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I see you are in New Paltz. We are having the Spring meet up in Saratoga Springs over Memorial Day weekend. Why don't you come up for the weekend. There will be plenty of people around who know the cars and are willing to offer advice (I'm not say it will all be good advice) and help. You can also have precertification checks done on the car if you want to have it certified.
If you cann't make it for the weekend try to come up on Sunday, we'll have the judging then and a lot of sitting around and swapping lies.
Check out the meet section of the web site for more info.
Jim
P.S. We got 14" so far from the same storm...a great time to work on the cars, there's not much else to do untill it stops.
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I did finally get the car started only to have it spray gas out of the carb while it was running . I took all the spark plugs out and was able to determine that 2 exhaust valves were stuck open . I was able to shoot some PB Blaster down the valves and 2 days later I was able to tap them down and free them up . All thru the spark plug opening. I now have compression in all cylinders . I was going to try and start her today but we're in the middle of a blizzard. Expecting a foot of snow .
I'll try to post some pictures soon . Thanks for all the help. I'm sure I'll have more questions....time to throw some more wood in the stove .
Lance
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Lance wrote: Greetings to all . I purchased a 1931 8 98A
Hi Lance!
My Auburn is an 1931 8-98A Sedan, too. If you have some Pictures for us, please post it here. Every day I have a look at ebay. So I find many original books and helpfull manuals for 'our' cars. To adjust the Schebler Carb is not so difficult. When I bought my Sedan it used about 50 liters Fuel for 100 kilometers (Here ?n Germany we pay 1.50 ? for a Liter)
After adjusting ignition and carb my car used only 30 liters per 100 km!
Second, I learn, its important to grease all points.
Greetings from good old germany
Dirk[/img]
Auburn 866 Boattail Speedster VIN866A102
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You should find the car's serial # plate under the floor covering just inside the passenger side front door. This will have the car's serial # and the engine # stamped into it. On closed cars, there should be a smaller tag from Central Mfg. in the same area on the drivers side with the body #. The other tag you should be concerned with is on the left front of the engine, in front of the fuel pump. Compare this # with the engine # on the car's serial # tag.
In the old days, cars were often registered with the motor #. I had problems convincing the ladies at the title bureau of this when trying to title my 1932 some years ago.
I'll weigh in on the side of keeping it original too.
PS: the engine color on these is sort of an olive drab shade of green.
Mike
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Is there some sort of VIN tag on this car and where might I find it? Any idea of the value of this sedan . It needs a paint job ...but the body is almost completely rust,dent and ding free . The chrome is about 80%. Also I know that the engine is supposed to be green ...but I can see some blue paint peeking out from under the green . I can only imagine that the motor has been replaced . It appears to be the correct motor...but whats with the blue paint?
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