Re: Resurrecting a 1951 Henney-Packard Parts Car
Posted by Packard Don On 2023/11/14 0:26:55
With a lack of any comments or thoughts about the head stud issue, I wrote to a place that makes custom studs and can make a couple with a larger thread on one end. Problem is, their minimum is $400! The other option is to pull the engine and take it to an automotive machine shop for proper inserts which would be far cheaper but not only a tremendous amount of work but it would also require taking the car down off the the lift and moving it somehow to another part of the shop. If I were planning on keeping it, that’s what I would do without hesitation but that is not the plan.
So doing little things for a couple days and some work on the shop itself (cleaning up one mess seems to cause one in another area!), I decided to get to work on the rear brakes which are still all apart.
The driver’s side was where I started and on that side, there was a lot of rust damage as the axle came from a wet environment. I replaced the drum long ago and already had a spare backing plate that I got out and cleaned up today.
First photo shows the rusty back plate which some readers who have been following along may have seen long ago when I first got the rear end assembly.
The second photo shows everything cleaned up except for the side of the plate we’re facing as I thought it would be easier to do with it rigidly attached. This is just a trial fit as I’ve not yet put in the inner seal which I will do tomorrow now that I’ve located the slide hammer adapter that I made many, many years ao while working on other Henneys. Unless the bearing is completely fried, it will be good enough to move the car around the yard but otherwise I’ll replace it and I may even already have some new ones. We’ll see!
A year or two ago I bought a seal set which included everything (except for the little felt seals behind the parking brake in-feed but I already have those) but in the trial assembly, I discovered that the gasket shown does not fit. The spacing of the two upper holes is to close by about 1/8” which means that the whole things is reduced slightly somehow. Fortunately, when I first took apart this axle, one was intact enough to use as a pattern so I had had some made and those fit perfectly.
Note the huge 14” Henney rear brake drum at the bottom of the first two photos. This same drum was also used on the shorter Henney Junior even though its rear axle was different than that in the senior models.
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So doing little things for a couple days and some work on the shop itself (cleaning up one mess seems to cause one in another area!), I decided to get to work on the rear brakes which are still all apart.
The driver’s side was where I started and on that side, there was a lot of rust damage as the axle came from a wet environment. I replaced the drum long ago and already had a spare backing plate that I got out and cleaned up today.
First photo shows the rusty back plate which some readers who have been following along may have seen long ago when I first got the rear end assembly.
The second photo shows everything cleaned up except for the side of the plate we’re facing as I thought it would be easier to do with it rigidly attached. This is just a trial fit as I’ve not yet put in the inner seal which I will do tomorrow now that I’ve located the slide hammer adapter that I made many, many years ao while working on other Henneys. Unless the bearing is completely fried, it will be good enough to move the car around the yard but otherwise I’ll replace it and I may even already have some new ones. We’ll see!
A year or two ago I bought a seal set which included everything (except for the little felt seals behind the parking brake in-feed but I already have those) but in the trial assembly, I discovered that the gasket shown does not fit. The spacing of the two upper holes is to close by about 1/8” which means that the whole things is reduced slightly somehow. Fortunately, when I first took apart this axle, one was intact enough to use as a pattern so I had had some made and those fit perfectly.
Note the huge 14” Henney rear brake drum at the bottom of the first two photos. This same drum was also used on the shorter Henney Junior even though its rear axle was different than that in the senior models.
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