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Re: Starting issue 49 288
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Tape over a vacuum port instead of it being plugged would cause those problems. Also check the vacuum systems for the wipers and distributoradvance. I've had leaks in vacuum systems on more than one car and they cause a lot of mischief

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Posted on: 2018/2/11 17:53
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Re: A car I have been offered is it a Packard?
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Apologies for using shorthand in reference to the book

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Posted on: 2018/1/6 18:50
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Re: A car I have been offered is it a Packard?
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Just checked the KImes book again to cover myself.

The lawsuits either way seem to be folk legend. Buick, in their guilt, did some legal huffing and puffing that their plagiarism was defensible. Packard responded with an ad titled "Only Packard can build a Packard". The copying by Durant , Willys, Buick and Dagmar went away

Happy New Year

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Posted on: 2018/1/6 9:49
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Re: 'Access Hollywood' Packard?????
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That is one of his Doble steam cars. The other Doble is a Murphy roadster that belonged to Howard Hughes. Videos about both of them can be found on his website and on youtube. They are very interesting beasts

Happy New Year

John Harley

Posted on: 2017/12/30 10:20
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Re: Stupid Questions Oh Well
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The shocks and the upper a arms are the same unit. The arms will be on either side of a housing that has a cap on the ends . A shaft runs through it from side to side and cams force the fluid through some valves. There will be a square plug on top that you can unscrew, I think it is a 1/4" or something like that.

In practice one side is more accessible from the top than the other, but you can do both from the top. Sometimes there is a rubber flap covering them to keep slop thrown up by the wheels from entering the engine compartment. Be sure to clean around the plug before you unscrew it to keep dirt out

I just read your post again The hood is kind of small on a "41 and it is a long way down there. If you are stymied it may be easier to go through the side.

Clear as mud?

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John Harley

Posted on: 2017/10/15 17:12
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Re: Quick Timing Question
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Not 100% sure but if the engine is like the later 8s, the rotor rotation is counter clockwise. At any rate, moving the distributor against rotation will advance the timing and with the rotation will retard it.

Do you have any manuals or a Motor's manual for your car? If the harmonic balancer at the front is marked it might easier to manage timing. On the left side of the engine there will be pointer mounted above the balancer. :You will have to clean off the circumference of the balancer with steel wool or something to find the marks. Put a with dab of white paint at the mark you want to use and you are ready to go with the timing light.

Clear as mud?

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John Harley

Posted on: 2016/12/10 20:07
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Re: '37 Pack convertible on "Chasing Classic Cars"
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Friends

I may have posted this before, if I have you can skip it.

Johnny Peterson was the owner of the Twelve previous to Carrini handling it. I believe he was in a nursing home when Carinni got involved but he died before the show was aired ( I haven't seen that episode yet)

Johnny was a member of the late Eastern Packard Club. I was President on two different occasions for a total of 4 years. He had the car a very long time. I don't know when he bought it but he paid $900 in 1953 for a complete repaint and upholstery . This might make some of you feel better, or maybe worse. Johnny owned a gas station, I believe .When he crushed the grill on his 1948 Custom Eight he walked into his garage and unwrapped the complete NOS grille that he had and put it on his car.

Johnny caravaned with Jack Behn ("bean") and myself to the Packard Centennial in 1998 from Connecticut. Jack drove his 1941 180 formal ( dual sidemounts, division , padded roof, the whole nine yards) and John drove the Twelve. Jack's car had a regular rear end and an overdrive, and, as we used to say, he hammered it. John was behind him in the Twelve and I bought up the rear. I had my 1950 Eight at the time with overdrive. i would fall back going up the hills on Route 80 but would catch up after the crest.

We had co drivers so I was able to persuade Jack to let me drive his car for a while. It was absolute dead silent and smooth. The only way to judge speed was to look at the the speedometer. i had a 1980 BMW 528i at the time. It was a very hot car, but the 180 was much more peaceful and stabile at 75 mph. , I was very impressed.


The gas stops were pretty funny. Jack and Johnny couldn't understand why they were using so much gas. Johnny " I don't understand why gas mileage is so bad. I usually get 10 mpg and I'm getting only 9 !"

For some reason Johnny didn't have a hotel reservation so he stayed with me a few nights, n/c. of course. When he went to bed he would lay there for about a half hour and babble on about the cars before he fell asleep. He was like a five year old. At one point he had owned at least 6 or 7 of the classic era Packards that were on the field for the Magnum Opus.

The last time I saw John Peterson I had to remind him who I was. He's gone, Jack Behn is gone and so are Bob Skop, Neal Donovan, Doc Cresenzi , Nels Skog. and Jim McCoach. The Eastern Packard Club couldn't survive
their losses and now it is gone too.

"Those were the times my friend
We thought they'd never end"

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John Harley

Posted on: 2016/9/7 21:53
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Re: Fan Belt Replacement
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The technique to install said belt I used on the 41 Super Eight I once owned...

Lube one part of the belt and the part of the frame that is in the way with silicone lube . Get a long stick and push the belt past the obstruction . I used one of Owen Dyneto's tomato stakes as I was working on the car in front of his house

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Posted on: 2016/9/7 21:14
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Re: 1938 Packard Dynamo carbon brushes replacement
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Cars with generators come both ways, positive and negative ground. The generator doesn't care, there is a procedure for setting the polarity after working on the charging system. This is described on other threads on this website, use the search function.

In a generator the rotating member,":armature" is a series of copper coils wound around a ferrous core that rotates inside a series of magnets producing direct current. In an alternator the magnet is the rotating member. The current from a rotating magnet reverses the direction of the current in the coils as if routes inside them. The current then passes through diodes i to sort this out into one polarity. Clear as mud?

I suspect my friend Owen Dyneto may have the reference materials to answer your parts question. He is currently enjoying the Packard Club national meet in Traverse City, Michigan, so I would expect a response after this coming weekend

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John Harley

Posted on: 2016/6/14 22:00
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Re: '49-'50 Eight - Kodachrome period photo
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The body of the Bauer Duesey was built by Rollson. Some people find it eccentric, but I like it a lot more than the Dueseys that were rebodied or "updated"

The last car is an 8 Litre Bentley. The original Bentley Motors was kept afloat by a group of what we would now call "one percenters". They are better known as the Bentley Boys, although one of the principals was a woman. They bought as many cars as they could,very successfully competed in them, and generally threw a lot of money at the firm to support their car habits.

Obviously this came to a screeching halt in about 1930.W.O Bentley's first impulse was , like many his American comrades, was to try and eat the competition's lunch, said lunch belonging to Rolls Royce.

The 8 Litre was supposed to be a better car than a Royce, , and by all accounts it was. However after 100 chassis were "erected", as the English put it, the hemorrhaging of money continued. Bentley went to receivership court in 1931 and it was widely understood Napier would buy the assets and resume its competition
with RR.

At the hearing a "United Motor Trust" showed up and submitted a higher bid. The judge refused a counter offer and no one knew who the new owner was.

Two weeks later W.O Bentley's wife returned from a cocktail party, :" So and so" ( I forget the name right now) said that his company bought your company."

W.O. : "He works for Rolls-Royce"

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John Harley

Posted on: 2016/4/10 7:52
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