Re: 1938 Super 8 1605 - adventures with a newbie

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2020/1/26 10:17:51

Just following on to Tim's comments, those metal mating surfaces of those Packard engines were finished to very high standards and some gaskets were purposely very thin. I just measured an original Packard gasket for the valve roller levers to engine block, it's thin paper and measures about 0.008".