Re: 1949 Packard 288 Full Restoration Project in Florida

Posted by humanpotatohybrid On 2023/1/10 23:12:54

Very cool to see a full resto on one of these. Pretty rare these days.

As I recall, in some year they changed from machined to rolled head bolts (or vice versa) and the thread OD is different. Sounds like you already fixed this, but I think that's the issue you ran into on the head studs.