Re: Resurrecting a 1951 Henney-Packard Parts Car
Posted by Packard Don On 2023/4/30 22:28:17
A little more headway today with my brother’s help in getting the tailpipe fixed and made round again. The old muffler was rusted on so tightly that I had to air-chisel it off a couple years ago which distorted it. My brother was a machinist too but worked on larger parts (in my machining days, it was on tiny things mostly for hard drive read-write head manufacturer) so he’s good at this sort of thing and got it round in short order!
Then I got back to the driveshaft, pressing out the u-joints from the better of the two shafts that I have for it. These fought me a little but in the end I got them out but then had a surprise that the back most one was smaller than the other! The Parts List shows all three the same so it made no sense and the other spare drive shaft has the proper ones on both ends. Then I remembered, this driveshaft came from my other 1951 into which someone had put a Dana rear axel and was the reason I bought this ambulance to get it for a transplant. The Dana axle is tiny so whoever did the swap likely also changed the driveshaft yoke! Back to the drawing board tomorrow.
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Then I got back to the driveshaft, pressing out the u-joints from the better of the two shafts that I have for it. These fought me a little but in the end I got them out but then had a surprise that the back most one was smaller than the other! The Parts List shows all three the same so it made no sense and the other spare drive shaft has the proper ones on both ends. Then I remembered, this driveshaft came from my other 1951 into which someone had put a Dana rear axel and was the reason I bought this ambulance to get it for a transplant. The Dana axle is tiny so whoever did the swap likely also changed the driveshaft yoke! Back to the drawing board tomorrow.
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