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to the Packardinfo site and congratulations on becoming a Packard owner. Plenty of experienced and knowledgeable Packard people here who'll help I'm sure. If you're converting to 12V it should be done the right way rather than have it stuffed up and creating problems. And thanks for adding the '52 to the Owner Registry.

Mike,

to the Site. You're probably our first member based in Germany and I see you've already added your Packard to the Owner Registry. Nice looking car!

A milestone up with 150 member's Packards now in the Owner Registry, while the number of Forum members has reached 657.

yet to add their Packard Don't delay, add your Packards to the Owner Registry now!

When adding your Packard to the Registry could you please include a picture and it's history, if known?

Keegan,

No, I'm not always logged on, just today had to spend time waiting for the cable guy to come.

And speaking of smelling funny, my wife orders me to the pool or shower just about every time I come home from the workshop! There's a lot of dirt, grease and grime usually but she also complains about the smell!

Friday 11th April 2008

Well, today was mostly wasted, spent the morning waiting for the cable guy to come, was given a range of 7:30am to Noon for his arrival. And of course he arrived about 11:50am, just within the time frame advised!

Took the '38 down to workshop, but first stopped to put some gas in it as it was getting low. And to be informed by the bloke at the pump next to me that I had a leak from the gas tank. Ducked my head under the back and it appears it's leaking from where the rubber hose joins the filler neck to the tank. Will tackle this when Wade returns from his trip.

Then, after mailing some bits to Eric for his speedster project, got to the workshop and had a sit down with Wade for about half an hour. The sit down talk was to review what I needed to get for the '41 while Wade is away for the next week and a half. Mainly small things like nuts and bolts, to replace the ones I broke recently, and some rubber stripping for the fuel tank re-install and for the bottom of the inner fender splash shields. Will also get the bumpers, over-riders and a few other miscellaneous bits to the plater. And there's also plenty of cleaning and painting of panels and parts to fill in my time.

Then it was time to leave, the Friday afternoon time honoured ritual of lunch at the pub was upon us. But before we left I snapped a few pic's of Wade's '34 engine for which he'd picked up the re-built carb yesterday and installed it this morning. Basically to complete the engine assembly, and to be able to give it it's intial fire-up, all Wade needs is to finish and install his oil filter conversion and fill and prime the engine with oil.

And Tom, thanks for the tip, I'll keep working at it but if requires a baptism of fire we'll follow your advice.

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G'day all,

Can't claim the credit, but here's a link to Peter Packard's post about the flushing procedure.

https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=381&forum=4

And a link to my post about the trip to Canberra where Peter performed the procedure on my '38.

https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=450&forum=4

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John,

Thanks for the pic. Looking forward to the history lesson later.

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John,

As one who needs education badly, especially automotive education, what is the Buick Y-Job?

Thursday 10th April 2008

First up tried unscrewing the temp sending unit again, no luck so more penetrant. This procedure was attempted a number of times during the morning with the same unsuccessful outcome each time. Then checked the aero-drive cable and added oil and worked it in and out again, also repeated this procedure a number of times through the morning.

Then to the item of the day, cleaning and painting the lower suspension pieces of other side to that already done. So Marine Cleaned, Metal Readied and then POR-15'd the 3 pieces.

Because there were times waiting for the processes to do there thing, in the lulls proceeded to take off the front bumper and splash shields(the metal pieces between the bumper and the body panels and grill). Next week the front and rear bumpers, over-riders and other hardware will be going to the chrome platers used by Barry for his '51 Convertible grill re-chrome, to be returned to their shining splendour, and should take 1 to 2 weeks to do.

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Barrie,

Good to hear things are going well with your Packard.

But my interest has been roused - tell us a little about your Chev truck and why you hope it will make the 60kms, approx 35 miles?