Re: Stewart's 1955 Packard 400

Posted by Stewart Ballard On 2015/5/8 13:16:51

I took off yesterday and went to St Louis to watch the Cards and the Cubs play.
Will be back in the shop tonight or tomorrow morning.

I'll try to explain this better.

The passenger's side load arm is re-seated as explained earlier. The watts link and shocks are disconnected because I thought that would make it easier to re-seat the load arms. Disconnecting these was actually suggested to me in an earlier post. That's how it all setting right now.

Now, I set up the jack and the chain on the left side just like I did before. When I start to jack up the load arm the whole frame raises up maybe an inch to inch and a half as the tension is taken out of the chain.
Since the support arms are floating (due to the watts link and shock being disconnected) they do not rise that inch or more along with the frame. It remains setting on the jack stand. That inch of separation that I am creating is causing the right side load arm to come un-seated every time.

Maybe I should go ahead and un-seat the right side.
Reconnect the watts link and shocks.
Then re-seat the load arms.

This way when the frame raises again with the jack the whole rear axle and supports will rise with it and everything will stay where it belongs.

Suggestions.