Re: Proud New Owner of a 49 Packard Club Sedan

Posted by PackardusOctavus On 2018/9/20 11:50:34

FYI, the instructions are not that great. Apparently on the assembly line they put in the oil pressure sending unit, with a Tee and the base elbow. If you got an oil filter, they installed it and plumbed it. If not, they put a pigtail back into the block for one outlet, and plugged the other with a soldered up tubing end. I have this latter set up on both the Club Sedan and the parts Touring Sedan.

What the instructions do not really tell you is that for a retrofit, you have to remove the Tee and pigtail and then run the two tubes from the oil filter into the block and base elbow. This is a pain, because the oil filler, distributor, spark plug wires, and coil are all in the way. Also, the commercially available tubing lengths are either too long or too short, so you'll need to be able to cut and flare.

On my Club Sedan, the block heater is also in the way, just above the return hole in the block.

If anyone knows of a bolt in pre- bent tubing set, I'll buy it, but at this point I've wasted several hours taking it apart, cleaning it, ruining tubing, and using sinful words. All I have to show for it is a shiny, clean oil pressure sending unit. Its going to be a lot easier to unbolt the oil filter than it is to plumb the thing. Besides, NOT having a oil filter is more unique these days!