Re: 1949 Steering Column
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Remove the wheel, as described. Remove the toe-board plate around the pedals, and take out the screws that hold the rubber collar at the base of the column to the firewall.
Take out the two long screws that hold the column to the dashboard bracket. Undo the shift rods, and unplug your turn signals. At the steering gear loosen the clamp that clamps the column to the neck of the steering gear. Seat yourself comfortably in the driver's seat and wiggle turn and tug on the column till it comes sliding up the steering shaft. You may have to loosen the steering gear-to-frame bolts so the column angles down a bit for more clearance. Getting the shift lever through the toe-board is often a pain. Enjoy.
Posted on: 2010/12/5 7:35
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Re: Overheating
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OK, that is a new one. In my 35 years of owning/ being around 55 Packards, plus another twenty-odd years of experience of my late friend Don Boger, V-8 overheating has been a non-issue, excepting standard neglect issues.
Don bought perhaps more than a dozen V-8s, predominantly 55,s from the early sixties through the early seventies. They were among the cheapest used cars available at the time and, they were driven by the whole family to work, shopping, and his daughters took a pair to college. I believe some journalist was trying to fill an empty page.
Posted on: 2010/12/5 7:14
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Re: 1st time startup
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I just installed a set in the Balboa's 327. Fired it for the first time this evening, as a matter of fact. After about 3 minutes of clatter all was quiet on the western front. Big smiles in Parkton this evening.
I used to painstakingly clean those darn lifters and pressure test them with a rig I built, but more often than I care to recall would still have one tap at a hot slow idle. The $275 seems quite the bargain. Interesting factoid about those lifters: if you have an engine with a valve stuck down and ram it open with the starter or even by hand, that lifter will be ruined. That's because the barrels of those lifters are quite thin and will actually expand from the hydraulic pressure within as it attempts to lift the stuck valve. Sometimes it expands enough that its hard to get the lifter to come out of the tappet. That's a dead giveaway as to its health. Once the barrel is big it will never hold quiet at an idle--on a running engine look for a stream of oil coming around the top of the lifter. That's another giveaway.
Posted on: 2010/12/2 19:39
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Re: Packard 374 Engine Colors
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One thing for sure, engine "detailing" was a lot less important to the folks at Packard, epecially in the junior and postwar eras, than it is to us. I agree, the colors were all over the map, and many parts got hardly more than a vapor of paint on them--with no primer. This was just standard industrial practice. My customers would be irritated if I detailed their engine compartments EXACTLY as original. Would save a lot of paint and materials tho.
Posted on: 2010/12/1 7:57
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Re: BigKev's 1954 Packard Clipper Deluxe Sedan
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Fantastic progress! Really makes me want to run out and strip something.
The bottom and side moldings on the windshield and on the rear window come off with nuts on the inside. The top of the rear window is set in the rubber, and I can't remember about the top of the windshield.
Posted on: 2010/11/29 14:05
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Re: Locked Rear end
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I've never encountered an early style Ultra being terminally stuck in park--but there is a first time for everything. What I rather think has happened is that the detent plunger has ridden somehow off the end of the cam.
I suggest unscrewing the detent housing out of the side of the trans, extract its spring and plunger, and see if you can get things to move. That would be the approx 1-1/8 hex fitting that is mounted just above the shift lever on the trans, the one without the wires. If the shifter still won't move, try unscrewing the neutral safety switch. Perchance its guts have somehow popped out. In any event, at some point you will have to methodically go through your linkage from the column right through to inside the pan to check the adjustments. On third thought, after reading the beginning of the post, I wonder if the car was put away with a bit of water or other nasty stuff in the trans. What's the dipstick look like when you pull it out? I have had a car rollbacked here with the trans filled with rancid brake fluid. That was special
Posted on: 2010/11/28 20:01
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Re: 1940 Manual shift
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Shorten link #2, the 1st and rev link in the diagram above, slightly. This will insure that the trans is all the way out of first and into neutral before the column mechanism makes its transition into the 2nd and 3d leg of the H.
What you are experiencing is that the column shifter and the transmission are not finding neutral at the same time.
Posted on: 2010/11/26 20:59
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Re: BTV rebuild kit concerns check your compensator vale
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iirc, the Moraine unit used in the 53 Buick got its own chapter in Nader's book "Unsafe at any speed". Anybody have a copy?
Of course anythings Nader dislikes tends to awaken warm and tender affection in me.
Posted on: 2010/11/23 21:09
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Fun with used cars
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Enough griping, and no (airport) groping. Load the mountain bikes in the Packup and roar thru the backroads of unspeakably lovely Center County Pennsylvania. It was an almost 400 mile weekend--not counting the 15 or so on the bikes. Null problemo and the as-usual 17 something mpg from the 126K Clipper Super. I will be issuing the 20,000 mile field service report in the near future. Go drive them thangs. Who are you saving it for?
Posted on: 2010/11/21 20:17
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