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G'day David,
to PackardInfo and for including your Caribbean in the Owner Registry.

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G'day T&J,
to PackardInfo, this from the "Aussie Loony", but please don't hold that against me. I second Eric's request about including your '56 Pat in the Owner Registry and please include a pic, any known history and how you acquired it. And if it's OK with you we'll get BigKev to move this thread to the V8 Forum.

Wednesday 8th April 2009

First, back to yesterday. Enjoyed some R & R with the Morris Minor Picnic Club on their run to the Buddist Nan Tien Temple at Berkeley about 65 miles south of Sydney.http://www.nantien.org.au/ Wade and Gina went in "Old Blue" their '37 120 Sedan while I drove the '41 Coupe. And I've been conducting some mileage checks recently with the '41 getting about 10mpg in US gallons or 12mpg in Imperial gallons for the Southern Highlands and Mittagong. While yesterday this "improved" to 10.75 & 13, the other set of plugs Wade installed late at Mittagong might have made the difference!

While down there I took the opportunity to scout out the Australian Motorlife Museum at Kembla Grange a little further southhttp://www.motorlifemuseum.com.au/ And it looks to be a very good venue for a monthly Packard club run in the near future.

Now for today. Had a visit from Gina who dropped in and "inspected" Big Red. Then while Wade tackled the front suspension of "Big Red" I was engaged in cleaning up the rest of the brake parts. Wade removed both sides but the right side had to come out complete with the shock, there being no way he could get the upper outer pin out in situ. And speaking of the shocks on the left front at least there wasn't any resistance when moving the shock arm by hand, definitely need a rebuild. Wade had also de-lined the front brake shoes by drilling out the rivet heads and punching the body of the rivets from the brake shoes. Interesting to see on the inside of the linings they are marked "Primary" and "Secondary". Wade is also attempting to remove the rear inner bearing cones from the rear axle housing but so far without success. Use of a slide hammer is impossible and he's considering some alternatives. And if there's anyone who's had experience of this on a mid 30's Super 8 we'd be interested to hear how it was done.

And yesterday I 'd spoken to Wade about PackardInfo member Bill B's request to me as to where he might be able to locate a '37 120 water pump pulley and fan. See Owner Registry entryhttps://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/registry/View.php?ID=407 Of course Wade had them "on the shelf", being from his '37 120 when he replaced the badly cracked block '37 motor with a '46 motor and it's accessories. Now it was just a matter of getting them from Sydney to Brisbane, about 550 miles north. And it just so happens that on Monday I'm flying north to visit family on the Gold Coast but about 50 miles south of Bill. I've also made arrangements with my sister for her to take the pulley and fan with her when she goes to Brisbane next week. At that point Bill will have to travel about 10 miles to pick up the "goodies" aka, "rare and vital Packard parts". Feels good to be able to help out another Packard owner.

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Petey,
for the Owner Registry entries! When I saw two there I thought you were making up for lost time until I saw your post on the subject. Both entries work for me, both have a picture and both appear to be the same, so Kev deleting either one will be fine.

What I didn't expect to see was your modification........"In 1962, cut the rear axle just out-board of the "pumpkin" (center section), welded in its place a late 1950's Olds station wagon 3.23 differential. Re-splined the Packard axles (which were easily twice the diameter of the Olds) to fit the Old. gear-set.".......Maybe we should be calling you "Hot Rod Hartmann"

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Petey,

Pretty straight forward in adding your V12 to the Registry. Select "Packard Owner Registry" from the main menu, then complete the various blank fields some of which have drop-down lists. Be sure to include a pic, note size limitations apply, and under "Other information" in the "VEHICLE HISTORY/PROJECT STATUS:" field be sure to tell us all about the car's history and how you acquired it. Then click on the "Add to Registry" button and VOILA! there it is!

The Packard Photo Archive is not a Registry it is for Packard pictures in general. Regarding the pic of your Packard mis-identified as a '36, place a comment against it and BigKev or a Forum Ambassador can then identify the pic and move it to the correct category.

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John.

I'd guessed as much from the tone and content of the post but chose to offer him the chance to include his V12 in the Owner Registry nevertheless. Maybe I'm naive, or a fool, or both but when I see an opportunity to enlarge the Register I go for it.

Getting back to the question at hand, my direct experience is with the 282 and in both my cars I've had mechanical failures of engine components. Water pump in the '38 and generator in the '41, these mind you are old components well past their "best by" date. Based on that I'd be loath to nominate the 282 as my preference and having had no experience with other Packard engines can't give an opinion on any of them. That said, I'll be sitting on the fence and abstain from voting.

G'day asparagus,
to PackardInfo. I invite you to add your Packard, possibly a V12 from the gist of your post, to the Owner Registry together with a pic, any known history and how you acquired it

Monday 6th April 2009

Wade had been busy after I left on Friday and had removed the right front brakes and backing plate from "Big Red". Today he proceeded to remove the left front brakes and backing plate. He then removed the master cylinder and proceeded to clean up all the cylinders, master and wheel, before taking them around to Col, his brake guy. All will probably be stainless steel sleeved because there was a lot of gunk in all cylinders and 3 of the 4 springs in the wheel cylinders were broken. Looks like he got to the brakes just in time and this after "Big Red" has done many, many thousands of touring miles in the last 18 months including the steep descent to Kiama which had the '41 smoking it's brakes! Wade also looked at the rear axle bearings and seals with the left rear needing replacing, see pic of bearing cup. The right rear bearings and seals will also be replaced although they are in a lot better state of repair. Because of this he's currently in the process of removing the inner bearing cups.

While all this was going on I was engaged in some exciting brake component cleaning and finished the day with 3 out of the 4 brake set components looking much better than when I started. And during all this Peter, he of the Fiat trans, arrived and advised his son's Fiat is now up and running well. Peter also pitched in and made some gaskets for the O/D trans reassembly and he'll be back on Wednesday for more!

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G'day Terry,

Take a Captain Cook at the 104 pic's (doesn't include the 20 I deleted because of operator error) of shock links in this Picasa Albumhttp://picasaweb.google.com/ozstatman/WadesWorkshopApril2009#

If any are miss-captioned, out of focus, etc then blame me but leave a comment on the pic and I'll fix it. Probably never been so many pic's taken of '34 shock links, this could be the definitive pictorial essay on the subject.

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Kev.