Re: 1941 Packard Clipper Eight Special Sedan

Posted by HH56 On 2016/8/4 14:06:02

If the car has been sitting or has an unknown history I would drop the oil pan and check for or clean out any sludge. Some have found as much as an inch surrounding the oil pickup. It has a fine mesh screen on the pickup. Partial bypass filters were an option with the filter canister mounted to the front left side of engine..

I don't know if you have ethanol fuel in the UK but if so and the rubber in the fuel pump is old you may want to do a rebuild on the pump using new modern rubber. The ethanol destroys the old rubber very quickly.

The 46-50 service manual is posted and you can download all or portions from the site. That might help until you get one of the 41-42 reprints covering the engines. Except for those with the smaller engines the prewar Clippers are almost identical to the later cars. Difference is primarily trim and a few styling changes.