Re: Great AMC Day

["Mark Price" <mprice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,
   Did you get a the clutch linkage setup in this car once allready or was that what was holding you up? I can't remember.
With my t-5 to American swap. I used six cylinder 67 American clutch setup and made a new pivot bracket that bolted to the bellhousing. It was simple to design and I think I only had 2 hours or so in the whole deal including welding it up out of angle and grinding it to clean it up.
   Manual z-bar linkage bolts to the Eagle bellhousing as the hydraulic slave uses the same mounting points.
   If you go hydraulic remember that the firewall on the hornet was not designed to have a clutch master mounted to it and make as large a plate as you can fit to mount to the inside of the firewall [passemger compartment side to reinforce and strengthen it. The unsupported original thickness firewall will likely crack and tear over time. Also if the Eagle has the small tube type resevoir for the master ditch it and find a jelly jar type resevoir to use. The small tube resevoir is the most horrible thing to work with you will ever encounter! It will go dry with every pump of the pedal when bleeding the system and is woefully undersized for the rest of the system. A big case of "what where they thinking"!
Mark Price



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: mail-From-mprice-westco.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:51:19 -0800 (PST)

>I have had a great AMC day thus far.  

  I'll go
>back tomorrow or Christmas Eve and pull the hydraulic
>clutch pieces.  I didn't have the right tools today.
>>But for now, I'm still smilin'.
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>Joe Fulton
>Salinas, CA
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