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I just checked, the ball is there and it functions perfectly. Thanks again, Ross!

Well, shoot. I just remembered that shop that’s going to ceramic coat my manifolds is closed on Fridays. They work 6 am to 4:30pm Monday through Thursday. Looks like I’ll get the manifolds to them on Tuesday since Monday is a holiday.

DOH!

I forgot to post this picture and question before, regarding repainting my air cleaner. When I stripped it down, I found some hand engraving in the top of the lid. It doesn’t matter for anything, but I’m curious if the engraving means anything. Thoughts?

mileage/oil change dates? 4-6-40. 9-2-1942?

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Maybe. It would seem odd to engrave that in the air cleaner to me, but could be. And, it was not visible at all until I stripped the paint. Who knows how many times the air cleaner has been painted, though.

Also, the second row of numbers looks like 6-4-60.

I dropped off my manifolds to be ceramic coated this morning. I contemplated having the porcelain redone on the intake manifold, but decided to just ceramic coat both manifolds. The cost difference between ceramic vs porcelain for the intake was $200 vs $1000. In the end, I went the decision of the next generation owner (my son). His thoughts were that the ceramic will last longer and be less for him to deal with later and he felt like it would look better having both matching.

I’m sure I can come up with another place to spend that $800.

After that, I stopped by the shop. They have thing masked off to paint the dash.




They are also working on the rust repair on my running boards. This picture shows something I hadn’t thought of before. You can clearly see where Packard started with a 120 board and extended it for the 138. I knew about that part. I just hadn’t ever paid attention to the stiffener that is welded to the bottom since the last bracket also had to get moved as compared to the 120.