HH56, where did you get those engine numbers? They don't seem to match the ones from the Packard engine serial number pdf.

Thank you and I assume downloading all of them would be very many. I looked through the literature area and I can't figure out how to narrow it down to find this number and letter's meaning. Kind of seems like the needle in the haystack thing.

What bulletins do you mean and how do find them? Thanks

Engine serial # F509021B

Thank you Owen, worked perfect.

Friend of mine is looking at a 1941 Packard 160 off of Craigslist. He's there now and said the car started easily, went into reverse, backed down the driveway and sent back into first and drove up the driveway. Now it's stuck in first and won't go into another gear. Any suggestion? The car was driven two days ago.

If it was all perfect from my experience it would probably be priced over $20K. Why do I say that? Because I've looked at quite a few 55-56 Patricians that were nice but definitely not perfect and they averaged between $15K-$18K. If I did find a perfect Patrician for $15K I'd buy it in a minute but so far perfect seems to have many definitions.

The seller of the Delaware Patrician also said it has 109K miles and to his knowledge the tranny has never been rebuilt :( Another bummer and fairly big cost to do.

I called on that Patrician in Delaware and from the engine number the seller gave me it appears to have a 320 instead of a 352. A real bummer IMO.

I was asked when putting a new 6 volt battery in--which cable do you hook to the battery first? I think I always hook the negative first then the positive ground but now I can't really remember.