Maybe at least hose off a car you are trying to sell?

Big Kev thank you for all you do for the Packard community. Prayers your treatments will keep you healthy for a long time to come.

I really enjoyed his video and got stuck watching a different one. I mean it's pretty obvious you wouldn't take repair advise from him. He gets these cars running and uses the road trip to see if the brakes work and thinks filling rust holes with license plates and foam is A-OK.

The service manuals are on this site but only helpful if you can read English. I think your low band is out of adjustment.

I think he is talking about the triangular pieces that are riveted to the frame that support the floor braces and body mounts.

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Hit the sender with some steel wool or other means to make sure you have bright metal to connect the wire to.

I found all the wire I needed at Blain's Farm and Fleet (not cloth covered of course). You might have luck at some tractor supply type store like that. I also made my own harness and it was pretty easy. I just used the old one as a template so I knew where to branch off. If I did it over again, I would leave the ends a little long so I could cut them to a more perfect fit. A few of my wires were a little short due to me rushing.

7/12/2021

Well after over a year of sitting, I finally took the car out for a little drive around the neighborhood. The carb is acting funny. It has too high of an idle despite running perfectly when parked. Gave it some gas going around a corner and had a small backfire. I guess it's time to go over tune up settings.

Mark Stivers - great looking car! Looking forward to more pics once it's delivered.

...I guess I was the jerk making all that noise Sunday evening! My battery exploded! I put baking soda all over and poured buckets of water on it to dilute the acid. I don't see any damage so that's good.

What's the lesson to be learned here? Take off the vent caps when charging? I've never done that in the 22+ years of charging car batteries. Don't keep the charger under the hood while charging? Been doing that for years too.

Not sure what ultimately caused this but lesson learned to be more careful. I'm just grateful no one or anything was hurt. Maybe I'll invest in one of those gel batteries....and a new charger....