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The oil temperature should not be forgotten to mention which may causes a discontinuity or even break down of the film of oil on the inner surface of the shells. To open the attached list of mugshots takes some few seconds.

Wade & Mal, chin up, chest out.

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Gerd,

Thanks for your thoughts and the reference material supplied. I'm sure Wade will find them useful in his search for the cause of the bearing failure.

Mal,
Not sure of the exact url addy but Clevite bearing has a number of pics of failed bearings with explanations. Search for Clevite bearing failure and you will find it. Pass the info on to Wade and make a conclusion. Such a shame labor wise...
Jim

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Mal, --> this way please.
Thanks Jim!

Thank you both Jim and Gerd, I'll make sure Wade is aware of this resource.

Jim, to literally "read" bearing shells seems to be a great work method. I hope that BigKev will agree to include this article in the How-To's & Tech Tips. Future generations will call us the bearing shell whisperers.

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Posted in the How To section.

Should I say Gerd?

While I am constantly amazed at your juxtaposition of concepts, making connections unseen by others, I never thought of Wade as a serial killer with me as his accomplice.
Although......we all have our secrets, some darker than others!

Monday 23rd April 2012

No action at the workshop at the end of last week although I did meet Wade there late Friday morning. We were off to the funeral of, Ted, the guy who organised the Morris Minor Picnic Club OASIS runs on the first Tuesday of each month. Oasis stands for Old And Seriously Into Speed! Only 71yo, a great guy and there was a row of Morris Minors outside the chapel as a tribute from his mates.

This morning though Dr Wade, and his assistant Boris Mal, were off to make a house call on Emily who was feeling poorly. Would run but coughed, sputtered and stumbled. Besides basic tools, a meter and a booster pack, Wade also took transportation in the form of a car trailer behind the Ute "just in case". Richard and Wendy ushered us into the patient who took a little while to get started but she eventually did. Fuel and carburetion seemed OK so Wade turned to the ignition side. First getting the distributor cap off proved a challenge in itself. Then taking the rotor button out revealed two things, the top contact of the button was very worn and examining inside the cap found virtually no carbon contact. A tweak of the rotor button and a clean of the points now resulted in a non running condition. Must have disturbed that fine balance between just and not running. Another check then revealed no spark at the plugs so Wade removed the distributor and we returned with it to the workshop for further diagnostics and work.

Back at the workshop though, there wasn't another cap or rotor to fit. Although there were plenty for 120's, Wade's previous stock in trade. Casting around for 110/Six owners I rang JohnM but he didn't have any spares. Wade then rang John, Juniors Dad, who has two distributors both Auto-Lite although Emily's is a Delco-Remy. So it was determined that, while parts were being procured for the Delco-Remy, Emily would have to get by with an Auto-Lite until such time as the Delco-Remy was fixed. But how to go about this? Emily had been about 15 miles north of the workshop while Junior is at the opposite end of the spectrum, about 40+ miles south. Fortunately for Wade Boris Mal volunteered to be the courier and went for a Monday afternoon drive south. Wish I'd known a week ago, could have picked it up on the way to/from looking at the rusty '37 for sale at Mittagong which is even further south still. Oh well, not to worry, I was rewarded by John giving me the left hand threaded part of the snubber off Junior. Why? Because he'd found, of all things, a NOS snubber! B@$7@&d! Also saw Junior in dishevel with radiator out being repaired, see this thread. Radiator is due back tomorrow after repairs.

I'll drop the distributors, cap and rotor into the workshop early tomorrow morning so Wade can get onto it without delay. I won't be there for that because, on arriving home, I was informed we were booked for a grand-daughter visit tomorrow morning. Not complaining, Packards do have to run second to some things in life. Should be able to drop in later though so I'll be able to see how things progressed.

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Tuesday 24th April 2012

After spending the morning with our daughter and one granddaughter, the other started school this year, it was down to the workshop in the afternoon.

During the course of the morning Wade had picked up the 426 water pump from Anglade Engineering and had cleaned up and painted the Delco-Remy mounting plate. But the mounting plate isn't going to work with an Auto-Lite distributor! Instead Wade had dug out an Auto-Lite mounting plate, complete with pointer, probably off a 120. That was my little task, cleaning the Auto-Lite plate. But a trial fit of the plate, on the old 110 engine out of John's '39 TJR Bodied Six, showed it too wouldn't work! However a little surgery by Dr Wade is now in it's future and then it will fit! Wade is going to use the Auto-Lite distributor that was in Junior prior to it's troubles a few weeks ago. It has a new condensor, Wade's filed and set the points, the cap including carbon is good as well as the rotor button. Thursday, all going well, Emily should be infused with the Auto-Lite while the Delco-Remy awaits parts.

Concerning the Delco-Remy, Wade sent away the vacuum advance to be rebuilt. Now that's something that slipped my mind, Big Red's vacuum advance was rebuild just prior to it's troubles. There's a guy in Queensland who provides this service and no sooner had Wade sent off Big Reds vacuum advance then it came back rebuilt. Turn around time was impressive. So Emily's will receive the same treatment. Wade is also ordering a distributor tune-up kit for Emily.

What also happened today was that Wade had Steve, a friend of John from the workshop, working on the bonnet(hood) for The Fossil. The Fossil! Bet you thought is was dead? Although it hasn't been mentioned for a while, other matters having priority, it's still there waiting patiently. The work Steve was doing today relates back some time to when the central hinge was riveted onto the left side top bonnet(hood) panel. Lets just say that this probably should have been left to the pros because it didn't turn out well. Anyway Steve is now sorting it out and has warned Wade off. Steve, after he has effected the necessary repairs to the panel, is adamant that he alone will rivet the new hinge to the bonnet(hood) panel!

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