Re: A Tale of Two Patricians
Posted by Packard Don On 2021/3/10 16:15:42
BigKev mentioned the fan too but I believe those marks have been there for years. However, I will check today when I go out to the shop to be sure as I hadn’t thought about the possibility of motor mounts. I don’t see much movement of the engine as I revved it gently rather than gunning it.
I’ve been waiting for it to warm up a bit but it’s a balmy 41 now so time to go out! I have plenty of stock fans (I don’t know if any are postwar, though!) and will change it anyway eventually but I don’t want to ruin the radiator in the meantime.
The pinion with caked grease or weak return spring are more likely causes so I’ll check them out too but not on this visit as I won’t have the time. The first section of insulation (west 1/4 of the shop) is due the day before I leave, then I’ll need to quickly get the car back inside so don’t want it get it stuck anywhere! I had hot wired it after disconnecting the body feed so no possibility that anything is electrically activating it.
Woke up to snow this morning but only a little and it’s mostly gone by now. The Patrician is outside now but this is not the first time it experienced snow as one time many years ago in Santa Clara, CA there was about an inch of it.
Sticking in another photo for no particular reason other than that’s the general direction I have to walk to get back to the house which is beyond the trees at the center and the driveway is just visible at the upper right of the back window. It’s very volcanic here so few trees are larger than these. Incidentally, I have both tail fins (and several extras) along with the backup lights and a pair of NOS backup lights too. I also have a set of NOS backup light lenses by themselves.
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I’ve been waiting for it to warm up a bit but it’s a balmy 41 now so time to go out! I have plenty of stock fans (I don’t know if any are postwar, though!) and will change it anyway eventually but I don’t want to ruin the radiator in the meantime.
The pinion with caked grease or weak return spring are more likely causes so I’ll check them out too but not on this visit as I won’t have the time. The first section of insulation (west 1/4 of the shop) is due the day before I leave, then I’ll need to quickly get the car back inside so don’t want it get it stuck anywhere! I had hot wired it after disconnecting the body feed so no possibility that anything is electrically activating it.
Woke up to snow this morning but only a little and it’s mostly gone by now. The Patrician is outside now but this is not the first time it experienced snow as one time many years ago in Santa Clara, CA there was about an inch of it.
Sticking in another photo for no particular reason other than that’s the general direction I have to walk to get back to the house which is beyond the trees at the center and the driveway is just visible at the upper right of the back window. It’s very volcanic here so few trees are larger than these. Incidentally, I have both tail fins (and several extras) along with the backup lights and a pair of NOS backup lights too. I also have a set of NOS backup light lenses by themselves.
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