Re: 51Packard's....51 Packard
Posted by Charles On 2012/3/26 18:19:53
3-26-12
Another attempt at welding today. I took Rusty's advice and slowed down and reduced the wire feed. Seems to have helped and the welds are not as built up as before, but another problem arose. Both gauges on the regulator now do not work so I have no idea how much gas is being fed to the welds. I was getting a lot of brown around them so I thought I should turn up the gas a little. Not sure if that even helped. Didn't have a chance to grind them down yet and look for holes.
Yesterday while looking through the plate pictures in the parts manual, I came across a pic of the trunk pan. Looks like I bent the strengthening channel in the new panel wrong. I made it come up instead of going down. The drivers side was raised so I assumed the other side would be the same. We all know what happens when we assume! Oh well, live and learn. I'm certainly not going to do anything about it at this point. I'm sure no one besides a Packard owner will be able to tell.
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Another attempt at welding today. I took Rusty's advice and slowed down and reduced the wire feed. Seems to have helped and the welds are not as built up as before, but another problem arose. Both gauges on the regulator now do not work so I have no idea how much gas is being fed to the welds. I was getting a lot of brown around them so I thought I should turn up the gas a little. Not sure if that even helped. Didn't have a chance to grind them down yet and look for holes.
Yesterday while looking through the plate pictures in the parts manual, I came across a pic of the trunk pan. Looks like I bent the strengthening channel in the new panel wrong. I made it come up instead of going down. The drivers side was raised so I assumed the other side would be the same. We all know what happens when we assume! Oh well, live and learn. I'm certainly not going to do anything about it at this point. I'm sure no one besides a Packard owner will be able to tell.
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