Re: Henry's 55 Constellation

Posted by Cli55er On 2012/1/8 20:15:13

got lots of painting done this weekend, which is a miracle since my nose is running all over the place. stupid weather.

and my long time friend, my 10 year old dog...buddy...i had to give up. He bit my son on the hand, which was bound to happen at some point. He was a very tempermental old fart of a mutt dog and has snapped at other people in the past....but i'm not taking ANY chances that my son will be malled. NOT worth it. so i had to make a difficult trip to the pound to surrender him. i'm pretty sad and bummed...so i kept busy on the Packard. I'm just glad it was only my son's hand and not his face.

anyways enough sad stuff. i also got my water pump put together, i was much more careful with the seal this time when pressing in. i put loctite 518 on it as well. i put in the freeze plug in water pump housing and used some loctite 518 on it too. i still need to press on the fan blade hub piece. i painted the motor with 2000 degree flat black rust stopping primer type paint. i painted the headers too.

i got a set of 11 Champion H-10 sparkplugs, which were not cheap, but they are original type.

i had to drill out the snapped off bolts in the headers and retap them. i was off just barely on that one as you can see. hopefully it will work okay. i used a 3/8 NC16 tap on it, hopefully that was the right size as i used a gauge on the good header to determine and that was what i came up with.

on a happy note, my son decided to help me work on the washing machine and he hammed up the camera which put a smile on my face. what a good boy!

here are the pics.

enjoy

Hank

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