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Hi John - welcome! AC46 at 0.025" gap is recommended by AC for all 1953 Packards, and that corresponds to Champion J11 and AutoLite A9, those that last number may no longer be active. Soot generally has only 1 cause, excessively high fuel/air ratio. You know the typical reasons I believe, stuck or m...

Those same slotted nuts are used on other applications like the ignition coil nuts on NorthEast equipment. Standard Ignition used to sell a special wrench just for them. I could take a picture if you're interested. PS - here's a close-up of the special tool for the slotted nuts, it's a Standard Igni...

Glad you're enjoying your first Packard, hope to see you here often and I hope you get involved in some PAC activities like National Meets, tours, and local regions. Back on the main website you'll find a list of local regions, by all means find one near you and join, it will enhance your enjoyment ...

First, the later cars weren't "a lot" bigger than the earlier cars, they were generally smaller. Check wheelbases and other dimensions to convince yourself. For example in 1934 the shortest car (a "senior" Eight sedan, weight 4640 lbs) had a 129 inch wheelbase versus the following year's 120 with a ...

You didn't indicate on your profile where you live, but if near Ohio are you aware that the Packard Museum meet all this week at Warren OH is focusing on the 1937 Packards? They hope to field one of each of the nearly 40 models and body styles produced in 1937, and no doubt you'd find a lot of 1937 ...

The weight of the 1937 Packard six convertible coupe is given in the owner's manual as 3285 lbs, a very light car indeed. If you're going to keep and enjoy your car, I suggest you buy a reprint of the owner's manual which does provide important maintenance information, also pick up a shop manual and...

Well, I just heard that two of our North Jersey travelers to Warren have had their problems, one didn't get out of the starting gate yet due to a failed battery, and the other has apparently suffered a broken generator pulley out in PA somewhere. Let's hope they arrive safely though late, and perhap...

JD - I believe the device referred to was not the vacuum-assisted clutch which was standard on Twelves, but what appears to be a rather primitive and early form of Electromatic, but w/o the electrical controls, purely vacuum and mechanical. It is covered in 4 pages int he 9th-12th series Service Let...

Welcome to the PAC forums, and a great question. I've owned a 34 Eight for over 45 years and have been all over and around and under 33/34 Packards all those years. I'm familiar with the material in the Service Letters, yet must say I've never seen that option, and have never heard anyone even menti...

In the absence of the little NorthEast synchronizing tool, I've used the enclosed method many times (originally published in Victoria Voice , newsletter of Packard East, a region of PAC). If you work carefully you can be extremely accurate. Hope you find it helpful. There is no mystery to the wiring...