Thank you Kev! Much appreciated. I've donated too on occasion but under a different address.

Question too. On the Read/Unread icons, sometimes they stay showing Unread after being viewed, depending how I opened them. Also, my own new posts show as unread even though I just wrote them and therefore just read them. These aren't problems or complaints but rather I am curious how the Read/Unread system works. Any insight from one Web programmer to another?

Thank you! It's been decades since I worked on one of these but aren't there many little needle bearings that will fall out with the main shaft removal?

Thank you, Paul! That's great to hear.

In the meantime, still trying to remove the rear pawl housing without disassembling the rest of the transmission and am using the one with stripped gears as a guinea pig. Does anyone have any ideas? Something is holding but I don't see what it is.

Joe, if you’re feeling left out, I’ll have her send you one!

Got to Oregon (again) late yesterday afternoon and got two of the three cars started and driven outside which I always do to get more space to move about. The third car, my 1954 Patrician, acted like it had a low battery even though I always leave it disconnected and putting it on the charger, it was charged in only a few minutes so obviously not low at all. Got it started - just barely - today and it is now outside rather than under the ambulance.

As mentioned, there were a few parts waiting along with some hardware including an assortment of grade 8 lock washers as most that I find in my hardware boxes have become permanently flat so are useless.

I cleaned up the remainder of the fuel pump's housing pieces using the ultrasonic and also managed to find the new flexible hose that I had bought for it a long time ago. I actually wasn't even looking for it and there it was!

Also did a little work on the parking brake now that I have the proper equalizer bolt, which is nearly three times the length of the one from the passenger parts car. No wonder the cable seemed too short! After attaching the cable anchors to the frame, I can't quite reach the equalizer with the anchor but it occurred to me that maybe the hand brake is pulled out. With the car so high up, it will take a ladder to check it! Otherwise I'll loosen the linkage adjusters to get some play. The photo here shows the equalizer attached but the other ends weren't tight yet. Once they were, I couldn't get this back together.

Then finally, a little work to the transmission and as is clear in the photo, this is the one with stripped gears. Getting the planetary assembly off was quite easy once I realized that a burr on the end of the spline was holding it. Now I want to take off the rear pawl housing but it doesn't seem to want to move farther than shown here. Any ideas?

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Yes, it makes sense and the king pin was my first thought as the likely suspect. All the other suggestions were good ones too, of course, but based on your description of the sound, the king pin seem like it.

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You simply copy the PM and paste it into a new email or PM to BigKev, making sure to include the user name if it's not part of the PM. I sent one this morning but all of you should do so too so that he know it's not an isolated case.

I also suggested setting up some kind of vetting system, possibly where new members can't post right away and must wait for admin approval or must otherwise go through some process to prove they belong here. Some of the private Packard and other automotive Facebook groups have a brief questionnaire that new applicants must go thorough which seems to work that Lindi would never have been able to do.

At 71, it’s rather a moot point anyway! I usually tell people that I’m 17 but that I’m dyslexic.

I got it too and I hate to tell her that she’s barking up the wrong tree!

On the scammer I reported, they also sent photos of items that I know they do not own as I recognized the photos from elsewhere.

Good job and it looks great! That said, I like to keep family-run businesses like Olson’s supplied with whatever work I have as it’s important to keep them around. In fact, I just arrived at the Oregon shop and should have some small felt seals from them waiting for me once I actually go next door to the shop itself.