Re: BigKev's 1954 Packard Clipper Deluxe Sedan
Posted by BigKev On 2010/10/17 23:53:29
Well it's not black smoke. White/Blue smoke more than anything. I wonder if I have a ring that is sticking. Yet the compression is good across all the cylinders. When I got the car the motor was stuck. Some ATF in the cylinders and time freed it up. So I wonder if there is still something a bit sticky in there that is letting oil blowby.
Much less smoke today. So I think the longer I run it, the less smoke I am seeing.
On another note, the oil sure got dirty quick. I guess the Rotella is flushing all the crap out of the motor. I only have about 2 hours of run time on the motor (most of it at idle) and the oil is already pretty dirty.
I got under the car this evening and pulled down the fuel filter to clean it out. The first problem was that I put the element in backwards. So grit and rust was getting caught on the small inside of the element, instead of falling to outside of element and then bottom of the glass tube. DOH! So I cleaned out the element, and reinstalled with the element the other way. This should help to prevent the issue I saw today.
The Die-Hard battery fit in the tray very nice, and by removing the sticker on top, it give it a nice black-box no name battery in the tray.
I also pulled out what I think is the original rear passenger floor mat that came with my car. It is die cut, and has a small raised pattern. Also there was a rectangular patch of jute on the bottom side of it. Can anyone confirm this was the original style mat? I think the Deluxe Clippers only had limited carpet with it just in front of the car, but none in the back. So this may be what was used instead. The mat was in the car when I got it, and I pulled it out and stored in when I was doing the initial year out of the old carpet and upholstery many years ago.
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Much less smoke today. So I think the longer I run it, the less smoke I am seeing.
On another note, the oil sure got dirty quick. I guess the Rotella is flushing all the crap out of the motor. I only have about 2 hours of run time on the motor (most of it at idle) and the oil is already pretty dirty.
I got under the car this evening and pulled down the fuel filter to clean it out. The first problem was that I put the element in backwards. So grit and rust was getting caught on the small inside of the element, instead of falling to outside of element and then bottom of the glass tube. DOH! So I cleaned out the element, and reinstalled with the element the other way. This should help to prevent the issue I saw today.
The Die-Hard battery fit in the tray very nice, and by removing the sticker on top, it give it a nice black-box no name battery in the tray.
I also pulled out what I think is the original rear passenger floor mat that came with my car. It is die cut, and has a small raised pattern. Also there was a rectangular patch of jute on the bottom side of it. Can anyone confirm this was the original style mat? I think the Deluxe Clippers only had limited carpet with it just in front of the car, but none in the back. So this may be what was used instead. The mat was in the car when I got it, and I pulled it out and stored in when I was doing the initial year out of the old carpet and upholstery many years ago.
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