Re: Randy Berger's 1956 Caribbean

Posted by todd landis On 2008/8/15 23:36:42

Don't know if this can help you with your fan clearance. The newest Packard I have worked on was a 52. Somewhere sometime many years ago I was rebuilding an engine and put on a fresh rebuilt pump. Mounted the radiator and had very little clearance. Don't remember what year the car was or model. But at the time an old timer said that the replacement pump was from a previous or later, or senior, or junior model. Same pump except that the shaft was slightly longer, and that the front flange was sitting on the shaft about 1/2 inch more towards the front of the car. Solution is to take off the back plate, support the shaft (not the impeller or housing), must be the shaft and in a press push the front flange back as far as needed for the proper clearance. The front flange, the one with the four screw holes that the blade mounts on, is just pressed onto the shaft. AGAIN, don't know if this will work on your car. And, you must support the shaft. And don't have a thicker radiator, advice direct from Modine many years ago, thicker is not necessarily better.