Re: hph
Posted by humanpotatohybrid On 2022/10/14 8:49:31
"Long" time no update but I'm making incremental progress on things. I'm also switching jobs so priorities are a bit abnormal at the moment.
- I went to Hershey and while there picked up some parts from Ross and on the way back picked up some from "point" on here. Nice older guy, had a nice chat with him for a while (mostly about Packard stuff, of course). I left from north of Pittsburgh that day around 7am, drove to Hershey PA, left there around 4:30, drove to Central City getting there around 8pm, then after leaving there took a nap shortly after, finally getting up to the Clarion area around 3am that day! VERY long day with a lot of driving AND walking.
- Making incremental progress on everything. Variously cleaning, painting, polishing, rust-removing, but it's all slowly coming together.
- I realized Reyman disconnected the underseat heater to fuse the fuel pump. Likewise, the wiper hot wire was jammed in one of the other fuse blocks. (Picture below.) IDK why he didn't hook them directly to the ignition switch, but that's what I'll be doing, with inline fuses. I have some spare Bosch relays so at some point I plan to wire them thru those to reduce the arcing in the ignition switch. Relevant thread.
- So now my underseat heater works! But as far as I know the wipers still don't. Honestly maybe next year I'd like to just swap the (seemingly nonfunctional) electric unit for the pneumatic one again. I'll just need some type of vacuum pump to power it with as my car doesn't have the original oil pump. However it DOES have the original washer jar, so it would be cool to have all that going properly at some point.
- Realized my trunk light just had a bad ground. It's held in, but the screws are messed up so it's not tight. Just need to replace them and it should be good. (Picture below.)
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- I went to Hershey and while there picked up some parts from Ross and on the way back picked up some from "point" on here. Nice older guy, had a nice chat with him for a while (mostly about Packard stuff, of course). I left from north of Pittsburgh that day around 7am, drove to Hershey PA, left there around 4:30, drove to Central City getting there around 8pm, then after leaving there took a nap shortly after, finally getting up to the Clarion area around 3am that day! VERY long day with a lot of driving AND walking.
- Making incremental progress on everything. Variously cleaning, painting, polishing, rust-removing, but it's all slowly coming together.
- I realized Reyman disconnected the underseat heater to fuse the fuel pump. Likewise, the wiper hot wire was jammed in one of the other fuse blocks. (Picture below.) IDK why he didn't hook them directly to the ignition switch, but that's what I'll be doing, with inline fuses. I have some spare Bosch relays so at some point I plan to wire them thru those to reduce the arcing in the ignition switch. Relevant thread.
- So now my underseat heater works! But as far as I know the wipers still don't. Honestly maybe next year I'd like to just swap the (seemingly nonfunctional) electric unit for the pneumatic one again. I'll just need some type of vacuum pump to power it with as my car doesn't have the original oil pump. However it DOES have the original washer jar, so it would be cool to have all that going properly at some point.
- Realized my trunk light just had a bad ground. It's held in, but the screws are messed up so it's not tight. Just need to replace them and it should be good. (Picture below.)
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20221013_193336.jpg (126.27 KB)
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