Here’s a photo of the petcock on my car…

The rubber on my inner fenders is gone. I did come across where BigKev replaced the rubber on his ‘37. You might check out his blog here….

BigKev’s inner fenders

I can say that when I first took possession of my dad’s car, the first place I went was the PAC site and the forums there. That was VERY helpful for me just learning about Packards and my car. It was, actually in the PAC forums where I first found a reference to Packardinfo.

I completely understand the need to keep scammers etc…out, but there is a price for that. People new to Packard can’t see valuable information and may not be ready to pay for a membership yet.

All in, I’m a bit torn as I really don’t know what all is involved with keeping scammers at bay. I would guess that Kevin puts a bit a time into that for this site.

I have a disconnect at the battery. It’s just a pain to get to…lift the seat etc… Eventually, I’ll install a different switch that can be easily accessed.

Just posting this in case it may help anyone else. Prior to removing the front clip and really cleaning out the cooling system everything electrical was working great. Right after I got everything back together, I started experiencing cases of my brake lights mysteriously coming on….after the car was parked and off for a while. I could tap the brake pedal and they would turn off. Then, it would happen again. I know…battery disconnect…but, that is currently (pun) a pain with my disconnect switch at the battery, under the seat. And, it only happened once in a while and the lights were only on very faintly (LED bulbs). Over the next couple of weeks, it started happening more often and tapping the brake pedal didn’t always help. So, disconnect switch opened!

Four days ago now, I had a thought and decided to try it. I sprayed the brake switch contacts with contact cleaner. It seems to have fixed the problem. My conclusion is that with all the flushing of the coolant etc…I must have splashed some water/coolant/who knows what else on to the contacts and when it dried, it left a very slightly conductive film.

Anyway, If anyone else experiences this, something simple to try before tearing into things is just spraying the contacts with cleaner.

I took the car for my first ever local Cruise Night and got Mom and Dad to go as well. I think Dad really enjoyed talking to people about the car. We had a lot of people interested and they loved Mom and Dad’s history with the car.

Thanks, Ken

The bearing and pin appear to be sold separately, not as a kit. I can get the pin. I was just hoping to not spend $55 for the bearing. I’m guessing they are marking that up a bit.

The next “project” for my car is new front coil springs. I’m just waiting for them to arrive. While I’m at it, I will also replace the lower support arm bushings and I want to replace the center steering crank bearing. It makes sense to do that at the same time as the springs.

Can someone tell me a modern part number for the center steering crank bearing? I’d like to have it on hand before we get started.

Thanks everyone. Based on the responses, my car is shifting just as it should. It does in fact go into 1st just as it should if I leave it in gear when I come to a complete stop. Shifting down though 2nd and then to 1st also works quite well.

In this case, the car was good. I just needed to learn to drive it correctly!