Re: 51Packard's....51 Packard

Posted by BigKev On 2010/8/12 11:10:26

The under floor supports, mounts, and rockers are solid in my car. My floorpans rusted out from wet carpets, and not from road salt or anything external. The rust hole pattern on my floor exactly matches the pattern of the jute on the back of the carpet.

As far as your transmission line woes, I replaced all of the ones in mine. Now it appears with the Gear-Start tranny in '54 then decided to run the lines straight up the passenger side. As opposed to the cross over and back like they did on previous years. So that could be an option of you as trying to bend up new line to cross between the transmission case and the floor with the tranny in the car is going to be a bear.

Napa makes a coated steel line, and that is what I used to replace mine with. Check my blog, it should be documented in there somewhere.