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As I understand it the original heat shield mounting bracket is held on by the rear fuel pump mounitng bolt. That may require slightly different washers.

I have a new replica heat shield and mounting bracket and I intend to install it together with new insulator tubes and washers.

It all looks very complex and hard to install. That is probably why the heat shield and other parts were missing when I got my car. Installing the lock wire into the two bolts looks nearly impossible with the engine inside the car.

Fred - you probably already know this but fuel pump, shield, and security-wired bolt installation is quite easily done by access thru the inner fender with the front wheel removed. A "piece of cake" as they say.

In twenty plus years of working on Packards, only one car has come in here with the fuel pump safety wired and certainly none have left with that feature--and never a problem with bolts coming loose. It is unimportant beyond your wildest dreams.
To install the shield: install the rear support arm horizontal in place of the steel washer that might be there on the rear fuel pump bolt. Slip the slot over the screw and mount the top bracket to the front manifold stud. Tighten the screw. Done.

Ross, I agree - completely non-essential. Yet if I were installing such a pump today thru the inner fender, I'd be tempted to rewire it, just because it's an interesting little original factory assembly detail that to some is worth the few minutes extra work just to preserve that detail.

Can anyone hear them arguing 40 years from now if the pump bolts were safety-wired?

The pump on my car was safety wired when I got it.

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I dunno OD, I'm only 61 so I plan on being here in 40 years to join that argument when they're debating about why the bolt heads have holes in them...