Re: Henry's 55 Constellation

Posted by Cli55er On 2010/2/21 1:29:52

worked on the car some more this weekend. trying to get things ready for Salado fun.

cleaned up the entire valve body from the transmission. lots of brake parts cleaner and believe it or not rubbing alcohol on Q-tips, they work great! it is all very clean and shiny. not that it matters cause it will be in transmission covered in fluid LOL! haha! but i like it.

i took a video of me putting together the lower rear valve body. this is part one of the entire valve body rebuild on video. (Kev, reason why i asked about video host on this website) i plan to video the entire rebuild of the twin ultramatic from start to finish. the valve body videos are just the first set to the complete collection. and.....they're in HD ;0) even better!

i took the wheels to the tire shop and go them dismounted, then took the rims to the sandblaster, but noticed that one of the beads has a dent in it on one of the rims, so i am going to work with them and try to find someone that will bead roll them and make sure they are true to form. then they are going to get powdercoated (in lew of painted). just high gloss black. the hub caps are going to cover most of this color anyways and powerdercoating is more durable. then i will get the bias plys mounted and put them back on the rolling chassis for Salado. better than last year when i had the crappy rollers on there. ;0) LOL! (and for those going to Salado, YES i know there is a weird cut up hole in my frame that some moron cut. thanks for noting again ;0)

there is a place right down the road from me that does all this and i didn't even know they existed, wish i did when i was doing the frame, etc....might have had the frame powder coated, but then it would look too perfect and i don't like that either. so i am good with what i have done so far.

I also took the trans case, tail-shaft, bell-housing, etc...to let this company soak them and clean them (not sandblast) just clean with stronger cleaners then i have. (it was cheap, so i let them do it and save me the trouble)

the drive shaft, sway bar, etc...is going to be sandblasted. then i will take the driveshaft to be balanced,etc...

One VERY ANNOYING thing....the sway bar bushing clamps ARE WELDED TOGETHER!!! how do you change the bushings if you can't separate the bushing clamp. VERY ANNOYING PACKARD!!! what a PITA!! any thoughts on how to do this as Packard intended it to be done?

thanks for following the blog.

edit//// i deleted the video for a better one that i did. it is in a more recent post on page 26 of the blog.

later,

Hank