Update:

Tomorrow my younger brother will be coming over the help me drop the lower half of then engine back in and hopefully if time permits get the trans reinstalled. Ahh two less things to trip over in the garage.

When I had the lower half of the engine sent out to Harts machine in Ohio they sent the clutch off to Fort Wayne Clutch to have it refurbished. It is reinstalled but I am not sure how to go about checking the adjustments. Harts may have done it already. Looks like I need to make a call tomorrow to see if they did. If not does anyone have a procedure to check it?

Wednesday we will hit the body if all goes well on Tuesday. Plans for the body prep is to clean off dust then hit it with 80 grit paper on a DA (Ryobi), then hit her with some wax&grease remover, some metal prep (Picklex) since the body had been sand blasted last year there is some signs of surface rust which is what the Picklex is for. Once dry I will scuff her down and give her a coat of Epoxy Primer. With colder weather coming I wanted to get this done before then. Don't want her sitting bare again through another winter.

Will post pictures of progress.

Thank you for the link.

Wow he has some nice cars there. I like the '34 Chevy not to radical.

I still am debating on a color for my car Blue, Maroon, or the original Brown/tan color. But I do have some time to make a decision.

OZman,

Thanks for pointing that out. I have not check out the registry in a few months. I will update mine stating I no longer have the oldest Packard in the registry. :(

Tom Wilcox,

Can you post some pictures of your interior? Would like to see it since it is original.

Is you car painted Packard Blue?

Thanks

FYI Gents,

I received my new modem for our DSL today and had the same problem with it connecting. Read the trouble shooting guide and it stated that a dimmer switch in the area of the modem can cause slow or intermittent connection. I turned off the basement light which we have on a dimmer and is ruffly 15ft away and wham fast connection again. So my old modem probably wasn't bad in the first place.

Okay now I can get some sleep and back to working on Old BESSIE :)

Update on my PC. Had to get a new hard drive. New one is 160GB. But I have learned my lesson I will save important data to a CD or Thumb Drive.

Thanks all for you help and input on this. Now back to my restoration blog.

Thanks for all the advice on my PC problems. I will look into it.

I just finished talking to a Hardware guy here at work and guess what there is/was a virus in the suburbs around here about the same time my PC started to act up. The virus is called disc clean or something like that. I have anti-virus program but he told me by the time they came up with a fix a lot of PCs had already been infected by it. Well guess mine was one of them. Urggggg


Yes I will keep you all informed on my '31 progess.


Take care

I just hope I had copied over pictures that I have taken of my progress to a CD that the shop that did my metal work created for me.

Thing is we have to flash drives but I have only used them for pictures we download from our camera then we take it to Sams for prints.

O well lessoned learned...

Eric,

Thanks car is coming along slowly. You know how that goes. I do have a lot of the smaller parts painted and powder coated and ready to go when it is time to reassemble.

Ouch $500 to restore files if they can. One can buy a new PC and some Packard parts for that. My neighbor offered to help me out this weekend with it to see if we can even get it to fire up windows. If not my wife said we will just go out and but a new one. We will see. We didn't have to much saved on it so that is a good thing.

Figure I start a Blog here.

I have some Photos posted here and will post more as I go along.

http://s153.photobucket.com/albums/s210/packin31/

It has been hot here the last few days so it is go out in the garage to do any priming.

Only time I check site is here at work since my home PC hard drive has crashed. Any PC experts out there? I need some advice on how and if I can recover anything off the hard drive. I have tried the recover CD but with no luck. Thanks

BigKev,

What if your color blind like me?

Certian colors look the same to us color blind impaired. and