Re: Wile Family's Second Packard
Posted by Tim Wile On 2013/11/20 10:56:22
Well, it is mid-November here in Pennsyltucky and I'm still working on re-installing the door windows in the Four Hundred. The colder weather and the lack of a heated garage makes such work a challenge. I find that I can only stand perhaps a half-hour at a time before the fingers start to get numb and don't work the way in which I want them to.
The Four Hundred has presented me with another challenge. The metal bracket that holds the hand brake handle under the dash has rusted in two. While I have procured a replacement, I observed that the handle appears to be pinned into the rod. I was thinking that replacing the bracket would be an easy thing to do; remove the handle from the hand brake rod, slip off the rusted out bracket, slip on the replacement; re-install the hand brake handle; and then bolt the bracket onto the underside of the dash. But with the hand brake handle being pinned to the rod, it now appears that the correct procedure would be to disconnect the pull handle rod from the hand brake assembly under the hood, pull it out; remove the old rusted bracket; reinstall the hand brake rod; and then bolt the bracket to the bottom of the dash.
I only raise this question since I had been planning on removing the hand brake handle in the Patrician for re-chroming. If it is going to be such a PITA, is is worth getting the hand brake handle re-done at all?
The group's thoughts on this would be welcome.
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