Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby Alexxx1966 » Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:06 pm

The process is going. Some new pictures

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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby hammerdown7 » Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:17 pm

Where did you find the tires?

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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby Alexxx1966 » Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:22 pm

Bought them by chance here in Russia. Found them while surfing local equivalent of Craiglist
Quite rare R13. Were brand new. Being sold in town 60 miles from my place. So had to drive 120 miles to get them
Paid $200 per set of 4

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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby hammerdown7 » Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:37 pm

Great find and great price!

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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby Monza Harry » Fri Jul 07, 2017 7:37 pm

Alexxx1966 wrote: So had to drive 120 miles to get them Paid $200 per set of 4 Alex

I would say that is a WIN! Harry
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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby RedFiveKBS » Fri Jul 07, 2017 10:29 pm

White Letter Tires in 13 inch here in the USA have not been available for more than a decade. :x

I actually have those same tires on my Sunbird. They are 13 years old!!! LOL

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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby Alexxx1966 » Sat Aug 12, 2017 2:45 pm

Go on with assembling. Front end is more or less intact

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Now working with interiors. More photos will be tomorrow

While taking off back plastic parts of front seats for painting my son found factory assembling sheet behind plastic back of passenger front seat. It is a little damaged but anyway

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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby Alexxx1966 » Sat May 12, 2018 4:35 pm

Slowly but moving forward. Too busy at work so lack of time for Buick.

Today finally went with Buick to muffler shop. Spent the whole day there. Now having new complete Magnaflow stainless steel exhaust.

How it was before - junk from bits and pieces

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How it is looking Now

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And some recent photos of my Buick but still hell of a lot to do.


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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby hammerdown7 » Sat May 12, 2018 5:31 pm

Looking good, nice job on the exhaust.

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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby Alexxx1966 » Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:43 am

Thank you Dick!

Here are my news

Now Buick is fully polished and assembled and I can say it is finished in its exterior part.
Now need to do some works on interiors and in under hood part.

One question. When I put on turn indicator left or right everything is fine, front and back lights are blinking both left and right as it should be but when I push brake they stop blinking and just lighting. Is it normal? Or if it is a fault where to search to fix it? Thank you in advance!

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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby Monza Harry » Tue Jun 19, 2018 9:31 pm

Alex that is a common condition with the "Hazard Flashers" [or 4 way flashers if you prefer] when the flasher is bad as the brake lights are supposed to stop the "4 Ways", I haven't seen that with the turn signals though. 1st then is check to see if the button is in the "Out" position [off] and try again. If that fixes it than you just need the proper flasher, if not this makes me think it is in the steering column's turn signal switch, I would check everything else I could find first, as that isn't an easy, fast or cheap job. I would look for any wires [bare] touching each other that shouldn't be, especially near the plug just under the dash on top of the column or the brake light switch not far away,. That is all that come to my mind for this but there are more than a few electrically gifted members here so, Stay Tuned! Harry
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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby Alexxx1966 » Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:27 am

Thank you for giving right direction Harry!
Will update on results.
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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby 79MonzaSpyder » Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:36 pm

Alex, nice work on the Skyhawk. Paint look great. Is that an 8 Track deck in the dash? You don't see them anymore.
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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby Alexxx1966 » Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:42 am

Thank you!
Painting and car polishing cost me $2000 all together with preparation costs, body works, paint, painting etc.
Yes this is 8 track. Automatic Radio brand. Properly working. Need to buy more 8 track cartridges)) Now just have one. Night at studio 54
Also bought adapters - from 8 track to compact cassettes and another one adapter as compact cassette with wire to plug it into phone.
Tried it both with compact cassette and phone. Everything is working.
Trying to make my Buick pure authentic 70's style.
For car shows bought also 70's Levis panatella light blue pants and Washington DeeCee striped big collar shirt to match with my car 70's style. :D
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Re: Restoring 1978 Buick Skyhawk in Russia

Postby Alexxx1966 » Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:44 am

Will keep posted on the progress
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