Re: KPack's 1954 Panama

Posted by kevinpackard On 2021/1/21 11:18:02

Don - I have a headliner coming from SMS. They are the only ones that had the right material. Cost was pretty similar to other places (Kanter, Newstalgia) at ~$300. Still waiting to hear back from the upholstery place to see what the cost is on them installing. That will probably determine if I do it myself.

John - That's a definite possibility. I hadn't even considered that. I need to clean up the rat's nest of excess wire length on all the spark plug wires, then get a couple of wire keepers to make it tidy. Right now they all cross each other and that's probably not great.

Kev - The car came to me with a manual choke installed, and I just went through the process of rebuilding my second carb in order to ditch the manual choke. I had to install a new heat riser tube, but now I have a fully-functioning (at least it appears so) automatic choke. The manual choke cable is still there because I wasn't sure how well the automatic would work. So far it seems like it is, so I'll pull that cable off soon and pack it away with the old carb in case someone else wants to convert to manual choke.

An additional spring might not be a bad idea. I might need to try that out. I still need to figure out what to do about the loose rivets though....I really think that's making it worse.

Ernie - I have no idea how old the condenser is. Decades probably. What kind of weird things would I notice? I assumed the hesitation I'm seeing right now is fuel delivery problems (accelerator pump), but that's just a guess.

-Kevin