Thanks all - it's been a learning process. I'm going to rent the arc welder tomorrow and buy the 6011 rods (1/8th dia) to try and burn into the stud with the weld. (the mig weld didn't hold, broke where the weld hit the stud). The machinist friend said put globs on top of globs, get a lot of weld in there, clean off the slag as I go, and then weld a nut on the top.

I'm soaking it in PB Blaster right now, with a cup held to the side to hold a cap full of PB Blaster against the stud to totally soak it in.

To anneal the extractor metal, will I need more than my MAPP gas? Do I need to rent an oxy/act torch to get the extractor hot enough to soften?

PV8: Car has fact air that I installed from a Parts car. The entire black box unit shown in pict above in post 47 totally replaces everything under the dash. There is no place for a blower inside with this arrangement as it pretty much fills the front under dash--even the glove box has to be shortened by about 2 inches

The heater is in eng compt & still blows in at the same spot but is directed into the AC box where it comes out the vent on the bottom or can come out the AC ducts. The original Right air vent is blocked off and the box over it--so all fresh air now comes from Left. The defroster feed is a single opening now with the two original small ones blocked off and a big one cut just over the diverter flap into the air channel.

The AC blows in on the top left of evaporator and goes down then out the front on the little angled piece to the ducts. The left air vent knob now has full range & reads OFF, AIR and COLD but for the most part works just as the heater side did with OFF being no outside air so total recycle for the AC because it draws from L inside vent, AIR blowing straight thru and COLD supplying outside air only to AC Blower.

Or just call it a "wash" or "quid pro quo" for all the tax dollars previously contributed by the citizens of those states. You have to assume their tax dollars went to something they should keep.

I assume it was legal for a foreigner to own property in the Confederacy.

To this day the US government owns property all over the world including Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba ( they lease that one).

State buildings and land would belong to the state, whether the state was part of the Confederacy or the Union. But buildings built by the Union, on land bought or leased, would continue to belong to the Union.

I assume in fairness the Confederacy should not have seized such property without permission or compensation.

There must have been post offices and other buildings belonging to the Union that would have been no use to them after the south seceded. It would have made sense to offer them to the Confederate government, and if there were any they didn't want, to sell them to the highest bidder.

It would have taken several years to work out the details. That is what I meant in my initial statement.

There has got to be something else that used a similar sender because Motors calls it out as Ford and King-Seely in their description.

Repairing one looks a bit more complicated than the typical rheostat used 1951 on because there is also a heater in the tank unit in series with the gauge unit. Even though both Packard gauges are bimetal with heaters, senders may not be compatible because of different ohm readings--1951 on ranges from 10-70.

I have a sender in a NOS box for the smaller tank, looks identical to the one pictured in the operational description, but the readings are hard to judge. Ohm reading of the sender heater appears around 13.5, however it is erratic -- from 13 to over 100 so either the contacts are opening and throwing off the reading, or the gauge even though supposedly NOS is faulty.

At any rate, if there is a Ford person who has access to older manuals that might show a sender unit, if one is found resembling the picture it might possibly work -- if Ford used a similar depth tank. The sender does not appear to be easily adjustable because Packard listed another unit for the larger 20 gal tanks.

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HH56. Does your car have factory air or are u adding it yourself?????

I've read and studied the AC Install pdf. But refresh my memmory. Does the Evaporator plenum replace the defroster plenum or just bolts onto it creating a kind of double plenum.????


Would it be feasible to cut a round hole in the Evap plenum and mount a squirl cage fan to it????? That would freee up the left freshair duct for the PowerBrake conversion. Not sure why Packard didn't do it that way but my knowledge of the factory AC is limited to the AC Install PDF on this forum.

I was thinkin the same thing. I've got a little bit of work to do that won't require much cash so I'll be able to keep myself busy when I have the time.

well, we'll get ya fixed up with what you need! might as well get the body up in to shape in the mean time!

I would like to make it original so I'll be looking for a motor and trans soon but right now I don't have the money for it. Thanks fern51 for the tail lights, they're perfect.

Looks like y'all had some fun with this topic while I was away. If you're curious about how far the sovereignty movement has come along, you can go check at www.sovereignstates.net