Re: Resurrecting a 1951 Henney-Packard Parts Car
Posted by Packard Don On 2022/5/19 20:46:34
Picked up the newly mounted tires this morning and was surprised to see that they used a metal stem. At first I didn’t like it but then I realized that it would probably seal better than anything else and it perfectly clears the notch in the beauty rings too. It was mainly the stems’ brass and silver color that I didn’t like but they grew on me as the day went by.
I was sure that I had checked the u-bolt nuts and had found them easy to turn since the rear end was switched years ago and they were (I thought) never fully tightened. However, so far I can’t get even one of them loose! I’ll try again tomorrow.
This is the closest in most of the time that I’ve owned it that it’s had to a matched set of wheels and tires! These have a larger diameter too than the 7.00 X 16s that the front had as I had to lift it higher to get the new ones on and I may have to take the rear ones back off the axel to get it under the car when I had planned on rolling it under.
I also removed the rear stabilizer linkage to see what can be done to repair but no happy ending there as the end snapped off. In fact, it took considerable impact wrenching to even do that! For a 9/16” head hex nut, it was really stuck.
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I was sure that I had checked the u-bolt nuts and had found them easy to turn since the rear end was switched years ago and they were (I thought) never fully tightened. However, so far I can’t get even one of them loose! I’ll try again tomorrow.
This is the closest in most of the time that I’ve owned it that it’s had to a matched set of wheels and tires! These have a larger diameter too than the 7.00 X 16s that the front had as I had to lift it higher to get the new ones on and I may have to take the rear ones back off the axel to get it under the car when I had planned on rolling it under.
I also removed the rear stabilizer linkage to see what can be done to repair but no happy ending there as the end snapped off. In fact, it took considerable impact wrenching to even do that! For a 9/16” head hex nut, it was really stuck.
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