Re: Prewar AC info
Posted by HH56 On 2017/9/12 18:41:21
Thanks to ptv for posting the Craigslist link to a prewar AC Clipper.
Even without the compressor in place one of my long standing questions on oil filter placement when the compressor took over the normal location may have been answered --- but it brings up two more.
Unfortunately no one has managed to get a photo of the known AC Clipper engine in Texas but this one may answer the question. The filter looks like the others and maybe is where Packard placed it. Does the bracket to the head look stock or maybe this was not Packard. Possibly the volume was so low they may have just fabricated something rather than stamping a piece??
Second question is something I didn't see answered in the parts book. With the oil filter located apparently to the rear, does anyone know if the Electromatic Clutch was available on prewar Clippers with AC. I would think both items would have been desirable options on the high end cars particularly since EC was new for 41. It looks like maybe it was one or the other if that is where the filters were placed.
An incidental note is the height of the oil fill pipe and cap. Packard revised that one a couple of times for better crankcase ventilation when the oil filter was in the front but the AC tube looks even taller -- maybe to clear the compressor.
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Even without the compressor in place one of my long standing questions on oil filter placement when the compressor took over the normal location may have been answered --- but it brings up two more.
Unfortunately no one has managed to get a photo of the known AC Clipper engine in Texas but this one may answer the question. The filter looks like the others and maybe is where Packard placed it. Does the bracket to the head look stock or maybe this was not Packard. Possibly the volume was so low they may have just fabricated something rather than stamping a piece??
Second question is something I didn't see answered in the parts book. With the oil filter located apparently to the rear, does anyone know if the Electromatic Clutch was available on prewar Clippers with AC. I would think both items would have been desirable options on the high end cars particularly since EC was new for 41. It looks like maybe it was one or the other if that is where the filters were placed.
An incidental note is the height of the oil fill pipe and cap. Packard revised that one a couple of times for better crankcase ventilation when the oil filter was in the front but the AC tube looks even taller -- maybe to clear the compressor.
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