Re: Mike P 1955 400 Slow Resto Thread!

Posted by Leeedy On 2022/6/30 12:20:05
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Packardfan wrote:
Hey guys when I took the carb off and dissasembled the glass bowl . The bowl just split into 2 pieces. Any recomendations of where I can get a new one?


Take a photo of the metal part (top) of the filter housing. Let's see what that is. The housing will say so. This glass bowl looks like the Carter type filter which had a small glass bowl and a wonderful permanent ceramic filter element (something that people today oddly want to throw away!).

When Carter filter housing gaskets began to leak with age, the tendency of most people was to ham-hand tighten up on the bowl tensioner. Never realizing that the glass can only take so much pressure stress (along with all of the massive temp changes and vibration). After a King-Kong tightening, the bowl often eventually does what glass clamped in metal does. It breaks.

AC fuel line filters had a deeper bowl, different element and different (bail wire) clamping system. The whole thing was bigger.

Check and see what your car has.

Although senior Packards of this period normally used Rochester carburetors (and Clippers used Carter) the filters were not the same as the carbs.

Get another filter assembly from Mike Dulinski or Kanter Brothers and be sure to replace the old gasket with a new one prior to fastening and tightening the glass bowl.


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