I remember seeing a 56 Buick two door Century in my town that was a party machine for the town drunks. I thought what a great car if restored. I ended up buying it off a used car lot a broken down junker. I worked on it for three years and it was gorgeous. But I needed to sell it to buy a house that I still live in. Thank you 1956 Buick.😢😊
Great ole Buick! I think '56 was the best year for cars, before they started cutting cirners and using cheaper parts. The '56 Chevy was a nice car too, real solid. Thanls for posting!
Nice car, my friend had a 55 and it was the first car that I ever saw with the gas pedal starter. I'd keep it original and just clean the crap out of it and fix what you have to.
Young man I forgot to mention also That's a winner pretty rare 2-door hardtop they usually come in the 4 door usually that's what's left but the 2-door hardtops are hard to come by just thought I'd add; that in my comments. Keep it original put some nice tires on there some nice white walls the Coker classic white walls that baby will look really nice good luck young man.
Love the car! Looks like you’ve got a gem especially with it starting as well and driving (at least one way)! Keep it all original!!! Those are getting more rare as time passes! Well done!
Best view during startup ever. Please make more like this! So cool to see what you're doing with the gas pedal. Starting carbureted cars is becoming a lost art and its so cool to watch... Subscribed!
Young man that is a nice 56 Buick runs like a champ that engine and exhaust sounds really good a little tender love and care and a clean up, it's really solid too.The body interior everything great fine fix that nice baby up you got you a nice car. Again great fine those engines are good engines my dad had a 56 Buick and that motor ran forever 👍🏼🙌🏼
I've owned 4 of them and the main issue with the "vacuum" fuel pump is the windshield wipers are vacuum operated from the fuel pump, at least the three 50's; 54.55, 56 were. the 61 I believe had electric. The issue was that as the diaphragm in the fuel pump aged and the wipers were running, the pump would draw oil from the crankcase and would leak. the solution was to replace the pump or if you were on the cheap you would reroute the vacuum line to a spot on the intake manifold, but when you gave it the gas the vacuum would be drawn away from the wipers and the wipers would stop until you let up. Lots of fun.
Hi Dean..great car and kudos to you for saving it..hey find an old Chilton's or motors manual and it will have transmission troubleshooting section in it for the dynaflow..I'd bet any rubber or plastic bushings between the shift linkage and trans are worn out or missing completely considering the age of the car..also with old cars like that and just putting around I'd spray the chrome down with wd40 and go over it with 4-0 steel wool to clean it up..doing that and seeing it shine a bit always encouraged me to work on making it look better and continuing to work on it..I've subscribed to your channel and I'm looking fwd to another video. If you need that trans troubleshooting literature give me a shout, I'm in Ct. and I'd be happy to mail it up to New York..keep up the good work!
I have a '56 Buick Special 4 door Riviera I have owned for 35 years. I was just a kid when I acquired it. Now I am an old man but the car still looks the same! The carburetor you have on your car is a two barrel Stromberg. They either came with a Carter or a Stromberg. You have a standard hot air choke from the manifold. The electric device you showed in the video is the Startex switch for the throttle starter.
Yep, keep it all original if possible!! Back in the day when I worked on my tri five Chevy, I had a U shaped box wrench, wide at the base )about 5 inches)and the two upright ends were about 3 inches high. It was made specifically for those starters. Great video!
Dude I just discovered your channel tonight watching this video and haven't caught up your Channel I think she is a survivor and you would do her dishonour and unjustice if you changed anything keep her all original and freshen up the same colors with a little love should make a real nice daily driver okay brother God bless
You probable already figured this out about the fuel pump. When using an electric fuel pump, these pumps PUSH better than PULL. Always mount electric pumps close to the fuel tank. Every thing else being equal, it will work. My first car was a 1956 super, model 56r. I went through the same headaches as yourself.
So cool! I don't know very much about cars, but I have a character in my book who does a lot of this sort of work on cars so it's cool to see this in action!
I'd be tempted to fix the original trans and get things purring. There are plenty of old classics with everything from SBC engines and TH350's to big blocks and Muncies, LS swaps and even Hellcat plants. It's more work, maybe, but I would think more rewarding to keep it original if you can. BUT- it's your car. Do what makes you happy. That old girl deserves to live on, for sure. Linda and I send our best.
Great video! I have a 55 in the garage and a 56 sitting on the pad beside it, both super's, but with no time to work on either ... my brother is itching to just fire them up but I want to get a solid oil change and pull the pan to get rid of some of the scum that probably crusting up sitting on the bottom. Maybe today is the day. Cheers!
You can buy and/ or make a adapter to put any trans on that engine. The buick nailheads were a very popular engine swap back in the day. It would be cool to see you swap a turbo 350 or a 700 r4 into that car, and leave it looking stock then put a 4 barrel on the nailhead with some peroid correct speed parts and dress up under the hood. Dont restore it just make a down and dirty street cruiser/ hot rod
Keep it all original. Fix it up and one day do a frame off resto not many of these left out there. Nice find, body in petty good shape for a 63 yo car. Work on cars for over twenty years. Had a few classics and did frame off resto's on them. You could do a restomod on it but your talkin some big money there. Hope this helps my friend.
This past summer a customer came into the shop I work at with a 56 Century that had 17,000 orginal miles on it. I removed the nail head and drive line line from it and installed a LS3 from a 2015 Camaro. Also installed 9 inch Ford rear axle.
nice , them old buicks always seem to run . the biggest problem i've run into on the early buicks , the torque tube . That limits you on transmissions . the 39 i did i had to build a new rear suspension . The 27 T i reworked with the 322 nail head and clapped out dynaflow , i did a willcap adapter to a th350 . then reworked the rear suspension with ladder bars and a camaro rear end . All do able , just more work. Dyna flows are kind of a pain to rebuild . good parts are hard to find , but do able . they did drill some auto cranks . the last 322 was drilled i had come in the shop . but you won't know until you get trans out .
Good info. It would be nice to put a th400 behind the 322. I'll have to look into that adapter. Was it for a Chevy pattern or bop? I've heard of other people also using the Camaro rear end under these cars with 67-72 chevy c10 trailing arms
Nice project. I have a pretty oem 55 Roadmaster. After you get vacuum pump working, it's not unusual to move the electric pump to the frame and use it to prime the carburetor for starts after the car sits for awhile.
Put a 1967 430 wildcat and switch pitch 400 turbo trans in it, they had a 2200 stall and you could hookup a linelock button on it for a manual release for stall.
Just a little tip: Next time you start a car that hasn't been started in a decade or more remove the fuel line that goes from the tank to the fuel pump and run a hose from the fuel pump to a gerry can so you can start the thing with clean fuel and not drag a bunch of rust into the carb. Really cool project I hope you keep it period correct.
Yes I did enjoy it -thank you. It's great how you've managed to find a nice 'original' car. More or less original, anyway. Which reminds me, yeah, My vote would be to keep it original, if it's not too late to have an opinion. I see you've made further videos, so I will see for myself. Nice no drama style/editing btw. Cheers from UK.
my family had a 55 special and it was a great car and we went everywhere in that car intell my dad traided it in for a new 69 gs skylark and they both were good cars when i was a kid.
Got a 4 door 55 special about 3 months ago. No motor no trans rotted frame. Gonna lay the body on an s10 frame and run a 350/700r. If mine was as complete as yours I'd leave it stock. I am saving mine from the scrap yard lol.
I have 2 dynaflows you can have. Both are good, I put a nailhead in my 32 coupe and saved every one I ran across for back up , also have 2 56 buicks in the barn if you need parts to keep yours original
The 54 could be had with a manual trans although not common.If the crank has no provision for a pilot bearing ,you should probably stick to an automatic.Who knows, a turbo-hydramatic might be adapted .
I'm having a similar problem with my 53 buick you have to push down kind of hard at times to make it go into reverse and if you hit a bump hard enough it achually try's to pop out of gear so I need to check out my linkage as well nice car
Low pump pressure, so swap the torque converter or any hydromatic from olds, Cadillac or pontiac will also fit. I do believe that the transmission bellhousing unbolts from the transmission in those... go look at those older transmissions from those cars in a wrecking yard. Hollander makes a exchange book for older model rigs and it shows what parts interchange with other cars. I had a cadillac that the starter was out and it was over a hundred and some so waiting for coin to build up... lucky me, neighbor looks at the starter laying there and said to me that he just changed his starter in his ford pickup and they looked the same to him so we compared them to find out that a reman for a ford truck was less than thirty dollars bolted right in and walla boom, it started bing bang. A Hollander parts exchange book is several hundred dollars and usually only wrecking yards have them. But there is ways if you only explore them
Transmission fluid is transmission fluid. The cheap stuff from Walmart is as good as any, it just doesn't have as many additives like the higher dollar stuff and it doesn't have the "name" which is half the price point.
I never really thought about it like that. I'm sure you are right . The less additives the better for these old gm cars. They call for dextron type A which isn't even sold anymore and is very basic fluid that had no additives.
Fix up also and get lots done also enjoy too ! If find a Chevrolet, Pontaic Steering from same years with P R, D, S, L or P R with OD or D 2, 1 put Turbo 700SR 4speed Automatic Overdrive or Turbo 200 2 speed powerglide or Turbo 350 3 speed Automatic transmission hook up it be excellent, get 377 ratio posi rear end gears any V8 like 350 to 455 with 4 bbl plus daul exhausted be excellent!
It should have a 2 bbl carb not a 1 bbl. I had one when I was 16, a very long time ago . I didn't care for the vacuum operated windshield wipers, but you could add a vacuum can with a one way valve that would help a lot. Those were pretty good cars, the dynafo transmission couldn't handle a lot of abuse, just go easy, and if it's good it should last a long time. If not, it's a pain to pull, either pull the engine, or rear axle, it has an enclosed drive shaft
I would advise to leave it stock. Trust me I love manual transmissions so the desire to do that part of the swap would be really strong for me too. I have seen people make their own custom adapters for pretty much everything. I'd be surprised if you were totally stuck with that transmission.
I'd say you done pretty good bud, she sounds great! I think something like a later 401 nailhead and trans would be a nice swap for it, kinda go with that sleeper vibe you were talking about lol.
@@Fullthrottle440Garage the later buick v8s especially the 455s have a weak oiling system. You would be better off with a 364/401/425 with a nailhead switch pitch th400. You will need to convert to a open driveline. Since yours is a 56 you just need a 3rd member from a 61-62 full size buick as they were open drive then. Bolts in. 4 link it and put a driveshaft in. The dynaflow thrustplate works for th400s. Just have to drill out the mounting holes for the trans mount
@@308RoadReady already too late. Swapping a 455/th400 in. I will be upgrading to a high performance oil pump. They are still great engines. Just the oil system that needs to be upgraded
The first thing that surprised me was that it still had a good battery box. Older Cars like that old Buick are only Original once. Do that Old Gem justice, and leave it Original. Nuff Said.
Those dynaflow transmissions leak the fluid out after sitting for a while, probably add some and it be fine. They aren't hard to rebuild if you end up needing to
I think just rebuild it and it will be fine. Those cars went cross country in the day. They still can. Find an old guy who can still do it or do it yourself.
@ClappedOutClassics, What did you do with this engine? Do you still have it? I've got a 56 with a busted 322. Would love to find one that is in decent shape to drop in it. If you have this one still, are you wanting to get rid of it?
Keep it original. Only exception are for things like replacing the original single chamber master cylinder with a dual chamber m/c. I lost hydraulics on the freeway once. If it weren't for the dual chamber m/c, I might not be here.
If it was mine, I would swap in either a 401 or a 425 nailhead and a Super turbine 400 from a 64 and swap out the old torque tube setup but keep the originals around so they could be reinstalled if wanted. It would look stock but have way more power and a better transmission. (interesting thing with the sper turbine 400 is it is a dual pump transmission so it can be push started like the Dont-a-Flow)
Id rather have this Buick than my 2000 LeSabre! Easier to work on and stylish! 2000 LeSabre is pretty good car when things work right, but too much electronics like most newer cars!😁🤟🔧
I remember seeing a 56 Buick two door Century in my town that was a party machine for the town drunks. I thought what a great car if restored. I ended up buying it off a used car lot a broken down junker. I worked on it for three years and it was gorgeous. But I needed to sell it to buy a house that I still live in. Thank you 1956 Buick.😢😊
Keep all buick. And as original as much as possible
Great ole Buick! I think '56 was the best year for cars, before they started cutting cirners and using cheaper parts. The '56 Chevy was a nice car too, real solid. Thanls for posting!
Thanks for watching. I like 50s 60s cars the best for sure
Nice car, always liked the old Buicks.
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Please keep it original! They were stellar cars in their day!
Nice car, my friend had a 55 and it was the first car that I ever saw with the gas pedal starter. I'd keep it original and just clean the crap out of it and fix what you have to.
Yeah the starter switch is cool
Electric fuel pumps should be mounted close to the gas tank and NEVER in the engine compartment. Electric pumps push fuel better than they pull fuel .
Great video. Excellent treatment of the subject. I remember Buicks of that era for their quirky starters and short gear shifts.
Original!
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Nice ride. Fix it and drive it the way it is.....Awesome car.
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Awesome car my friend
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Young man I forgot to mention also That's a winner pretty rare 2-door hardtop they usually come in the 4 door usually that's what's left but the 2-door hardtops are hard to come by just thought I'd add; that in my comments. Keep it original put some nice tires on there some nice white walls the Coker classic white walls that baby will look really nice good luck young man.
Thank you
Interesting video and I really enjoyed watching you start it.
So cool to see this 56 Buick come back to life. My vote is to keep her original
It's gonna be mostly original
Nice to hear it running, and seeing it move, it looks great the way it is.
Thanks, I think so too.
Love the car! Looks like you’ve got a gem especially with it starting as well and driving (at least one way)! Keep it all original!!! Those are getting more rare as time passes! Well done!
If I had kept it original I would never drive it. So much better with a 5.3 in it
Best view during startup ever. Please make more like this! So cool to see what you're doing with the gas pedal. Starting carbureted cars is becoming a lost art and its so cool to watch... Subscribed!
Thanks! Appreciate it
THESE WERE TIGHT AND FAST
Young man that is a nice 56 Buick runs like a champ that engine and exhaust sounds really good a little tender love and care and a clean up, it's really solid too.The body interior everything great fine fix that nice baby up you got you a nice car. Again great fine those engines are good engines my dad had a 56 Buick and that motor ran forever 👍🏼🙌🏼
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I've owned 4 of them and the main issue with the "vacuum" fuel pump is the windshield wipers are vacuum operated from the fuel pump, at least the three 50's; 54.55, 56 were. the 61 I believe had electric. The issue was that as the diaphragm in the fuel pump aged and the wipers were running, the pump would draw oil from the crankcase and would leak. the solution was to replace the pump or if you were on the cheap you would reroute the vacuum line to a spot on the intake manifold, but when you gave it the gas the vacuum would be drawn away from the wipers and the wipers would stop until you let up. Lots of fun.
They very nice cars, luxury auto, in the buick letters!!???
Interesting..
The car looks and sounds great. I hope you fix the dynaflow. Good video.
Dynaflows suck. The car is nice though
Hi Dean..great car and kudos to you for saving it..hey find an old Chilton's or motors manual and it will have transmission troubleshooting section in it for the dynaflow..I'd bet any rubber or plastic bushings between the shift linkage and trans are worn out or missing completely considering the age of the car..also with old cars like that and just putting around I'd spray the chrome down with wd40 and go over it with 4-0 steel wool to clean it up..doing that and seeing it shine a bit always encouraged me to work on making it look better and continuing to work on it..I've subscribed to your channel and I'm looking fwd to another video. If you need that trans troubleshooting literature give me a shout, I'm in Ct. and I'd be happy to mail it up to New York..keep up the good work!
I appreciate it! I did buy a nice manual for it
Sweet man
It's a good old car. It runs, moves more or less, and the brake lights still work.
I have a '56 Buick Special 4 door Riviera I have owned for 35 years. I was just a kid when I acquired it. Now I am an old man but the car still looks the same! The carburetor you have on your car is a two barrel Stromberg. They either came with a Carter or a Stromberg. You have a standard hot air choke from the manifold. The electric device you showed in the video is the Startex switch for the throttle starter.
Very cool you've had it that long. I did eventually figure out that the switch was the starter switch.
Sound good Dean have a happy Easter thanks for sharing the start-up on the Buick.
Thanks for watching!
Very nice find. Double K
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This was awesome.
I love it!. I had a 1954 Buick Super for a while but never got around to doing anything with it and sold it.
Cool ! These cars are pretty awesome and very well made
Yep, keep it all original if possible!! Back in the day when I worked on my tri five Chevy, I had a U shaped box wrench, wide at the base )about 5 inches)and the two upright ends were about 3 inches high. It was made specifically for those starters. Great video!
Thank you. I thought there was probably a special wrench for it
Dude I just discovered your channel tonight watching this video and haven't caught up your Channel I think she is a survivor and you would do her dishonour and unjustice if you changed anything keep her all original and freshen up the same colors with a little love should make a real nice daily driver okay brother God bless
Glad to have you
You probable already figured this out about the fuel pump. When using an electric fuel pump, these pumps PUSH better than PULL. Always mount electric pumps close to the fuel tank. Every thing else being equal, it will work.
My first car was a 1956 super, model 56r. I went through the same headaches as yourself.
You are right, I did think about that eventually.
The reason these old buicks are hardly rusty underneath is because when the Dyanflow leaks it gets everywhere. Best rust proofing ever.
I think you are right
Great Buick !!
Thank you!
Just found u i like ur show! Keep up the good work
Welcome
Its beautiful the way it is
So cool! I don't know very much about cars, but I have a character in my book who does a lot of this sort of work on cars so it's cool to see this in action!
I'd be tempted to fix the original trans and get things purring. There are plenty of old classics with everything from SBC engines and TH350's to big blocks and Muncies, LS swaps and even Hellcat plants. It's more work, maybe, but I would think more rewarding to keep it original if you can. BUT- it's your car. Do what makes you happy. That old girl deserves to live on, for sure. Linda and I send our best.
Thank you. I agree and that's what I'm gonna try to do.
Great video! I have a 55 in the garage and a 56 sitting on the pad beside it, both super's, but with no time to work on either ... my brother is itching to just fire them up but I want to get a solid oil change and pull the pan to get rid of some of the scum that probably crusting up sitting on the bottom. Maybe today is the day. Cheers!
Sounds like some neat projects!
You can buy and/ or make a adapter to put any trans on that engine. The buick nailheads were a very popular engine swap back in the day. It would be cool to see you swap a turbo 350 or a 700 r4 into that car, and leave it looking stock then put a 4 barrel on the nailhead with some peroid correct speed parts and dress up under the hood. Dont restore it just make a down and dirty street cruiser/ hot rod
I like that idea.
Sounds really good Dean and should be a reliable vehicle if you can get the gremlins worked out.
That's what I'm hoping, thanks for watching
That's a pretty nice car and runs good.
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That is a beautiful car! Glad it is up and running. Does anyone besides me like the sound of the starter when it is being cranked?
Yeah me too
Cool! That is an amazing sound!!
Keep it all original. Fix it up and one day do a frame off resto not many of these left out there. Nice find, body in petty good shape for a 63 yo car. Work on cars for over twenty years. Had a few classics and did frame off resto's on them. You could do a restomod on it but your talkin some big money there. Hope this helps my friend.
Thanks for watching
This past summer a customer came into the shop I work at with a 56 Century that had 17,000 orginal miles on it. I removed the nail head and drive line line from it and installed a LS3 from a 2015 Camaro. Also installed 9 inch Ford rear axle.
That thing probably rips. Nice build
nice , them old buicks always seem to run .
the biggest problem i've run into on the early buicks , the torque tube . That limits you on transmissions . the 39 i did i had to build a new rear suspension . The 27 T i reworked with the 322 nail head and clapped out dynaflow , i did a willcap adapter to a th350 . then reworked the rear suspension with ladder bars and a camaro rear end . All do able , just more work.
Dyna flows are kind of a pain to rebuild . good parts are hard to find , but do able .
they did drill some auto cranks . the last 322 was drilled i had come in the shop . but you won't know until you get trans out .
Good info. It would be nice to put a th400 behind the 322. I'll have to look into that adapter. Was it for a Chevy pattern or bop? I've heard of other people also using the Camaro rear end under these cars with 67-72 chevy c10 trailing arms
it was for the chevy bell housing pattern . the C10 truck arms would be a good swap . I made them for that 39 Buick . took forever to build those .
Nice project. I have a pretty oem 55 Roadmaster. After you get vacuum pump working, it's not unusual to move the electric pump to the frame and use it to prime the carburetor for starts after the car sits for awhile.
Neat. Never thought of that.
Put a 1967 430 wildcat and switch pitch 400 turbo trans in it, they had a 2200 stall and you could hookup a linelock button on it for a manual release for stall.
Maybe on my next one
Just a little tip: Next time you start a car that hasn't been started in a decade or more remove the fuel line that goes from the tank to the fuel pump and run a hose from the fuel pump to a gerry can so you can start the thing with clean fuel and not drag a bunch of rust into the carb. Really cool project I hope you keep it period correct.
I definitely should have done that, I was lazy
Nice to play with especially to keep the mind occupied, like rare car's especially when everyone else driving the same car's good to be different.
Exactly , you know it
My mom had a Century Sedan when I was little.
Sweet!
Yes I did enjoy it -thank you. It's great how you've managed to find a nice 'original' car. More or less original, anyway. Which reminds me, yeah, My vote would be to keep it original, if it's not too late to have an opinion. I see you've made further videos, so I will see for myself. Nice no drama style/editing btw. Cheers from UK.
Glad you enjoyed
That's a beautiful car!!!
Thank you
Love these cars, just subscribed...
Welcome aboard
my family had a 55 special and it was a great car and we went everywhere in that car intell my dad traided it in for a new 69 gs skylark and they both were good cars when i was a kid.
Awesome! Good memories
Got a 4 door 55 special about 3 months ago. No motor no trans rotted frame. Gonna lay the body on an s10 frame and run a 350/700r. If mine was as complete as yours I'd leave it stock. I am saving mine from the scrap yard lol.
Sounds like an awesome plan
I have 2 dynaflows you can have. Both are good, I put a nailhead in my 32 coupe and saved every one I ran across for back up , also have 2 56 buicks in the barn if you need parts to keep yours original
Thanks , mine has a 5.3 in it now, but other than the car will be original
The 54 could be had with a manual trans although not common.If the crank has no provision for a pilot bearing ,you should probably stick to an automatic.Who knows, a turbo-hydramatic might be adapted .
Yes the standard transmissions for the nail head are near impossible to find
I'm having a similar problem with my 53 buick you have to push down kind of hard at times to make it go into reverse and if you hit a bump hard enough it achually try's to pop out of gear so I need to check out my linkage as well nice car
Check motor mounts and transmission mount .most likely one of these,,also mechanical linkage.
Low pump pressure, so swap the torque converter or any hydromatic from olds, Cadillac or pontiac will also fit. I do believe that the transmission bellhousing unbolts from the transmission in those... go look at those older transmissions from those cars in a wrecking yard. Hollander makes a exchange book for older model rigs and it shows what parts interchange with other cars. I had a cadillac that the starter was out and it was over a hundred and some so waiting for coin to build up... lucky me, neighbor looks at the starter laying there and said to me that he just changed his starter in his ford pickup and they looked the same to him so we compared them to find out that a reman for a ford truck was less than thirty dollars bolted right in and walla boom, it started bing bang. A Hollander parts exchange book is several hundred dollars and usually only wrecking yards have them. But there is ways if you only explore them
Interesting. I'll have to look into that
Once you get it started you have to turn the key so the starter doesn't engage when you step into the pedal, yes? Good update.
No, you would think but off kills all power. You don't ever need full throttle with these engines because all the power is made at lower rpms
And also with the dynaflow there is no kick down when you stop on it because it is two speed. High and low
Transmission fluid is transmission fluid. The cheap stuff from Walmart is as good as any, it just doesn't have as many additives like the higher dollar stuff and it doesn't have the "name" which is half the price point.
I never really thought about it like that. I'm sure you are right . The less additives the better for these old gm cars. They call for dextron type A which isn't even sold anymore and is very basic fluid that had no additives.
Real Detroit Iron. Built in Buick City, Flint Michigan!
Yessir
Plz tell me you kept the 322 in her??
No. It's got a 5.3 in it now
Fix up also and get lots done also enjoy too ! If find a Chevrolet, Pontaic Steering from same years with P R, D, S, L or P R with OD or D 2, 1 put Turbo 700SR 4speed Automatic Overdrive or Turbo 200 2 speed powerglide or Turbo 350 3 speed Automatic transmission hook up it be excellent, get 377 ratio posi rear end gears any V8 like 350 to 455 with 4 bbl plus daul exhausted be excellent!
Oh yeah it would.
It should have a 2 bbl carb not a 1 bbl.
I had one when I was 16, a very long time ago . I didn't care for the vacuum operated windshield wipers, but you could add a vacuum can with a one way valve that would help a lot.
Those were pretty good cars, the dynafo transmission couldn't handle a lot of abuse, just go easy, and if it's good it should last a long time. If not, it's a pain to pull, either pull the engine, or rear axle, it has an enclosed drive shaft
Yup dynaflows aren't that great
I'd personally like to see it stay stock. I love the car
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Keep it as it is
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Bensens in ham lake MN. Makes adapters to put any chevy trans on that nail head
Cool.
Buick Dynaflow transmissions leak a lot. Especially when they haven't been used for a while.
Yeah you got that right. It literally left a trail
I would advise to leave it stock. Trust me I love manual transmissions so the desire to do that part of the swap would be really strong for me too. I have seen people make their own custom adapters for pretty much everything. I'd be surprised if you were totally stuck with that transmission.
I have seen people adapt transmissions to the nailhead. Just not easy
I'd say you done pretty good bud, she sounds great! I think something like a later 401 nailhead and trans would be a nice swap for it, kinda go with that sleeper vibe you were talking about lol.
Yes, I was also thinking 455 . I know of an older gentleman with one sitting in his shop.
@@Fullthrottle440Garage the later buick v8s especially the 455s have a weak oiling system. You would be better off with a 364/401/425 with a nailhead switch pitch th400. You will need to convert to a open driveline. Since yours is a 56 you just need a 3rd member from a 61-62 full size buick as they were open drive then. Bolts in. 4 link it and put a driveshaft in. The dynaflow thrustplate works for th400s. Just have to drill out the mounting holes for the trans mount
@@308RoadReady already too late. Swapping a 455/th400 in. I will be upgrading to a high performance oil pump. They are still great engines. Just the oil system that needs to be upgraded
Keep it real.
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Yup original because its all there!!!
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Cool!
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The first thing that surprised me was that it still had a good battery box. Older Cars like that old Buick are only Original once. Do that Old Gem justice, and leave it Original. Nuff Said.
I know I'm late to the party, but... BIG BLOCK!
That would be cool, maybe next time
Buick 455 Stage ll big block of course!
Those dynaflow transmissions leak the fluid out after sitting for a while, probably add some and it be fine. They aren't hard to rebuild if you end up needing to
They suck
LS swap it... lol jk. I know it already is. Great video.
Just so you know I'm jealous 😜
Haha. Thanks. This is a pretty special car
With that two barrel , it could be a 264.
It is a 322 but I think someone swapped the intake
The 264 was made only in '54 and '55
Gostei muito! Espero retorno deste Buick pronto original. Um abraço Ivan Simões Salvador Bahia Brasi.l
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I think just rebuild it and it will be fine. Those cars went cross country in the day. They still can. Find an old guy who can still do it or do it yourself.
That's what my current plan is. I want to find a really in-depth book on the dynaflow.
Keep it all Buick.... Chevrolet engines are for Canadian Pontiacs
Buicks and Chevy's are made in Canada too, not just the Pontiac!
@ClappedOutClassics, What did you do with this engine? Do you still have it? I've got a 56 with a busted 322. Would love to find one that is in decent shape to drop in it. If you have this one still, are you wanting to get rid of it?
Sold it a while ago
Anybody know why nailhead?
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Oh yeah
I need that supertech deck strong for years there's nothing wrong with it as good as any other it's made by mobile one
Hmm didn't know that.
Buick should be as original as you can have it ..
Well, if you don't drive much ,yes
Forgot to say hold on to that gem!
I will
Heck yeah, ls swap everything. Prob need one in the ram too!
It definitely needs one!
455 with a 400 tyranny keep it buick
Asking if a nailhead will run is like asking if the sun will rise tomorrow.
Lol
Where do you live..?
NY, but moving to Arkansas this week actually
Keep it original. Only exception are for things like replacing the original single chamber master cylinder with a dual chamber m/c. I lost hydraulics on the freeway once. If it weren't for the dual chamber m/c, I might not be here.
Yeah it's getting dual master, and front disk conversion
If it was mine, I would swap in either a 401 or a 425 nailhead and a Super turbine 400 from a 64 and swap out the old torque tube setup but keep the originals around so they could be reinstalled if wanted. It would look stock but have way more power and a better transmission. (interesting thing with the sper turbine 400 is it is a dual pump transmission so it can be push started like the Dont-a-Flow)
Even that cheapo trans fluid is better than what they had in 1956.
You are right
Spray some pblaster down the carb lolll
It works
first !!
you win!
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Id rather have this Buick than my 2000 LeSabre! Easier to work on and stylish! 2000 LeSabre is pretty good car when things work right, but too much electronics like most newer cars!😁🤟🔧
Keep the old girl completely bone stock , dont go messing her up .
Well..
Did I see a FM converter lol
You did lol
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