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Today's Topics:

   1. Gremlins in TV. show called The 4400 (Ross Guistino)
   2. Re: getting an '87 Eagle Wagon (Wm. Neal Lewis)
   3. Re: getting an '87 Eagle Wagon (Wm. Neal Lewis)
   4. AMO National (Sly Rose)
   5. Re: getting an '87 Eagle Wagon (Tom Jennings)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:09:09 -0700
From: "Ross Guistino" <rossg@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] Gremlins in TV. show called The 4400
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On channel 42 (The S.F. Bay Area), the USA channel.  A few weeks back there
was a brief glimpse of a green 72ish Gremlin.  Tonight there was a stunning
77 blue Gremlin with white stripes.  A very good shot of it.  A delivery
kid, delivering flowers, got the delivery out of the hatch.  How cool.

Ross Guistino
Rohnert Park, CA
'73 Gremlin 304 aka Vivo
'75 Gremlin X aka Greta
'69 Beetle
'93 Jetta III
'98 Jetta TDI
'02 Jetta TDI


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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:25:18 -0500
From: "Wm. Neal Lewis" <wnlewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] getting an '87 Eagle Wagon
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>Message: 4
>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:38:59 -0500
>From: "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [AMC-List] getting a 87 Eagle wagon
>To: "AMC List" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Neal, you will enjoy the Eagle wagon. I would however have the exhaust
>system redone by Mieneke or some other muffler shop. One of my Eagles ad a
>leaky exhausts, and with what passes for gas here in Houston, the fumes when
>stuck in traffic or just stopped at light would make you vomit. I actually
>quit driving it until I had a day off to take it to Mida's off Gessner,
>something like $189 for almost front to back inclucing cat converter.

I plan to do the quick fix with coffee cans, tin snips, patching cement and
baling wire (literally - I work at AGCO in Hesston, Kansas, and write the
operating manuals for square balers, including the one that uses baling
wire) to get the car home. As to a muffler job, Midas quoted me about $350.
Another national shop was in the same region. They both said the pipes are
not standard and they would have to bend them on site.

>On the carb, Paige's 88 Eagle neede a new carb and it is over counter at
>O'Reillys, it is a Tomco unit, rebuilt, and about $225 with core exchange.
>But what a difference. Her carb kept getting plugged up with this yellowish
>residue. If you look down the carb neck with flashlight, there are two small
>jets sticking out like a V. You might want to get a can of carb cleaner,
>with long red nozzle, and stick it in the pinhole openings on both, blowing
>them out. Those are idles, and they do get clogged and will cause a Eagle or
>Jeep, to stall, sometimes die, at stops, and just run crappy. Again, some of
>this has to do with the crappy 'designer gas' different areas of the country
>use. There is/was a website showing how to do this, I believe Jim (carnuck)
>sent to me a good whiles back. Just something with my limited knowlege of
>Eagles thought would toss in!
>
I'll look for the web site.

Thanks for the info.

Neal

Carrie L. Lewis - Horse Painter
Member of The Equine Art Guild
http://www.Carrie-Lewis.com


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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:28:54 -0500
From: "Wm. Neal Lewis" <wnlewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] getting an '87 Eagle Wagon
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>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:16:23 -0700
>From: "Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [AMC-List] getting a 87 Eagle wagon
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>A: I would at the very least do an '87 to '90 Renix exhaust header (It'll
>keep the motor emission compliant too as it has the EGR pipe!) The cat on my
>'88 Comanche lost it's internals into the then OEM muffler. I replaced the
>muffler but not the internals of the cat, and it passed emission sniff test
>with no probs. They said it was cleaner than most '95 vehicles.
>   Do a google for"Carter BBD fix" and the site will come up. The carb is
>pretty easy to fix but a quick upgrade is a Motorcraft 2100 carb with 2 bbl
>4 bbl adapter and home made linkage. I got 20 mpg average hwy mileage with
>my mexican 6 with 998 lockup (when it wasn't needing a new torque
>converter), 225/75/15 tires and 2.37 gears.
>
Jim, Thanks for the good info. I will look up the sources you gave me.

Neal

Carrie L. Lewis - Horse Painter
Member of The Equine Art Guild
http://www.Carrie-Lewis.com


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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 02:59:35 -0500
From: Sly Rose <sly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] AMO National
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Anyone going to Dayton?  Any info on the sale of AMC stuff near Dayton 
on Wednesday?

Thanks!

Sly



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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:23:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] getting an '87 Eagle Wagon
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On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Wm. Neal Lewis wrote:

> As to a muffler job, Midas quoted me about $350.
> Another national shop was in the same region. They both said the pipes are
> not standard and they would have to bend them on site.

This is one of those east coast/west coast things; here in CA
pretty much no one I know messes with those pre-formed tailpipe
parts; you just go to a muffler shop that bends the stuff up on
the spot, all welded.  My 258 six Hornet, done last spring, cost
under $200 (I supplied the Summit muffler). Took an hour, it's
bigger than stock and a hell of a lot fewer bends and no flats.

When I lived in the Boston area, (left there in 1984...) muffler
shops had dozens of those pre-bent pipes with swaged ends hanging
all over the walls, all held together with those crappy clamps.
If I remember right, bending tubing was not common.

Could be just old warped memory though.

The irony of all this is, with all the road salt the welded
system would work a lot better; water wouldn't creep into the
stupid clamed joints. ANd the clamp-together stuff would last
a hell of a lot longer in CA, with anti-seize, you probably
COULD take it apart later!

Except for actual restoration, why does anyone mess with those
annoying and rare parts?



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