Re: Stewart's 1955 Packard 400

Posted by HH56 On 2014/9/1 19:14:48

Pretty close. Your blocks look a little larger than I used but in the right place. The bottom photo orientation is the way I did mine. Guessed the minimum room the wrench needed and then cut the blocks to fit between the frame and as low down on the arm it could go without getting in the way. I taped the blocks to the arm so they would stay in place while I cranked the armature by hand to set them into position against frame. I think that was the hardest -- the armature needs lots of turns to move the bars a tiny bit -- something I didn't want to do under power in case something went amiss.

It has been awhile but IIRC, with no body weight my arm went to about 1" from frame side before there was no pull on the transverse bars.