Re: [Amc-list] looking for spare parts

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: "Marzelle" <marzelle@xxxxxxx>
" 
" I'm the owner of an AMC RAMBLER Classic 6 built in 1965 in Belgium and sold in France by RENAULT.
" 
" it is very difficult to find spare parts for this car in France (or they are very expensive). I've been just lucky to find the pads for the front brakes on e-bay but I'm now looking for the wheel cylinders for the rear brakes
" 
" The original make is WAGNER-LOOKHEED  FD 8382 USA.

wagner lockheed.  yes, the same lockheed that makes jet fighters etc.
i don't know how they came to be the inventors of hydraulic brakes,
but wagner bought that part of their business.

" If these spare parts are not available I suppose that it is possible to replace them by adaptable parts.
" 
" Can you give me some ideas about this problem (addresses where to find these parts aso.) ?

volvo also used wagner brakes.  probably their cylinders aren't the
same bore, but they have many of the other brake pieces.

if you're not concerned with preserving originality, you could replace
the brakes with something more modern and easy to find parts for.
it's commonly done here by scavenging parts from a wreck; it'll have
-everything- -- not only rotors and drums but also front spindles,
caliper brackets, drum backing plates, brake line distribution
block...  generally '82-3 amcs with delco calipers [also used on jeeps
'82-9] are most desireable; '79-'81 with bendix calipers second.
'77-8 is the same as '79-'81 except rotors which are becoming
expensive and hard to find here but you can use the later spindles
and rotors instead.

i'd suggest a six cylinder spirit amx or concord wagon as donor, as
their rear brakes are a 10" size used '73-'89 on both amcs and jeeps.
i believe there are a few other '77-'83 six cylinder amcs with these
brakes, but these two are the most common.
--
a thought just came to me - i've been assuming your car has the amc15
rear axle used on just about all six-cylinder amcs over here, but
maybe for some reason european cars used the v8 amc20 axle.  easy to
see - if the cover on the differential is a smooth dome with 12 bolts
evenly around the edge, it's the amc20; if not, it isn't!

this is important for the brake swap because critical amc15 and amc20
brake hardware does not interchange.
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