Well, I got one corner of the suspension together and a freshly powder coated brake backing plate on the chassis yesterday. Tied the floor jack to the frame with tie downs and centered the kingpin support in the end of the lower A arm with 1/8 inch clearance on either side. All torqued up and soon will change the 'bobby pin' things for correct cotter pins. Hot as 'H E double hockey sticks' here these days.
Not as pretty as it all could be, but still pretty good. Scratched up the frame a little with the tie dows, but I guess that is par for the course.
Will be cool when the wheels go back on!

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No real Progress today, but my girlfriend katrin helped me out and we cleaned my bay in the Shop as part of my Birthday present! I feel like a lucky Guy!
Made some more room and cleaned things up so i hope I can find things better as the car starts going back together.
Also Gusha gave me some advice on where to find a meaty drum puller here in Germany. So that is in the mail, should be here next week! Danke Gusha!

Wheel bolts 9/16x18 or 20?

Looking in the specifications chart, they are 18 tpi..

Thanks for the plan Ross. Bolts that are about 3 inch long I can get at the one place in Munich that sells SAE bolts.
A plate I can "drum up" someplace (haha), and drilling the holes should not be to big a deal. We have a drill press in the shop.
Good excuse for me to get myself the impact gun for my birthday

Anybody near munich have a good brake drum puller? I broke this one (one leg out of five broke) yesterday. It really only pulls, and it not good to hammer on, so I guess it is not going to work.
Almost got the front Suspension back together, so will soon have one Axel back together... Brought back brake lines and Clips from my trip to the US, so the lines can go back in soon. Also got my shipment from Steel, but they only sent me 10 Body Mount bushings instead of the 16 I ordered! rats, have to call them and see if they will send me the ones I paid for :-/ hope so...

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I'm not familiar with the 55-56 easamatic BLS (BrakeLightSwitch) but the earlier cars have a hydraulicly activated switch. The Switch is staying on, either becasue of a fault in the Switch (internal short) or there is somehow hydraulic pressure remaining in the System after you take your foot off the brake.
-I hope that helps, and isn't just re-stating what you already knew. Be careful working on that Switch, becasue one side of the Switch should be 'hot' all the time. If you're not careful you can make some sparks with a wrench creating a ground.

BdeB, thanks for the drawings! They are also useful for most of The body mounts on my 53 Clipper!
Good documentation

Anybody have a pic of where the bumpers go? I think they were long gone on my clipper and might want to put them back.

Hi Guscha, Yep. That is still me. Was a very cool time at Speedwell Garage. Got some packard seat time, and also a feel for what a maintained, lubed and adjusted packard feels and drives like. Things like windows that easily crank up and down, brakes that have actually very little pedal travel when adjusted properly, and driving a car with overdrive were all 'firsts' for me. Got two or three handfulls of parts for my clipper, and also got to discuss certain repair/rebuild procedures I have coming up.
Was very much worth the trip. fyi look out for ticks if you are taking parts off the 'packards in the weeds'
Still trying to get over my jet lag after returning to Germany :-/

Wow, wow, wow! Looks great! Congratulations on making another big step!