Re: Vacation Car - 56 Patrician
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On the driveshaft and smoothness you might also see if anything in bulletin 56T-10 and the corrected version -10C applies to your Patrician.
Posted on: 7/17 16:48
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Re: Vacation Car - 56 Patrician
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Per the manual, ideally the temperature at the outlets should be high 30's steady state after a bit of driving. The service manual gives instructions for adjusting this on page 5.
Or do you have aftermarket A/C? I forget.
Posted on: 7/17 18:01
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Does it by chance have R-134a refrigerant? If so, it's known to be much warmer when used in an old system not designed for it. That said, Classic Auto Air can apparently rebuild the components with R-134a in mind.
Posted on: 7/17 21:33
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Re: Vacation Car - 56 Patrician
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The system is a modified version of the Packard system. I am running newer valves, parallel flow condenser, and a Sanden compressor. Running the original Evaporator and box. I am running R134a
and howard, Ill give that bulletin a look see
Posted on: 7/18 8:57
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In that case, I would say that your expansion valve and other components need to be modified for it too but warmer (or rather, not so cold) air is to be expected with that setup. Also, with an unmodified system, you shouldn’t fill it with the refrigerant. I don’t recall the details but I understand that you need to use a little less.
Posted on: 7/18 11:42
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Re: Vacation Car - 56 Patrician
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I removed the horn ring from my parts car to swap for my cracked one and would you look at that. Someone added lock washers to the posts to give the horn ring a bit more travel. Using comparative methods, the spacers in that STB are 0.075 thick (the contact ring is 3.45 dia.). The lock washers used are 0.045 thick. I must say that the additional travel has a good feel to it. P.S. The contact ring is 4.1029 in the book. Edit: well maybe I am imagining things since this same modification was done on my project car too, turns out. 🤔
Posted on: 10/19 12:31
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Re: Vacation Car - 56 Patrician
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Wonder if that was a 55 wheel or if the 55 fix wasn't quite enough or if the washers were added for another reason. Spacers in Packard's language might have been washers
Posted on: 10/19 12:45
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Re: Vacation Car - 56 Patrician
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Mine are 55 cars and the ring was the same for both years.
The washers are thinner than the spacers they wanted. The spacers aren't in the parts book index, so were not a standard hardware item. Surely there are some cars floating around with the spacers.
Posted on: 10/19 17:03
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