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I havent read the service book on this so i dont know what the figures should be...maybe some of the more knowledgeable here would know. A previous poster said total timing is static (initial) done with a timing light, plus the vacuum and the mechanical advance. Total timing should only be your static (initial) plus mechanical. I dont think the vacuum pot on these older cars are adjustable and the vacuum advance is what it is, it should only come in a on hard throttle or hill climb, with little too no vacuum at cruising and idle. You can check your total timing with a timing light that has the knob on it with numbers around it, lets say turn it to 20, thats degrees in advance rev the engine with the vacuum advance disconnected, while watching the light and timing mark it should stop at what ever your static (initial) timing is set to no matter what you rev the engine too, if it doesn't then move the knob a little higher until the timing mark stops on static (initial) what ever the number your knob is on plus the static (initial)will be your total timing, also note your rpm this where the timing is "totally in" with these motors i cant believe its more than 2800-3000 RPM but im guessing. With the vacuum hooked up take it for spin do some heavy throttle accelerations and hills, if its pinging reduce your total timing either by initial or mechanical, if no pinging and you want a little more performance give it a little more total timing, this would be done easily by increasing the static (initial) a little at a time until your happy with the way its running, or until you get pinging then back it off just until the pinging stops.

Hope this clears it up, I have never been the best writer, i know what i want to say but the mind is faster than my typing

Hope this helps but for the life of me i have no idea where to get figures for total timing, or even what the vacuum pot is set for.

Hey Chris great read......as far as other engines go i have always set it to the hard start when hot and then retard a bit and check the total timing this is important, but one thing im not reading here is a mention of total timing, what are you getting for total timing and when it is "all in" should also play....to much and you can hurt the motor. Maybe it doesn't matter on these motors?????

Chris is the horn relay mounted on the bracket on the 39???? the pics sure look the same>

Hope this helps.

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Hello all i am curious if anyone here has a a set of horns for my 41 110 Pacakard coupe, sent mine off too a vender and have not recieved them back (over a year know) no return emails or return calls. Any help is appreciated

I second Diamond back tires, there are two lines of thought as far as radial or not. If you are going for a complete original 10 point restore then stay with biased, but really if you plan to driveyour car alot then for ride and drive ability radials are the way to go, there are so many radials from Coker and Diamond back etc etc etc to chose from its kind of confusing. I put Coker radials (biased look alikes) on my 56 Belair and it rides and drives awesome, biased tires tend to track in road groves and are not very good for cornering (tend to roll on the sides)and im not talking about 55mph up a canyon road, just cruising.

But hey this is just my opinion and im sure this will get a few replys!!!! LOL

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This is a problem here where i live no one does the old stuff, thats why i asked about being able to do it myself, i have done many rebuilds on V8's, they will do the machine work but not the assembly......are there known shops elsewhere i can call that you may know??

Has anyone used/heard of this vender EGGE???? they sell engine rebuild kits. They have this kit for my carhttps://egge.com/kit/pk245m41-47/ ......is this a decent kit????? and is there anything that i wouldn't be able too do putting a long block back together after all the machining is done professionally???

Yeah they have the dies to make mine but wont i have been asking for 2yrs now, supply and demand i guess

LOL no Biggie Joe I hope you do

Thanks for checking tho Pat