Re: Easamatic Rebuild Sources

Posted by 55PackardGuy On 2013/10/5 16:48:26

Jim in Boone,

That's a new-looking Packard that the young man is standing next to in your avatar photo. Would that man, by chance, be you? If so, I don't believe that car is one of your Easamatic Packards. If I recall correctly, power brakes weren't available until '54, and that car is somewhere between a '48 and a '50. Are you perhaps from a "Packard Family?"

I was also wondering how many years you owned your two Packards and what models they were. The Easamatic on our '55 Clipper worked flawlessly from '55 until we sold it in the '80s. Our '55 400 had one complete meltdown incident around 1971 and after a rebuild of the MC, the brakes performed fine until that car, too, was sold in the '80s.

I think some of these troubles amount to "the luck of the draw."