -28C the sea as frozen. dont know how thick it is but saw a 5ton waighting tracktor driving on it. have never driven on it befor lol. but was fun. shame the ice had like 10-30cm of snow on it. foudn out thats its hard to get the riv slide side front cos its so long. could not drive very fast...truyed 90km/h but on some places there the ice had bended a bit up lol and made the car jump.
not very fun to look i guess but its a nice time to practice anythign hehe cos not much things in what to crach the car :p
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the water under the ince was like 4-6meters deep.
Snowdog Addict
Name : Timo Age : 38 Location : Finland Joined : 2008-10-04Post Count : 732 Merit : 24
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:15 am
today decided to but summer wheels on. cos its been just 2 weeks of warm wethers...rod's where clean of snow and dry...but like last year!...after i buted summer wheels on my other car...even tho last time had been dry ower 2 weeks lol...it started to snow again lmao!.. and so happened today...dont know whats going on hehe... oh well will leave it so as it is...anyways more fun whit summer tyres on snow..extreem! hehe
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AA Administrator
Name : Aaron Age : 47 Location : C-bus, Ohio Joined : 2007-01-13Post Count : 18452 Merit : 252
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:17 am
Those wheels look awesome! The 18" Thompsons, right?
'70 Ninety-Eight Holiday Coupe 455cid • 116k miles ^^^ SOLD ^^^
Snowdog Addict
Name : Timo Age : 38 Location : Finland Joined : 2008-10-04Post Count : 732 Merit : 24
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:26 am
AA wrote:
Those wheels look awesome! The 18" Thompsons, right?
i typed the name wrong last time.. they are Tomason TN 1 18'' whit 245/40 tyres
http://www.tomason.de/tn1_presentation.php
IBx1 Expert
Name : ILAN Age : 33 Location : College Station, TX Joined : 2007-12-30Post Count : 4304 Merit : 69
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:18 pm
How are your exhaust tips that clean?!?! Are they new?
captshiner Junkie
Name : Andrew Age : 38 Location : Cincinnati, OH Joined : 2008-07-23Post Count : 756 Merit : -1
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:32 pm
He also needs to tell me what kind of steering wheel cover that is.
Snowdog Addict
Name : Timo Age : 38 Location : Finland Joined : 2008-10-04Post Count : 732 Merit : 24
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:07 pm
IBx1 wrote:
How are your exhaust tips that clean?!?! Are they new?
it's painted whit high thermo paint what i used on my calibers
about steering wheel cover. i do not relly know in what company its made or anything. but i guess it's some MADE IN CHINA again lol. buyed it from a Hong Kong shop here in finland .
EatDirtFartDust Fanatic
Name : The Josh Age : 41 Location : Somewhere between Sullivan and Saint Peters Missouri. Joined : 2009-03-27Post Count : 284 Merit : 2
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:19 pm
Is that wood grain factory, or stick-on pieces. You have a nice car by the way, I like that color, looks cool against the snow.
EatDirtFartDust Fanatic
Name : The Josh Age : 41 Location : Somewhere between Sullivan and Saint Peters Missouri. Joined : 2009-03-27Post Count : 284 Merit : 2
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:25 pm
Nevermind my last post, I went through and found what you are talking about. My interior is red, just like the car that was modeling the kit you bought:
I think the kit looks alot better on your car than it does in the picture of the red interior.
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Snowdog Addict
Name : Timo Age : 38 Location : Finland Joined : 2008-10-04Post Count : 732 Merit : 24
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:25 pm
thank you, its a dash kit what you can buy from some places. there are many colors and styles. the only peaces what rivs had from factory was the trimm araund radio and gear shifting lever.
in my tread i have even pictures of installing it.
and here is the place where i buyed mine: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BUICK-RIVIERA-96-97-98-DASH-TRIM-KIT-DASHBOARD-STYLING_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ72Q3a1205Q7c66Q3a2Q7c65Q3a12Q7c39Q3a1Q7c240Q3a1318Q7c301Q3a1Q7c293Q3a1Q7c294Q3a50QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem250396172543QQitemZ250396172543QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories
EatDirtFartDust Fanatic
Name : The Josh Age : 41 Location : Somewhere between Sullivan and Saint Peters Missouri. Joined : 2009-03-27Post Count : 284 Merit : 2
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:28 pm
Hmm, do you think the light burl wood:
would look too tacky or "seventies" on a red interior? I ask you because I like your taste in interiors.
turtleman Expert
Name : Codith Age : 37 Location : Villa Park, IL Joined : 2007-02-08Post Count : 3671 Merit : 140
Subject: Re: Snowdog's Riv Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:54 pm
This riv is so tight! Both the thompsons and the caddy rims look superb!