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What's your timing at I'm having a hard time finding what my timing should be set at

Hi is that engine closes to a Opel Rekord Car Engine

Excellent tutorial, brother !

I love buicks

well explained, but if you rn your car everyweeks you dont need that

Just install a one way valve? Keeps the fuel from draining back. Provides just enough fuel to turn the engine over.

welllll shiatttttttt why could I not find this video months ago..... was going NUTS trying to find pull thru pumps for this reason. Did discover Faucet Purlator has a whole line of them too. Not sure how competitive priced they are. Added complication though is I needed diesel compatibility.

I hope there was a lawsuit.

That's just pure lazyness for not opening the hood and pouring some fuel in the carb. you better of putting gas in the carb than to go through all that un-original installation crap...

Hi joe, was wondering if you would know the dimensions for the rear drum brake hubs or know of any cars that share the same rear brake drum hub dimensions. I have a two door 64 wildcat and cannot find any rear drum brake hubs at any of my auto part stores. Thank you

God help you if you your engine received a BAD set of new lifters. Very common years ago when I rebuilt a 454. The damn lifters dissolved and this happened to another person working for an auto parts store rebuilding the exact same engine. Metal particles went throughout the engine wiping out the bearings and crank.... The supplier said they would send replacements??!!!

have a 65 vette that I am working on.. this was a wonderful video.. thank you so much for the information.

WAY TOO COMPLICATED . PUT IN AN INLINE CHECK FUEL CHECK VALVE

This would have been better without the music but good video otherwise.

Great video I just inherited my late father’s 63 Rivera with 401. He bought it brand new to take on his and my moms honeymoon so a one owner

Is there a website to find one of the switches at?

Does the power to the pump need to be left on or is it just for priming

My 64 Riviera has the same front drum in the main picture for the video. How do I take that front drum off? I'm having a tough time taking mine off of my Riviera.

Excellent work, diagnostic, and research 🧐! Very informative and interesting! Your kids are lucky to have such a great teacher. I have a 64 LeSabre. One year only alum heads and intake. Super turbine 400 not sure what I’m doing with it yet but I have it.

I remember reading an old magazine article from the 1960s where a 67 GTO made 200 rwhp after tuning so 200 from yours is strong. BTW, one of our family cars was a 66 4 door hardtop Wildcat with a 401 4bbl. I loved that car, and the 64 2 door Catalina before it.

Do these style of pumps run constantly

She came out nice:) Good work young man:)

i'm 62. when i was a teenager i bought a 1966 buick wildcat 4 dr. with only 19,000 miles and a beautiful 401 nailhead. i remember spending hours admiring the appearance of that V-8. the thing is, i distinctly remember it having almost aqueduct like exhaust manifolds, each side having two arches. yet i don't see that on any of the 401's on youtube, even '66 wildcats. can someone help me out with this? i think i have a photo of the engine that i took around 1982 but i haven't yet been able to find it. if i do i will post it.

So on your front brakes did the drum rivets get ground off previously? It looks like i have to remkve the drum and hub as an assembly on my 64 lesabre

I would like to have that engine in a 40- 50's Chevy truck.

Can I get the contact number for the rebuilder…

yours is identical to the one I had back in '85. I miss that car. Mine had black lacquer paint exterior and the two tone firethorn red interior like yours. Man that beast could run. Will you be replacing the hubcaps for the Buick rallys?

I have been rebuilding Buick motors since i was a teenager. Everything from a couple 215's to stroker 455 builds. Nailheads are not that hard to build. And they are bulletproof little engines. Im so sorry this happened.

Those 401 nailhead engines are strong! I have a 65 Wildcat 401 runs like a champ. I had the warerpump and hoses recently done but I noticed a few weeks after this work that antifreeze settles on top of the intake manifold after I let her run what could side this? Nice video!

Great story! Can relate to the frustration you experienced. Had my 425 machined by a shop who specialized in small block ford n chevy mainly. They called it a boat anchor and once i had it running it had all kinds of more sludge in the coolant passages from their hot tank job. Remedied that by running tide detergent through the cooling system. Long story short this engine still runs today as this happened in the.late 80s to me.. Thanks for an indepth inspiring heads up video for those of us with oddball engines.

If the stock fuel pump is working properly then the amount you cranked the engine would more than fill the carb. The problem in most cases is the automatic choke isn’t working properly. I have seen where people crank and crank forever but if the fuel going to the engine isn’t rich enough (choke on) you can be there cranking until the battery goes dead.

I do screw in plugs on everything but they make short ones or you machine them down. Sorry you had this happen.

Bro, one thing I have learned about building engines is that you have plenty of knowledge to do it yourself. If there are any tips or tricks, we have the Internet now, so all that is available to you. I feel for you. Only one time did I have a shop rebuild an engine in my life. They knew how important an engine it was too. They screwed up everything, and they build NASCAR engines. Seems they were funding their NASCAR by giving the shaft to all the customers. Never had any problems with engines I built myself. Yeah, sometimes it took a long time, but I was younger then and it did not matter, it was done right.

Oh the 401 "400 special" is a epic one 🤤

A true forever car❤

The valves resemble nails, not the heads.

Really small valves, resembling nails...I get that. In fact, these engines were referred to as "nail valve v8s" in some of the old 60s car magazines I have. But what do the heads have to do with nails?

I have a 63 Buick LeSable 4 door hardtop with the original engine that needs rebuilt. Could you recommend an overdrive transmission? Thanks

I love the engine rumble and exhaust sound of that big wildcat! The big low to mid range torque on power of that old traditional American V8. Not the wheeze and blatty discordant noise of the newer so called low restriction 6000 rpm v8 noise makers so popular today.

There must be a very big difference between those original SAE gross ponies at the crank with no accessories installed and the SAE net ponies at the rear tire ground contact patch. Looks like your losing close to 30% of those ponies on the way to the dinner for that hamburger. That’s seems to be a lot of power loss in the driveline.

I like the shiny green you chose rather than the duller satin and flat green colors. The shine give the motor a bit of a sparkle of reflected light I like to see in the engine bay.

Curious why you need the steel fuel line quick disconnect? Wouldn't the fuel pump still allow fuel to travel through when it's turned off and or broken? Deciding if I want to put in a Y line next to the fuel pump with a check valve.

Nice nail always more torque. Style

What goes around comes around for that dude that screwed you up. Try to forget about it or it will eat you alive. I have seen people get ate up with hate in my life and it kills people, very slowly. Peace. That 401 sounds like an American V8 for sure.

200+hp SAE at the wheels is pretty good when you factor in turning the ST400, 9 3/8” rear and all the accessories for the conversion from gross hp. Hard to find good machine shops nowadays that build non Chevy small blocks.

Muito bom ter notícias do andamento das manutenções do seu Buick! Forte Abraço! Deus Abençoe!

Should of had exhaust on the manifolds during break in . Not only to hear any abnormal mechanical noise but the cool air rushing in so close to the ex. Valve when it’s shut off can warpe them . Nice looking machine !

She’s a head turner !

Real cars! Before pests like OPEC and the EPA.

O love that,!!!