Re: forgive me for I have sinned, Chevy engine in Packard

Posted by Wayne Atkinson On 2009/1/7 18:50:27

As far as the trailer hitch receiver goes. I will have to go out in the cold garage and jack the car up and get a picture. But basically I made a couple of brackets out of 4" angle iron, that was trimmed so it would bolt onto the outside of the original bumper brackets, It used the same bolts. The lower lip of the angle then was below the original bumper brackets and pointed to the center of the car. I used 1/4" wall 2" square tubing and placed it right next to the Packard frame crossmember. The ends of the tubing rested on the flanges of the previously installed angle iron brackets. The tube was welded to the angle brackets. Then I made up a short receiver out of the same tubing and welded it to the new crossmember. I made up a short ball mount out of 1/4" wall x 1 1/2" square tubing. There isn't a lot of space up there so everything has to be shorter than commercially available parts. I will take a picture but it might take a couple of days. Wayne