Re: 1971 AMC Hornet SST 2 door, assistance please

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: Recently 4 early '80s AMG postal jeeps sold for cheap. (I didn't know 
they were up for sale or I would've gone to the auction. Ice cream vendors 
scored them for @$1500 each) They had AMC 258s and one '80 had a 232.


From: adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: 1971 AMC Hornet SST 2 door, assistance please

" From: farna@xxxxxxx
"
" I'd check with Advance Adapters and make sure there isn't an early to
" late six bell adapter (I wouldn't be surprised if Andrew has done that
" already!).

haven't done that -recently-...

" The bell on the BW trannys is a separate piece so the trans
" could be used on many different makes. AMG could easily have made
" another bell for the newer engines. I do believe you are correct
" though, that the early bolt pattern was used. It would have been
" cheaper and easier to change the block casting than to tool up for a
" new bell. I've seen at least one mid 70s postal Jeep with a small bell
" pattern and M35.
"
"
" On March 30, 2005 andrew hay wrote:
"
" > one of the tricks here is finding out how late am general kept making
" > early-style blocks.  they were using m35s and m12s as late as the
" > mid-'70s, and that suggests early blocks.
" > ________________________________________________________________________

amg wouldn't even have had to make a new early-trans/late-six
converter housing - aluminum warners were used with 290s and 304s and
they could use the v8 flexplate without balance weights, so the parts
are all 'off the shelf'.  and of course the same for the m12.

amg did make jeeps with torqueflites, but i think they gave sixes up
by the end of the '70s.  so there's only a few years where they
could've had a small bell tf904.

btw it looks like postaljeep.com is off the air.  that was an
excellent reference for production series and info.
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