Am I correct in understanding that the upper lever is supposed to spin on the shaft? Mine does not spin but the lower does. I was not seeing what you meant about the lube hole. Now I am supposed to lubricant the shaft thru the hole.?

I set the shifting levers according to the manual.
I set the transmission in neutral and placed the column shift rods in neutral with the pin in place to be sure to line up up the 2 shift and hold in neutral. With the gear shift at neutral position I can put it in 2nd gear and 3rd gear but cannot get into 1st or reverse. It seems to be stuck when I try.
Any suggestions?

Regarding the vin number location.
Do you mean the plywood lower back panel?
My panel is like 1/2 thick.
Thanks,
Mike

The car is stock. I have a long retracting that came in box of springs. 7/16” did x 5 1/4 long,
One end with 6 1/2 long the other end 1 1/2 long. I do not have the angle bracket. The pedal is free to move, seems bushing is okay. I will put some grease in the fitting and see what happens.
My
A packard service manual doesn’t show the long retracting spring, but I could add it.
The throw out arm seems to work and I can move it by hand about 2”-3”
Fig 7 shows clutch adjustment. I added the spring shown

My clutch pedal won’t return fully. Actually about 3-4” short of floor board.
Looks like I can’t get full travel. The assist spring seems to be short. The bracket on the frame can’t move closer to the battery base to extend the spring.
Packwagon

I have a 48 station sedan. I bought in 2004.
The car came from Wilson Creek, Wa. (Farm country in eastern Washington state). My friend grew up on the farm next door and bought the car in about 1980.
He moved to Seattle for a job with Boeing aircraft.
He had no garage and unfortunately left it under tarp cover. Obviously the car was almost ruined. Luckily he removed all the exterior wood including the tail gate. They are in excellent condition.
My friend passed away and he never could find his lost title. Yes Washington is hard to get titles for cars with out titles. Luckily we did get a notarized bill of sale with the purchase.

The part number for the pedal retracting spring is 377782
The bracket does not list my model number but it list 418936 for 2301. That should work?

Any chance somebody might have a 48 Packard 288 parts car. I am in need of the clutch return spring # 3.115 and the mounting bracket # 3.1151
Thanks

While starting, there’re was a bright flash on the regulator, the cover was off, I turned the engine off.
The ammeter has pegged out on charge. The right coil points have frozen shut. I turned off ignition and next morning my battery drained completely to 0.
One question is what happened?

I read that Napa has a replacement VR. Does anyone have the correct Echlin model number?
Just another roadblock on my journey to get this car on the road.

What size and length is the clutch pedal return spring ?. During restoration, I seem to have misplaced mine.
Where is is connected?