Re: Proud New Owner of a 49 Packard Club Sedan
Posted by HH56 On 2018/9/5 12:34:43
I am thinking at some point the car had an oil filter and it was removed. The pigtail supplying the lifter gallery is on the right side of the sender and I would almost expect there to be a 4 port fitting behind the sender. If so perhaps when removing the filter they did not have a way to plug the 4th port so just bent and crimped or maybe soldered closed a short stub of tubing as a way to provide something to fill the port. Perhaps a remnant of tubing is what you are seeing under the sender.
With the pigtail feeding the lifter gallery, if it did have a filter it would have drained into the crankcase as if the engine had hydraulic lifters. Those could have been optioned and the motor number may indicate the option. You might also check to see if there are any signs of disturbance around the area where I believe the filter return port is placed on that engine -- perhaps another piece of closed tubing or an unpainted plug in the area circled in the second photo that was borrowed from Big Kev's blog.
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With the pigtail feeding the lifter gallery, if it did have a filter it would have drained into the crankcase as if the engine had hydraulic lifters. Those could have been optioned and the motor number may indicate the option. You might also check to see if there are any signs of disturbance around the area where I believe the filter return port is placed on that engine -- perhaps another piece of closed tubing or an unpainted plug in the area circled in the second photo that was borrowed from Big Kev's blog.
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