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Re: Wade's Workshop
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traumjaegercat wrote: Hi Mal,.......You two are certainly doing some good things resurecting old Packards. Any chance of a Pic or two of the heat riser valve either side of the exhaust manifold under the carb? Speak to you again soon in regard to the rear lower shock mount details......Terry

Terry,

Don't confuse me with what I'm posting here. All the credit should go to Wade, I follow along and pass spanners, scrape dirt and grease, paint parts and take pic's.

Will be at the workshop this morning, Saturday, so will get the pic's you want. And JW I'll get yours too!

And I haven't forgotten the rear lower shock mounts. I'll get under the '34 chassis soon and measure it up for you.

And Steve(Hardtop),

You're amazed?

I'm the one who's constantly amazed!

Posted on: 2009/8/28 15:05
Mal
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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

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Re: Wade's Workshop
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Hey Mal,

Got a quick question about the 34. Were the doors removed for painting, or left in place?

Posted on: 2009/8/28 20:11
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Re: Wade's Workshop
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Saturday 29th August 2009

Arrived at the workshop to find I'd beaten Wade in, a rare event! Turns out Wade was doing some "errands" for Gina who left earlier in the week for 6 weeks overseas including 2 weeks in Syria, a very adventurous lady! Anyway without Wade I turned to satisfying Terry and John's picture requests which can be seen below. Then cleaning the '41's running board trim pieces. There are 22 pieces with 7 pieces at the front and 4 at the rear of each board each held by 3 clips to the board. During the course of removing the trim pieces last month and cleaning them today on the wire wheel a number of clips broke. So if anyone has any spares I'm in the market for at least 12. While I went to the workshop today with the intention of helping Wade put the front clip and radiator back on Old Blue, they'd already been put in place yesterday and this left Wade the task of bolting it back in today. Because my services weren't required, I continued cleaning all the running board hardware and trim. Except that is for the S/S spear at the side of each board. The spear consists of a long steel "core" with a formed S/S covering. The left side S/S is very beat up while the right side is missing the S/S cover and was painted black when I got the car. Initially I won't be putting the spears back on the boards while I consider a couple of solutions to the problems I face with them.

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Hobbs wrote: Hey Mal, Got a quick question about the 34. Were the doors removed for painting, or left in place?

Hobbs,

When I see Wade next, I'll ask him.

And for those interested in colours/codes/etc that info is coming at a future date

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Posted on: 2009/8/29 1:10
Mal
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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?
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Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com
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Re: Wade's Workshop
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Well,Mal I think that there aren't that many places in the world where people have fun with old Packards.
And the main question, did the 1930s Packards hade any anticorrosion works done before they came out of the factory?
I think they must have used lead but maybe there was something els to?

Posted on: 2009/8/29 6:18
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Re: Wade's Workshop
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hardtop wrote: Well,Mal I think that there aren't that many places in the world where people have fun with old Packards. And the main question, did the 1930s Packards have any anti-corrosion works done before they came out of the factory? I think they must have used lead but maybe there was something else too?

Steve,

I'm sure there are plenty of people having fun with Packards. And my situation certainly is terrific "fun", it's also dirty, rewarding, frustrating, entertaining, exciting, expensive but I wouldn't change it for anything because it's also magic. At least it is to this 62 year old who thinks he's 18 again!

But, I'll leave answering your question to the experts. Over to you guys!

Posted on: 2009/8/29 7:29
Mal
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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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Re: Wade's Workshop
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Mal,I find my self a lot under the hood of a car, but non of them is a Packard. But I have to agree with you on what you said.

Posted on: 2009/8/29 10:32
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Re: Wade's Workshop
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Mal, thanks a bunch for the photos. John

Posted on: 2009/8/29 12:48
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And make happen
What occupies our mind... (W. Scherer)
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Re: Wade's Workshop
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Monday 31st August 2009

Found Wade under Old Blue when I arrived at the workshop and he wasn't happy! Seems he worked on her all weekend without success. Why? Because in marrying together disparate 120 intake and exhaust manifolds there was a difference in the mating surface distances to the block! Saturday afternoon Old Blue was fired up, or tried to be fired up, but the leaks were so bad it was a failure. So off came the manifolds and with some tweaking another attempt was made on Sunday, a little better that time, but still nowhere near successful. That's where I came in, with the manifolds about to be separated from the block for the third time. Once off it was apparent there was a difference in height of about 1/16" between the intake and exhaust mounting surfaces. Around to Brookers, the brake guys, who also do cylinder heads but their equipment probably couldn't accept the length of the Packard manifolds. They referred Wade to Aldus Engineering,aldus.com.au/welcome.htm who Wade had used previously for some waterpump machining when Ivan was sick. They could do it and it'd be ready in the afternoon. Not that helped much as Wade has run out of 120 manifold gaskets and is now waiting for some by mail from Barry Smith. So turned to doing other things on Old Blue, such as cleaning the engine block intake/exhaust manifold surface(again), re-mounting the front bumper, re-mounting the running board side spears, fixing some wiring connectors, re-connecting the left side wiring and re-mounting the left side side-mount and front wheels. At the end of all this Wade received a call from Aldus to say the manifold wouldn't be done until tomorrow. Will suit us as we're going on the Morris Minor Picnic Club runted.morrisminorpicnicclub.com.au/index.p ... _content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=5 described as "September 1st Mooney Mooney Workers Club. Nestled in the beautiful Hawkesbury Valley, the Mooney Mooney Workers Club will be our luncheon destination. Meet at McDonald's Thornleigh at 10.00am for a 10.30am departure." And this also gives Barry's manifold gaskets time to reach Sydney. Looking forward to being on the road in the '41 and a pleasant lunch in good "car-guy" company.

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Posted on: 2009/8/31 2:11
Mal
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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?
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Here's how!
Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com
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Re: Wade's Workshop
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Mal, tell me more about the Radiator hose filter,I don't know what kind of cooling fluid to you use on the engines there,so I wonder, what good dose this thing to?!

Posted on: 2009/8/31 7:41
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hardtop wrote: Mal, tell me more about the Radiator hose filter,I don't know what kind of cooling fluid to you use on the engines there,so I wonder, what good dose this thing to?!

Steve,

With older engines, as the interior of the water jackets in the block and head corrode, flakes and particles of rust can dislodge and travel through the coolant fluid and lodge in the radiator. Over the course of time these particles build up in the radiator blocking it and lowering the efficiency of the cooling system. This in-line radiator hose filter is designed to trap and retain loose particles in the cooling fluid. Because Wade had the radiator cleaned and tested last week and it was discovered to be about 20% blocked he's trying to avoid the same thing happening again.

See this link -neptune.spacebears.com/cars/stories/sctefba.html

Posted on: 2009/8/31 17:29
Mal
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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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