Re: Henry's 37 Limousine

Posted by Cli55er On 2017/3/27 9:12:53

Thanks everyone for the kind words. and still I'm sorry if this didn't go over well with some of the members here.

Thanks to Wesley Boyer for the donation. Whatever gets donated, I'm going to make sure I voluntarily donate some back to this website! The debt will be deducted at 100% for my cousin-in-law though. I just want to do the right thing.

anyways. Lets get back to the project blog.

This weekend consisted of a lot of yard work, but on Friday evening i talked to Feltz Terrill on the phone for about 30 min about the water pump. It was deteremined that all was well and he rebuilt perfectly fine. the movement was there after he rebuilt it. he did not want to press the impellar on so much that it compressed the spring on the seal too far. i understood this. I was going to measure the movement and make sure it did not get worse, but i have OCD and nothing better to do on a friday evening. I also got tired of the damn freeze plugs leaking. Also want everyone to know that i think Feltz is a great guy and i have nothing against the work that he did on the pump.

So, i drained the fluid out slowly into a couple of clean empty jugs i had laying around. i recovered pretty much ever drop of that coolant. i took the water pump off and popped out the leaking freeze plugs. simple to pop them out. air chisel with a pointed tip. hammer hole in the middle and then pop them off. The water pump looked fine as i expected it would, but i pressed the impeller down a bit more and made sure to keep it within spec. technically it was not withing spec, although it was working. i went to .22 on the feeler gauge. there is still movement so the spring on the seal is still not bottomed out and the pulley is not moving around as much now. actually when the car is running, i cant see any movement now. i feel better about it.

I put the spare freeze plugs I had from the rebuild kit in the block. i used locktite 518 flange sealer. i repainted as well. water pump back on and allowed to set up a bit.

coolant back in. started car...not leaks. next day...no leaks. freeze plugs perfect now.

that was the extent of the work on the packard this weekend.