Re: 56 Patrician

Posted by BH On 2007/12/24 14:20:31

Brandon -

Welcome to the site and the wonderful world of Packards. Don't be afraid of the V8s. You won't need a lot of special tools unless you get into the transmission. There are workarounds for the rest, but you need to do you homwework, first.

Make sure you download the Service Manual, Service Couselors (SCs), and Service Technical Bulletins (STBs) for 1955-1956, but every owner of a pushbutton-equipped Packard should download this little beauty:https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/article/view.article.php?120

...the Auto-Lite Service Manal for the pushbutton system.

I'm working on scanning the 1955-1956 parts book, but it will be awhile before its all ready for upload to the site.

There are also some Studebaker Service Bulletins that pertain to the Packard V8, including the pushbutton system. If somebody contributes those, I pledge to work up a version of an index to that material that I compiled sometime ago on all Packard topics therein, as an article for the site.