Re: Recent bought 1936 Club Sedan severe overheating???

Posted by shinyhubcap On 2016/10/12 19:23:06

Ha - very funny.....Fred dosnt fool me - with his statement that the shutter system on pre-war Senior Packards is "fail safe & will open if it fails ".....

C'mon...Fred...you don't fool me - I bet this is your idea of a joke - a "test" by you to smoke us out....see which of us is actually a seriously addicted Senior Packard "buff" with actual experience working on them.

You folks can bet the Kanter boys know ( almost as much as I do...! ) about the workings of pre-war Senior Packards....

For those who do not know why I am teasing Fred about his obvious mis-statement... ( .as the Kanter boys well know), pre-war Senior Packards used a "winterfront" style radiator shutter system, operated by a Sylphon thermostat-device in the radiator.

A VERY powerful spring that holds the shutters tightly closed until the water in the radiator gets warm enough to force the Sylphon's operating rod to push against the lever system that opens the shutters....if your Sylphon fails, the shutters slam shut.

A little side-note as to how over-engineered the Seniors were....even with that powerful spring holding the shutters tightly closed, their cooling systems were so over-engineered....so much excess cooling capacity...so much so that unless it is a really warm day, AND you are really "beating" on the car....it will get hot but not boil over in the event of a Sylphon failure!