Owen, do you know where modified cartridge can be purchased? My housing is in execellent condition and I`m therefor trying to avoid replacing it with a new type.

Some previous owners of my 1104Su8 has got a modified oil filter which has a fiberglass enclosure exactly fitting to the top and the bottom oil tube fittings. Inside it is a oil filter NAPA Gold 1784. I have goggled this type but I have not found any which have openings in both sides. Do anybody know how to get this?

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I will look for a picture of my tank. The tank is original and the tank has as well the original pick-up /sender unit.
If it is a vent in the pick-up/sender unit, could gas come out through the vent when the gas is filled up to the top of the filling neck, because the top of the filling neck is 4" higher than top of the tank? Or is the vent so small that only air can go through?
I`m sure that I have sealing compound on the gasket for the pick-up / sender, and then I`m also sure that this vent is closed!
For sure it has to be a vent in the tank, because the filling neck is not mounted on the top of the tank, as it is for my 1929. The air pressure inside and outside has to be aligned on the 1934.
But what is the function of the small 1" high neck/cap on on top and at the left side of the pick-up / sender?
I thought this is a oneway vent. That mean: it is closed when filling up the tank, as the air pressure inside is higher than outside. And the vent is letting air into the tank when the engine is running, because the pressure on the inside of the tank is lower. Maybe I`m wrong.

The gasoline tank is devided in three cambers. The cambers are made by two tack welded division walls of steel. In the bottom of these division walls app 3" openings are located and covered with wire gauze to avoid dirt to be transported between the chambers by aligning the gas level.
In the top there are also openings to align the gas level.
I`m wondering about the functionality of the neck with the cap on the right side on top of the gas tank?
I put pressurized air on the tank and learned that the air didn`t come out of this neck. I suppose that the neck&cap is not allowed to breath air from inside of the gas tank to the outside, otherwise the gasoline is coming out here when the tank is filled up, as the top of the filling throat is 4" above the top of the gas tank. Is the neck&cap allowing the outside air to come into the gas tank when the air pressure on inside is lower? How will the air in the top of the gas tank be evacuated when the gas level is passing the height of the flange of the filling throat? By filling up my gas tank it take endless time to get the gas level above the connecting flange to the filling throat. As shown in the attachment, I have proposed to install a copper pipe from the top of the filling throat to the top level of the first chamber to secure to evacute the air in the top.

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Thanks to both of you. It was interesting to know about the different length of the brake lining as well as the different materials. I didn`t recognize that the lenght of the brake linings were different when I removed the old worn linings. I suppose that the engineers by Packard worked hard to adjust on all parameters on the braking system to get the mechanical brakes to have the same perfomance as the hydraulic brakes from the competitors. I did also learn that the return springs on the "S" and "P" brake shoes do have different pulls (75lbs and 100lbs). Dave, you are right, even following the service guideline to adjust the brakes, it is still a huge work to do to get the brakes properly equalized after relining. After a week of small drivings each day, with testing the brakes and small adjustments on the brakes I`m close to get the brake equalized.

The Service Letters says that the brakes shoes are marked with "S" (Secondary) and "P" (Primary) and shall be assembled in a definite location. I can not see any difference at all between these to type of shoes! Is it right? The service letter mention that there are different types of brake lining and the "S" and "P" brake shoes. Do somebody know the reason for that? Today I think we will have the same type of lining on both shoes?

Sorry, I`m not so familiar with your shortenings. Can you please explain PI and more about what Mauck`s is?

Hello, the little pot metal idler bevel gear is broken on my 1104 Club Sedan. I will appreciate if you still have the name and address of the guy doing new ones in bronze.

I have checked on my 640 Roadster and 633 Touring. On the front latch two screws are going through the hood latches, frame cover and the frame. Therefore it has to be drilled two holes through the frame. The front hole is almost on the edge of the frame.

Owen,
my main task was about the camshaft journals, but of course it is also interesting to know about how to rebuild the cam lobes. The link Dave sent is very useful.