Thank you, BigKev for your PM and everyone else for their support.

The Irish have a particular aversion to others who 'drop a dime' despite of being on the receiving end of an unwarranted attack.

These people fade away eventually and to acknowledge their existence only encourages them. I will choose to not name and shame for these reasons.

Thank you all for your support and you can look forward to more inane postings from me asking particularly stupid questions along with totally inappropriate commentary!

Lets leave it there and get on with the work!

Slan go foill,

Pat.

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It is mounted by a 2 band bracket arrangement that utilizes 2 of the head bolts, alongside the thermostat housing. I am sure this is not original, but works very well. The inlet line attaches to a fitting on the block, with a small bypass to the neck base. The outlet attaches to the base of the filler neck. The line going up and over is the vacuum advance to the carb.

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G'day Steve,
for adding your '40 to the Registry. Unfortunately I couldn't open up your entry to see the details but I'll have another look tomorrow, it's nighttime here in Australia. Packardinfo has been a bit clunky tonight so maybe after BigKev weaves his Webmasterly magic it'll open then.

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G'day Gerard,
If I'm to live up to the reputation Eric has so unfairly saddled me with I have to go

Could I invite you to please add your '55 to the owner Registry together with a pic, any known history and how you acquired it? And I see you mentioned in a post that you had a '56, so likewise with that one please?
Some kudos too, I see your '48 is in the Owner Registry, so

And the '48 has a prior owner who would be of interest to many on Packardinfo, check it out people!

G'day Mal

Thanks for catching up on the phone tonight, and for letting me know to anxiously await your next post.

Great news!

Let me congratulate you on this forum for the superb work you have done in getting this beauty on the road. It will be a delight to see it at the PACA National in March.

The LHD things works fine once you get out and about. It is the passenger that has the weirdest experience, because they don't have a wheel and pedals for security like in our RHD cars, ...and they get to stare at the oncoming traffic!

Once again congratulations and also for being a super packardinfo citizen.

Good onya mate!

Bad luck Mal not getting the '41 registered today, should be straight forward tomorrow.
I am sure Wade will have a supplier for the new oil filter however just in case he needs it there is a company in Blacktown that sells nothing but filters for cars and trucks. They let me go out the back to search their shelves for an oil filter that I could adapt to my 1929 633. Very helpful. I think they are "Western Filters", if Wade needs it I will look up the contact details.
Good luck tomorrow. David

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I think you'll find that the tube to the right side is for the vacuum advance for the distributor. Just my

EDIT - Pic added of my '41 120 engine, shows filter location and lines and the vacuum advance line is not hooked up.

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Tuesday 13th January 2009

Started the days work by getting quotes for Insurance coverage for the '41. Spent a lot of time "on hold" but the people in the call centres were Aussies and not located off-shore so at least we understood each other. Ended up going with GIO, the Aussie insurer who I presently have my house and other cars insured with. But to satisfy them, because it was above a certain level of dollar value coverage, I had to provide pic's of the front, rear, engine, speedo and vin number. As well as a letter from my club, Packard Automobile Club of Australia aka PACA, confirming my membership, vehicle ownership and vehicle value! The pic's were no problem as I've photographed just about everything related to the '41. As for the letter, that was another matter altogether as I wanted to get everything done today, and speaking to Barry the club President on Sunday he said his internet had been playing up so I couldn't use him to email me something on the club letterhead. Tried Wade, only got his answering service and left a message for him to call me,turns out today he'd left his mobile phone at home. So turned to Forum member DavidM, who is the PACA Membership Secretary, and he was able to whip me up a letter addressing the requirements of the insurer. Insurance costs? AU$329 for compulsory third party insurance, aka a Green Slip, you need this document to present at the Roads and Traffic Authority office in order to obtain registration of any vehicle. And AU$414 for comprehensive insurance for the '41, that is your call, but the peace of mind is well worth the cost.

Then to the workshop a lot later than I expected because arranging and putting in place the insurance took a long, long time. Found Wade had ground open an oil filter canister for a Super 8 because he's planning to put a modern spin-on filter on his '37 Super 8 in lieu of the original, these being virtually unobtainable in Australia. He's already done one for the '34 but I don't know if he'll do the same setup for the '37 as he did on the '34. Anyway he'd kept the filtering core he'd taken out of the canister after carefully grinding the crimped edge off the centre. Wade showed me the filtering core, and bad move that, as out came the camera and the snapperazzi, aka Mal, sprung into action. Also showed me the split canister which was rusted through in places but that can be repaired. Apparently he got the canister from Harvey who had salvaged it from a wrecked Packard that had been sitting outdoors for years so that could explain the rust and water ingress.

But enough of the warm-up act, now for the main attraction, the Blue Slip Inspection! Headed east in the '41 along Victoria Road through Gladesville where for Wade, in his capacity of PACA Treasurer, we stopped twice so he could go to the bank and to the PACA's accountants office. Only took a few minutes then we were off again heading for Drummoyne where the Blue Slip Inspector, Tony was. Pulled into the Inspection Station to be greeted by Tony saying things like "she's a beauty" and "doesn't she look good". Seemed like a very promising start to the inspection process. First thing Tony did was look under the rear of the car, for a long, long time it seemed. Asked some questions then went away to his office to start preparing the paperwork. Did all the necessary checks coming back a number of times asking more questions about engine size, wheelbase, engine number and vin number, etc. And here's where things went slightly off course. At the weighbridge last year used the thief-proof number as the vin and for the insurances also used the thief proof number as the vin number. But here Tony wanted to see the import documentation. This had the body plate number as the vin number and not the thief proof number! Well, that was it, if the official import documentation said the body plate number then that was what Tony was using no arguments! Fine, I'd adjust the insurance details later, no problem. Back again to the office, then Tony re-appeared holding some blue papers and said "it's a good looking car, but"....... and here the silence was almost deafening until we realised he was kidding. All that remained was to pay Tony, AU$120, and take his pic for posterity holding the Blue Slip paperwork while standing next to the '41.

Back at the workshop after backing the '41 back into it's bay I rang GIO to change the vin number on the Green Slip, to the body plate number, which was easily accomplished, this time without the need to be put on hold. But...... I learnt from this operator that I actually needed a physical copy of the Green Slip to accompany the Blue Slip for registration of the '41 at an RTA office. Seems that until a vehicle is in the RTA system the Green and Blue slips have to be entered manually with subsequent annual re-registrations then able to be handled by their computer system. Would have been nice to know this earlier in the piece but neither of the 2 operators I'd spoken to previously at GIO had mentioned this. So although I now have a Blue Slip the corresponding Green Slip will be picked up from GIO's Hornsby office at 9:00am Wednesday then a bee-line will be made to the Ryde RTA office for registration formalities to be completed.

At this point, on inspecting the '41 after it's run, found there was an oil leak from the rear of the transmission and also found a fuel leak dripping onto the rear sway bar. Jacked up the rear and Wade was under the '41 and quickly fixed the fuel leak by tightening the line fitting involved by about quarter of a turn. Then jacked up the front end and Wade's inspection indicated the trans leak was coming from the O/D Solenoid area. This will be inspected more closely tomorrow and rectifying action taken. And after todays run I'm gaining more confidence in driving the '41, learning to use the mirrors, not to grab the turn indicator stalk to change gear, learning the positioning in lanes from a LHD perspective in a RHD world and generally getting the feel of the '41 and how she handles, which is very nicely but no rally car, and will be even better after a front-end alignment.

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Even stranger, looks like the same trailer. Looks like your car and that trailer went for quite an adventure. Neat!

Jim

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Ahhhhh, the magic of computers, but no photo's?