Re: Whitewall Tire Opinion
Posted by Gary On 2013/4/8 21:33:30
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JW wrote:
Gator, you didn't mention if the rubber washers and shoulder bolts were still on your Clipper to fasten the radiator to the frame. Usually, by this time they have been removed and not replaced. Packard used a rubber bushing system to cushion the radiator from vibration.
At the suggestion of Big Kev, I made a mounting kit to mount my radiator in my 55 Clipper from some toilet tank rubber washers and spacer bushings from tubing. It is described on my project blog on adventures with a 1955 Clipper on this site. Take a look it is an easy job.
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Very good point JW and that's a fine blog you have put togather there as well. The toilet washers are a great alternative and as it stands right now, the rubber insulators and bushings were in place on my car but were not only installed incorrectly but the rubber had hardened and was severely cracked. I'm making new ones out of some old fire fighting hose that I have "in stock". The fire hose has an additional layer of fabric wrapping bonded to the rubber that will in my opinion help the rubber hold it's shape better when the bolts are tightened but the main reason is that I already have the hose and can "stamp" them out with gasket cutters fairly quickly.
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