That's one option but you'd probably enjoy it more if it were all nicely detailed but sitting under the hood of a Packard with you behind the wheel. Oh, and by the way, welcome.

Joel Ray (packards1@aol.com) has a 52-4 booster side kit on his ebay store now. Might see if he has anything later. If not and the other vendors can't help either, might have to send the entire unit for repair.

You could probably cover the original with fiberglass for the shape & structure and then cover that with vinyl for looks and still spend less than a new one and not have to mess with cardboard.

With the dash out would be a good time to drill the hole for AC hoses if you know where they need to go. There is an interesting location on that 54 from the Pate auction.

Early on with the kit one of the Golden Hawk guys mentioned problems with the HV pump and leaking past a seal. Believe he went to the standard Olds pump and that resolved the issue. Was there ever any followup as to why he had he problems like maybe it was a fresh & tight engine or has anyone else had an issue.

portlandon--You may have a point and I agree all should belong to at least a main club to support them.

My feeling on the links is if you are going to go to the trouble to make a project and have it to sell, why would you restrict that information to the point only a small percent of potential buyers know about it. No one is asking for it to be given away--just provide a way to let people know you have already done the work and have it for sale. I would think that a project would almost be treated like a commercial company would treat a product they sell.

I don't expect a person to belong to each club and region--at least not at the costs involved unless you're fortunate enough to be very well off. That is where the info seems to go in a hole. AS O_D says, maybe regional info published monthly and maybe quarterly. Also unless you take the time to sit down and thoroughly read and remember a publication, a lot of the parts info is just sort of missed. With it being scattered in amidst the coats, caps and other soft goods, when you need it two months later and remember reading about it but then which magazine and when gets you. If you're PAC, obviously you don't get PI info and vice versa so there is another rub.

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I absolutely agree but the fact still remains that even belonging to a club doesn't help if the item is in a regional newsletter and it isn't your region. The PAC site does not appear to link to any regions to even check. I would think that is something they could look into. O_D, maybe you could make that suggestion since you know many of the movers and shakers.

Incidentally, I did finally find the item mentioned on the brake pedal. It is advertised for 41-7 Clippers which brings the question of fitting the 48. It appears it will but wonder why they listed it as maybe not.

A deficiency?? This is in response to a post in pedal play.

I'm glad someone has a cure for the pedal problem but a little sad that it seems to not be general knowledge. I wonder how many more things have been fixed and are out there but only advertised in a regional newsletter or even in a national publication that maybe 10% of people needing the item would know about or have access to. Some of the lists in the PAC monthly publication are just jumbled together and it's not easy to see or pick something out with a quick look. PI is same and believe even less frequent but I'm not a member there anymore so don't even see it--nor do numerous others not a member of either club.

I know Kev has mentioned before that he would welcome a link to other regions project sites or would be willing to post their products page if they would send it yet no one seems to take advantage of it. Maybe few of the proper people know of this site or want to use it because they have their own. Whichever, it's their loss.

I don't see anything on the PAC site except their own online store. Maybe something is buried in the classified section but that doesn't work on my computer - IE only maybe?? It seems that would be a way for things to be known if there were a regions product area and the project mgrs were encouraged to use it with some publicity. The current "regions" only seems to get an email form.

PI has a site with some info on their club projects. Otherwise, they do have a link to their regions pages. Sometimes, if the region has projects, that will get you a page where there is a link to projects but still a bit cumbersome.

I guess the point of this is so much is probably out there that no one knows about and are there any suggestions of ways to change that.

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Probably wouldn't be that hard to make since there isn't a huge molded hump area to worry about like older but would take some fitting for the one there. Biggest problem will probably be finding the heavy cardboard in a large enough piece. Unless you have a good upholstery place close by where you can buy retail and pick it up, shipping will cost more than the material. Maybe an art supply although think the stuff they have is thin--more like poster board.

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Was just thinking (dangerous, I know) if you plan on keeping the air vent louvers, think you will have to fabricate something like the cardboard cover to mount them. With just the foil, if memory serves, nothing will be there to hold them as they have little clips that sandwich the cardboard. Also, as mentioned above, there are several welded on screw posts for the heater plenum, valve, etc that are about an inch deep. Those will still be needed -- but the foil only bit will leave a big gap and might be noticeable.

Is yours in good enough shape that you could take the jute off, cover the back of the cardboard with some type glue and then a layer of canvas for strength--maybe even fiberglass or even the foil acoustic stuff if flexible enough-- and then put the jute back on to keep the depth correct for the standoffs under the pad. Maybe after that some spray vinyl or fabric coloring would at least make the lower third you will see passable if there are no large chunks missing.