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Re: solenoids inner fenders for T/L Unit
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Mr.Pushbutton
I'll have an answer for you tonight. It's a litte more complicated, the Green wire is always connected to +12V (hot) and the red and gray wires are shorted together (thru the shift relay)to ground in order to make the motor spin in one direction (stay tuned for the direction fo rotation) and the red and brown wires are connected together (to gorund), with a resistor in series (to slow the action in this directon of rotation--the system wants to turn faster in one direction than the other, this resistor is Autolite's fix)to turn in the other direction.

One word of caution--It is very easy to make the sector gear overtravel and jam against the housing, and the amount of torque required to break the secor free is in excess of what the motor can provide. Were you to make this mod I would recommend that you install rubber stop blocks inside the worm-sector gear chamber of the pushbutton actuator housing. There is about 3/8"-1/4" of free space between the sector gear and the housing at either direction of travel. a rubber block might act as a buffer and keep the gearing from locking up.

Posted on: 2008/4/14 12:00
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Re: 12 cylinder Packard engines Gar Wood Miss America X
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Robert Neal's "Packards at Speed" (Aero-Marine Publishing, 1995) is profusely illustrated and covers many of Packard engine's exploits in the air and on the water. It's a terrific addition to anyone's Packard library, as is it's companion book, "Packard Master Motobuilders". These are as much a "must have" book as the Kimes-edited tome. I believe both are still in print.

Posted on: 2008/4/14 10:57
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12 cylinder Packard engines Gar Wood Miss America X
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Tomstoys2
Hi everyone.
I would be interested in that DVD also. I'm new to the forum and came acrossed it in a Google search for info on Gar Woods Miss America X. I am working on a project to build an R/C version of it with my 10 yr old son.

Does anyone know anything about the 12-cyl supercharged Packard engines Gar Wood used? I need to find a car or airplane model with detailed engine to use in the boat.

Some good reading on the development of Miss America X
http://www.lesliefield.com/other_history/speedboat_kings_15_miss_america_x.htm

Thanks for your help.
Tom

Posted on: 2008/4/14 10:41
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Re: Mal's '41 120 Coupe
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There were some lovely pictures in this thread of a 1934 Eight export RHD chassis. I didn't follow enough to see who owned it but thought I'd make a few comments, based on how the domestic engines were finished. The oil cooler housing, the part on the water jacket, should be engine green, with a black filter. The lines to and from should be nickel-plated. The water inlet just below it should also be engine-green. The starter and generator should be wrinkle-black, not gloss black, and there is quite a bit of evidence that the brush cover on the starter was engine-green. The aluminum valve rocker shaft covers were naked aluminum, not painted engine-green. The EE-22 Stromberg was painted black, not naked castings. Not picking, just assuming someone might like to be aware of this.

Posted on: 2008/4/14 8:06
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Re: solenoids inner fenders for T/L Unit
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PackardV8
I called someone. "DE" = Drive End.

However, we need to determine direction of selector shaft when Green and Brown are energized. Does Green and Brown select toward Park or Reverse????

The idea here is that i want to hook up a couple buttons DIRECT to the motor and BYPASSING everything else. One button will run the motor toward P and the other toward Rev.

Posted on: 2008/4/14 7:56
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Re: solenoids inner fenders for T/L Unit
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Mr.Pushbutton
Packard V8--I have a unit I'm putting the finishing touches on right now--I should have it on the test board tonight, I'll file a report as soon as I have it up and running.

I too saw the "CWDE" legend on the Autolite manual and have wondered is that is an abbrevitation for "clockwise driection".

Posted on: 2008/4/14 7:16
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Re: Mal's '41 120 Coupe
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Monday 14th April 2008

Quite an interesting day today. After giving blood early in the morning returned home to chase up our plumber, because the sewer was blocked, and arranged for him to come by late afternoon.

Then it was off to All Metal Bumpers at Ingleburn, south west and on the outskirts of Sydney, where I took the bumpers and other pieces for re-plating. Thought it was reasonable when Peter there quoted AU $1,680 until he realised that the picture I gave him contained more pieces than on the bench in front of him. I'd left the bars between the big over-riders for both front and back bumpers in the boot of the car! With these included it brought the price to AU $2,140. Barrie, this is approx SA Rand 17,100 and US $1900 and was close to my guesstimate of AU $2,000 so the go ahead was given.

Should take about 2 weeks for all the bumper pieces and up to 4 weeks for the tail light bezels because these are pot metal. Also learned a bit about the process with the steel pieces being sandblasted, removing the old chrome and any rust, until only bare metal remains. It was interesting too that although the nickel ore is mined in Australia it's processed in Canada then shipped to China and then the finished nickel is shipped back to Australia! Another thing was the reason the plating of the pot metal items takes longer is because after it's stripped it's then copper plated and then left to sit for about a week to see if any pits/bubbles develop. After the pot metal is exposed to air it can pit and if it's going to do so it shows up after about a week. So if there's a problem they can address it at this stage and redo it rather than have a customer come back later after the whole process is finished. Anyway that's what the guy told me. Also met a drag racer there, by the name of Mike, who is running a locally made although highly modified AND street driven Ford Falcon with 10.2 et's, and I thought I was doing OK almost 40 years ago with my 289 Ford powered rail running 10.3!

Next I went to Antique Tyre Supplies which was literally around the corner because Wade asked me to pick up some Running In Oil and HPR30 as they are the local Penrite Oils agent. With Wades '34 engine almost ready to be fired up and Kevin's '35 only waiting for the bearing sizing of the big-ends to be fixed there'll be 2 large engines requiring lubrication shortly.

But the thing was that at the Antique Tyre Supplies warehouse there were a number of interesting cars parked there, being a 1920 Vauxhall, a '23 Vauxhall and a '25 Bentley together with a very rusty cut up chassis, with front and rear axles and engine for a '21 Vauxhall. I've taken pic's of all these, except for the chassis and parts, and a link is attached to a web album for viewing these beauties. David owns the '23 Vauxhall and is the owner of Antique Tyre Supplies and the reason the hood was up was because he needs to replace the middle exhaust manifold gasket which "blew" on a run yesterday. The '20 Vauxhall belongs to a guy in Queensland, 600 miles north, and it is being trailered back there shortly. The '25 Bently is being stored by David for it's owner. While the '21 Vauxhall engine and parts were found on a farm near the Murray River about 300+ miles south of Sydney. The engine had been used to power a pump and the rear part of the frame was used as a farm trailer, but no body panels or fenders remained. The parts are soon to be shipped to England because no one here was prepared to tackle what will be a very demanding restoration.

http://picasaweb.google.com/ozstatman/AntiqueTyreSupplies

After all that it was back to the workshop with the Penrite oils and a blissful 2&1/2 hours were spent under the back of the '41 scraping, naturally.

Then back home to meet the plumber, who cleared the blocked drain, and the end to a successful day.

Tom, 34PackardRoadsta, the close up of the oil filter looks good.

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Posted on: 2008/4/14 4:09
Mal
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Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia
"Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche.

1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD

1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD

1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

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Re: Drake's '53 Clipper
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re-did all m'brakes.. blead.. and all that.. i need to replace all the lights (front and rear) and i'm ready to roll..

Posted on: 2008/4/14 0:49
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Re: BigKev's 1954 Packard Clipper Deluxe Sedan
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Well I got some more of the front frame scraped and wire brushed. I still need to crawl under the front end and do all the bottom side. I am sure that will be the worst part.

I also prepped the front drums for paint, but before I do that I am going to take them to get them turned as there are a couple of grooves in them.

Once I was done with that I degreased, and cleaned up the parking brake ratchet assembly, and then repainted it with some Eastwood Silver Cadium paint. This is the same paint I used on the Fuel Pump and the vacuum advance.

The last thing I did was start to remove the big dent that is in the rear driver side door. The dent was a pretty good one, and was an area about 3/4 the size of the door scallop. The dent was deep enough in the front scallop area that leading edge of the dented scallop was level with the regular part of the door. So now I have the scallop body line bumped back into place. So by hammering down the ridge caused by the dent from the front side, backed up with a dolly (off dolly technique), that raised about 3/4 of total dent. I still have some low areas in the middle along the line of the deepest part of the dent, and I had to heat the dent with a torch to shrink it a little bit where the metal was stretched.

The remainder of the dent is too hard to work out from the inside of the door skin because of the limited access because the inner door shell. So I will need to finish the rest with a Unispotter. Once I get all the dent raised, then I will go back over it and metal finish it as good as I can, and then skim coat it.

Posted on: 2008/4/14 0:22
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Re: Fuel Tank Surprise
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PackardV8
If the gauage is reading backwards then what about bending the float ARM in the opposite direction???? OR does the resistance reading still cause a problem???

Posted on: 2008/4/13 23:16
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