Re: Were they making packard parts in 1962?
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the one gentlemen is correct up until about 1973 or
around that time, Automotive companies in America had to stock parts for ten years. This was changed to 5 years in the early 70's and the onset of bigger numbers of imports. This was a great boon to the unions, can you imagine building, and stocking all those parts, you can understand why some parts of cars lasted why longer then they should have, just the cost of changing over is staggering. But when Packard went out of business the company was long obligated. There was no Packard company. No wonder Henry made the Model T for 19 years... One thing we as owners of these old cars must remember is that, they did not build cars for "collectors" There was no car clubs back then, and of course when you owned a Packard they did not plan on you doing your own work, after all Packard was the predominant luxury Car company. After Chevron shipping scrapped their US flagged ships and I was out of a job, I opened a "small" auto shop and kinda worked only on pre 1940 cars from Stude's to Packard's and even some later models. any year Fords, up to 74... and orphan cars. I've worked on 1912 Studebaker runabout, 28 Packard 25 Flint, 54 Packard, 1919 Cleveland, 36 Pierce Arrow's (2) etc: I'm out of the business now, I'm not old just that the recession killed me figured I can live better not working... hahaha sorry to bore you with all that.
Posted on: 2015/7/24 8:47
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Re: 56 Info??
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The leak is Oil, not trans fluid
Not leaking while sitting only when running. The cars not hitting the road anytime soon, I have another project car in the drive way, no rear axle plus there is rust over the driver door and rear window. that's one reason it's not been driven. BTW I've had my "400" since 87. Had the twin ultramatic by and Bob in Vista Ca. I'm sure he as passed long time ago... I have two wonder Bar radio's had them both rebuilt when there were guys who still rebuilt car radios. The BTV was known on occasion to "suck" the brake fluid out of the master cylinder into the intake manifold. Back in those days the new hot item was Silicone brake fluid, so I changed out the fluid and it worked fine for a few months, then one day about 10 min from my home the car started running like crap, I stopped by a fried who had a Studebaker shop and we pulled a couple of plugs, and found white crystals on the electrodes, that was the silicone brake fluid... I had the BTV rebuilt one, it leaked so I rebuilt myself, never had a problem since. But looking at the disc brake conversion kits, I think I'll probably go that way when I get that far. Max Merritt has the newer style front crank seal $50.00.. not bad I was lucky not long after I bought my "400" I found an abandoned 56 "400" on a guys lot, I gave him $500 for it, non drivable, then sold the front clip for $500 to Custom Auto. So I have a lot of spare parts... When I bought it, it was on a consignment lot, at the Mel Burns Ford dealer in Long Beach Ca. I paid $300 for it, painted black and with a window that did not roll up. She fired up right away, even though she had not run in about two years... and had to trouble with bad gas or varnish in the carb. After I checked her out mechanically, I had her painted back to her original color, White over Heather. Like I said it has a couple of rust holes on the roof, and I see a couple of bubble spots under the belt trim. Damn my friend from Hawaii is over visiting and she wanted to see the Packard, then got me interested in her again, I was going to sell her, but now I'm not sure. I have the 56 Packard, a 62 Ford country sedan wagon and a 74 Dart swinger. the wagon is going to be my road car, it has my 400HP Cleveland in it, has the Ford 4r70w auto over drive a 70 Lincoln rear axle so wagon has 4 wheel disc brakes. I'm doing new floor pans, and fabricating new mounting points for the rear axle. The wagon was a pale blue, I painted it Ford Colonial White. I'm doing the interior like original, and adding a roof rack (original) to it.. Should be a nice ride when finished.
Posted on: 2015/7/23 18:22
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I don't like to say this but in some cases
especially when parts are getting hard to find it's time to use another part. Now Packard either made all their parts or had them made by Autolite or Delco Remy. I would start looking into the Hot Rod industry for window lifts. Or even some GM cars from the 80's had a single support instead of the scissors lifts. BTW any motor can be rewound. Best
Posted on: 2015/7/23 13:42
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Hello
I'm Dave from Torrance Ca.. I've had my 56 (the 400) since about 1987 but she's been sitting in my garage for about 10 years and I just decided to get back into it. It's always been a great driver, but last time I started it, there was a lot of oil on the ground, So where to I get a front seal from? Has anyone done a carb switch, to a Holley? or another carb. How about an upgrade to the Master cylinder and maybe relocate it to the fire wall. I did the pertronix right after I bought the car running a 40K coil. I also did the Alt update, internal regulated one, but would like to install a 1 wire if anyone has done this. I use to drive this car to Vegas and Tucson Az, and usually got 15 mpg. appreciate any info update.. Best Dave Torrance1@DSLextreme.com
Posted on: 2015/7/23 13:18
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