Re: 1956 Packard Caribbean
Posted by HH56 On 2018/12/30 10:23:45
If no one on the forum has the plate immediately available you might give Mike Dulinski a call. He has a multitude of 55-6 parts cars and can probably help and maybe has anything else not Caribbean specific that might turn up missing. If he has nothing pulled then the weather might be an issue in getting to his cars this time of year but worth a call.
IMO, there was not too much thought with hose routings. Minimal clamps just to keep things away from damage. Here are photos from a low mileage 56 showing some of the firewall. The washer hoses and wiring were just sort of draped across the firewall to the bottle on the right side following the path of other items.
The water hose from the washer to the tee located under the dash sort of followed the loom and power brake vacuum hose until it veers upward into the aux grommet. Vacuum supply and co-ordinator hose went with the electrical loom and stopped midway to catch the balance valve port and the co-ordinator. The extended wire loom to the washer pump comes out of the aux grommet and down to follow the main loom going toward the generator. There is a small space between the heater box and air plenum tube where everything can pass thru along with the formed heater water hose between the head outlet and the thermo valve. If you need a new molded heater hose Randy Berger found a replacement hose that can be cut and made to fit.
NOTE: Heater water hoses in the photos are of a car with an underseat heater. 56 Caribbeans did not have that option so the hose routing would be as the parts manual shows with the return hose out of the box going straight to the return inlet on the water manifold..
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IMO, there was not too much thought with hose routings. Minimal clamps just to keep things away from damage. Here are photos from a low mileage 56 showing some of the firewall. The washer hoses and wiring were just sort of draped across the firewall to the bottle on the right side following the path of other items.
The water hose from the washer to the tee located under the dash sort of followed the loom and power brake vacuum hose until it veers upward into the aux grommet. Vacuum supply and co-ordinator hose went with the electrical loom and stopped midway to catch the balance valve port and the co-ordinator. The extended wire loom to the washer pump comes out of the aux grommet and down to follow the main loom going toward the generator. There is a small space between the heater box and air plenum tube where everything can pass thru along with the formed heater water hose between the head outlet and the thermo valve. If you need a new molded heater hose Randy Berger found a replacement hose that can be cut and made to fit.
NOTE: Heater water hoses in the photos are of a car with an underseat heater. 56 Caribbeans did not have that option so the hose routing would be as the parts manual shows with the return hose out of the box going straight to the return inlet on the water manifold..
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