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Hallo Gerd,
Regarding the missing parts in the gearbox... Maybe I shouldn't have described this clown... who forgot to install these really relevant transmission parts... as a layman but rather as an "unqualified person". But in the end that doesn't really change anything about the result. And as for the “repair”…. or was it the “extension” of a brakeline that was purchased too short…. or reworking an old existing one ..??? The reasons for this are really insignificant. I don't think there was a time after 1945 in the US where there was a shortage of ready-to-install brake lines. If it was an urgently needed pickup or something similar, I could have imagined a short-term “emergency repair”, but on a 1955 CAD Eldorado Conv.??? … …. on a chicken farm in Alaska...???
At least “he” had to have the ability to work with silver solder. Anyway, ... As you probably know, this car would never could drive from the yard of a DOT motor vehicle testing center (TÜV) on its own wheels here in Germany. Never with this kind of "repair" of a brake line. The vehicle would have been shut down immediately. And for a good reason. The slightest fault in a brake system can have dire consequences. Especially with a “single-circuit brake system”…. a car that weighs more than 2 tons... and on motorways where it is still possible to drive without a speed limit.
Thank you for your compliment on my work, I hope you will also like the rest of my work until it is completed.

Karl

Dear Packard friends,
The painting job is done and completed. Except the rims. I took the rims today to the Tire Shop for stripping so that the rims could then be processed and made them ready for painting. The surface looks lousy and it will take some work to get it to the condition that the other parts are now. The tire shop that is familiar with truck tires with snap rings first took into account the thin and delicate rings and whether they could be brittle due to age and the chrome layer. It is also important to consider whether the rings can be put back on without damaging the paint layer on the rim flanges.
Unfortunately, I have never looked into these questions in detail myself. The finished painted rims were picked up in the USA and delivered back fully assembled.
My request now to the community... who can give me information about what to pay attention to and how, for example, to get the rings back on the rims without damaging the paint.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any meaningful information on YouTube regarding the disassembly and assembly of these pre-war wheels with the smalThin snap rings.
What tools I/theShop need absulutly to do this work right on this smal rings.

I am grateful for any helpful informations.

Karl

I would love to know how to fit those lock rings without any paint damage, I guess it can be done but whenever I had to do it I had to do some paint repair.

It's nearly impossible. To minimize damage (other than to be very very careful) put some layers of masking tape, or even duct tape on the exposed face just for some measure of protection