Re: Hobbs 1933 Packard
Posted by Hobbs On 2010/10/15 21:59:58
And then the cooling system starts to rear its ugly head. The first photo says it all.
I didn't take a lot of in between photos on the radiator, It was too involved to do that.
The final summation is a new core was fabricated, and is not the original way that the cores were constructed in 1933. At some point, the radiator industry changed tooling. Regardless, no-one has this old tooling, so the cores are all hand fabricated. The shop I worked with managed to find a core that looks original and is supposed to be equal to or better than original for performance. We shall see.
As far as a finish on the radiator, I have heard several different things.
One being that the radiators were not painted, as there are some original cars out there that do not have a bit of paint on them. Another being that if they were painted, it was a flat black paint.
Well, by the time I got this information, the shop had already primed the radiator, so painting was the only option.
Here is another point of discussion. I ended up using the satin black radiator paint by Eastwood. I chose this product because it is thinner than regular rattle can and can withstand high temps. And boy, it is definitely thin!!! I have never had so many drips in my life!
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I didn't take a lot of in between photos on the radiator, It was too involved to do that.
The final summation is a new core was fabricated, and is not the original way that the cores were constructed in 1933. At some point, the radiator industry changed tooling. Regardless, no-one has this old tooling, so the cores are all hand fabricated. The shop I worked with managed to find a core that looks original and is supposed to be equal to or better than original for performance. We shall see.
As far as a finish on the radiator, I have heard several different things.
One being that the radiators were not painted, as there are some original cars out there that do not have a bit of paint on them. Another being that if they were painted, it was a flat black paint.
Well, by the time I got this information, the shop had already primed the radiator, so painting was the only option.
Here is another point of discussion. I ended up using the satin black radiator paint by Eastwood. I chose this product because it is thinner than regular rattle can and can withstand high temps. And boy, it is definitely thin!!! I have never had so many drips in my life!
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