Re: 1940 Manual shift

Posted by RogerDetroit On 2010/12/7 20:58:12

Hello Howard:

We have looked into all of those alternatives. Joel Ray of Patrician Industries is the Director of Projects for Motor City Packards and would have told us if an NOS part is readily available. As for a fix kit we thought of that too, but how do we make a fix kit when the parts my wear out in somewhat different places. And if you have the part off to fix, then why not put on a new part, made of better materials?

While we have not priced out the part, we had very good results reproducing the 3003 light bulbs for 1933-34 Packards and spring covers for 1938-39 cars.

Today the real issue it seems to be if we are all talking about the same part. We thought the shifter LEVERS were the culprit and someone else has suggested the problem is with the shifter FORKS. We need to determine the correct part(s) to reproduce.