Re: BigKev's 1954 Packard Clipper Deluxe Sedan

Posted by BigKev On 2009/4/28 21:40:18

Since I have seen the question of fresh air vent flapper seals asked a couple of times I thought I would go ahead and replace mine.

So here is the drivers side vent. I remove the push on clip securing the flapper pivot rod in place on the opposite side of the bellcrank. Then you have the pull the rod out the bellcrank side. This may require a little strength and twisting as my rod was in there pretty good (see picture to understand shape of the rod).

Then you carefully pry up all the legs of the staples, and remove them so you can try to reuse them. The two halves of the flapper come apart and you can remove the old seal. Clean up the flapper, repaint, and install the new seal. Replace all the staples, and then reassemble the vent. Touch up paint as needed.

I bought my seals from Packard International. Call their main office for pricing. But I think they were like $10-12 each.

If you look at the old seal you can see that most of the seal that extended outside of the flapper had already hardened and broken off. That is why the new seal looks a lot larger.

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