Re: A Tale of Two Patricians

Posted by Packard Don On 2020/7/3 12:08:17

Ross, that's exactly what I was hoping someone would say that! Seeing those spots told me that something had to have been there to trap moisture so I wanted to be safe.

Wes, I don't typically watch how-to videos but that's one I did see some time ago. I've actually rebuilt Treadlevacs before and it's easy to do but the video makes it seem complicated and possibly even intimidating for someone doing it the first time! Maybe some editing and a proper voice-over would help. It was a good refresher, though.

Actually, the Treadlevac in the running Patrician would have been a better candidate to rebuild and would have been easier to do because it was a running and driving car with a rebuilt unit far more recently that the parts car was. However, I don't want to disassemble it more than necessarily just yet before getting it drivable again. Finishing up the brakes and fixing the stuck shifter are all that are keeping that from happening.

I know that to fix the stuck shifter I would need to take out the Treadlevac anyway but at the time I didn't know that would be necessary. However, no amount of soaking seems to help free it up.

That said, it might seem odd but I need to be able to drive it at least out of the shop and back in for that quarter of the shop to be insulated!