Re: Easamatic Rebuild Sources

Posted by HH56 On 2013/8/11 13:45:56

When you remove your unit to send it off, take the lid off and look. It's only 6 screws. When you look at the reservoir, if the port opening is lower than the lid mounting surface, it does not need anything more.

If the casting around the port opening is flush with the surface the lid rests on like in the photo, it needs some kind of accommodation. That might be a different lid or cutting away a bit of the gasket or reversing gasket 180 degrees -- anything to allow the port to have some kind of opening into the reservoir so the Packard flat lid doesn't block it.

You say you might have a raised surface between the screws. That was one of the methods used in some later stamped lids. Perhaps your unit was rebuilt or exchanged somewhere in the car's history. If there is a sort of rounded channel on the bottom of the lid -- or anything else which is over the port yet allows it to not be completely blocked off to the rest of the reservoir, then you are OK. If your lid is the one Packard typically used -- an approx 1/8" thick plate with the bottom surface being absolutely flat, then you need to do something.