Its a beautiful Sunday morning here in KY. Supposed to be 70 degrees today.

I am getting ready to go out to the shop for a couple hours to work on the Packard. I plan to spend most of my time out there doing some body work on the right rear quarter panel.

The rest of my time will be used to begin a complete disassembly of the T/L compensator and transverse bar. After spending the last several weeks getting it all together and working I posted the pics for Howard last week and realized that I forgot to install those four mother flipping seals/boots where the ball joints of the compensator and the transverse bar come together.

I was just getting ready to grease those things when I noticed something there was missing in the pictures I took.
At least this time I know how it all goes together.

Howard

I hope something here helps you. If not let me know and I can try something else.

I did not get the chance to add the rubber coating this past weekend so I am shooting to get it done this coming weekend.

I called Max's to ask about that o-ring in the kit. I am to call back tomorrow for an answer while they look into it.

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Henry

I found what you did on page 41 of your blog.
You show a pic of all the parts laid out in order of removal and I do not see an o-ring in there anywhere.

Thanks Howard

For the bendix, everything to the right of the control valve housing looks a lot like a Packard. The left side of the housing shows a lot more parts then the Packard.

I'll see what I can do tomorrow evening about your photo request. I think I know what you are looking for.

I started rebuilding the Bendix control valve this evening. There is a small (dime size) o-ring in the kit but I don't recall taking one out. I don't see one in the parts plates either.

Anyone have any idea where/if it goes into this unit?

I may be the last to know this but I went to the website for Daytona Parts Co and found this on the main page.

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October 23rd 2015

Effective immediately Daytona Parts Co. will no longer provide any rebuilding restoration services for carburetors. We regret this decision, however our line of over 800 high quality alcohol resistant Carburetor repair kits and Carburetor parts will still be available as usual.
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Looks like I am going to have to rebuild it myself or find someone else when the times comes.

Tearing down and removing all the seals and such from the Bendix control valve and cylinder were a lot easier then I expected it to be. I sure hope it goes back together just as easily.

I have already ordered both kits to replace the seals.

Its supposed to be in the 60's this weekend so hopefully I can get all the T/L components removed, rubberized and reinstalled before it gets cold again.

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It works!

Re-mounted the new control box and improved the ground some. It worked as expected.

Now I get to disassemble everything again to use the rubber coating. At least I can move on to the steering now.

I don't have a picture of it but both the nut and the bolt that holds the control unit in place have an "attached" lock washer that are toothed.

I was just thinking about my grounding issue.

The chassis is painted.

I removed some of the paint behind the control unit so it would get a ground. I also removed some to ground the battery.

Should the bracket that holds the compensator also have a good ground? I did not remove any paint when I bolted it in place.