OIL SEALS KITS – all new with a nitrile seal

We recommend that an Oil Seals Kit also be installed. This is because the rear axle bearings are almost never repacked at the 25,000 mile mark that Packard recommended. A brake drum puller is needed on the 1955 models but not the 1956 models. Also included in the oil seals kits, below, is a differential pinion seal, steering gear seal and front wheel seals. I recommend that the steering gear be drained and refilled with 90W rear axle lubricant. This Packard-recommended service was, again, almost never done. The original steering gear lubricant was a petroleum-based lubricant with ground rubber in suspension. The ground rubber gradually falls to the bottom and the liquid lube that remains is not adequate to prevent wear on the worm and roller gears. This is a simple job.

1955 Clipper Seals Kit
models 5540-60
$175 (Postage Paid)

1955 Packard (senior)
models 5580 and 5588
$155 (Postage Paid)

1956 Clipper & Executive
models 5640-60-70
$115 (Postage Paid)

1956 Packard senior
Patrician, Four Hundred, Caribbean
$115 (Postage Paid)

Torsion Level Suspension Bushing Repair Kit

For 1955 and 1956 Packard and Clipper cars equipped with Torsion Level Suspension…

This kit contains 8 new front support arm (A-arm) bushings, made in North America to OEM specifications by the original manufacturer. * 8 new rear torque arm bushings made from modern polyurethane (custom made for this application) that is superior in performance to the original rubber bushings. 10 new polyurethane Watts Linkage bushings (rear sway bar). Spacers for 1956 models. CD with instructions and Packard data and specifications, plus a printed copy of the installation instructions. This kit will help restore your Torsion-Level Packard or Clipper to as-when-new riding and handling qualities, which have faded over the years to just a nice riding car. It will also restore your cars proper riding height. Over the years the rear (original) rubber bushings compress and the car’s riding height decreases from one to three inches.

* these bushings are available from many sources and most are made overseas and ARE NOT made to OEM (original equipment manufacturer) standard.

Torsion-Level-Bushing-Kit

Kit is $559.00, postage paid to the 50 States. Elsewhere is extra, to be calculated upon request

Please CLICK HERE to download a 6-page article in PDF that will explain the benefits of installing a kit on your Torsion Level Packard or Clipper.

Torsion Level Holding Tool

Made from original Kent-Moore Blueprints

This tool, newly made from the original blueprint, is required to hold the front torsion bar load arms in place while the front suspension is disassembled in order to replace the front rubber bushings.

Torsion-Bar-Holding-Tool
Made from original Kent-Moore Blueprints

$465.00, postage paid