Re: 51Packard's....51 Packard
Posted by Charles On 2010/10/10 16:53:54
10-10-10
Had a couple of hours free for car work. Finished painting the spring and upper arm in gloss black.
Removed the generator and starter.
Labeled and removed the ignition wires from the spark plugs. Removed the wire on the side of the distributor to the coil. Removed the coil and distributor cap. Took off the coil mounting bracket from the motor. Went to remove the battery cable ground wire, but antifreeze started to come out of the water pump so I just kept it on and tightened the bolt. Didn't want to deal with that just yet. Went to remove the temp sender wire and found out it was just taped on the stud! Still was working though. Removed the vacuum tube from the carb to the distributor. Removed the distributor. Removed the oil filler tube (saw on the other side traces of gray paint so my theory that some of these were painted black appears to be wrong and at some point mine was painted black instead of engine color). Removed oil dip stick.
Put a shop rag in the hole where the starter goes. Put paper towel in the distributor, oil filler and oil dip stick tubes. I figured if the brush hits the paper, it will just tear rather than catching a rag or something and potentially becoming dangerous.
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Had a couple of hours free for car work. Finished painting the spring and upper arm in gloss black.
Removed the generator and starter.
Labeled and removed the ignition wires from the spark plugs. Removed the wire on the side of the distributor to the coil. Removed the coil and distributor cap. Took off the coil mounting bracket from the motor. Went to remove the battery cable ground wire, but antifreeze started to come out of the water pump so I just kept it on and tightened the bolt. Didn't want to deal with that just yet. Went to remove the temp sender wire and found out it was just taped on the stud! Still was working though. Removed the vacuum tube from the carb to the distributor. Removed the distributor. Removed the oil filler tube (saw on the other side traces of gray paint so my theory that some of these were painted black appears to be wrong and at some point mine was painted black instead of engine color). Removed oil dip stick.
Put a shop rag in the hole where the starter goes. Put paper towel in the distributor, oil filler and oil dip stick tubes. I figured if the brush hits the paper, it will just tear rather than catching a rag or something and potentially becoming dangerous.
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