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Mal, thanks for the answer on the oil filter question. Now, do you or Wade have any information on how the oil filter was plumbed to the engine? Any help here is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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David,

Yes, it is BAD, but the rest of it looks good so I'm hopeful that it's only this one piece.

John,

Because Wade and Old Blue are away until next week I'll report back what I find out after their return.

Whatever those grays are on the 34 sedan, they are certainly very attractive and period colors, I like them! the darkest of the 34 Packard grays was Mr. Vernon Gray, followed closely by Storm Cloud Gray which had a bit more yellow in it; next was Roanoke Gray and the lightest (least black pigment) was Silver Fox Gray.

Friday 10th July 2009

David,

Took the rusty bumper centre piece to the plating shop this morning. Peter there was at a loss to explain why this happened only to that piece while the other parts done at the same time all appear OK. Anyway, he said it'd take about two weeks to re-do it and they'll take it right back and do it completely again. Maybe it did skip the copper coat as you suggested. Whatever the cause, I'll be keeping a close eye on the rest of the re-chromed parts, being all the bumper and over-rider pieces and the tail light bezels.

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The above quote is Post #113 which generated responses in Posts #'s 114 - 118, including in the last one my abject grovelling about how I got it wrong, But so be it, those who live by the sword die by the sword and those who live by the pen do likewise. Anyway Barry has been kind enough to forward two further pic's relating to his 54, '51 and I've included these below as well as an edited version of the email that accompanied them.

.....The picture of the 51 on Packardinfo had the wings on upside down, and no one noticed!!!......Took me a month to wake up......

And to Barry for including the '51 in the Owner Registry. Will be even better once we sort out how to load a pic for him. And of course better still once he gets the '37 120 and '38 V12 entered. I've already had a word about this in his ear and he muttered something about don't stretch the friendship. Whatever could he mean?

EDIT - Pic problem sorted.

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Sunday 12th July 2009

End result - The '38 was sold at auction today for $23K, the reserve, and after commission and charges I'll be left with $20K. Seeing I paid $24K for it 2 years ago and with the current economic climate I'm happy with the result. Besides running, registration and insurance expenses the only real outlays in that time have been a WFI rebuilt water pump, new temperature gauge and a new head gasket.

Monday 13th July 2009

Didn't get to the workshop today because Wade was returning from his second honeymoon trip to Canberra. But the next best thing happened, the horn button for the '39 110 Coupe Harvey's working on arrived this morning from Yesterdays Radio. Together with the knobs I ordered for the '41, so Jerry. So I had the perfect excuse to go over to "Harvey's Workshop" instead, especially since Harvey paid for the horn button yesterday when I saw him at the auction! Arrived to see the '39 110 Business Coupe sitting outside in the sunshine. Harvey had cut her back and polished her up and she was sparkling away, a nice sight to behold. The Coupe had been inspected last week and a "Blue Slip", Road Worthiness Certificate, obtained and is now on Club Registration for Historic Vehicles. The horn button will go into the Coupe which currently has the button out of the Coupe Roadster so it could pass inspection. So the work Harvey's put in over the last month came to fruition, though there are still a few minor matters to attend to including re-mounting the bumper bars once they return from re-chroming. Once these are attended to Harvey's got the task of doing the same for the '39 120 Coupe Roadster. One thing I noticed on the 120 is it has a fan with "fluted" blades. Harvey tells me these came in about that time but they tended to be noisier than the flat type.

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Tuesday 14th July 2009
Bastille Dayhttp://www.marseillaise.org/audio/marseillaise.wav and Harvey's birthday, Harvey.

But enough of the festivities and back to the workshop. Did the right rear axle and brakes today and after last weeks effort on the left side this only took about half the time. Almost everything literally fell into place, save for those parts requiring de-POR-15'ing!

Also cleared a space in the workshop for the 110 engine, for John's '39 TJ Richards bodied sedan, due to arrive today. Just as we'd finished the axle and brake re-assembly John duly arrived followed shortly thereafter by Clynton and his wife Margaret. John had met Clynton at the National Rally and it transpired that Clynton had a reconditioned 110 engine. Well this suited John just fine as he was going to rebuild his engine, or should I say have Wade rebuild it for him! Anyway they struck a deal, and with Cylnton now visiting relatives, threw the rebuilt engine on a trailer and brought it with them to Sydney on their way through to Armidale. As well they brought the four 15" wheels I bought off PackardInfo member JP also through contact at the National Rally. On their way north Clynton and Margaret had stopped over with PackardInfo member Peter Packard and his wife Ann in Canberra. There they picked up more parts, a trans and a sump for PackardInfo member tabletennisport, aka Noel.

Then came the unloading, the box trailer being unhitched from the Nissan Patrol tow car and wheeled into the workshop. The engine, very very securely tied down, was released from the straps, ropes and chains positioning and holding it in place. It being on a wheeled stand in the trailer was then wheeled to the rear of the trailer, after jack stands were placed under the frame of the trailer at the rear so it wouldn't tip up. Then John maneuvered the forklift, picked up the engine still secured to the stand and deposited it on the workshop floor. After wheeling the engine over to it's space, the straps holding it to the stand were released and the engine crane lifted it off the stand. It was then deposited on the floor, supported in an upright position by blocks of timber. After refreshments of tea or coffee, and some Packard talk, the trailer was re-hitched to the Nissan and Clynton and Margaret continued on their journey north.

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Thursday 16th July 2009

Spent less than an hour at the workshop early this afternoon after some R&R with the granddaughters this morning. Wade had been busy over the last couple of days finishing off the front brakes, hooking up all the brake lines, bleeding the brakes, connecting up and adjusting the hand brake. But today after helping Wade, as he readjusted Big Red's steering box and tilt on the steering column, it became obvious there was nothing left for this man of limited mechanical aptitude to do! Wade was going to carry on doing some re-wiring to reposition the blinker switch in Big Red and run some fresh wires for the new blinkers that will be installed at a later date but nothing for little old me. What this means though is that I'll bring the '41 down tomorrow and we'll start on the laundry list of things to do on it. Some can be done immediately, others need parts or info, while some are longer term projects.

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Friday 17th July 2009

Drove the '41 down to the workshop, and on arriving found Wade still engaged in sorting out the various wiring problems under the dash he inherited when he bought Big Red 2 years ago. At some stage, among other things, it's been converted to blinkers. The steering column stalk unit was mounted low under the dash necessitating the driver reaching down to operate it. The blinkers had been wired into the front fender running lights while the rear ones activated the rear stop/tail lights. But Wade's going to install separate blinkers, fore and aft, courtesy of Harley Davidson Motorcycles. Because here in Oz, to be street legal, our laws require the blinkers to be separate lights from the stop/tail lights. He's putting the wiring in place now but the actual blinker installation will be done later. While Wade continued with that I did a "foreign order" of my own. Using the wire-wheel and bead blasting cabinet to remove the rust and crust from a cobbler's last I'll POR-15 for use as a household ornament for the lovely Kath. That done I did help Wade to remount the left side rear hood catch, me on the engine side and Wade on the passenger compartment side of the firewall. He positioned and held the nuts while I tightened the bolts, worked out well.

Next was getting the '41 into the workshop into the space between Big Red and the '34 chassis. But before doing that re-positioned the engine block/crankcase assembly from Big Red on the table it had occupied a month or so back and moved the table, it's on wheels, into a position behind where the '41 will sit. The actual positioning of the '41 necessitated the movement of 5 other cars so a path could be cleared to permit the '41 to be backed in. Then 4 of the moved cars were returned to positions similar to that occupied before the shuffle. Once in jacked up the '41's front end because the brakes are still squealing but not as loudly as I've seen referenced in another thread on that subject. Took off both front wheels and brake drums and will again clean up and then remount next week. While I was doing that Wade continued with his wiring saga and also ordered more wire and connectors from Paul at Vintage Wiring Harness in Victoria which should arrive Monday.

Also took some pic's of the various stickers and badges on Big Red when Wade bought it in 2007, and which remain to this day.

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