Thanx Bernardi. I was wondering the same thing but i was afraid to ask.

Ok the brakes are in and functional. Brake lights are good as well as the horn.

I'm going to try and make some stand in door panels and cover the seats with something simple until the holidays are done (and paid off) before i splurge on the reupolstering. We are probably going to drop the gas tank and clean that out next as well as maybe start on cutting out the cancer on the floor.

I'm going to refinish the dash with something plain, but nice until i can afford to have the wood finish redone profesionaly. I'll have to post a pic of my sad attempts at wood graining. I think i did ok, but I'd rather do a good job on something easier than a bad job. I'll save my money for when i have a house (garage) to do the full restore. I'm going to bring her back to life and make her a driver until i have a real place to work. I'm jealous of the cars being brought back to the real status of a packard, while mine is years from that. Oh well, at least one less amazing car will continue to rot away forgotten.

I think she'll be on the 99 again by my birthday. (feb)

G'day all, I had the same problem with my Fifth Series, until I removed the starter, set the timing pointer to the appropriate static timing BTDC. I then got a piece of coat hanger wire and bent it into a pointer across the front harmonic balancer or pulley. (most earlier Series had a pulley only), attached the other end of the wire (in a small loop), to a timing cover bolt so that it sat very much like a later timing pointer. I then white painted a stripe on the harmonic balance to co-incide with the flywheel mark. The pointer now saves me having to remove
the starter to time the engine and works very well with a power timing light. There should not be a backlash issue if you always rotate the engine in the normal running direction to the timing position. I normally use a 12V light with the two power leads connected to a separate battery source from the 6V car battery. The inductive pick-up lead still clamps to your No.1 lead. I can take some pics if you need them. Best regards, Peter Toet

the auction ends tomorrow morning, if it was later this week i wouldn't have minded the road trip. sorry.
If any other things like this come up in california, i'll be happy to make the drive and check it out given the time.

Randy -
I'm a little behind in raising a question on the oil pump, but, considering all the problems the V8s had with the stock pump, why are you going that route rather than the Melling conversion that Craig has put together? As the engine is out of the car, the machine work can be done to install a full-flow oil filter.

I just looked for his Packard Panther site, and couldn't find it. Has he removed it?


I didn't look far enough - the Packard Panther site is alive and well.

Bernardi

I have two lengths of formed rubber. I don't know where they go. At first I thought they were reinforcements for the scuff plates, but they don't fit exactly. I did fill the scuff plate trough with liquid rubber to reinforce them. If anyone knows what these rubber pieces are for, please let me know.

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1939 Packard Rollson 1701:

New info has been uncovered:

1. Painting: Scheme "X" - Black.
2. Radio in rear compartment.
3. Artillery Steel Wheels.

No photos or knowledge if car still exists.

Thanks for any help. Van

Thanks Mal, I should have thought of that myself.

Anyone near Oroville,CA that might be willing to go and check out this car?

The other thing I should have mentioned earlier is: do you know someone who can go and have a look at the '41 and report back on what/how they found it? If not, maybe an appeal to any Forum member living close by who might be able to do that for you.

How accurate static timing will be depends in part on how careful you are. What I've often done is to use a rubber band hooked onto one end of the rotor and gently remove the backlash in the distributor drive shafts and gearing. Since mechanics back in the days before strobe lights succeeded to getting accurate timing, so should we be able to. You really should have no apprehension about it.