Assuming your engine will start Hook up a vacuum gauge at your intake manifold, start your engine, you should show about 19 in.of mercury on the gauge or something close if not turn your distributor a slight bit clockwise or counter clockwise. If the needle goes down you ar going the wrong way if the needle advances stop turning wait a couple minutes and bump it in the same direction. continue this process until the needle starts to vibrate a bit. STOP. Bump it back to where the needle levels off. your timing is now dead on. tighten it down and celebrate.
Jim Long

I am serching for wide whitewalls for my 1940 110, specifically 6:50 16s not having much luck. I had orderd Auburn Black Diamond but were back orderd for three months because of TARRIFs and finally gave up after 4 months wait. Any suggestions would be appereciated.
Jim Long

Feel free to call me, I am the Pennsy guy. 814 598 4658

Try Olson gaskets. I have delt with them and everything fit and worked. Just google Olson gaskets for their number.
Jim Long

Not that it will help missing pieces, I use Black Magic Tire Wet on my 1940 110. First use Murphy's oil soap and a scrub brush to get them clean. After letting them dry I apply the tire wet with an 1 1/2 inch paint brush working it in all of the ridges and valleys. I would work it in with an old Terry cloth towel on the first treatment. Let it dry a couple of days and hit it with a second coat. Wipe it with a towel again if you want a dull finish or just let it dry for a shiny one. The product is good for the rubber and after several application you can get it looking the way you want it. I buy the Tire Wet at Advance Auto but I'm sure you can get it anywhere.
Jim Long

I got my 1940 110 3 years ago. It had a cosmetic restoration but it had sat covered in cold storage for 17 years. The gas tank was bad. I did a Bill Hersch gas tank resto that worked very well but last summer I developed a pin hole leak and had it redone at a specialty shop in Greensburg PA. The problem with old gas tanks is they rust if they are not kept full and there is no amount of fuel filters that will help to get them clean. My advice is to drop the tank and do the clean and restoration or you will be chasing the problem for as long as you own the car. If the tank is empty you can drop the tank in less than 30 minutes. As far as the gasoline to use, Non Ethanol gas is easy to get in PA but about a dollar a gallon more than regular. That is all I use in my car and have had no trouble with my stock mechanical fuel pump or carburator which both were rebuilt the year I got the car. Private message me if you would like. It doesn't take a lot of rust to screw up you carb. Good advice from the others my suggestion is that your timing could be a bit off.
Jim Long

Last year I had the same problem. I pulled the front clip for several reasons you might consider. My front shocks were leaking badley the engine was over heating, I rebuilt the generator added an oil filter, installed a new water pump, replaced the front motor mounts and installed a new timing chain and gears.i purchased a new water distribution tube from Max. Merritt and had the Rad boiled out ant flow and pressure tested at a local shop.I found that it was just as much work to pull the clip as to work blindly trying to get the grill out without a couple of trips to the emergency room. I wouldn't have attempted pulling the clip until I found a you tube video of a refurb of a 38 Packard coup.The increase in power from the new timing chain was remarkable.
Jim Long

Someone sent me a private message regarding this post. It has disappeared from my Emails. I don't know how to reply as it came through the forum with a do not reply post. I didn't know there was a private message available. If you would like to try again and add your email address or a phone number (prefered) I hope that I can help you. I'm in my 7th decade and not very computer savy and I can talk a hell of a lot eazier than type.
Jim

My car is a 1940 110 I was not looking for a stock tachometer and all I want it for is to see how hard I pushing the engine at road speed. Westtach simply wires across the neg./pos. posts on the spark coil. No need for 6V power to the gauge unless you want a light option. Most engines run off three pulses per revolution Packards and some other makes run on six.this is due the way the distributor is powered. the ones that run on 3 pulses are gear driven to half speed on the distributor. Packards run direct or full speed of the engine.
I don't know how they make it work electronically but it make sense to me after he explained it the car is a 245 cu.in. six. The Tach is mounted under the dash. It works and I'm happy

Jim

I requested info for a tach that would work on a Packard, I contacted Westach and purchased one. I installed it in less than an hour. The reading that I got was about double what I thought it should be. I called the help line and talked to Pete. He told me to send it back and he would recalibrate it. I had learned on this forum that idle rpm was between 450 and 500 rpm which gave him a baseline to start with. I recieved the recalibrated tach in less than a week and it worked as expected.Pete told me that most distributors run at half speed of the engine but packards are direct drive and run at the full speed.I am extremely happy with Westach and thier customer service guy Pete Cornelius and would recommend them. If you purchase anything from them I would recommend that you call them rather than off the web site and make sure you tell them it's for a Packard.
Jim