John:

I am confused. You said you knew the answer before you asked me ? May I inquire ? Your question to me appears to be directed to WHERE I get my info. from. How could you possibly know that ? You been crawling around under my Packard Twelve lately? Or browsing thru my papers & copies of old Packard stuff ?

By the way, who is this "we" that believes I in some way "inflated" Packard Twelve info. What info ? What technical details? PRECISELY are you referring to ?

You have a mouse in your pocket who also is unhappy that Packard had different lines of product, for different price classes, and different performance requirements ? Tell me more about who this "we" is, so we can discuss in further detail specifically WHAT technical details, or where I got them from, remain unclear.

Rusty: I have a 1954 Chevy owners manual. I think Chevy also recommended straight weight oil be used.

I have an old Mobil oil chart from 1963 up in the garage. I am going up in the morning and see what they recommended back in 1963 for some of the older cars.

John F. Shireman

Now that I'm sitting comfortably in the car, there's one slight problem, the steering column's STILL too short!!!

Looks like it's time to do the column extension!:

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So, I decided to move the seats back a little so that the pedals are in a comfortable position: (pics taken by the wife, she arrived just in time!)

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With the seats where I left them last time, this is how I looked sitting in the car: (pic taken by me, so you only see my legs!)

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To do this, I cut off one of the original body mounts which just happened to have the same size hole as the pedal shaft, and I'm going to use it as the outside mount for the pedals, bolted under the chassis:

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The owner's manual describes "regular" and "premium" oil both of which are presumably suitable to use.

"regular" for "moderate" service and "premium" for "more severe" service.

They also recommend SAE 20 or 20W oil for all except the most extreme temperatures.

30 is recommended only when daytime temperatures are above 90 or the car is used for extreme high speeds.

10W for extreme cold.

So 10W30 premium oil would cover practically all occasions.

I don't know why the don't mention multigrade oils.

And I got the pedals mounted as far forward as is possible:

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Tonight's work, 3" off the bottom of the cowl:

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I guess I mean from the dashboard to the steering wheel, along the column. Thanks guys!

P.S., I have a feeling that mine's gonna be a little bit further away than the stock '34 is. The reason why I'm going off a '33-'34 is that's what dash panel I'm using, and I just need an idea for reference.