It worked out pretty good I would say..

 

I like it!

 

How's your other project coming along Bobby..?

 

Slow....
Earlier this year I fabricated an adapter plate to put a T5 5spd behind the Packard 8 but since then life has gotten in the way and I haven't done a thing.
I'm hoping to start laying out the frame within the month....(I've only been saying that for a year now)


Bobby

 

It's getting closer then...

 

Wow, you guys are good!

 

...neither rain nor sleet, nor dark of night....

 

Will stop the 's tonight...lol

 

Is this a straight 8 or...is it a 1955/56 with a V8?

Packard's International Motor Car Club had an adapter made to install ChryCo's Torque Flight in the V8, replacing the awful Twin Ulcer-Matic.

 

Its a straight 8, 327ci. There is an adapter plate available for the T5 but they are asking $800 for it...ouch. I'm too much of a tightwad for that. The $800 adapter plate also converts over to one of those new fangled mini starters. While those starters might be cool it just wouldn't look right with next to the big straight 8. I wanted to keep the old bulky AC Delco starter.


Bobby

 

327 5 main bearings: 1948/50 except Standard/Deluxe 8 & Custom 8; 1951/54 except 1951/52 Packard 200; 1951/53 Patrician 400; some 1953/54 Clippers.

327 9 main bearings: 1951/53 Patrician 400 & 1953 limo/7 passenger sedan (modified by Henney of Freeport IL from Patrician's).

356 9 main bearings: 1940/42 160/180; 1946/47 Clipper Custom Super 8 & 1948/50 Custom 8.

359 9 main bearings: 1954 Packard Patrician 400, Caribbean, Convertible, Packard H/T & limo/7 passenger sedan.

288 5 main bearings: 1948/50 Standard/Deluxe 8; 1951/52 Packard 200; some 1953/54 Clippers.

I've never owned a 1948/52 Ford truck, but I've owned a 1940 & 1942 Packard 180, over two dozen 1946/54 Packard's.

1941/42 Clipper, 1946/54 bodies were made by the Briggs Body Co., then trucked to Packard's assembly plant on East Grand Blvd.

In 1936, Packard signed an exclusive agreement with Henney to build Packard Professional cars (hearse/ambulance). Agreement ended after the 1954 model run.

Henney also assembled 1946/47 Clipper limo/7 passenger sedans, 1953/54 Limo/7 passenger sedans and made the show car in 1952 that became the 1953 Caribbean.

 

Thanks Bill.
My 327 is the 9 main bearing model complete with the 4 barrel intake manifold.
The car sat for 25+ years. I turned the engine by hand to make sure it wasn't seized, pulled it from the car, got it home, minor exterior cleanup, new points and plug wires and with a little bit of gas and a battery I fired it up on the garage floor.
Runs like a champ, no smoke, no noise.....woohooo





Bobby

 

Bobby the laugh at the end was very appropriate!! That engine sounded great

 

Did you verify that the block isn't cracked? This was a somewhat common problem on 1948/54 straight 8's.

Behind the water pump and to the rear of the block is a copper (or brass, cannot recall which) water distributing tube.

Over time the tube gets clogged up, so if it isn't flushed out or replaced, the block cracks across the valve seat, then down the cylinder wall of #7 and/or #8.

1972: I bought a "one off" 1951 Packard Derham 'formal sedan' from a gaffer that had worked for Paramount Pictures for over 30 years.

Custom body maker Derham (in PA) took a 1951 Patrician 400, installed a power window divider behind the front seat.

Most of it was made from steam bent ash. Original owner was Earle C. Anthony's wife, Anthony was the CA Packard Distributor 1905-1956.

It was a real nice car, but the block was cracked. The gaffer had been looking for an un-cracked 9 main block for years, but I found one in a Wilmington CA junkyard two days after I bought the car.

Pulled the head, no cracks. Unbolted the engine/trans, had the yard lift it into the pickup bed w/a crane, then drove away minus 75 bucks!

You could still buy the tube NOS from Studebaker, so I replaced it when I rebuilt the engine using mostly NOS Packard parts.

Derham made a few 1951/54 formal sedans with a padded roof, but the car I bought didn't have this type of roof, but was the only one with a divider.

After I got it running, drove it over to the gaffers house to show him the car, this was a mistake. He said...You KNEW where this block was all along, but you failed to tell me!

I told him I didn't and he could call the yard and verify. He continued to b!tch, so I drove away.