Scott, Thank you I and he appreciate the encouragement. Mike, Rusty, JD and Portland duly noted on the practice, and thanks for the tips.

David my e-mail address is ajpheating@sbcglobal.net and Thank you

No! Wait a minute John! Just stick around a while longer. We'll get Eric back in here sooner or later. Everything will be ok.

As long as we can keep coming back for another day's worth then we are winning!

Or, to put it another way, it's people like me that make everyone else seem like such nice people. Gufwah-ha-ha-ha-ha.

(NEver quit. Make them fire u).

You've said it as good or better than I could,Dave.

Friday 19th March 2010

Only a couple of hours at the workshop this morning and when I arrived found Wade actually waiting for me so I could provide some of my Packard "expertise". I recovered from the shock of what he said when he explained he wanted me to hold Big Red's exhaust manifold while he tapped new threads for the heat riser valve bushes! Something about From Hero to Zero, all in the space of a few sentences. If that's the limit of my so called expertise then, so be it, at least it's a useful contribution to keeping a Packard on the road! What had happened was that after Wade had cleaned up the intake and exhaust manifolds earlier in the week he did a trial fit before permanently re-installing them in Big Red. While doing the fit he heard a "tinkling" noise which turned out to be the heat riser valve falling apart. Now when I say that, the valve was inoperative but in the closed position. Not wanting to disturb it, Wade had left it alone only for it to break even before it was properly back on Big Red. Should have been easy to fix because Wade had a repair kit on hand but for some reason the two sets of bushings provided in the kit were nothing like the threaded ones currently in the manifold. This necessitated substituting some brass fittings which Stan, the machinist, is suitably modifying to fit. Wade kept muttering something about "one step forward and three steps back". Part of Wade's frustration can also be explained by the amount of time and effort it took to remove the old bushings. New threads tapped successfully, it was on to other tasks.

While Wade again cleaned up the manifold, but this time for painting I set to work fixing something on the '41 I'd found while Wade was in New Zealand. Back in January '09 part of getting the Coupe back on the road involved a front end alignment which necessitated fabrication of a couple of shims for the left torque arm and support arm. Had a couple of shims, well one and a half, to work with in fabricating some new ones but it turned out they were a little too long. In examining the '41's front end found the shims were proud of the top of the torque and support arms and as a consequence were beginning to chew up the rebound rubber. While I had contemplated loosening the front end to remove the shims to bring them back to size, Wade suggested filing the protruding tops off, which I proceeded to do, much easier. That done I did more POR-15 painting of some small parts for both Wade and myself. And Wade's coming in tomorrow to give his manifold a second coat and at the same time he'll give the '41's 120 intake/exhaust manifold a coat too.

Harvey had been over yesterday and picked up the waterpump housing and he'd brought over 16 new tappets locknuts for me. Turned out I didn't need them, different setup on my engine so Wade now has a set on the shelf should he need them. And speaking of yesterday. I'd phoned Peter about the re-Rhinoing of the running boards and he tells me they should be ready Saturday.

Quote:John,

On the '41 120 the rods in question connect to the front of the front crossmember and don't contact the radiator cradle.

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John, You've got to be kidding? Kevin (and I do miss him) left of his own volition and no one forced him out. If we can't all get along and enjoy this HOBBY without personality squabbles it has become a sad world indeed. I don't know how informal you expect the site to be but it seems pretty darn easy going to me. Blaming Dave C. is just plain wrong. I just don't get it!

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If this was my car I would be disassembling it. I am doing this for the widow of the late owner as it will be for sale soon. This is the first Packard I have had the opportunity to work on and I am loving every minute of it. It really hurts that it isn't my car especially on what I have done to identify the car and its history.

Ah, well.

ATTENTION !!!

NEW PACKARD POSSE PIT CREW WRENCH LADY
Wrenchy Rachel!





ouch!!!!

so TODAY
Richy Wrench worked it.... replaced all 4 shocks, which looked original to me....
wow. now should be a schmoov ride.....


before he got crackin , i had to run a few things past Richy Wrench.... like danger and warning signs.....


so we flashed Richy the Peace Sign as he dissappeared beneath tons of AMERICAN PACKARD STEEL!!!!!



SMOOTH RIDE!!!!
Problematcially I lost an eBay motors for CLASSIC Cali '51 plates... I bid 400 ...... DOLLARS ,,,, and I LOST !!! FRIG!!!!!!!!

should i go BANDITO style and hand paint new Vanity plates? or is that askin for trouble?

answer : yes

FPTGearhead for including your '38 Eight 4 Door Touring Sedan in the Packard Owner's Registry.

ross


wicked fun hey? are u from Wistah Mass?


pretty kool lookin Packard Frankenstein sled!


I just lost a auction of 1951 Cali plates on eBay motors. dam they were DMV clean too!!! replaced the shocks today too
(richy did ) (check my project blog for NEW totally fixy wrenchin' Rachel Rachel.

our new wrench girl on the Packard Posse Pit crew. owowowo!!!!