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G'day Muir,
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Posted on: 2012/8/8 2:39
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Hiya, thanks for the welcome
![]() Yep, had a meander around the owners registry and added my car - good plan. Thanks for the long white cloud reminder - economy hasn't been too crash hot over here lately (1/9th of New Zealanders now live in Australia) so good to get reminders about living in a great country! My question sounds a bit vague but I'm aware that the A/C cars appear to have changed the firewall location of lots of things, and if it starts looking too different for the controls I'll just keep the current A/C dash... A rust hole you know its there: see it: cut it out: weld a plate in. The "where and why is this different" and "this just isn't going to fit" scenarios are the time consumers... Cheers
Posted on: 2012/8/8 3:22
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Posted on: 2012/8/8 3:26
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Mal
/o[]o\ ==== ![]() 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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Welcome to a pleasant little website.
The dashes are the same between air and non air cars with some exceptions which would be easy to take care of while you had them out on the bench. These would center around the lengths of some of the control cables, and the little plastic labels for the ventilation controls which are not too hard to move from one to another. I believe all of the AC wiring is in its own harness that you may deal with as you will.
Posted on: 2012/8/8 5:38
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Just for reference, here is the manual telling dealers how to field install the AC unit. You can reverse engineer so to speak to see what all is involved or different.https://www.packardinfo.com/xoops/html/downloads/55-56ACInstall.pdf
While there were some changes in the defroster air flow setup vs non AC cars that you are stuck with, if you do remove the AC & wanted you could fabricate a smaller enclosure out of sheetmetal or perhaps modify an original plenum setup if you have one to accommodate what is now there. With dash out it would be easy to get rid of the huge evaporator box & would make future under dash servicing easier. AC was such a rare option and if you have the top vents, more the better. How much of the unit is present or would it take to make operational?
Posted on: 2012/8/8 8:42
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Stretching my memory here, but didn't the A/C cars also have a different (shallower) glove box than the non-A/C cars?
Posted on: 2012/8/8 8:50
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They did. AC box is shallower by slightly over an inch.
Posted on: 2012/8/8 8:59
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Posted on: 2012/8/8 15:43
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As HH56 asked the ac is all there, all complete, so maybe it would be the better idea to leave it all in there, just not have it operative, and just have a look at what to do about the dash pads.
Operationally I think it'd be not worth time/effort/money, not at the moment anyway Had a squizz at some ebay past sales on packard aircon bits - crikey the vents aren't exactly bargains... how does one find out about these build sheets? all good my end ![]() PS This site is phenomenal! It's like the complete cornucopia of everything Packard, awesome effort!
Posted on: 2012/8/9 1:09
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