Re: Wile Family's Second Packard
Posted by Tim Wile On 2012/4/12 12:14:18
As a result of work and Boy Scout commitments, I haven't had much free time to spend working on either the Patrician or the Four Hundred. Over the past few weeks, however, I did managed to get some small scraps of time to do some incremental work.
The heater assembly is now completely re-assembled and ready to be installed on the car. I had completely dis-assembled it, sanded both the interior and exterior, and then primed and painted the metal pieces. The re-built flap piece works pretty nice and hopefully it shouldn't be too much of an effort to get the current one out and the new one in. I do have to procure new mounting bolts, however, as the prior owner put in the current heater assembly using only two of the four mounting bolts.
I also managed to pick up a new, unused Carter fuel filter assembly off of ebay and successfully (finally) installed it in the line from the fuel pump to the carburetor. Again, the prior owner had removed the fuel filter and replaced it with a simple rubber hose. It took some time to get everything firmed up so there were no fuel leaks with the engine running, but it is now working as it was designed.
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