Thermostat

Did the Royale originally have the Pines Winterfront emblem on the thermostat?

Here is the restored thermostat ready to go back on.

A.J. I wondered the same thing about the Pines Emblem . My arm has be be remade and my discs were cleaned up and ready to go . The shaft in the white metal housing has broken at the bearing location . The original graphite packing must have seized on the shaft . My machinist is going to replace it with some high temperature O ring bearing . The bottom water return in my radiator is rotted out and has to be replaced .

Mark,

You can get the arm from Brian Joseph I believe.

Steve Kelly has very graciously mailed me an original Reo "Mechanic Instruction Book" printed in August 1930. I don't know if this information is available as reproduction but it is very cool. There is a section on the 30-35 (which may have been added later) that has the royale engine and chassis. If anyone needs any material posted please let me know.Here is a picture from the manual on the thermostat.

That is excellent Steve and A.J. Do you have any reference what the ABC etc stands for ?

Mark, there was 2 pages of text that refereed to the diagram and explained how to adjust the system. I dropped off the manual at my shop this morning so I don't have it right with me. I'll make a copy of those pages and post them here.

A.J. I assume you had your radiator out of your Royale . My radiator was sitting right on the car frame . There was no rubber under the lower tank for a cushion for wear and tear . What did your radiator sit on please .

Mark,

I will find out.

Mark,

The radiator was sitting on some cloth like material which does not provide much buffering. When we reinstall the radiator we will replace the cloth with rubber.

How thick of material are you going to use please .

Here is a picture of Mark's pines winterfront thermostat taken apart and one from the Classic & Exotic catalog. For future reference.

This is a very interesting thread on the subject: http://forums.aaca.org/f126/pines-winterfront-thermostat-346921.html

Having redone mine 10 years ago it stopped working and I had to order new bellows from straight Eight.

Pines Winterfront Thermostat for Duesenberg, Packard & Others

https://straight-eight.com/product-category/duesenberg-model-j-sj/pines-winterfront-shutterstat-duesenberg-model-j-sj/

Here are pictures of mine apart.

This is what I got from Straight Eight. I needed the stud and the packing spring also.

Here is a comparison between the original and the new bellows.