Re: [AMC-list] What Did You Do on Your AMC this weekend?

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It was a beeeeeeautiful day here on the central Coast.   Like Spring, 70 
degrees, little wind.
I separated the intake and exhaust manifolds for the 232 on my Gremlin,
bead blasted them, drilled out and re-tapped two manifold studs and painted some 
other
engine hardware.
I'm reusing the Prestnolite ignition on the Gremlin just because, and I had to 
purchase a replacement vacuum
chamber for the distributor advance. I found out that rockauto no 
longer lists those Presto distributors,
  I have two other Presto distributors here at home and they
both have blown vacuum chambers.  But they work when the work, so it's OK with 
me.
That's a job for tomorrow.

Also,tomorrow I need to put the Pertronix unit in the rebuilt distributor on my 
65 Rambler
and take it out on US 101 for the first time under it's own power.  Then drive 
it to work a couple days next
week.

I didn't have to worry about snow chains today.  In fact a few weeks ago I 
scrapped a pair of new chains that were hanging
in the garage, left behind by the previous owner. 

Joe Fulton
Salinas, CA



----- Original Message ----
From: Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "AMC, Rambler, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, January 15, 2011 12:51:52 PM
Subject: Re: [AMC-list] What Did You Do on Your AMC this weekend?

Oh yeah. I buckled up before putting it in first.  :-)

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rambler stuff this weekend?
>
> Dusted the snow off.
> Popped the hood.
> Pulled off the air cleaner.
> Gave it a shot of starting fluid.
> Got in.
> Turned the key.
> Rolled the driver's side window down.
> Drove.
>
> I was driving my wife's Highlander for errands, then remembered that
> the original owner had called the car "Traveller". Not just after a
> southern horse some hundred and forty five years ago or so, but
> because when everything else was parked - her and her family piled
> into the Rambler and headed out for the North Georgia mountains. If
> the roads were snowy or icy, they put the chains on. She didn't baby
> it at all, and it held up fine (except for being parked for 12
> years!). I'm not going to baby it, either.
>
> Heck, I have the chains it came with. Didn't put 'em on as the roads
> are finally okay almost everywhere. But I didn't park it. I wandered
> off and ran errands in it. I think it might be cool to dig out the
> chains, pop 'em in a box and put 'em in the trunk again.
>
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