Re: Vacation Car - 56 Patrician
Posted by HH56 On 2020/4/27 17:40:51
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55 and/or 56 Chevy will fit with minimal changes (might need a couple of spacers to position it over the top firewall flange) and if you can find the optional mounting bracket that screws on the motor it will take the co-ordinator too. The motor is large and heavy and is starting to get expensive when buying the hard to find originals. Believe 57 is same style and might work but was questionable if it needed mods because of sone differences. Not sure whether it has a different way it mounts or way the operating cable works or attaches or if it was the coordinator that would not fit but when it was popular to find and replace the vacuum motors with the Chevy electric in the 70s and 80s the articles said avoid 57 if you could find the others.
I read somewhere that there were Chevy repro motors now but not sure if those are same style as originals or if they are considering the Newport system as the repro.
Here is one of the Chevy motors which I had for awhile. It was replaced with the more compact Newport motor for which I built a switch module to accept and use the Packard cable control and co-ordinator assy instead of using the Newport electrical switch.
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PackardDon wrote:
I recall seeing a wiper motor that will attach directly to the Packard's mounting and even has the cable connector that the steering column control uses as its switch is built-in. I believe it was for a Chevrolet but unfortunately I don't recall the year or model but I do seem to recall that either it was large or it sat at an odd angle (or both) but required no modification at all other than getting power to it. It even worked with the pulsing washer accessory.
55 and/or 56 Chevy will fit with minimal changes (might need a couple of spacers to position it over the top firewall flange) and if you can find the optional mounting bracket that screws on the motor it will take the co-ordinator too. The motor is large and heavy and is starting to get expensive when buying the hard to find originals. Believe 57 is same style and might work but was questionable if it needed mods because of sone differences. Not sure whether it has a different way it mounts or way the operating cable works or attaches or if it was the coordinator that would not fit but when it was popular to find and replace the vacuum motors with the Chevy electric in the 70s and 80s the articles said avoid 57 if you could find the others.
I read somewhere that there were Chevy repro motors now but not sure if those are same style as originals or if they are considering the Newport system as the repro.
Here is one of the Chevy motors which I had for awhile. It was replaced with the more compact Newport motor for which I built a switch module to accept and use the Packard cable control and co-ordinator assy instead of using the Newport electrical switch.
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