Re: Ring & Pinion Interchangeability

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2013/2/21 18:22:24

Packards are laughably undergeared.

Yes - for today's roads and driving habits but not for their era and prevailing conditions of the time. Their ratios were pretty much the same as the other heavy cars of the time, and some of the others had even higher ratios.

PS - I just looked up some just-prewar axle ratios for some of the heavier Chrysler, Buick and Cadillac chassis - several models of each were between 4.5 and 4.6 to 1 so Packard wasn't really out of step for the times.

Jampard - have you checked a Hollander's for interchange information?