I started diging into the rear axle today, but got stuck on the First drum. I have a good Hazet puller, and tightened it up with a long wrench, but the drum has not yet popped off. The nut is still on, but loose. I left the puller on overnight. Maybe it will Pop off overnight. I had to use the E brake to hold everything from turning, and then tighten the puller, then Release the brake...I couldn't start hammering on the puller, it was too late to make noise.
You can see how bad she was leaking gear oil onto the drum.

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I have a 1955 packard caribbean and the starter is going bad. when I turn the key it just clicks but when I turn the key enough times, the starter finally engages and starts the engine. I am looking to replace the starter. question are the starters for the clipper and caribbean the same and is the 1955 caribbean starter the same as in the 1956?

Where would I look to get a remanufactured starter? Thank you

It was going from head to water pump.

In traffic it would start to go passed the operating temp.

Must've been nice seeing a slew of old, authentic cars suddenly appear in the middle of nowhere.

However, the CCCA "determines" absolutely nothing except what 2,200 or so coupon clippers happen to like. The CCCA's listed membership figure includes what they call "associate members," aka wives. That the CCCA considers themselves the final arbiter is conceit.

Remember: No one used the term "classic" until LA attorney car buff Robert Gottlieb, writing in one of his 1951 Motor Trend columns, coined the term for the white elephants languishing on the backrow of any big city used car lot for want of unavailable tires. The next year, some 20- and 30-something tri-state executives and trust funders enamored of the big, expensive cars of the '20s, 30s, early '40s, started the CCCA. Since a few on their vanity list were postwar continuations, these were added through 1948.

The paucity of accepted sport cars tells you sheer size as much a CCCA requisite as anything, witness the more roadable Buick Roadmaster not accepted, but the same car with a few inches longer wheelbase and some fancier interior trim was.

I knew several of these early CCCAers. Some were nice, enthused folk. But a club is a club, and remember what Groucho said about them. Since those long ago days of more relaxed events, the CCCA has morphed into rubber chicken dinners at pricey hotels at which members exchange trophies. "Grand Classics," these meetings are called. New members are essentially fodder; numbers to imbue these trophies with value. Anyone long in this hobby well knows there is no such thing as a "100-point" car, and many are what old plane friends called "paint overhauls," witness the "trouble truck" a l w a y s bringing up the rear of any tour.

The CCCA's a club. No more, no less.

When a Duesenberg erroneously claimed to have been Greta Garbo's (she never owned, only drove it a few times) became the first automobile at major auction to approach $100,000 in 1972, suddenly everyone glommed onto the term "classic;" pizza, Coke, mortgage companies, oldies radio stations. The Korean War generation wanted their tri-Chevs and 1955-57 T-Birds to share the limelight, then the War II generation's boomer kids, tired of being in their shadow, so termed their Mustangs, muscle cars, et al.

It may be noted that at least the V8 cars have a shield wire connection on the Speaker switch harness itself. This should be connected to one of the screws on the front speaker assembly.

Sounds good. Thank you, let me know. Here or tolandis@yahoo.com, or text me 661-492-5551.

Pretty sure I have one left NOS. It'll be Monday before I can confirm.

Thank you. The only thing I can think of is I never took it off when doing a carburetor rebuild. But, when I took the intake and exhaust manifolds to be machined for the in and out ports, they pulled it off or it came off after around fifty years? My next question is, does anyone have one for sale? Are they sold by the usual suppliers? Do I need to make one from? Thanks

On most engines there is a phenolic or fiber spacer under the carb which is used as a heat insulator. On the Clippers with 356 engine it is black, 3/8 thick, and shaped like the gasket but also uses a regular gasket on either side of the spacer.

Water has no corrosion inhibitors or anything that helps the water pump stay lubricated. Cast iron and straight water = rusty water.

If your car is overheating on 50/50 coolant, you have other issues that need to be resolved.

Staright water boils at 212 at sea level, 50/50 coolant boils at ~225. Since the 37 radiators are unpressurised, you want the highest boiling you can get.

...and God forbid you forget about the straight water being in there when winter freeze hits.