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Mal's Garage
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Friday 3rd July 2015
Temporary title change from Wade's Workshop to Mal's Garage, in honour of my Coupe finally having a home of it's own! In my last post, over a month ago said "...my garage and carport is getting close to completion....In a couple of weeks time I hope to have the Coupe "in residence"...", but it obviously took longer than that. Even now painting is still going on but that should be finished on Monday. With the local council approving the structure about a week and a half ago my youngest son, Greg, helped me move the bulk of my "stuff" from my daughters garage to mine. Prior to that I'd put up a high line of 600mm(2') wide shelving down one side, across the back and halfway along the other side of the garage. Also bought 5 DIY assembly shelving units and erected those during the week. Other furniture items in the garage are a desk, workbench, two cabinets and a bookcase. All the ground mounted shelving units are temporarily filled with the "stuff" brought from my daughters. Next stage is to really organise the contents of the mainly boxed "stuff". Then will come some work on the Coupe as mentioned previously. To help in that regard Noel dropped in on Thursday with a 282 timing case courtesy of Peter Packard. Next week I'll collect another harmonic balancer Wade picked up from pepepackard and my original water pump which Wade has rebuilt. Wade dropped them off at the "old" workshop today. And speaking of Wade, he's still working on Packards with the one occupying his attention at the moment being GeoffC's '39 TJ Richards bodied 110 Touring Sedan. Gina was kind enough to send me a photo of Wade working Finally, to all in the US, Happy Independence Day
Posted on: 2015/7/3 4:28
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Mal
/o[]o\ ==== ![]() Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia "Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche. 1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD 1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD 1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD 1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD What's this? ![]() Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry! Here's how! Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com |
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Posted on: 2015/7/3 5:25
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Mal, it is so satisfying to have all your car(s) and stuff at home in the garage (shed). To me it felt so good to be out of the storage unit renting, but I miss the '47 and '55. It's quality not quantity. Now, we expect great things to be happening in your new 'cave'. Looking forward to Mal's Garage.
(o{}o)
Posted on: 2015/7/3 11:49
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Sunday 5th July 2015
Not quite "oh woe is me" but a little despondent ![]() ![]() ![]()
Posted on: 2015/7/4 19:15
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Mal
/o[]o\ ==== ![]() Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia "Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche. 1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD 1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD 1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD 1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD What's this? ![]() Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry! Here's how! Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com |
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Hi Mal, I believe that the whirring noise could be your circuit breaker on your light switch complaining about a short circuit. Your ammeter ( sorry....CH - DIS meter is on full DISCHARGE in the instrument panel shot). Good luck with the fault finding. PT
Posted on: 2015/7/4 23:52
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I like people, Packards and old motorbikes
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While repairing the gauge you could unobtrusively add a new front cover, normally used for Sputnik's. Neither your ammeter nor your CH - DIS meter would be on full discharge anymore (but your амперме́тр).
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Posted on: 2015/7/5 2:18
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The story of ZIS-110, ZIS-115, ZIL-111 & Chaika GAZ-13 on www.guscha.de
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![]() And Gerd, ![]() EDIT - Peter, you said it could be the circuit breaker on the light switch because it's showing full discharge. At the time the photo was taken, the car was just idling and the lights weren't turned on. So how does the light switch, and it's circuit breaker, come into play? Remember, I'm the dunce of the class here when it comes to electricity.
Posted on: 2015/7/5 4:58
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Mal
/o[]o\ ==== ![]() Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia "Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche. 1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD 1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD 1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD 1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD What's this? ![]() Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry! Here's how! Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com |
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Mal, Not sure if your car uses the same type gauges but when you investigate the whirring noise and jerky fuel gauge check the wiring between gauge and tank as well as the sender.
I tested the new loom and under dash wiring in the 47 today and had a similar noise and symptom when it got power for the first time.. My tank is out so wiring to sender was disconnected making the gauge sender lead open. When the gauge first got power and nothing was connected to the other side I immediately heard the noise and the needle was swinging side to side. Put my resistance wheel in the circuit to simulate a sender and as soon as that open wire was connected to ground thru a resistor the swinging needle and noise stopped. Not sure why this happened but maybe your problem is wiring somewhere else than under the dash. I don't hink it would explain the ammeter reading high discharge (mine was barely off center) but still it might be worth a look.
Posted on: 2015/7/6 12:55
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Howard
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Wednesday 8th July 2015
Visited Sydney today and called into the workshop where Wade had left 1) the Harmonic Balancer from pepepackard, 2) the Coupes original water pump, which Wade rebuilt, 3) a set of timing case gaskets, 4) a pair of timing case oil seals(..3 & 4 being "off the shelf" items!) and 5) a nice and tasty surprise courtesy of Gina, see photo below. Howard, ![]() Speaking of which, haven't done anything with the Coupe yet. Besides, while still sorting my "stuff" into some sort of permanency in the garage, it's also school holiday time here and two of our granddaughters and one grandson have been occupying our time. In addition I need to put up the missing link in the shelving which I'm aiming to do tomorrow. So all going well, with kids back at school next week, the Coupe will finally be attended to!
Posted on: 2015/7/8 2:30
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Mal
/o[]o\ ==== ![]() Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia "Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche. 1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD 1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD 1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD 1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD What's this? ![]() Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry! Here's how! Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com |
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