Great video and I believe I spotted former PAC president and my former neighbor Doug Moore's beautiful silver and black 1946 Limousine! Was he there or did his son and current president Clint Moore drive it out to the event?

DAF, if you can let me know what key numbers you're missing, I'll check my collection and if I have any of them, I'd be glad to give them to you to help complete yours.

EE-16 or Carter WDO 366/478.

I have a set of keys I've been collecting for the last 40 years. Not complete, but running about 75% success rate. Lemme know if I need to loan them. If none work, have locksmith cut an extra key to add to my set. and as for the ignition switch, STRONGLY encourage you to put this high on the to-do list, to replace the wire you will need to remove from the car, I think the re-wire process has been posted several times.

DAF

Kev, thanks so much for that video, makes up a bit for the fact that I can no longer go in person. Looks like a very large turnout of prewar!

All 100+ cars on the show field today at the PAC National.

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Agree. As long as you remove power while it shifts and don't try to rush things it will be tolerable. Problem with original Ultras is there is NO synchronization between low and high range. It was meant to operate in one or the other. When doing the manual shift, it is usually because you want a faster take off to keep up with traffic so too often it was done under power and shift was done quickly as the car gained speed. Using a bit of decorum and letting the car coast as you wait for the trans to do its thing defeats the whole purpose of the manual shift.

Issue becomes sometimes low would fully release before the high range clutches would begin to lock together so with nothing connected to the wheels the engine would race and then the clutches took all the load and slipped resulting in heat and wear as they tried to bring the engine back to normal speed. Other times it would be the opposite and high would lock up before low even started to be released. That usually resulted in a serious lurch and horrible strain on internal pieces as the two gears tried to work at the same time. Either situation under power could result in some interesting noises and operation.

Packard did try to bring this under better control in late 53 with the introduction of a timing kit and again in 54 with a revision to the timing kit. The kit changed a valve and spring and a small pin was used to restrict flow in a passage to better control part of the shift but this was only partially successful. The late 54 Gear Start was the first transmission from Packard designed to do a L - H - DD shift. Unfortunately it had a serious lack of actual field testing and driving before being put behind a high horsepower V8 and we all know how that worked out.

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I feel like it should be more noticeable if it kicks in early, as the velocity difference is much higher at low RPM's.

Shifting from Low to High while driving SHOULD be OK as long as the transmission is in adjustment AND you take your foot off that gas when you do the shift AND you are not already in DD.

G'day a rose,
to PackardInfo.

I invite you to include your '36 Packard, equipped with or without an EE-14 carburettor, in PackardInfo's Packard Vehicle Registry.

G'day hjaimebernal,
to PackardInfo.
And for including your '50 Eight Touring Sedan in PackardInfo's Packard Vehicle Registry.

Note, I have deleted the two duplicate entries to maintain the integrity of the Registry.