Re: Will not restart after warm.

Posted by Peter Packard On 2012/2/6 3:29:53

G'day Dave, Does your 51 still use the foot throttle start or has it been overridden. Most 51-53 packarsds used a foot start and vacuum switch arrangement on the Bendix carb to ensure that everyone started with the same procedure. The procedure was necessary because the carb bowl intake needles wore and used to let in excess gas and overfuel the engine. The starting in full throttle opened the main butterfly to air and quickly relieved the overfuel situation.
Also are you talking turn over for 10 seconds as on a hot day you will crank for 20 seconds before it fires up, just hang in there and for goodness sake do NOT PUMP the accelerator. 38 Supers and most other Packards and makes are the same. Peter Toet