Re: 1952 Packard mayfair throttle creeps up

Posted by Packard Don On 2021/6/8 12:34:36

The thin piece should be tight in the rivets at the bottom and if not, it may need re-swaging or even new rivets. You can probably get a riveting kit with swager by looking online I don’t recall the size offhand but you can probably tell by looking at yours. Doing the swaging will require removing the assembly and taking it to some hard surface where the rivets can be tightened.

That said, I don’t think that could account for the throttle creep but it is a point needing to be corrected so a good place to start. Also, maybe some lubrication on the ball at the end of the shaft that goes into the pedal and some at its hinge point.