Packard Motor Car Information

Re: Henry's 55 Constellation

Posted by Cli55er On 2011/8/28 22:31:40

did some work over the weekend as my parts came from Jack on Friday. thanks Jack! they were great! even got the .010 oversized rod bearings, the mains should be here this coming week. so the crank can go in finally.

i got the other pistons installed and my wife even knocked in a couple of them just so she could say she did something, its been awhile.

i took apart the distributor for a good cleaning and lubing, had to press out the shaft. man i'm glad i got that press now! worked flawlessly.

i have the power steering pump and the oil filter canister soaking in my special purple power cleaner. (p.s. its cheap and you can leave parts in it forever without rusting (no aluminum please))

i cleaned up some of the carb parts too and have some cleaning to do on the linkage. i sourced a place for the little bronze screws finally so now i can take those out, man they sure destroy themselves when you try to get them out and it doesn't help they are stacked on the other side to keep them from coming loose. so i had to drill one of them out when i clean.....i seriously clean. nook cranny everywhere.

the jets look like a size 52 and i read what i think is 6 on the others, but surely they are bigger then 6...maybe 60? and i can't read the 0. sorry for the blurry pic.

the site i found that has the screws also has jets, but i wont be jetting with this cam on recommendation by a 4GC pro that Jack told me to contact.

the oil filter is obviously the common Fram C-4 replacement.

that little filter screen/clip i have pictured is going to be kinda hard to replace, but i haven't researched that yet. the screen was sunk into the hole and only held on by one side of the clip instead of the whole thing and you can see why...looks like it is just worn out.

and my Aunt found an old Packard hat of my Grandfather's at my late Uncle's house. i wear it when i work on the car.

anyways enjoy.

Hank

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