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Pete '56 wrote:
The template I used for the top of dash cutouts was from the actual Packard drawing I got from the Studebaker Museum, see photo. I laid the template over where I cut the dash now and all the features match that template. The question now is "How to make it Work".
Even if the templates were accurate (and it's always a possibility they were not), I would double-check before doing cuts and installation.
Having worked for many years of my career at the OEM level of the car biz, I can assure you: specifications get changed. Often several times. Were those templates merely templates? Or
final specification templates? Furthermore, paper templates (or copies thereof) passed around all these years through machines, scanners and internet and how many hands just allow for too many bad outcomes.
Even workshop manuals get out in publication with errors in them. Usually such things are remedied with Service Bulletins. But this is just the nature of the car biz.
Again... I always check with an actual production-level car. Compare what you have with an actual system installed at the factory. Take measurements and photos. There are a bunch of Packard V-8 factory A/C vehicles still alive and breathing in this world– even in 2023.
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