Re: 38 Twelve. how to compress rings to install ?

Posted by Ozstatman On 2017/12/25 14:24:00

Sorry, not northern Australia, just North from our situations.

The guy concerned has restored a number of Packards over many years including a teens Twin Six, early '30's Super Eight, a 120, a '51 Convertible and more. However his most recent restoration, a few years ago, was a '38 Twelve Club Sedan. The Twelve when bought had purportedly been rebuilt, but wasn't, necessitating a complete rebuild of the engine. The rebuild was done by the guys engine rebuilder in the northern New South Wales town where he lives. They both learned a lot about Twelve engine rebuilding through that very expensive process. Because of that experience I'd PM'd Peter suggesting he contact our friend or his engine rebuilder.

An aside, because of this guys '38 Twelve Club Sedan, another Packard guy who lived still further North(but again not northern Australia!) became enarmoured with Twelves and purchased one for himself. A benefit that came from the ownership of that Twelve was the new owner facilitated the manufacture of reproduction Twelve distributor caps(by Bosch!)! These caps were being advertised in the CNB but I don't see them now in the Sept '17 issue, which is the only one I have to hand.