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Thursday 11th March 2010

Spent another hour and a half rubbing back the filled holes on the right running board. Then, on the way to our baby sitting duties this afternoon, dropped the boards into Peter so they can be re-rhino coated. Peter expects the boards to be done by the end of next week.

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Friday 12th March 2010

Stage one of the PACA Club Stock Spare Parts sort, review, photograph, and re-pack is now done! That doesn't mean the job's over by any means. Took almost 700 pic's today, of which I'll probably delete about 100 for duplicates, fuzz and mis-adventures. That will then leave about 1,400 out of the total 2,100 PIC'S taken to date still to be captioned. Then there's preparing lists and diagrams of what is where in boxes and where the boxes are located on the pallets. Didn't realise it was going to be such a big job! All I can say is that it's very satisfying poking through Packard parts and coming across a few gems from time to time, a great way to spend a day. I'm not supposed to (Noel will kill me) but here's a few of my favourite pic's from today!

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Is that lark pedal rubber for sale Mal? Cost? Does it fit a 1962?

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This is exactly why Noel didn't want me to give away too much in what we found sorting through all the parts. As they are "Club Stock" parts, PACA members naturally have dibs on what's available. So the normal answer should be, no it's not for sale. However because it's a Studebaker Lark part the answer could well be yes, it is for sale, but I'll have to get back to you on that as well as cost. Whether it fits a '62 Lark I don't know, but if can you access a Stude parts book with the part number it could help both of us? There are also some Chebby and other parts amongst all the Packard stuff and I have another little task to sell some of these on eBay shortly.

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The Electromatic clutch gaskets that you ask a better description of are not gaskets per se but the actual vacuum diaphrams that mounts inside the vacuum cylinder and attach to the pull-cable which releases the clutch.

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for that. When I was giving them a description last night I thought they might be a diaphrams but I didn't want to 1) display my ignorance if they weren't, and 2) it was late and I wasn't sure how to spell diafram diaphram! Another question - Although they still seem to be flexible, being over 55 years old, would the ravages of time have affected their usability?

Although they still seem to be flexible, being over 55 years old, would the ravages of time have affected their usability?

I couldn't really answer, generally when a piece of rubber actually has to work back and forth repetitively, you'd not want to take a chance with old stock as opposed to a static application, but given the right rubber composition and good storage, sometimes it works out. The item is available as a repro piece; it's also quite easy to get at and replace so if it seems nice and flexible with no obvious flaws, you might want to chance it, especially with the repro at $104 and at that perhaps lot an ideal rubber formulation for that application.

No worries Mal, I am a PACA member, however another forum member informed me that it's not for my car.

Cheers

John

The classic good news/bad news scenario! Good that you're a PACA member, if you told me that earlier the few remaining grey cells just didn't retain that gem. Bad that it doesn't fit your Lark.

Your just too busy Mal (laughs) You helped me sell my Packard Memorabilia.

Anyway, I purchased one from a Stude club member/vendor today (2hrs ago) and installed it. A$30.

Just thought it would've helped the club to raise funds had it fitted, no doubt if you contact the Stude club of NSW they'll have a buyer.

Who knows, the tag may be worth more than the pedal as a souvenir!!!