On my '54 Clipper - I finally realized the drips of oil on my garage floor are not engine oil - its oil from steering gear box (manual steering). The manual says to add 90w oil until it reaches the fill mark. I have looked at drawings and the service manual, and I can't really tell much from those - where is the fill mark? Which of the two bolts on top is the filler? - Also, what on the gear box is the likely source of the leak. Any suggestions?

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My friend's grandmother owned this car - this is a newspaper clipping of her car. He asked me what it was - and I don't know the older Packards - I'm sure somebody here can look at the photo and identify it.

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I just went through this on my '54 Clipper Deluxe. If you want 3" whitewalls in the closest size from Diamondback you are going to end up with Fury 225 75 15 tires. They aren't as tall, so your speedo will be about 10% off. The tires look and handle great - no more squeals when cornering, much better handling.

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All GPS models should be extremely accurate measuring speed (not as good at measuring exact location) but for speed they are all great. That being said, I personally have had great luck with all of the Garmin models. Their customer support was good the one time I needed it. The reason my speedo is not accurate is that the modern radials are smaller than the original bias ply 7.6 X 15's. My speed was within a 1-2 miles an hour when I had the old tires on it.

I put the 225-75-15 made by Cooper for Diamondback (called the fury) on my Clipper - the GPS (which is basically dead-on accurate for speed) tells me that my speedometer reads about 9-10% high. So 72 mph on the speedo is actually about 65 mph.

My gas milage has been in the neighborhood of 13-14 mph, but that is not a good test, I haven't driven on just highway to figure out highway mileage... Neighborhood traffic, idling in the driveway, backroads all combine with my highway driving... I bet starting and stopping 4000 lbs often takes a lot of fuel!

I don't know the ratios but my '54 Clipper Deluxe with Ultramatic cruises very nicely in the 60 - 70 mph range. The engine doesn't seem to be working too hard at all - The car feels very comfortable at those speeds, and can easily go faster to pass.