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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Fw: 76 (Green)Hornet sedan (Sandwich Maker)
2. Re: 69 Ambassador parts wanted (Sandwich Maker)
3. 100-50-10 and AMC oil (Mahoney, John)
4. Re: Fw: 76 (Green)Hornet sedan (Tom Jennings)
5. V-8 Crossmember for big car (farna@xxxxxxx)
6. IMPORTANT FOR ALL AOL, YAHOO, and HOTMAIL ACCOUNT USERS!!!
(farna@xxxxxxx)
7. Re: Storing an Engine (farna@xxxxxxx)
8. Crossmember (fljab@xxxxxxxxxxx)
9. Re: Getting An Early Jump On The Spring Clean Up (farna@xxxxxxx)
10. Spring Perches (was: Re: Fw: 76 (Green)Hornet sedan)
(Todd Tomason)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:12:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] Fw: 76 (Green)Hornet sedan
To: KHPE97S@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <200604211212.k3LCCUf14519@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
" ----- Original Message -----
" From: KHPE97S@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
"
"
" I'm trying to get front coil spring perches,the bushings are worn/old shot and the perch is shifting to the side
all '70-'83 amc front ends except the pacer are the same. you can
raid any of them for perches; you might even be able to find them new.
________________________________________________________________________
Andrew Hay the genius nature
internet rambler is to see what all have seen
adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and think what none thought
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:09:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] 69 Ambassador parts wanted
To: jjocewicz@xxxxxxxxxxx, mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <200604211209.k3LC9RD14479@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
" Parts Wanted: All for 69 Ambassador 2 door. Correct right and left rear view
" mirrors, tilt steering column, complete front disc brake set up. Correct
" front drums in any condition as long as the hubs are good, front spindles
" for drum brakes. Rear sway bar set up, 3:54 ring and pinion, posi unit, rear
" coil springs from a wagon. Correct carter 4 barrel carb, choke heat tubes,
" spacer etc. This is a 343 car. Joe Jocewicz jjocewicz@xxxxxxxxxxx
" 630-789-6063 -hm., 847-922-4440 cell
" ========================================
no parts, just some thoughts.
you're not looking for the 'correct' front disks, are you? they're
pretty awful tech by modern standards and parts are both expensive and
scarce. '74-8 'big bendix' are the most powerful; '79?-'83 are the
easiest to get parts for now. both swap with their spindles.
i've heard that rear sway bars are most likely to be found on wagons
with towing pkg.
which wagon rear springs? there were several from mild to rock-hard
[that towing pkg again]. coil spring specialties, eaton detroit
spring, and espo can all make coils of just about any height and rate
for you.
'76-'86 jeeps also used amc20s, some with 3.54s, some with posis - and
there are many aftermkt posis from tru traks to spools.
________________________________________________________________________
Andrew Hay the genius nature
internet rambler is to see what all have seen
adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and think what none thought
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:18:35 -0400
From: "Mahoney, John" <JMahoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] 100-50-10 and AMC oil
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In the nearly 10 years since I began reading this list, American Motors has gone from being a fond memory from days when I routinely drove new AMC cars to being an artifact, an object, and a nostalgia trip to take on a computer screen. I learned about AMC from A to Z (and from Allure to Zagato?) down a road that rode bumpier than Easy Street. I learned about AMC grilles and flares (or about AMC's flair for grills?) and I learned that it would require 90 more years to post all the info about AMC that interests me. (And I learned that what interests me does not interest many with interests in AMC!) I found my postings translated into Portuguese, found my Pininfarina history found interesting by Peugeot people, and found a note I wrote about Packard was found by a Phord PR executive in 2006 who is interested in learning about his grandfather who, in 1956, was a -Studebaker- PR executive. It was interesting to find that the top Cord and top Corvette historians were reading !
what I wrote for fans of AMC --- that being what some AMC fans weren't interested in reading.
All in all, it is interesting.
After all, all life should be.
Over time, always interesting.
100 years ago, my grandfather probably rode in a Packard (I don't know for sure; I only know for sure that they owned Packards since the '20s) and 50 years ago, he still did (he never learned to drive): either in his big black '49 (he did not like the '50s limos) or in his third wife's big red '53 convertible. 50 years ago, my father bought a '56 Packard after just buying a '55 Packard (breaking his three-year rule) because he didn't like the '57 Studebaker that pretended to be a Packard (just like the '55 Nash had pretended to be a Hudson), thus, when I was 3, I could ride in 1 of 4 Packards. Too bad I was just a dumb kid back then.
For 50 years (from 1906 to 1956), Packard Motors had gone from being a part of America that had weathered 5 decades of -wrenching- changes to a last-off car.
2 World Wars, 1 "action" and much more. Booms, busts, and a Great Depression that had made most makes not made by GM, Ford and Chrysler likewise long gone.
Technological change that no one could possibly have dreamt up. Tom Swift? Dick Tracy? George Orwell? Huh? There was no Locomobile, Pierce, Cunningham, Franklin, or Peerless after 50 years, but there still was a Packard and America still was the greatest country in the whole wide world.
>From 1956 to 2006, Packard (and Studebaker and Hudson and DeSoto and Studebaker and Checker and AMC and Oldsmobile and Plymouth and such) would disappear and there was even more change that no one had imagined. The world viewed via computer screen, visited via cell phone; and living longer via technology, so when there was no Packard, there was Cadillac (and Lincoln and Imperial and Buick and Ambassador and such) and America still was one of the greatest countries in the world.
Then there was Acura (and Lexus and Infiniti and Azera and such) and Cadillac became a truck, Lincoln became a taxi, and Imperial came and went and came back --- never nearing what it had, in 1906 ("Imperial" meant other American cars before Chrysler built his first...), in 1956, and, with some generosity, in 1981 --- at least they were trying [computers in cars? Wow!] then --- once been.
By the time I could buy a Packard, an AMC Ambassador was the closest thing left (of course a Cadillac/Buick/Lincoln/Chrysler would have been somewhat closer but it would not have been a real American independent): 35 years ago this spring I sprung for one and ordered the calendar to be turned back. To 1956, if not to 1949 or 1926 or to the 1906 Packard [?] of my granddad.
>From 1996 to 2006 my "AMC Packard" sat in storage (actually from 1984...) and 10 years in an online AMC world passed. As the real world changed as much as it had in 50 or 100 years in the past, a "Packard" remained in 1971 (or maybe in 1976, since it once was, after all, a road-going car) and life went on. When AMC became yet another vanished American independent, that Ambassador was still a real "living link" to what Packard had once been 50 and 100 years back.
Decades are doors to history; that's why I asked you to look into AMC history in January, February, and March. I even gave you "2/6/1966" as a start. The silence was deafening. Even the AMC wake must be over now.
In the nearly 27 years since my Spirit was built, American Motors has gone from being part of the everyday scene to being seen mostly at car shows and being seen rarely on the road in western New York. American motors (meaning GM, Ford, and Chrysler) have gone from being the makes most of America drove to being the makes struggling most for shares in America. The United Auto Workers of America has gone from being a 1.5 million-man/woman middle-class march to being a 2/3-smaller whimpering willow. Once, the best car frames were made of American white ash but like those Cord and Corvette men, they now date to an older American age.
http://www.crailville.com/feature/f2_constr.htm
America of today and tomorrow must build in more modern automotive ways.
America went from being young/strong/smart to being older/weaker/dumber.
Over time, maybe the only way.
And America, always changing.
Mopar has gone from being powered by Hemis made proud by Pettys to being pimped up by semi HEMI and pumped down by SBC Benz. To "Crossfire" with an old Cordoba would be to face off at a crap game in Monte Carlo with a Matador. Only there's no more softly-padded rich Corinthian leather to fall down upon
http://www.tocmp.com/pix/images/1976ChryslerCordobaSportCoupe.jpg
http://www.nashnut.com/archives/p75matador1.jpg
http://www.matadorcoupe.com/images/AMC763.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/m39s4
http://www.autobooksbishko.com/products/stdImages/1683.jpeg
http://www.geocities.com/motorCity/Garage/3222/met28s.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/hzo52
and no one to see "eye-to-eye" with AMC-Jeep down the road.
http://membres.lycos.fr/rvmarg99/telechar/alpine-1024.jpg
http://sameens.dia.uned.es/Trabajos/T2A/ESalmoral/wall3.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/hkps8
http://tinyurl.com/k2fr2
http://tinyurl.com/pjk9p
Had a new AMX been able to face off with a new Corvette,
http://tinyurl.com/nzlzz
http://tinyurl.com/l9t6y
American motors may not be going, going, (gone) so fast,
http://hvtm.totalcar.hu/car/m/renault/272266.jpg
but American motorists don't dig into American car history and Franco-American Motors' failures, and they don't ponder why a German-American motors should be better than Mopar-AMC-Jeep or Toyota-Honda-Nissan-etc. but isn't.
http://tinyurl.com/n4v8w
http://www.schwab-kolb.com/dcnew115.htm
http://www.whnet.com/4x4/pix/sbc3.jpg
http://www.whnet.com/4x4/pix/sbc1BIG.jpg
Yet no one today, not even with "King of the Hill" history, rides free.
There are no brakes or breaks in the "tough American" motors world now.
American motorists should be cautious, conflicted and highly concerned.
They don't know what they don't know (or they are very easily confused)
http://www.boschappliances.com/promo_popup.cfm?highlight_id=85
since they cannot work and/or learn while playing, eating and sleeping.
(Around: TomKat, Brangelina, Jay-Z, and Ja Rule are American royalty??)
It takes hard work to be the best when there's some -real- competition.
AMC lumbered from '54-'57; lucked out from '58-'62; launched its attack from '63-'66, and almost realized its dreams from '67-'73, but when a car world did what AMC did and did it better, cheaper or more attractively, AMC couldn't carry on and it was soon gone. Packard was once American royalty; Nash was once America's Ambassador. Both were once very big in America. And in the whole world.
Cadillac once proved itself to be "Standard of the World" when, nearly 100 years ago (in 1908), Henry Leland took three factory-built Cadillacs across the Atlantic, took them apart, tossed their parts together, and reassembled them for a 500-mile torture-test drive. In 2006, Cadillac must prove itself to be working -up toward- the standards of the world set by Mercedes and BMW and Lexus --- even if a 2006 Cadillac is built well beyond the standards America built to when it built the best cars in the world. 50 years ago, the world still tried to build a Cadillac but, in 1956, it still was a car for Kings.
http://members.tripod.com/~cool59/elv56c1.jpg
Cadillac once was B-I-G!!!
For America, times change.
GM has gone from being the best-imagined, best-beauty, best-seller firm in the world to being the world's number two carmaker, America's number one basket case, and all American motorists' worst "what if?" nightmare. They might drive Toyotas, BMWs, Hyundais (or AMCs?), but when they live, work, and pay taxes in America, they all will feel General Motors' pain.
Ford has gone from being a glass house shining under a Dearborn sun that won Le Mans to a sod-roofed remnant upon the River Rouge under orders to pay X $ to Honda for the right to Mark its once-Continental Lincoln with an X just to dream of competing with an Acura-ate Lex-urious Infiniti of Better Ideas: too many of them built and sold by non-American companies.
One of the remaining American motors "Big-Two" will even have gone from racetrack regular to domestic dropout within the next 2.7 years, for it can't afford to pour more billions into the bottomless NASCAR money pit. Ovals where Plymouth, Dodge, Chevy, Pontiac, Ford, Hudson, AMC, and more once roared may only hear the squeal of Toyota V-8s and sell the squeals of even more Toyota fans to ensure that America's favorite "All-American Sport" becomes even richer. Keep the fat fools happily entertained and they won't wonder where AMC's America has gone.
Gone from the greatest auto nation with an industry that put all America on wheels to the nation with the greatest disparity between its image of itself and its provable achievements. America has gone from spending a greater percentage of GDP on government, education, health "care", (and on cars) than any of its competitors, to become an America that realizes the lowest returns on its [mostly borrowed] "investment" in the American people. As America has gone from the top to near the bottom; from dream to decay, from brightest to dimming, from dumb to dumber; from creating the best cars for the world to copy to scrambling to copy the best cars of the world, America has been changed in 100, 50, 25 --- or even 10 --- years. Impala has gone from a scintillating SS to a simulated Accord; Buick has gone from being a Roadmaster to a Passat clone; Saturn has gone from being seen for stardom to seeing stars in an Opel stone. And an American icon known as Jeep has gone off to see !
the Wizards (of North America, Central America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, China, plus, of course, Japan, Korea, and anywhere in Asia where skill is high and cost is low; dunno 'bout the Wizard of OZ) in hopes of finding nerve (and a brain) to grow off and -on- the Yellow Brick Road.
Confer with the flowers, consult with the rain, and unravel the riddle:
"The Imperial Wizard of Cars will do wonderful Jeep things because ---"
http://news.caradisiac.com/IMG/jpg/Chrysler_Imperial_Concept_3.jpg
http://news.caradisiac.com/IMG/jpg/Chrysler_Imperial_Concept_2.jpg
(Because just about "Anything Goes" in cars now?)
http://car-reviews.automobile.com/images/cars/ArtImages/12447/07.jpg
(Or because a smile is a frown turned upside down?)
http://autoblog.it/uploads/alfa_159_gta_hardy.jpg
If America bought a Jeep from Lee Iacocca, America can also buy a Jeep from Brazil, Belgrade, or Beijing; if America can find a better buy by buying a Cheap "Jeep" from Chery, it could buy that instead. American motors can't continue losing thousands of unit sales (plus billions of dollars) every quarter while running plants at less than three-quarter capacity. If America can't find its own way to become smarter, better, faster, and more efficient at building Jeeps and Buicks and knock-offs of Toyotas from Prius to Lexii, America, like American Motors, will be gone. In 100 years? In 50? In 27? In 10?
Toyota builds nearly 2 million cars in America, employs nearly 40,000 Americans in its plants (thousands more selling, re-selling, servicing and pimping them after they're built), pours nearly 20 billion dollars into American investment, and buys 26 billion dollars of American-made parts to build its cars in America. Toyota is not going to disappear.
Toyota looks back (remember that when you see a new Supra) -and- ahead.
If America were to study "Global Vision 2010." "To promote the appeal of [Toyota] cars throughout the world and realize a large increase in the number of Toyota fans"), America should see the future clearly, and if American motors can see where it needs to be in 5 --- or 10 or 50 --- years, it may be able to go from being another American Motors to being another Packard of 1906, a General Motors of 1956, or a Toyota of 2006.
"You're out of the woods
You're out of the dark
You're out of the night
Step into the sun, step into the light
Keep straight ahead
For the most glorious place
On the Face of the Earth"
In America, great again.
PS - Guess who passed out plastic bags at the NY Auto Show: big, sturdy red bags with comfortable tube handles that everyone carried everywhere showing a logo and name on each side. Who's moving forward in America?
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5807/1885/1600/IM000304.jpg
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
While dead wood slowly rots away.
PPS - according to Alexa (who started counting -up- the net 10 years ago this month, exactly 2 months before I started counting -on- the net to rekindle my interest in AMC), this old listing house ranks 745,233rd in net traffic. The top car sites now are Honda.com at 1,479th, Toyota.com at 1,922nd, Ford.com at 3,250th, and GM.com at 3,934th. Lesser lights do shine: BMWUSA.com at 4,357, MBUSA.com at 4,568, Lexususa.com at 4,640, VW.com at 5,354, BMW.com at 6,053, Audiusa.com at 7,203, Ferrari.it at 12,565, Volvousa.com at 21,922, AstonMartin.com at 22,388, Saabusa.com at 22,821, Jaguar.com at 24,722, Maserati.com at 42,729, Mini.com at 46,358, BentleyMotors.com at 51,403, Lamborghini.com at 66,464, Rolls-Roycemotorcars.com at 153,679, and Maybachusa.com at 230,984. Do note, however, that AMC ran at almost twice the speed of Maserati.co.uk. It clocked in at a leisurely 1,353,131th.
So is AMC faster than a speeding bullet?
Is AMC rarer than either Ford or Chevy?
Is AMC hotter than a British Maserati?
Say "Cheerio!" and "Buon Appetito!"
In 10 years AMC will not be gone.
In 50 years AMC will be better.
In 100 years AMC will be tops.
America will be much changed.
Packard will live forever.
Among American royalty.
And AMC Ambassador?
Toyota may know.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:26:09 -0700
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] Fw: 76 (Green)Hornet sedan
To: amc-list@xxxxxxx
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On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 05:12, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " ----- Original Message -----
> " From: KHPE97S@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "
> "
> " I'm trying to get front coil spring perches,the bushings are worn/old shot and the perch is shifting to the side
>
> all '70-'83 amc front ends except the pacer are the same. you can
> raid any of them for perches; you might even be able to find them new.
New spring perch bushings are not available; all of the old ones are
junk, don't bother with them.
However it's easy to rebuild them; John Elle worked out a solution, I
put a copy of it here:
http://wps.com/AMC/bushings.html
Mine's been in place for a year of driving, 15000+ miles, no problems so
far!
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:41:28 +0000
From: farna@xxxxxxx
Subject: [AMC-List] V-8 Crossmember for big car
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx (AMC-List)
Message-ID:
<042220060141.11642.444989C80009650900002D7A21602810600E029D0E00@xxxxxxx>
I'm passing this on for Jim Boone....
I need some information on crossmember applications:
I advertised for a V8 crossmember (through my club newsletter) for my '67
Rebel wagon (currently has a 232 six).
I've been offered one from a '68 AMX; will this fit? I didn't think it
would, but thought I'd throw it out to some of you that are better informed.
I have a '73 360 that's rebuilt and sitting on a stand I want to use.
Thanks,
Jim Boone
Mims, FL
fljab@xxxxxxxxxxx
--
Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Independent
Magazine" (AIM)
For all AMC enthusiasts
http://farna.home.att.net/AIM.html
(free download available!)
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:00:51 +0000
From: farna@xxxxxxx
Subject: [AMC-List] IMPORTANT FOR ALL AOL, YAHOO, and HOTMAIL ACCOUNT
USERS!!!
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx (AMC-List)
Message-ID:
<042220060200.24558.44498E530008FA4600005FEE21602810600E029D0E00@xxxxxxx>
Remember those people who complained loudly when the list changed servers, the ones that forgot they had ever subscribed? It seems that 3-4 days of getting the relatively few mail messages (no more than 30 in one day, and most of those were messages they generated with "get me off" messages sent to the list) was to much for them. A few apparently complained to AOL and Yahoo (which owns Hotmail) before Tom and I could delete them. Both AOL and Yahoo have a heavy handed way of dealing with complaints -- they block the server. The result is because of a few complaints no one using those mail systems can get list mail. Several members with AOL and Yahoo/hotmail addresses have recently complained about not being able to post mail either through e-mail or the web site. The reason is AOL and HYahoo/hotmail is blocking the site.
Tom and I have sent explanations to AOL and Yahoo. Both sent us forms to fill out to allow mail to go through. The Yahoo form will be sent in shortly, and might go through. AOL has told us to "resubmit in 30 days". This is likely so they can monitor traffic from the list server.
If you are with AOL or Yahoo/hotmail DO NOT resubscribe at this time with an AOL, Yahoo, or hotmail account. The server will try to send you a confirmation message four times then unsubscribe you after it bounces four times. These four tries might be seen as spam attempts by AOL or Yahoo.
What you CAN do is report the problem of not being able te receive mail or sign up to the list to AOL/Yahoo/hotmail. If enough users complain (provided any see this!) they should relent and let the messages through. In the meantime, try another e-mnail account such as a free g-mail account or another ISP. This may be a good time to consider a "real" ISP instead of a captive system. Other ISPs would allow individual users to block mail or just block the address for the complaining user.
I'll repeat this message in a few days to give more people the opportunity to read it on the web site since it's not going out to AOL/Yahoo/hotmail account holders.
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE ON THE LIST
--
Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Independent
Magazine" (AIM)
For all AMC enthusiasts
http://farna.home.att.net/AIM.html
(free download available!)
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:33:19 -0400
From: farna@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] Storing an Engine
To: amcrelay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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If the engine is sealed it's not likely to rust inside. Squirt some oil in the cylinders then rotate the engine a few times to coat the cylinder walls then stuff rags in all openings and duct tape over. The cylinder walls don't usually rust. If moisture gets in the intake or exhaust ports the rings can rust to the cylinder walls. They usually just stick, but can cause minor pitting on the walls where they were stuck. If the heads are off or loose rub the cylinder walls with a thin coat of grease. I've never stored one upside down, have stored several right side up as described above.
I've got a bare block that I rubbed grease in the bores and on all machined surfaces that's been sitting in the trunk of a parts car for 10 years. I checked it last time I was down. A little leaking in the trunk, some surface rust on the outside of the block, but all machined surfaces are ready to be cleaned and used.
On April 20, 2006 Todd Tomason wrote:
> What's the recommended way to store an engine? I remember someone on here
> talking about storing an engine upside down to avoid rust in the cylinder
> walls. Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Todd
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:11:57 -0400
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Subject: [AMC-List] Crossmember
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:11:04 +0000
From: farna@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] Getting An Early Jump On The Spring Clean Up
To: amc-list@xxxxxxx
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Doc, there are a number of spray on/wash off wheel cleaners. Any that are safe for "anodized aluminum" will also be safe for painted wheels. The stuff that is specifically for chrome will make an anodized wheel dull and could do the same with paint.
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:44:14 -0400
From: AMC74Hornet@xxxxxxxxx (Mr. AMC)
Subject: [AMC-List] Getting An Early Jump On The Spring Clean Up
First a question. I need to know of a mild wheel cleaning solution to do
my painted detail's wheels. The front ones did not come quite clean
because of the disc brake dust. I painted these wheel with Sherman
Williams acrylic enamel and clear coated them with Eastwoods Diamond
Satin Clear. I don't want to take the chance of using to harsh a cleaner
to ruin all my hours of hard work, but I want them clean.
Doc
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:44:00 -0500
From: Todd Tomason <jayscore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] Spring Perches (was: Re: Fw: 76 (Green)Hornet
sedan)
To: amc-list@xxxxxxx
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You also see them on eBay once in a while (auction # 4631988271). These are
$155 for a set, but he does good work. I bought a set in Kenosha in 2002.
I'm pretty sure he's using the same bushings as John Elle specified.
Todd
On Friday 21 April 2006 20:26, Tom Jennings wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 05:12, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> > " ----- Original Message -----
> > " From: KHPE97S@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > "
> > "
> > " I'm trying to get front coil spring perches,the bushings are worn/old
> > shot and the perch is shifting to the side
> >
> > all '70-'83 amc front ends except the pacer are the same. you can
> > raid any of them for perches; you might even be able to find them new.
>
> New spring perch bushings are not available; all of the old ones are
> junk, don't bother with them.
>
> However it's easy to rebuild them; John Elle worked out a solution, I
> put a copy of it here:
>
> http://wps.com/AMC/bushings.html
>
> Mine's been in place for a year of driving, 15000+ miles, no problems so
> far!
>
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