Re: 990H or Convert?

["Mark Price" <Wrambler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have the seller checking on the current condition of a few things and he is supposed to get back to me Thursday night.
   I don't really have to convince my wife. I just have to put up with her grumbling about another car sitting around! 
    I installed the front coils in the American and I think once they settle in a bit. I will be at the right height! Ride I will have to wait and see. I didn't get a chance to get it out last night and it is looking like rain so I didn't want to fool with it today. I will hopefully get it out this evening and take a drive. The front spring jig I made for my shop press is the slickest tool I have ever made! I can change the coils in and out in no time flat. No bending or bowing, not scary at all!
   All you need is a 12ton Harborfrieght shop press some sticks of 3/4" angle and a 6 ton bottle jack and a couple sticks of 3" angle to lay across the bottom of the press.
   It sounds more complicated then it actually is. It took me about an hour and a half to build the jig. I'm so glad to finally have a means to do this safely!
   It also turns out in a moment of brain dead gray matter I somehow managed to end up with one V-8 spring in my car and one six! As once I got them out of the car and sitting side by side it was painfully obvious they ar e different! How or where that V-8 spring came from I don't have a clue!!! At least now, Thanks to Tom Oaks I have a matched set in it!
   Well, On to the convertible!!!





Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
Vice President I.A.T.S.E. #578
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L EFI, T-5.
1965 Ambassador 880 Conv, 327, Auto, Ratrod want to be!
1997 Cherokee Sport, 4.0L AX15
2001 S-10 Crewcab, 4.3, Not one of G.M's better vehicles


>------- Original Message Follows -------
>From: farna@xxxxxxx
>To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: 990H or Convert? 
>Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:54:51 -0400
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>Sounds like you've got the right idea. There were fewer convertibles,
>and converts are worth more when done anyway. No matter how you look at
>it you're taking two junkers and putting one good AMC back on the road.
>That's what it takes for the old cars that few parts are repro'd for.
>Half the stuff is gonna be well worn and need rebuilding anyway, if not
>from wear from water infiltration. I wouldn't worry about finding water in
>the engine -- it wasn't RUN with water in it, and there isn't likely to
>be any rust due to the coating of oil. Maybe a little surface rust in
>the bores, but unless it's been sitting a year or two not likely to be any
> pitting. 
>
>
>On August 8, 2005 Mark Price
>wrote:
>
>> So, What is a 1965 Flood damaged 1965 990H Ambassador worth?
>> I don't need another project, my fear is I'll get this car here and not have the nerve to use it for parts for my convertible. The convertible is probably actually in worse shape then this 990H 2 door hardtop. However I actually started this quest for a convertible and to abandon that or take on another project is not in the cards.
>>   I guess if the 990H is to good to sacrifice I will get it running and sell it off to someone else to do. It does appear to have quite a bit of body damage around the sides from debris in the flood. So, I'm hoping that it will be good enough to give me what I want and bad enough I won't loose any sleep over parting it out.
>>   Anyone know how many 990H two door hardtops came out in 1965? This thing is loaded, TILT, A/C, P/W,P/S,Power drum brakes,Electric wipers, Buckets, console, floor shift automatic, 327 supposedly has 78,000 miles on it and needs a timing chain. No sign of water in the transmission according to the seller. The rear axle I'm not sure of.
>>   My plan is to roll this beast into my garage, scope out the engine first. If it looks like I can get the timing chain job done and it will run again. I will jack it up and drop the trans pan and see what is in there. If it is dry, I will change out the fluid. put the timing chain in the engine and get it running. Then I will have to pull the rear axle cover and check it. If it is clear or at least not full of rusted pitted gears, I will do a full drive line test if it has brakes in working order.
>>   Then everything will get transfered into the convertible.
>> The "H" car has drums brakes and my Convert is a disc car. So, I will swap even the rear axle as I know it is much easier to find brake parts for the drum rear axles.
>>   I'm even going to throw the front drums on the convertible if they are good.
>> I need to get the convertible to a drivable status, plus I want it to be close to a period piece, so for now enclosed drive line and drum brakes, any brakes! are good enough!
>>   This will probably take me another two years to accomplish! At least I may have a plan in place though!
>> 
>> 
>> >------- Original Message Follows -------
>> >From: farna@xxxxxxx
>> >To: "Mark Price" <Wrambler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >Subject: Re: "H" car revisisted
>> >Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:17:07 +0000
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>> >I can't believe that 4.0L 5 speed American is still sitting there...
>> >;>
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