Re: KPack

Posted by kevinpackard On 2021/3/29 19:58:28

Thanks for the answers guys. Turns out I have 3 of the Packard wheels, and 2 of the Buick....my count was opposite. Ross, no worries about sending a wheel....shipping on that would be killer. I'm going to check first David Moe since he is just over the mountains. In the meantime I will just leave the wheels as is, but throw new tires on. When I get all matching wheels then I will demount the tires, sandblast the wheels, and paint them at that point.

Spent some time working on the brakes today and didn't make nearly the amount of progress I wanted. Drum puller isn't here yet, and I tried renting one to no avail. So the rear drums are still there.

I completely disassembled the fronts. Behind the backing plates the components were completely caked in decades of grease and grime. It looked like one solid block. So an hour or so of scraping later, and I'm now back at clean metal.

I took all the components back to my place and cleaned them up. I sandblasted what I could, but my compressor just isn't up to the task to do large items. The backing plates needed a ton of work. Got them all cleaned up and into gloss black. Now they are curing for the next day or so.

I'll be cutting new gaskets tonight for both fronts. Pretty easy.

And I'm working on bending the rear lines. I'm really bad at it so far.

-Kevin

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