Re: A Tale of Two Patricians
Posted by Packard Don On 2018/2/23 20:38:39
Thank you, Whippersnapper55! Doing my best and will try not to whine too much more about the cold!
I managed to get a little work done today by first getting the front up as high as I could, then I drained the old oil. I half expected to find several gallons of coolant on the floor when I got here a few days ago as I had to put in so much the last time but none to be found. Instead I see a rather large diameter puddle of transmission fluid near the center of the car so a seal has bit the dust but no real surprise there as it's been sitting for close to four decades! I also see a tiny drip coming from the power steering cylinder.
While underneath I disconnected the fuel line from the rubber hose. I started to say flexible hose but that is not what it was as it was as stiff as steel so I'll take it out entirely! Along those lines (no pun intended), I fetched my portable petrol tank but it is no longer on its safer plastic rolling cart as I must have re-purposed it the last time I was here back in October and indeed I had as I found it at the far side of the shop with an extremely heavy 14" Henney-Packard rear brake assembly on it. Anyway, I need to find out if the fuel in the portable tank is still good (drop a match into it? Just kidding!) and if it is, to decide if I want to connect up an electric fuel pump or see of the car's own mechanical pump will do the job - or both. Either way, I've got to get some oil into it first so will have to take a half-day to go into town. The car's own tank was cleaned and sealed decades ago but probably is in dire need again so perhaps better to replace it.
And finally, I did a quick triage of the stick shift lever and have concluded that the problem is at the wheel. I've worked on these before so I know what I have to do but I was actually hoping it was down below and after using PB Blaster on it, I can see that everything down there is free.
One question too. Although I'll eventually drop the pan, in the meantime is there something I should get while in town to pour into it to get out a bit of the sludge, if any, while the drain plug is removed? The oil coming out looked clean and it was a rebuilt engine so I don't expect there is much.
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I managed to get a little work done today by first getting the front up as high as I could, then I drained the old oil. I half expected to find several gallons of coolant on the floor when I got here a few days ago as I had to put in so much the last time but none to be found. Instead I see a rather large diameter puddle of transmission fluid near the center of the car so a seal has bit the dust but no real surprise there as it's been sitting for close to four decades! I also see a tiny drip coming from the power steering cylinder.
While underneath I disconnected the fuel line from the rubber hose. I started to say flexible hose but that is not what it was as it was as stiff as steel so I'll take it out entirely! Along those lines (no pun intended), I fetched my portable petrol tank but it is no longer on its safer plastic rolling cart as I must have re-purposed it the last time I was here back in October and indeed I had as I found it at the far side of the shop with an extremely heavy 14" Henney-Packard rear brake assembly on it. Anyway, I need to find out if the fuel in the portable tank is still good (drop a match into it? Just kidding!) and if it is, to decide if I want to connect up an electric fuel pump or see of the car's own mechanical pump will do the job - or both. Either way, I've got to get some oil into it first so will have to take a half-day to go into town. The car's own tank was cleaned and sealed decades ago but probably is in dire need again so perhaps better to replace it.
And finally, I did a quick triage of the stick shift lever and have concluded that the problem is at the wheel. I've worked on these before so I know what I have to do but I was actually hoping it was down below and after using PB Blaster on it, I can see that everything down there is free.
One question too. Although I'll eventually drop the pan, in the meantime is there something I should get while in town to pour into it to get out a bit of the sludge, if any, while the drain plug is removed? The oil coming out looked clean and it was a rebuilt engine so I don't expect there is much.
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