Re: Re: AMC Butchery

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From: farna@xxxxxxx
Date: 2005/08/20 Sat PM 06:44:00 EDT
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx (AMC-List)
Subject: Re: AMC Butchery


p.s. -- Yes Bart, I have a British (Jag) rear axle in my Rambler. If AMC had made an IRS I'd have used it, and I had to change from the Torque Tube and change the axle (AMC 15, and TT model) anyway. It's to hard to find a narrow model 20, at least it was near Gulfport MS, and even Jeep Cherokee axles are to wide (I tried that one, even ran one for a bit!). And it would have cost me much more to narrow a big car AMC 20 and stick that in. Now if I'd had a 20 to begin with I'd have narrowed a later model big car housing to fit the early 20 axles. That's a trick I just figured out, and don't know why no one has done it yet! A 67-78 big car axle will easily mount in a 63-66 if narrowed. The upper arm crossmember is a couple inches wide, but can be trimmed, and angle brackets welded in to mount it. Then weld or bolt on mounts for the lower arms. I mounted the lower arms for my Jag axle pretty much the same as the 67-78 lower arms. Of course you could just buy one-piece axles for t!
 he width you want then narrow the tubes -- CJ axles might even be about right, and I know early Javelin axles are.


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Frank,Your Rambler waggy is a customized car and i never chastized you for what your used for the rear and as a matter of fact that Jag rear is pretty trick as it has alot of state of the art pieces on it and i'm sure rides loads beter than the stock allbeit weak rambler rear.I'm not the psycho AMC only on everything person i used to be,I have since pulled my head outta my ass and tho I'd much rather see a AMC in a AMC its not the end of the world for me when i see a non AMC in a AMC.
Bart M.
73 Gremlin 360/T10 project