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Today's Topics:

   1. Front Springs... (imfatdad@xxxxxxxxx)
   2. Re: wheel stud spins - front drum (farna@xxxxxxx)
   3. 69 AMX for trade (Jeff & Caroline)
   4. Re: nice drive to SF from LA... (Jim Blair)
   5. Re: Wiper switch needed (ramblinguy@xxxxxxxxxxxx)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:47:59 -0400
From: imfatdad@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AMC-List] Front Springs...
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 02:21:55 +0000
From: farna@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] wheel stud spins - front drum
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx (AMC-List)
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The welds broke because they tried welding high grade steel studs to a cast iron hub. I bet the weld stuck really good to the stud but broke off the hub. Cast iron is extremely difficult to weld without the proper know-how and equipment. I mean a weld that lasts, of course! 

--
Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Independent 
Magazine" (AIM)
For all AMC enthusiasts
http://farna.home.att.net/AIM.html
(free download available!)

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:53:04 -0700
From: "Mike Kindle" <mike90066@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] re wheel stud spins - front drum


Thanks to Tom J and George Graham for your replies.

(First, I'm not reusing the off-center drums, but some different ones, I 
must have mistyped.)

Second, you've confirmed the sinking suspicions I developed while looking 
closely at everything last night.    I think the factory swedging is what 
allowed them initially to use smooth wheel studs, the swedge punch holding 
the drum on and keeping the stud from turning.  The first replacement would 
be knurled, which will cut slots in the hub holes. I think I will source 
some new knurled studs and let the drums live unswedged.  I have some other 
used hubs that have the studs welded on the back to keep them from turning 
and the welds pop right off due, I beleive, to someone trying to weld 
dissimilar metals, so I want to avoid that, despite having the new welder. . 
.
I'm learning a lot this week.
Thanks
Mike


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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:02:07 -0400
From: "Jeff & Caroline" <jbennett1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] 69 AMX for trade
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I have 1969 AMX 390 go pak car-auto loaded with options +a/c, looking to 
trade for a real sc/rambler-solid mostly original car, will trade up or 
down. I have a 15 month old and  another child on the way, so I need a back 
seat to tote the crew going to car shows. Car is hunter green with charcoal 
int. A true survivor-garage kept-80,000 miles. The car is not for sale, 
unless I purchase another car first.

Jeff B
Tampa Bay, Fl
1969 390 AMX




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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:39:14 -0700
From: "Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] nice drive to SF from LA...
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I would change the nose bushing in that starter or overhaul one that hasn't 
been molested. (They dump the pieces into bins and mismatched parts are put 
together causing trouble)


From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] nice drive to SF from LA...
To: amc-list <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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No big deal, but I drove up to San Francisco, from Los Angeles
this past
weekend, for the Maker's Faire (http://www.makezine.com/faire/)
in the
'70 Hornet. 70-75mph the whole way, ran great, grilled a lot of
bugs.
(Actual insects, not problems.)

My starter is crapping out; it's a "premium" rebuild from NAPA.
I guess
the word premium means crap, because that's what it is; it gets
tighter
when hot, and it always sounds tight. This was premium #2, as #1
had one
of those crap stripped-stud-fixing things on it, that came off
in the
box! (Rather than actually replace the stripped stud on the
core, they
wrench on a "repair stud" on it; so much for quality.). Even the
NAPA
counter guy was embarrassed, and got me the replacement, no
questions
asked.

I'm gonna take the one from the parts car to the local rebuilder
-- who
I can at least hold responsible for his work! -- install that,
and
repeat with the current one so I have two good starters, one for
mine
and the other for Josh's 72 Hornet, which I hope to complete
this
weekend.

Picked up the torque converter today on the way to work, so I
have run
out of excuses for reassembling that car.

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:09:42 -0400
From: ramblinguy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] Wiper switch needed
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