Re: Henry's 55 Constellation
Posted by Cli55er On 2008/7/14 10:40:19
This weekend was eventful for the Packard. I mostly worked on the tearing down the motor and i got to spend some time with my dad in the process.
i started with all the accessories and then just went at it. i was nervous at first, but once i got in there i couldn't believe how incredibly simply the design was, especially compared to the BMW motors i am used to working on. It was the fear of the unknown i guess.
i had a hard time getting the heads off, but then my dad notice there were two more bolts disguised in the large amount of dirt on the side of the motor on each side. i just didn't even see them. good thing we didn't try too hard to get them off first. after those bolts came out the heads popped right off, easy cheesy. i left the valve there for now.
the tops of the pistons didn't look too bad and the cyclinder walls were pretty smoot still. the domes and valves didn't look bad either.
i took off the center cam cover plate and we proceded to take out the lifters, some WD-40 help lube things up to get those out easier. the cam had some scoring and will probably need to be redone too.
i couldn't get the front timming chain cover off as i don't have a puller to get the harmonic pully off. i will soon though. so we pretty much stopped there and call it a night.
My wife, even while pregnant, found it in her to organize my tools....thanks baby! she even pulled up about 20 weeds that had spreed from out crappy neighbors yard, if that is what you can call it. jerks.....
well....some of the bad news.....the person i bought the car from, his memory served him correctly....the block had been cracked....more like a hole blown through the side of it. see the pics of the repair.
the driver's side only has on freeze plug as a result. but whoever did the repair didn't do too bad as it holds water and the motor ran fine....we will see when i take it to the machine shop to get it clean up, etc... my take is that the motor blew rod at one point and stuck it right out the side of the motor....common problem even in 2001,2002 M Roadsters.....oil pump issue vs. RPM max achieved.....someone wasn't taking care of this poor little Packard at some point.
He said it cost bundles to fix and i believe him now, but i was hoping his memory was thinking of another car and that mine was okay....darn the luck.
sorry for the TONS of pics, but i like to use the Blog as an archival for my pics. and sorry they suck too as i use my camera phone to take them since the phone is easy to use and get to then my 500 dollar DSLR that i would rather not dirty up.
later,
Hank
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i started with all the accessories and then just went at it. i was nervous at first, but once i got in there i couldn't believe how incredibly simply the design was, especially compared to the BMW motors i am used to working on. It was the fear of the unknown i guess.
i had a hard time getting the heads off, but then my dad notice there were two more bolts disguised in the large amount of dirt on the side of the motor on each side. i just didn't even see them. good thing we didn't try too hard to get them off first. after those bolts came out the heads popped right off, easy cheesy. i left the valve there for now.
the tops of the pistons didn't look too bad and the cyclinder walls were pretty smoot still. the domes and valves didn't look bad either.
i took off the center cam cover plate and we proceded to take out the lifters, some WD-40 help lube things up to get those out easier. the cam had some scoring and will probably need to be redone too.
i couldn't get the front timming chain cover off as i don't have a puller to get the harmonic pully off. i will soon though. so we pretty much stopped there and call it a night.
My wife, even while pregnant, found it in her to organize my tools....thanks baby! she even pulled up about 20 weeds that had spreed from out crappy neighbors yard, if that is what you can call it. jerks.....
well....some of the bad news.....the person i bought the car from, his memory served him correctly....the block had been cracked....more like a hole blown through the side of it. see the pics of the repair.
the driver's side only has on freeze plug as a result. but whoever did the repair didn't do too bad as it holds water and the motor ran fine....we will see when i take it to the machine shop to get it clean up, etc... my take is that the motor blew rod at one point and stuck it right out the side of the motor....common problem even in 2001,2002 M Roadsters.....oil pump issue vs. RPM max achieved.....someone wasn't taking care of this poor little Packard at some point.
He said it cost bundles to fix and i believe him now, but i was hoping his memory was thinking of another car and that mine was okay....darn the luck.
sorry for the TONS of pics, but i like to use the Blog as an archival for my pics. and sorry they suck too as i use my camera phone to take them since the phone is easy to use and get to then my 500 dollar DSLR that i would rather not dirty up.
later,
Hank
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