Don't quite understand what the problem is.

If you go to the forums main page, then enter the V8 forum and look at the bottom of the list you see not only links to the multiple pages, but drop down boxes that let you sort by title or date and in ascending or descending order.

Otherwise, you can do a keyword search (look to the upper right corner of any page), but you do have to nose around the results page and study the layout and links.

Tuesday 25th August 2009

Well, the big day, and the '34's body beautiful was to be united with it's lonesome chassis. But !!!!!
Because of high winds, overnight and this morning, with trees and branches down and roads blocked the trip was cancelled! It's re-scheduled though for Thursday but, because of other commitments, I can't make it so Wade has strict instructions to take many, many pic's.

At the workshop I found Wade had removed the front clip from Old Blue and taken the radiator to JJ Smiths yesterday and it's expected to be ready Friday. Wade was also taking the opportunity, while access was readily available, to undertake replacement of Old Blue's exhaust manifold. The manifold has a crack in the flange where it bolts to the exhaust pipe. Although Wade had it repaired about 5 years ago it wasn't successful and with a good exhaust manifold obtained from PACA member Fred D, also known as "Pepe" because he comes from south of the border, now was the time to replace it. Wade had already disconnected linkages and lines and removed the air-cleaner and carb so removing the intake and exhaust manifolds should be pretty straight-forward, shouldn't it? Well No! Why? Because it's RHD and the steering column only has about 1/8" between it and the manifold hot box, and that's after the column has been flattened to clear the hot box! So the steering box is unbolted from the chassis and from under the dash, the pitman arm disconnected from the sector shaft and the steering box and column swung up and outside the chassis to give enough clearance to remove the manifolds. Once out, while Wade cleaned up the surfaces of the replacement exhaust manifold, I cleaned up the block surface of old gasket. All went back together accompanied with a liberal application of manifold sealer to ensure against leaks.

There won't be any posts at least until Friday. Then I'll be able to provide pic's of the '34's body, and the radiator and front clip will be able to go back on Old Blue.

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I'm looking, too, particularly for the posts on replacing the Treadle Vac and installing an updated master cylinder.

Bernardi

Sanding the trunk -- just doing the trunk lid and the roof right now to stop the rust

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My '48 horns were originally black, they were painted over in the same color as the car sometime in the past. I've never seen a bathtub Packard with chrome horns that were stock.

Figure at least one hide for each seating surface, so 4. I would buy two extra of the same dye lot to make sure you have enough. If you're doing the door panels then I'd figure two more, one for each side and two doors per hide. There's a lot of waste sometimes, and you don't want to be caught having it almost done but lacking one more hide to finish. The hide I got for my Speedster is just one hide, but all I'm doing with it is the two bucket seats and the armrests. I laid this hide out on the living room floor one night and measured it, it was about 6' square, plenty big for what I'm doing, plus I have a bunch of scraps from the same dye lot that was probably enough to do the entire car anyway. If I had more, I'd use them on the '48, but this was a special order and they didn't get any more. I heard that it was the same leather that was in the guy's Ferrari, so I'm in the big leagues now!

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Thanks for the vote of confidence. I've probably 25.

thnx, jack vines

Eric - I'll keep the leather in mind. That sounds like a great price. I'm still assessing the condition of this car. About how many hides does it take to update the inside of one of these cars? Thank much.

Kev - as requested I took a bunch of pictures of the interior of the 54 Clipper Deluxe that is very similar to yours. I was pleasantly surprised by the condition of the backseat after I took the seat cover off of it. The seat actually cleaned up pretty good after vacuuming it. I think I need to find a good steam cleaner or fabric cleaner. I also found a mouse nest. I took a bunch of pictures. Let me know if they help out. The last picture has a number code on it. We should compare our extra parts lists one day. I may have a few you need and vice versa. I also got the news back on the radiator but I'll mention that in another post where I think I may have some helpful information for others - Thanks

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Where and how do I find old topics that were posted on this (V8)forum. I couldn't find anything saying archives or ?.