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Thanks Jim, and thanks Mal for the kind offer of assistance. I reckon an extra person would have been very helpful, but we managed. The move was more difficult that I thought it would be, as you just cannot wheel that crane by pushing, with those small steel wheels on it.
'Late Final Extra' is that I've just fitted the engine and Ultramatic into the car!!! Hallelujah. It's late so will post the account tomorrow. It was a great Fathers Day present I must say.
Posted on: 2013/9/2 9:43
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Lee, great to hear that the engine is in the car, another significant step!
Posted on: 2013/9/2 15:57
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/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: 2013/9/2 17:53
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A great occasion (for me and the '51) when the engine and gearbox got installed!
Just before that happened I felt like having one last ride on the 288 while it was still out of the car . . . . . Enough of being silly! It does make me wonder if anyone has ever built a motorcycle powered by an inline eight -?? (Where's Guscha - he'd know). I used to follow the drag-bike scene years ago when the likes of E.J. Potter aka 'The Michigan Madman' rode V8-powered bikes in demonstration quarter-mile drags. The Widowmaker I can imagine what a crowd-pleaser it would be to build a Packard-powered bike. Anyway - back to reality. It's just the best feeling to have that 1000-pound plus engine and Ultramatic in the car, where it should be! For me it ranks about the same buzz as getting the body finally painted. Here are a few pics of engine and Ultramatic being inslalled. Ben, Goodneighbour Geoff and me, still smiling, because this was going to be easy, wasn't it!!!! Once again the sloping driveway made it more difficult because we had to crow-bar the rig all the while. It was a four-person job, with the wife 'driving', and three of us maneuvering the rig into place. Even though I did a dry run the day before, by pushing the crane only into position to check reach / obstructions / any other problems, yours truly did manage to mis-judge the reach aspect. It took a lot of shoving and still the mounts didn't line up With the crane hard up against the frame cross-piece the engine mounts were about 3" short of the pilot stud, so an awful lot of grunting and some special incantations were offered up, and eventually us and the crow-bar pushed the engine back far enough to line up OK. Something unforeseen was the oil pump is in the way so engine has to be lifted a bit higher than expected and that in turn leads to other minor problems if you still have the bonnet on the car (- and you can't raise the bonnet any higher because the garage door is in the way . . . . etc etc). Eventually by getting the height exactly right the engine could be pushed far enough back We used an arrangement of slings and ropes to take some strain off the head studs. You have to wonder how much weight the two studs can hold. Maybe they could take much more than 1000+ lbs but I wasn't taking any chances, especially with son Ben under the car sliding the trans output housing into place. - oooOooo - We all celebrated very considerably afterwards (- it was Fathers Day here in Oz so a double reason to do so. Hence the very considerable hangover the next day). 'Happy Club' meeting went on and on . . . .
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Lee,
Speaking of EJ Potter, back in the 60's when he was touring Oz, EJ and The Widowmaker were at Warwick Farm circuit for promotional purposes and had difficulty getting started. So were towed by my brother in his XR V8 Falcon to get The Widowmaker started!
Posted on: 2013/9/3 2:36
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/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, it's a small world alright! He's fortunate to have avoided some huge crashes . . . I remember seeing the rear tyre marks left after one of his runs. They deviated from 'straight ahead' by perhaps 10feet to either side. Crazy stuff back then, but of course quite a few have done it since he started over 30 years ago.
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Quote:
...It does make me wonder if anyone has ever built a motorcycle powered by an inline eight -?? (Where's Guscha - he'd know)... Hi Larry, 8? How about 48? I am in Johannesburg(South Africa) for business. A crazy country full of contrasts.
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It seems to me that I've seen a picture of an inline 8 motorcycle - maybe posted here? It was a couple of years ago.
Posted on: 2013/9/4 17:57
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This way please to a homemade straight eight bike.
Posted on: 2013/9/5 3:13
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