Re: How I did it.
My friend has a 36 Packard, it was having starting issues and dim brake lights, came with every kind of brighter brake light bulb and none were bright.
I started to trace the brake light issue and found a big voltage drop at the ammeter, the nuts and lock washers were rusty, now the brake lights are bright and starting is fast.
Are you having slow cranking when hot of it just won’t catch and run.
Cranking with ignition off for 30 seconds and feeling the wires and connections for being hot can give you a idea where voltage losses are occurring.
At the Packard club meet he was also asked about overheating by others with the same car, he had that problem too before I did a valve job and replaced the head gasket, the car didn’t loose coolant but some combustion gasses were escaping into the cooling system
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