Parts question

[Glen Hoag <hoag@xxxxxx>]

Fred,
I know you have access to lots of parts info, including late price 
lists and such.  I have a question about diverter valves (Group 
4.558) for the six.  Is there any practical difference between the 
early one, P/N 3223634, and the late one, P/N 3230816?  They're 
getting hard to find, but I have found a couple sources for the early 
type.  My July '81 parts price list shows the early one as 
non-returnable, but still available at that point.  Do you have any 
information that shows that they can be used interchangeably?

For your files: There is a two port thermal vacuum switch mounted to 
the side of the air cleaner on 1980 sixes.  My 1980 Pacer has three 
of them.  The AMC number is 3235329, but the part came from Ford, 
with D5DF-9E862-A marked on it.  This can be replaced by Motorcraft 
P/N CX-1387.

The car I'm working on at the moment is the 1980 Pacer wagon I picked 
up in July.  It's a December 1979 car, so it is among the last Pacers 
off the line.  The engine build date is Nov 12, 1979.  It was first 
sold by Bottrell's in Manistee, MI in Sept 1980.  I corresponded with 
Mr. Bob Bottrell, whom I found selling AMC literature on eBay.  He 
remembers the car; it was the last Pacer they sold, and the last in 
the Michigan zone.  The car has about 50k miles on it, and is fairly 
well optioned.  It's not perfect, but it's in good shape, and almost 
completely unmolested under the hood.  When I bought it, it still had 
the AMC belts on it, which I replaced.  The lower radiator hose is 
aftermarket, but the upper is original, though about an inch shorter 
than when I got it.  It split on the way home.  I just noticed today 
that it has the original plug wires as well.

--Glen

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Glen Hoag
hoag@xxxxxx                             '75 Pacer 258 (x3)
Limestone County, Alabama               '76 Pacer 258 (for parts)
                                        '81 Concord DL 258
AMO #7895    AMCPC #471                 '82 Spirit 151