It's a balmy 21F in Moscow.

For radials use the tire makers recommendations. If they don't publish go to a modern car with similar weight and aspect ratio (xxx/75 ...) and use that which is generally in the 32 to 35 range.

The Packard numbers are for bias ply and should not be used with radials. The angle of the cord sidewall of the bias ply tire creates a response to pressure that is more supportive than radials which is why they use lower pressures.

One way to work around that problem is to find a 40 engine with the timing marks on the flywheel and count the number of teeth per degree. Then pull the starter and transfer that to the later flywheel and set the static timing that way. Of course, you would need to buy a borescope from Harbor Freight to find TDC and move the flywheel to correct timing.

I found that base timing was very accurate using this method.

Those steering wheels are subject to variations. As I recall Turnquist's 443 had the wood grained bezel. Attached is a picture of a wooden wheel with what looks to be a wood grained outer bezel and black hub.

I don't think anybody is modifying those cars to their tastes. Packard was hanging what they had lying around. I've even seen the wooden wheel on a sixth series car.

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Technically speaking nobody stated what series the car is and by the time the upfitting was completed it was likely over a year old. If Soviet registrations are based on delivery dates, then the registration could say anything.

Those tires look to be the Firestone model and I suppose can handle moving the car for display.

I'm just glad to see the picture. It's awesome.

Reportedly the best bait is peanut butter, and I have been told that mothballs are an effective repellent.

We had a mouse living in the stove in college and I made up a box trap the engineers said wouldn't work and caught the bugger.

Those things are observant, however. If they see one dead in a trap, they can learn to avoid it, so my traps are for data collection. If I find one in a trap I will put out poison.

If they were littering in the car, you must have a large population problem. I had a chipmunk burrowing near my garage and tried the usual methods that didn't work, but a strategically placed rat trap did. I also had squirrels thinking my pulling weeds was hiding something and they were digging up my yard. I hung the corpse from a tree branch Frankenstein style, and it was hilarious watching the reaction. What finally scared them off was putting a plastic tarpaulin over a mulch pile. I'd shoot them but I don't own any guns.

Actually, the casting around the shaft erodes and the gap tears up the packing causing the leak. A solution is to punch a hole in some brass shim stock and glue it into place using sealer followed by the packing.

Oil pressure drops at hot idle on modern cars. Note that some manufacturers rig the gauge to read constant above 7 psi.

The ignition switch has to be disassembled which isn't easy, but I have done it. Given the car has different electrical a main relay can be installed to convert the switch from load bearing to control very easily.

I put mouse traps in the garage given northern Michigan has winter - much less so now with the global warming hoax - and I leave the hood open on my car.

Mice will not hesitate to build nests inside exhaust systems which can be prevented with a bottle over the tail pipe, and inside of disassembled motors, and open radiators

Here is a little fun:

Two cars for sale early 60's. Given Bob Turnquist bought a mint 38 V-12 town car around 1949-50 for $85 that works out to 13% gross annual gain. I say gross because that doesn't factor in the capital cost of owning a dry garage, property taxes, up keep; and such which probably drives that net return to close to zero.

Oh, and after the war the eight cylinder cars generally sold for more than the V-12 because they were more practical than the big dinosaur.

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