I recently purchased a 48 deluxe 4dr, it has a 327 head on the engine,possibly the whole engine was changed out.
I found a brass tag in the glove box that says
Packard Motor Car Co
Model 1D-327 INDUSTRIAL ENGINE
TYPE NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER
DA327 15226
Did Packard make stationary-industrial type engines? Does this tag have anything to do with a 327 ci eight?What engine block should this car have?If this tag goes with an engine would it be the 5 main or the nine main?
Thanks in advance for your help

Saturday 5th July 2008

Got to the workshop before Wade, intending to re-file the bottom of one of the battery clamps but found Wade's Super 8 distributor still in the vice so that task was put on hold. Fortunately Wade arrived soon after and gave me a tutorial on how to set Packard tappets. He left me to this while he turned to the Super 8 getting the distributor back in and getting it fired up and re-tuned He had some trouble get it to start as the battery was almost flat but with a boost it roared into life.

Meanwhile I was doing the tappets, and doing the tappets and doing the tappets. You get the picture? It's like this, I'm slow, although that doesn't really explain why it took me all morning to do before I was satisfied that all was well. It might be age related, as my concentration in identifying whether I was adjusting an intake or exhaust tappet was frequently awry. Muttering, cursing or even praying didn't seem to help either. So I settled down on the stool, going tappet by tappet, down the line once, then twice and so on until after the fifth time and with a couple of random checks along the way I was reasonably confident they were all properly set. During all this Wade passed by a number of times and suggested part way through the third run through that it would be easier if I marked say all the exhaust tappets with a spot of paint. But by this time I was determined to do it myself without reference to visual aids so carried on. Don't know how many revolutions the engine did as I turned it over by hand using the fan blades, and skinned a knuckle in the process as the radiator surface is remarkably akin to a cheese grater! Anyway got it all done and by this Wade was finished with the Super 8 so did some checks of random tappets and I must have done something right because they checked out! And now I can say, at the age of 61 plus years, "I've set the tappets". Then it was on to re-installing the tappet covers together with new cork gaskets and a coating of Loctite gasket cement. Next was pulling the old spark plugs, they'd been loosened off and were just sitting there, gapping the fresh plugs and tightening them up. Last task, which was to be the first, was to re-file the champhered shoulder on the battery clamp and re-install it.

And now a lighter side to the zoo, I mean workshop. John has a dog, Misty which is the workshop dog. It's a cross between a blue cattle dog, referred to as a blue heeler, and a labrador and you can feel it in her coat which feels like that of a labrador. Mentioning her coat brings me to a little snippet of workshop life because every 2nd Saturday Misty gets a wash. This is done using a mobile dogwash service with a trailer equipped for the task. And does Misty like getting a bath? No way! The lady who washes her rings ahead and Misty is chained up as otherwise she'd shoot through when she saw the trailer coming. She's then literally dragged and carried into the trailer and washed. Once washed she then has to have a release of the built up tension, together with a bit of self drying, doing this on an old blanket where she nuzzles, burrows, slides, rolls and shakes until she's satisfied all is now well and that awful experience is over. Well at least for another 2 weeks when it all happens again!

And then there's Charlie. Charlie is a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, a native bird of Australia. I think Charlie is Rick's bird and apparently he was left with Rick by a mate to mind for a couple of weeks a number of years ago! Seems like the mate never returned, so Rick ended up getting the bird! Charlie's cage is located next to the big steel rolladoor at the workshop entrance. But, he doesn't spend much time in the cage as the door's always open and he's got a few old branches sticking out of the cage bars and he walks around on these outside perches. Charlie can't fly, usually, because his wings are clipped periodically. Although I believe he literally has flown the coop on a number of occasions. Charlie can also talk, but with a limited vocabulary, greeting everybody who enters with "Hullo Charlie". And he can BITE! Check that sharp beak. Cockatoos are notorious for their destructive ways ripping shrubs and trees to shreds usually for food but most is wasted ending up on the ground, also wooden decking and railings and anything else they can get their beaks into. So in passing Charlie you usually don't get too close unless you maintain eye contact with him until you're out of range so to speak. You can pat/scratch Charlie on his head, but maintain eye contact otherwise Mr T's friend Pain makes an appearance.

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Works for me!

I belive someone said that a 70's VW switch is a direct replacement for the Packard switch. I just dont have the parts number.

I think its just like any other tapered seat fitting, you just want to tighten it down till snug. If you wrench it down too tight, you will do more harm then good.

I dont have a problem with breaking the SC's into individual volumes. I think we have almost all of them (give or take) from 1947-1956.

So if we can come up with a game plan, and we have some volunteers to help compile the indexes, then I will take care of splitting all the volumes up and adding all the links to the compiled indexes.

Remember folks, this is a community effort where we can all benefit, so the more help we can get with this, the better (and quicker) it will all come together.

Thanks!

No problem Eric. Just didnt want the name of the thread too add any more fuel to the fire in some peoples mind. No worries. I just gave it a more general purpose grievance/complaint title.

Kev, since so much is pointed towards those two groups, I decided to name it that. It's your prerogative to change it to whatever you want. I won't mind, but I was just thinking to put the flame wars and the rest in one place, and keep it out of people's threads.

If you have something to complain about, or want to air a grievance please keep it in this thread and do not hijack someones thread for that purpose.

While I dont mind spirited debate, please show a little respect for one another even in this thread. If you have a personel vendetta with someone else, then take it private as I am sure the rest of us dont really want to get involved in that personel drama.

No one wants to see their thread, of the current line of conversation get hijacked so one poster can take a jab at another poster.

Most of you know that I am usually pretty tolerant, and prefer to let things play themselves out, and they usually do. But I am not going to allow people to use this forum or website for their online brawl.

There are ways to make your point and air your grievances in a respectful way and all I ask is that you try to conduct yourselves in that manner.

Thanks. (taking the proctor hat back off)

Well I agree with Clipper47 and as much as I hate too play proctor lets all count to 5 and remember that we are all here to discuss Packard and not to air our dirty laundry. I dont mind spirited debate, but remember Packards were ... "Built by Gentlemen, for Gentlemen". So lets live up to that standard and please respect a posters thread by not sending it off-course.

I see that Eric has started a thread for the purpose of venting, while I make invoke presidential authority and change the name of that thread, I agree with Eric on having a dedicated thread for those that want to practice writing their names in the snow and airing their grievances. So lets try to keep as much of it there as possible and not hijack someones thread.

Thanks I appreciate it.