Re: Resurrecting a 1951 Henney-Packard Parts Car
Posted by Packard Don On 2022/10/10 22:16:35
I never made it back to the transmission today but I did get some other things done. With the car so high on the lift and needing a ladder to get up there, I can't open the door very far to check the parking brake engagement as the door hits one of the roof trusses. Looking through as best I could, I can see that the brake handle is all the way in so I'll loosen any under-car adjustments that there may be in order to get the cable link connected to the equalizer. It's almost there and maybe with a second person I could get it but by myself it's not possible.
I flushed out the very long front to rear brake line with rust remover using the Rube Goldberg contraption shown below. A small TEEL pump flushed it through for a while, then repeated with water, air, then brake fluid. It showed no sign of leaks along the tube but that doesn't mean that it can handle the pressure of applying the brakes so was more of an experiment than anything else!
One thing I did yesterday was to try on the siren mount. Looking at the oval area where older paint was showing, it appeared that the mount was far too small and its holes far too close together but closer examination showed that there had at one time been some other larger device mounted there. The outline for the original was also still visible and this one I just got fits it perfectly!
The other holes in the roof were not from the factory and there are two more sets not visible for a pair of "gumball" beacons, one on either side and they were not stock either.
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I flushed out the very long front to rear brake line with rust remover using the Rube Goldberg contraption shown below. A small TEEL pump flushed it through for a while, then repeated with water, air, then brake fluid. It showed no sign of leaks along the tube but that doesn't mean that it can handle the pressure of applying the brakes so was more of an experiment than anything else!
One thing I did yesterday was to try on the siren mount. Looking at the oval area where older paint was showing, it appeared that the mount was far too small and its holes far too close together but closer examination showed that there had at one time been some other larger device mounted there. The outline for the original was also still visible and this one I just got fits it perfectly!
The other holes in the roof were not from the factory and there are two more sets not visible for a pair of "gumball" beacons, one on either side and they were not stock either.
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