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Paul,

You are a veritable fount of knowledge!

Peter

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Eric,

The history shows that the car was once owned by a John J. Doherty of Spokane, Washington.

Peter

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Bill,

I second that Emotion!

We did that at last year’s Meet, but NO BUS.

Napa & Pierce-Arrow was sublime.

Peter

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Arvydas,

I guess that you could also have a leak where the fuel line from the carburetor connects to the bottom part of the valve, but the solution for that is equally simple as outlined above.

Peter

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Arvydas,

It is not difficult to repair a leaky primer valve, as it only has two moving parts, the Needle Valve Pin and the spring that snaps it back into place.

A piece of very fine sandpaper should remove any crevices in the Needle Valve Pin so that it seats properly.

Just be sure that all of the abrasive is cleared from the pin before you reassemble the unit.

The body (top part) unscrews from the bottom part that screws into the intake manifold,

One could have a leak in either screw in union, but a bit of either teflon tape (?) or some other sealant will stem any leaks.

While cranking the engine, one pulls on the Primer Pull in the passenger compartment and if one’s car is set up properly, the engine should fire after 2 to 3-seconds / cranks.

Peter

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Franciscus,

Peter Fawcett is a PAS member and can be reached via email through this website.

Below, I list his full contact information.

Peter

Peter Fawcett

106 Palmerston Avenue

Whitby, Ontario L1N 3E5 Canada

Office Phone: 905/668-4446

Email to: [email protected]

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Arvydas,

Above, Ed Minnie suggested that you telephone John Cislak as he might have the part you seek.

However, I believe that Ed did not understand that you live in Lithuania.

John Cislak is a PAS member and can be contacted via email at: [email protected].

Good luck,

Peter

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Richard,

If you look at the PAS Roster (in the Member Pages Section, just to the left of this message), you can search for PAS members who own the 1911 36-UU.

You will find at least six.

If I were you, I would contact each of them by email and see what they might have in terms of what you need.

I rather expect that some of them restored, or had restored, their 36-UU.

I trust that this information is helpful.

Peter

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Richard,

Either the bottom two photos are pre-restoration, or you better advise your restorer to get the rust off of the car.

Peter

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David,

Thanks for reminding me of the origin of the Banner /Banner photo.

I think it is GRAND.

I do know that you collect all things Pierce-Arrow and I imagine that your collection would take days to review.

Thank you for your contribution to preserving the Pierce-Arrow history.

You are a maybe not so mini-Pierce-Arrow museum.

Peter

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Richard,

The price of a New Pierce-Arrow!

Actually, I don’t have the banner, just the photo, but I am considering a project of reproducing a few dozen of them and offering them for sale.

What do you all think?

Peter

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Gents,

Here is a photo that I reduced from 4.5mb to 169kb.

It is a photo of Myron Edson Forbes, wife and friends.

MEF was then president of the PAMCC and is the man who had P-A develop the Series 80 and Series 81 motorcars.

The Series 80 was his “baby” and he is said to have only owned the Series 80/81 cars versus the larger Series 33 cars.

The ownership information comes from his grandson, who also said that Mrs. MEF did not have a driver’s license and was only driven in those cars while MEF was the PAMCC president.

Peter

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Gents,

I have posted this before, but for those of you who are MAC users, you can EXPORT your photos in smaller sizes.

Also, if that results in a photo that is too small in scale, you can use PREVIEW to do the same.

Peter

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Luke,

John Wozney, a member of the PAS Board of Directors did a survey and one of the items / questions on the survey asked about PAS Message Board use.

I calculated that the number hovers between 10-percent and 15-percent use the WEBSITE more than 4-5 times per month.

A huge majority NEVER visit the WEBSITE, and of course that also means that the NEVER visit the Message Board.

Perhaps John will provide more accurate statistics, as I merely reviewed his survey results and estimated the 10 to 15-percent number.

Peter

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I could never own a car that I would have to keep that clean!

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Gents,

The link.

Peter

http://www.icontact-archive.com/5jTcF_lnvVpG0xR-n_cjBUonRo5czhZn?w=4

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Gents,

In 1970, I owned a band new, Primrose over Black, MG-B.

It was a fun car, but every month I needed to add one quart of oil.

I searched and searched for an oil leak, but I could never find one, nor was there ever any “throw-off” in the engine compartment.

It did not smoke, ergo I remained perplexed.

Even after trying different weights of oil, the oil just disappeared.

British Cars!

My next car, and all that followed were German.

No such problem with any of them.

Peter

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Bill,

WOW!

Oil on the floor of the car?

On the front seat floor??

On the up-side or the down-side?

That is a theory, for sure!

WOW!

Peter

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Also in the old days (60s / 70s), pouring GOBS of STP in to the crankcase, like a quart into a 4 or 5-quart system, would temporarily quiet, banging bearings long enough to sell the car!

I think that they called that buying an Andy Granatelli Special.

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Curtiss,

That is one heck of a way to reduce oil-splash and quiet the engine bearing noise!

Peter

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