Re: 1940 Super 8 160 Model 1803 Project

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2011/5/14 13:28:32

Congrats! Good preparation and thinking, you've done your homework and what most of us who have done dozens of these valve jobs routinely do. I have a rack to retain the valves in the order they were in the engine, and ditto for the lifters. As to remembering to put corks or similar into the oil return holes, a lot of folks have learned that the hard way.

Yes, using the gauge block is much simplier, whether it's more or less accurate I don't know but the fact that Packard dropped the recommendation of the alternative method probably has some basis.

Some one earlier, perhaps in this thread, made a comment about Packard's designing these lifters or something like that - Packard didn't design them, they were designed, patented and manufactured by Wilcox-Rich and are of the same design though slightly different than the Wilcox-Rich units used in the flathead Cadillac V8 (345 ci). Pierce Arrow had hydraulic lifters in the in-line 8s well before most anyone else - don't know who made these units but if anyone knows, I'd like to hear.