Most seat back cushions lift up and off the back frame. There usually a couple of screws underneath that retain it to prevent it from poping off on its own. That's how both my 37 rumble seat and 54 back seat cushions come out.

Since these cars predate a heater switch, it was a manual deal where you turn it off in the summer. Otherwise the hot coolant give short circuit through the heater and back to waterpump. In the summer this can cause overheating.

Begone foul breast!

I exercised the old fuel line and pump from the car.




It was a conglomerate of a little bit of copper hard line and mostly rubber rubber all far on the inside of the framerail. The fuel pump was mounted mid-ship between the muffler and the framerail.

Not it's all brand new hardline front to back except for a 12" piece of fuel hose between the framerail bulkhead fitting and the fuelrail for the carbs. And a couple of small 4" pieces where the fuel pump was plumbed inline back my the tank. The line is now ran exactly in the same routing that the factory line would have been. Down the outside of the framerail and using the clips along the runningboard supports and rail where needed.

Now sure it it's just me, but it appears to run better after doing that.

Gerry at Packards Southwest had one of these hard to find items and it's on the way to me!

Thanks Gerry!

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I think it's those screws on top of the seat frame.

No. Mine use the original non-sealed beam releflectors, that were then altered.

Yours appear to use a more modern sealed beam with an adapter mounting ring.

The originals are something like ~7-1/2" reflectors with a both a centralized dual filament incandescent headlight bulb and a an offset small little parking light.

That's the issue with using sealed bulbs is that they don't quite fit the housing and if you do use them, then you lose the little parking light.

In my project blog there is a picture of my reflectors which are altered to accept a H4 bulb and a parking/turn signal bulb.

The tracks can be taken apart and the needle bearings inside the rollers can be lubed. Also good to clean any dirt and grit out of them.

Now on my seat, the upholstered metal side panels that screw to the floor and the B-Pillar caused my seat to jam when in the full back position. After I removed the panels, the seat slides back and forth just fine.

In addition to my seat being an altered one from a later model, my seat was overstuffed at some point, probably to deal with the sagging. So both of those probably contribute to the binding.

So I'll need to figure out a solution to that. But that may be something to check. Also verify that seat adjuster handle is actually disengaging the track lock. Is you seat track helper spring still there?

I'd check with Bob Stolfus in PA or Gerry at Packards Southwest in San Diego.

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There are several Service Letters and Counselors addressing making changes to seat positions.

I went back and looked at my notes for my seat. The seat is actually from a 1940 110 Business Coupe, so the frame was modified to fit into the '37. I think the seat tracks are from the '37.

But the seat reclined way too much and was too low in the back of the bottom cushion. So, I changed the seat angle by putting a 1" spacer block between the rear mount on the track and the floor, which dramatically helped the recline and the height issues. But, this left a gap between the seat and the package tray, so I moved everything back, which was perfect for me.

For you, I think there are a couple of options:

1) In the Service Letters, they describe drilling the rivets out of the part of the seat tracks and drilling new holes for the rivets to make the seat tracks shorter.

2) Depending on how much extra room you have on the package tray forward of the header bow when it folds back there, you may be able to shorten the package tray and move the plywood bulkhead back a couple of inches, and then move the seat/tracks back as well. But I am sure that's not a simple endeavor as that affects the rumble seat side panels and everything in that area. I only have about 2" from behind the seat to the header bow. So, I'm not sure how original my package tray size is, as I am sure it was altered and replaced before I got the car.