I suspect this is where my oil leak is at. Is the the "piston lubricator"? It looks like the only way to get to it is remove the floor boards. Any insight?

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Great idea Kev. I am thinking of leaving very early Thursday morning (just before sunrise) and just putt along at about 50 mph. Again, this is just early thoughts and I really wont know until late October is we are going. Are there other members here in the I.E.? I have to prep the car for such a trip, and I need to fix a small oil leak behind the engine (piston lubricator?) and change two exhaust studs that are broken and a freeze plug that is starting to show corrosion through the Bell green. I may be open to having guests ride with us who wish to attend but won't have a P-car to bring, however, it is an open touring car.

I am thinking of driving the '29 Packard to the Packardinfo meet in November. I would like to avoid I-15 so that means I-10 east from Redlands and then pick up CA Rt 62 east of Cabazon and US-95. Any thoughts?

The Redlands Optimist Club is hosting a car show at Sylvan Park in Redlands, CA on Saturday May 21st. 9am to 4pm
Suggested Donation $3.00. 12 & under free, and there is also a chile cook off as well. I will be bringing out our 1929 Packard Dietrich 7 pas Touring (or is it a Phaeton?). I would home some other Packards show up too.

I have a spare here. I believe it is NOS and never used. I do suggest having it electro-nickel plated to reduce internal water corrosion. I guess you could paint the visible side Bell Green after it's plated. Just make me a reasonable offer and it's yours.

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Interesting that a spare 645 engine I have here doesn't have any numbers stamped into the motor mount, just "star" cast into the ear, and no signs of numbers being ground off.

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Gearrat, If you can get a spare engine, do so. I have one for our 29. Every few months I pour oil into the cylinders and every few months I make noises about selling it, and every day I think about getting it running (which I am looking into now). I may even have enough spare parts to put a whole car together if I could find a frame and cowl Think of a spare running engine as an insurance policy: as long as you have it, you'll never need it. An hour after you sell it you will spit a rod out of the side of your only engine.

Al, I am not sure my engine stand will be up to the task of a Packard 8. Can you send a picture of yours?, if you sell your spare, could I purchase the stand from you?

I have issue with E85 fuels in general and I would like you to consider what I am about to say. Ethanol is "hygroscopic" that is in a nut shell, the ability to absorb moisture. The ethanol will absorb moisture from the atmosphere and moisture is not a good thing for an engine. It takes about 1.3 units of alcohol to do the same amount of work of 1 unit of gasoline- less power, more fuel consumption. Ethanol evaporates very fats and should be kept in a sealed container. You could seal your fuel tank but it will need to be vented at some point. Ethanol is VERY corrosive to rubber and steel. You would have to put some kind of epoxy coating in your fuel tank and run all stainless steel fuel lines and get carburetor and fuel rebuild kits that can handle Ethanol. So, add up the cost of converting to run E85 and the best you can get out of it is lose performance, lose MPG and in the long run you end up paying more at the pump over time becuz you simply need to buy more fuel. Ethanol is great in a high compression (13:1?), purpose built engine, not a sixty plus year old car.

No bother at all Owen. Engines are engines but, I know my way around a 4,000+ HP diesel a lot better then I do a Packard 8, and different engines respond to different techniques. I have no issue about asking when I haven't worked on a particular type of engine, and with three compressed disks in my lower back, I need to be real careful. I am also not into...

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