Re: Carter "Carstarter"
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Not offhand but except for a couple of 54 carbs without the accelerator start, the same 393937 ball is used across the range of those models listed in parts manual. Should be the same diameter on all Packards. If someone has an old carb apart that they could throw a micrometer on the ball, it might be something nice to know.
One thing I would wonder is why the vacuum is dropping so low and is there a possibility the air filter or screen at the bottom of the ball passage is blocked enough that there is not enough air flow for the vacuum to work with.
Posted on: 2014/3/31 11:52
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Update.
I took the starter switch on the carburator apart looking at it with the ball size in mind. The parts the ball works with are similar sized. I believe the ball is of correct size. The screen below is clean. I will continue to think this one over.
Posted on: 2014/3/31 20:49
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I have a carburetor on the bench. I'll measure the ball tomorrow.
Posted on: 2014/3/31 21:28
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The ball is 3/8". The key factor in the complaint you mention is that the notch on the plunger must face UP. The switch will start the car with the notch down, but won't let the ball go up to its home. Thus the switch will activate when the engine is running, and there will also be a vacuum leak, sometimes audible.
Posted on: 2014/4/1 5:29
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That's one invention that didn't need to be invented. Glad it went away. Mine was bypassed and I like it that way.
Posted on: 2014/4/1 22:03
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Probably no worse than Nash in the gearshift handle or Chevy under the clutch. Buick had a love affair with them as well. If nothing else they were very reliable and if they did fail on the road, you could at least jump them easily by just removing one wire and touching it to the other.
Posted on: 2014/4/1 22:42
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Fish'n Jim, how was it bypassed on your car? I have no key so I was thinking of just getting a normal ignition switch, wondering if there are other ways to do it other than mounting a seperate starter button?
Posted on: 2014/4/1 23:29
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Ever wonder how many of these Packards and Buicks were sent to an early demise by these devices? In our family, as observed and remembered, an older driver would turn the ignition key, press the accelerator pedal and hold it as the engine started and revved. Could not be a nice thing to do to a cold and un-lubed engine. A starter button or ignition switch starter seems so much more humane.
Posted on: 2014/4/2 10:06
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Cheez folks, I use these things all the time. Like what is the problem? The car starts and you take your foot off the gas and it falls to the idle set by the automatic choke. They are great if you stall at a light or backing into a space, they insure the choke sets on a cold start and that the throttle is open enough for a hot start.
Plus you can say abracadabra as you push the gas and explain to the uninitiated that the car starts by voice recognition.
Posted on: 2014/4/2 15:53
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