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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: & Choke heat tube (Mark Price)
   2. 62 classic and front swaybar bolting (Mark Price)
   3. Nash cans in NY Times? (Tom Jennings)
   4. Nice AMC's at Duffy's in Cedar Rapids IA 68 Javelin 59
      American (Jesse)
   5. Choke heater tube (Sly Rose)
   6. Label me; label you; label AMC (Mahoney, John)
   7. Re: & Choke heat tube (Tom Jennings)
   8. Re: Label me; label you; label AMC (Arfon)
   9. Jeep Cherokee problem,	help wanted - turn signals quit
      working... (Jerry Casper)
  10. Re: What I did this weekend & Choke heat tube & The engine
      label? - 1967 232... (Matt Haas)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 6:23:42 -0700
From: Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] & Choke heat tube
To: amc-list@xxxxxxx
Cc: francis.swygert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <4405198.1148563422327.JavaMail.root@web21>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

All good info for the hot air choke. If you need a little bit if sealant to stop that slight leak till warm try JB Weld, A slight dab of high temp silicone will work too. Just enough to seal the outside edge as rust will form and seal it in a while anyway. 
--
Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- francis.swygert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
> John Elle has a better memory than he thinks! I've had problems in the
> past with the choke tube rusting/breaking/leaking INSIDE the exhaust
> manifold. I drilled the old tube out and carefully inserted a piece of
> steel brake line in. It might leak a slight amount, when cold, but
> everything expands as the engine warms if the tube is a snug (but not so
> tight it won't go in) fit. The same steel can be used all the way up to
> the carb, but copper will work as good. If you're getting carbon inside
> the choke housing the tube has a leak inside the manifold. Should be
> nothing but air in there! 
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 6:42:08 -0700
From: Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] 62 classic and front swaybar bolting
To: amc-list@xxxxxxx
Cc: francis.swygert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <29394167.1148564528069.JavaMail.root@web21>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

If you thru bolt the sway bar like this, another way to do it so you don't crush or distort the frame rails is to drill the hole you need for the bolt in the bottom and thru to the top. Then take a bit as large as the outside of a piece of pipe, your choice on size depending on what will fit over the bolt! Drill this size in the top of the rail only.
 Drop the pipe in the rail and mark it flush with the top of the rail. Then cut it off.
Use the bolt and a washer under the head of the bolt then the pipe.
Like so,
   T    Bolt
   --     Washer
   II   pipe
   --  Lower frame rail
   -- swaybar bracket
   # Nut

This diagram sucks, but it's all I could get to work out with this web based email!
The idea is your creating a shouldered bolt that only applies force/clamping on the lower frame rail and none on the upper. If you use a large enough fender washer at the top spot you will not see the larger hole around the pipe.
 This method will allow you to tighten the sway bar bracket fully and not crush the frame rail.
  

--
Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- francis.swygert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
> Dave, you'll have to modify something no matter what. I'd suggest using
> a Concord front bar, and maybe an Eagle rear. The four bar rear
> suspension probably doesn't need a rear sway bar though. Your car rolls
> so much because of the soft springs more than anything. Once the
> suspension is stiffened up it will track better and roll less. 
> 
> I have a Concord front bar on my 63. I had to bend the ends a little to
> fit the stock sway bar locations on the lower arms. Bending a sway bar
> is okay as long as you DO NOT use heat. The ends are bent out at an
> angle on the Concord, I had to straighten them in a hydraulic press. To
> mount it I drilled down all the way through the front rails and used
> long bolts. You could use self tapping screws and just go through the
> lower part of the rail, but I didn't because that could pull out. 
> 
> Only the V-8 58-66 cars came with a sway bar, and it mounts to the rear.
> It won't work with a six -- I tried. The bar is made to go between the
> oil pan and bell on the V-8, and the six is at a different location. 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:23 PM
> From: d stohler <das24rules@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> what car would i look to for getting an anti sway bar front and rear?  
>    
>   dave stohler
>   camp taji iraq
> 
> 
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:24:11 -0700
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] Nash cans in NY Times?
To: amc-list <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <1148577850.6351.3.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain

Maybe someone with a windows or mac computer can see if the sidebar in
the article labelled "With Wagons' Comeback, New Interest in Originals",
a photo of a Brooklyn car collector with old cars in the background, are
Nash or Ramblers.

NYtimes recently changed their video/multimedia system so that it ony
works with Windows or OS X. I can't look at the video!

www.nytimes.com, down in the Auto section, or along the confusing,
cluttered sides somewhere.



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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:37:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jesse <j2sax@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] Nice AMC's at Duffy's in Cedar Rapids IA 68
	Javelin 59	American
To: AMC-List@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: mark@xxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <20060525173732.1424.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Hey, 

I saw these cars today and wanted to give some real
AMC freaks a shot at them.  Copy and paste into your
address bar to see them.  

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/j2sax/album?.dir=3952re2&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=

Contact Mark at Duffy's mark@xxxxxxxxxx after you go
to www.duffys.com for the details.  The Javelin is an
ALabama car, the Rambler is just plain AWEsome.  I
really like the Edelbrock WHeels.  

Have a great weekend, 

Jesse

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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:42:00 -0500
From: Sly Rose <sly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] Choke heater tube
To: amc-list@xxxxxxx
Message-ID: <4475FA78.4070601@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed

I just bought the choke heater tube kit by Mity-Mite.  Any store that 
carries Help! products should be able to order you one.  The part number 
is 76850.  Around $10.  I haven't figured out how to put it on yet!!

Sly



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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:07:24 -0400
From: "Mahoney, John" <jmahoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] Label me; label you; label AMC
To: <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID:
	<E8DF38ACFC17F94998DE284C5CE4582A02202BAD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="iso-8859-1"

Arfon asked:

"...accurate?"

>>
if you wonder why those inertia starters on Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto, Chrysler, Imperial, Valiant, Ford, Meteor, Edsel, Mercury, Monarch, Lincoln, Hudson, Essex, Terraplance, Nash, LaFayette, Rambler,. AMC, Studebaker, Rockne, Packard, Willys, and Jeep vehicles all look so similar, it's because they all trace their roots to Autolite.
<<

Indeed: beyond America, there was even more sharing.  In 1931, a Lucas-Bosch (CAV-Bosch) diesel engine joint venture had been accompanied by a promise not to compete in components like starters, but six years later, under orders from Berlin, Bosch sold CAV to Lucas, so, both before and after the Second War, similar --- or even the same --- starters started many marques, but they bore different component-maker names.  

To complicate that confusion, Rotax (yet another starter maker Lucas had acquired in the 1920s), CAV and Lucas also made starters under a license from Bendix, which, in 1932, also sold a majority interest in one of its British starter companies to Lucas (along with Bendix's ex-Rotax license for aircraft starters) with a wink and nod from the American government.  "America First" (Lindbergh, etc.) didn't mean we were -completely- blind to what'd been starting (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) cross the Atlantic.  A few Americans were, as a few Americans still are, praying for better days, but preparing for an Armageddon.  A majority of Americans were, and are, happily clueless.  But they do know who won the "American Idol" and the Mustang convertibles.  And Barbie's starter car.     

http://www.pinkponytail.com/Product_Images/recent_03/G8022o.jpg

So America still is a leader?

To end where we started, in 1937, to keep the top American starter maker out of its markets, Lucas began paying Autolite $50,000 a year, and that firm agreed to exchange starter technology --- and licenses --- in turn.
Thus, you may add even more makes with "Autolite" starters to your list.

So your motoring world turns.

Arfon also asked:

>>
This 1967 California 232 had a silver lable on the rocker arm cover...

http://www.arvonia.net/~arfon/Rambler%20Battery%20Tray/MVC-003F.JPG

...anyone know what it used to say?
<<

Two things.  1) It's another good example of how an online AMCyclopedia would beat posting-and-typing-and-posting-and-typing while hoping for a better day.  The first time any question came up, if an answer had been typed into an AMCyclopedia framework and edited, after additions and/or corrections by even more AMC fans, had Arfon not looked it up, he would simply need a link to follow.  Bingo.  Success.  No more of the lesser AMC.

Puttering is enjoyable.  Individualism is encouraged.  -Accomplishment- is essential for any endeavor to succeed and survive.  AMC now is a car company that failed.  If AMC now is a hobby for "doing their own thing" exclusively, AMC has failed again.  I'm not a writer but can find a word for AMC: Forward!

That's "Avanti" in Italian (as posted several times here) that any self-respecting mid-western (Indiana or Dakota) American independent car fan should be proud to know --- Studebaker Avanti was among the most important post-war designs American motors built (the world outside AMC acknowledges that fact) --- and also proud to make their own thing.

AMC failed because it couldn't see; it couldn't plan; it couldn't change what it had been doing comfortably.  It's painfully obvious now that collectible AMC is comfortable doing the same thing.  I've written yet another word here before.  No doubt it too, has no meaning.  Elcar.  As an earlier AMC.

2) It's another example of how excellent AMC information online cannot accomplish what it could if were AMC more a "co-op" than an "own thing" collector car endeavor.  Trunnions (double "n" is correct, even though the French --- yes, internationalism really is a good thing, and car lovers of every age, education, and economic level really can look, listen, learn, and accomplish for free --- is "trognon"), chokes (if you're choking on this now, you may be reading and learning, thus -accomplishing- something), and heat tubes were addressed.  Better than nothing, but just another one-time thing.

What happened to his other question?  If answered by "off-list" e-mail, what was accomplished?  One piece of info for one individual doing his own thing?  And for AMC?  If it wasn't answered at all, was -anything- accomplished?

Is that all that's left for the lovers of AMC?  Is that a way forward?  If no one can remember the entire parts (or just wants to remembers their "own thing" part) of AMC and no one looks ahead to a better AMC of tomorrow, why will anyone want to do anything with AMC cars or AMC people?

Cars and people can only succeed (yes, they both must -sell- themselves) because of how they are built, how they perform, how well they are serviced, how they look, how they are advertised and how they are perceived.  In words, pictures, and music.  Life is a grand opera.  It's not a game of solitaire.

Good cars can be failures; bad cars can be successes but it's the complete package that leads to survival.  Ford's "Bold Moves" and GM's "Then And Now" campaigns (if you don't know both, find out; if you don't want to know more, how very sad) recall AMC advertising.  I am lucky enough --- no, I worked hard enough --- to talk with many of the very people (smart people who know why looking, listening, and learning are important aspects of being alive...) who had worked for (or more accurately, -with-) AMC.  Mary Lawrence and several members of her staff once tried very hard to make more of AMC.  I've talked with designers on the AMC staff, from RAT to those who drew door handles for Grand Cherokee (yes, an -AMC- Jeep that Chrysler inherited almost finished) and in the shadows (yes, AMC, more than the Big-3, hired hired guns, or rather, Prismacolor pencils); I've talked with kids and grandkids of AMC leaders; and I've talked with anyone anywhere from Bloomfield to Agoura hills,!
  in Bergs (yes, there are still overseas AM secrets) and in 'burbs (Detroit to Stuttgart to Seminole swamp buggy) and I have jotted notes and drawn doodles during/after all those meetings.  I've seen the "Packard Pacer" color renderings and a '51 "Pacer" wagon; I know what a production AMX Turbo could've looked like; I've seen photos of an AMX/4 clay with 15" Turbocast III alloys.  I think such AMC things are worthwhile.  But maybe Larry Mitchell, Pat Foster, Retro Ralph --- and you --- don't.

I've listened to Lido, Dick, Chuck and a hundred others' AMC stories.  I've spent hours and days writing (pencil on paper, guard outside the door) notes in the most hallowed halls of Motown history.  I don't mean the Detroit Public Library National Automotive History Collection; I had much higher designs for AMC history than to just stop at that.

I should post a document file for the world?  What world?  Is the AMC World Club somewhere doing its something new?  Is the AMC List/AMC Forum/Gremlin/Pacer/etc. world doing something special that's some deep dark secret?  Are some Ambassador experts, Marlin experts, Matador experts, AMX experts, Javelin experts, and Pacer experts somewhere doing some dancing to tunes of some truly -cooperative- AMCyclopedic structure?

A rather respectable publisher won't publish a rather extensive book about a rather undervalued, yet still rather worthwhile American carmaker named American Motors.  "We just can't print a ~$100 reference book for such a small market."  "There is absolutely no demand for such degree of detail in that make/model segment."  "AMC collectors won't buy a Buick/Cadillac/Packard quality book; they want something that's much cheaper and much easier to read."

A rather colorful periodical won't publish much more than rather lightweight looks at AMC history.  It will publish in-depth looks at Chevrolet, Pontiac, Packard, and other makes, but "Our readers would not want such a wide-ranging comparative study involving AMC, so we can't devote that many pages, words, photos, charts to such a manufacturer."  

So that may be AMC now.  That may be the way you may like it.  RIP.

To a party now: recognizing staffers for -cooperative- achievement.

It's an Ice Cream Social, not an AMC List Picnic.  And that is sad.

Almost forgot:

http://faculty.concord.edu/chrisz/hobby/67-DataBook/DataBook-Eng/eng103.html

http://southtexasamc.tripod.com/osbdecal.htm



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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:06:44 -0700
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] & Choke heat tube
To: amc-list@xxxxxxx
Message-ID: <1148587603.6351.77.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain

I dunno if all that drilling is necessary, I bought a new choke stove
(as it's called) and tapped it into place normally. I forget which car.
NAPA might actually have it.

It's basically a steel tube, but it's got tapered and swaged ends to fit
just right.

Or you could go electric choke, and tap bolts into the hole (bottom one
is a PITA) and be done with it.




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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 16:00:14 -0500
From: Arfon <Arfon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] Label me; label you; label AMC
To: amc-list@xxxxxxx
Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20060525143201.01db2ec0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed


>Arfon also asked:
>
> >>
>This 1967 California 232 had a silver lable on the rocker arm cover...
>
>http://www.arvonia.net/~arfon/Rambler%20Battery%20Tray/MVC-003F.JPG
>
>...anyone know what it used to say?
><<
>
>Two things.  1) It's another good example of how an online AMCyclopedia 
>would beat posting-and-typing-and-posting-and-typing while hoping for a 
>better day.  The first time any question came up, if an answer had been 
>typed into an AMCyclopedia framework and edited, after additions and/or 
>corrections by even more AMC fans, had Arfon not looked it up, he would 
>simply need a link to follow.  Bingo.  Success.  No more of the lesser AMC.
>
>Puttering is enjoyable.  Individualism is encouraged.  -Accomplishment- is 
>essential for any endeavor to succeed and survive.  AMC now is a car 
>company that failed.  If AMC now is a hobby for "doing their own thing" 
>exclusively, AMC has failed again.  I'm not a writer but can find a word 
>for AMC: Forward!
>
>That's "Avanti" in Italian (as posted several times here) that any 
>self-respecting mid-western (Indiana or Dakota) American independent car 
>fan should be proud to know --- Studebaker Avanti was among the most 
>important post-war designs American motors built (the world outside AMC 
>acknowledges that fact) --- and also proud to make their own thing.
>
>AMC failed because it couldn't see; it couldn't plan; it couldn't change 
>what it had been doing comfortably.  It's painfully obvious now that 
>collectible AMC is comfortable doing the same thing.  I've written yet 
>another word here before.  No doubt it too, has no meaning.  Elcar.  As an 
>earlier AMC.

Good point! We need more input to the AMCyclopedia!  Everyone should 
contribute something and let the people with the organization skills sort 
it out.  I've contributed several things already.

One minor thing John, after about 240 words, you never did say what the 
sticker said...





>2) It's another example of how excellent AMC information online cannot 
>accomplish what it could if were AMC more a "co-op" than an "own thing" 
>collector car endeavor.  Trunnions (double "n" is correct, even though the 
>French --- yes, internationalism really is a good thing, and car lovers of 
>every age, education, and economic level really can look, listen, learn, 
>and accomplish for free --- is "trognon"), chokes (if you're choking on 
>this now, you may be reading and learning, thus -accomplishing- 
>something), and heat tubes were addressed.  Better than nothing, but just 
>another one-time thing.

Funny you should say this because, I asked about trunnions because I was 
adding this page: Hard To Find Parts & Services Directory 
(http://www.amcyclopedia.org/node/104)





>What happened to his other question?  If answered by "off-list" e-mail, 
>what was accomplished?  One piece of info for one individual doing his own 
>thing?  And for AMC?  If it wasn't answered at all, was -anything- 
>accomplished?
>
>Is that all that's left for the lovers of AMC?  Is that a way forward?  If 
>no one can remember the entire parts (or just wants to remembers their 
>"own thing" part) of AMC and no one looks ahead to a better AMC of 
>tomorrow, why will anyone want to do anything with AMC cars or AMC people?
>
>Cars and people can only succeed (yes, they both must -sell- themselves) 
>because of how they are built, how they perform, how well they are 
>serviced, how they look, how they are advertised and how they are 
>perceived.  In words, pictures, and music.  Life is a grand opera.  It's 
>not a game of solitaire.
>
>Good cars can be failures; bad cars can be successes but it's the complete 
>package that leads to survival.  Ford's "Bold Moves" and GM's "Then And 
>Now" campaigns (if you don't know both, find out; if you don't want to 
>know more, how very sad) recall AMC advertising.  I am lucky enough --- 
>no, I worked hard enough --- to talk with many of the very people (smart 
>people who know why looking, listening, and learning are important aspects 
>of being alive...) who had worked for (or more accurately, -with-) 
>AMC.  Mary Lawrence and several members of her staff once tried very hard 
>to make more of AMC.  I've talked with designers on the AMC staff, from 
>RAT to those who drew door handles for Grand Cherokee (yes, an -AMC- Jeep 
>that Chrysler inherited almost finished) and in the shadows (yes, AMC, 
>more than the Big-3, hired hired guns, or rather, Prismacolor pencils); 
>I've talked with kids and grandkids of AMC leaders; and I've talked with 
>anyone anywhere from Bloomfield to Agoura hills,!
>   in Bergs (yes, there are still overseas AM secrets) and in 'burbs 
> (Detroit to Stuttgart to Seminole swamp buggy) and I have jotted notes 
> and drawn doodles during/after all those meetings.  I've seen the 
> "Packard Pacer" color renderings and a '51 "Pacer" wagon; I know what a 
> production AMX Turbo could've looked like; I've seen photos of an AMX/4 
> clay with 15" Turbocast III alloys.  I think such AMC things are 
> worthwhile.  But maybe Larry Mitchell, Pat Foster, Retro Ralph --- and 
> you --- don't.
>
>I've listened to Lido, Dick, Chuck and a hundred others' AMC 
>stories.  I've spent hours and days writing (pencil on paper, guard 
>outside the door) notes in the most hallowed halls of Motown history.  I 
>don't mean the Detroit Public Library National Automotive History 
>Collection; I had much higher designs for AMC history than to just stop at 
>that.

You should contribute this information to the AMCArchives 
(www.AMCArchives.org)!!!!




>I should post a document file for the world?

YES YES YES!!! --> www.AMCArchives.org




>  What world?  Is the AMC World Club somewhere doing its something 
> new?  Is the AMC List/AMC Forum/Gremlin/Pacer/etc. world doing something 
> special that's some deep dark secret?  Are some Ambassador experts, 
> Marlin experts, Matador experts, AMX experts, Javelin experts, and Pacer 
> experts somewhere doing some dancing to tunes of some truly -cooperative- 
> AMCyclopedic structure?
>
>A rather respectable publisher won't publish a rather extensive book about 
>a rather undervalued, yet still rather worthwhile American carmaker named 
>American Motors.  "We just can't print a ~$100 reference book for such a 
>small market."  "There is absolutely no demand for such degree of detail 
>in that make/model segment."  "AMC collectors won't buy a 
>Buick/Cadillac/Packard quality book; they want something that's much 
>cheaper and much easier to read."

Post it to the AMCycolpedia and/or the AMCArchives!!!!



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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:38:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jerry Casper <gremlingts@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] Jeep Cherokee problem,	help wanted - turn signals
	quit working...
To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx, AMC <amc-delmarva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20060525223819.86861.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

  Was driving my Gremlin sticker-adorned '94 Cherokee
Sport to work Tuesday, and the turn signals were
acting flakey ( have been getting worse for a week ).
Wednesday, totally shut down when I started off to
work in the AM, nothing worked on the turn signals.
Brakes and emergency flasher work. I could move the
stalk some on Tuesday, and get a flash sometimes.
Nothing now. Jeep has 133k on the odometer. Anyone got
a guess as to the probable cause(s) ? Thanks for any
help,

Jerry in Virginia

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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 20:32:14 -0400
From: Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] What I did this weekend & Choke heat tube &
	The engine label? - 1967 232...
To: amc-list@xxxxxxx
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20060525202248.03bb4008@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed

Kennedy American lists the tube in the manifold for $8 if yours is damaged 
(if you don't feel any air coming out of the tube with the engine running, 
it's okay). The broken stub may not be that difficult to get out. The choke 
tube and the part in the manifold are not pressed together. You may be able 
to just pull it out with needle nose pliers or a screw extractor.

Matt

At 02:50 PM 5/24/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>I rebuilt my battery tray this weekend.  The back supports were still being
>held on by just a bit of rust so, I cut the back off and welded on a new 
>piece.
>
>
>BEFORE: http://www.arvonia.net/~arfon/Rambler%20Battery%20Tray/MVC-004F.JPG
>
>AFTER: http://www.arvonia.net/~arfon/Rambler%20Battery%20Tray/MVC-006F2.JPG
>
>
>
>Also, Thanks to Matt, I have determined that I am NOT missing a brass rod
>from my carburetor. But, I am missing the choke control mechanism.  It
>looks like there used to be a heat tube:
>
>         http://www.arvonia.net/~arfon/Rambler%20Battery%20Tray/MVC-002F.JPG
>         http://www.arvonia.net/~arfon/Rambler%20Battery%20Tray/MVC-001F.JPG
>
>         ...and that it was cut off and a manual choke installed.  I'd 
> like to put
>the automatic one back.  Any opinions on how to replace that tube?
>
>
>
>Lastly, This 1967 California 232 had a silver lable on the rocker arm cover...
>
>         http://www.arvonia.net/~arfon/Rambler%20Battery%20Tray/MVC-003F.JPG
>
>         ...anyone know what it used to say?
>
>_______________________________________________
>AMC-List mailing list
>AMC-List@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list
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>or go to http://www.amc-list.com

mhaas@xxxxxxx
Cincinnati, OH
http://www.mattsoldcars.com
1967 Rambler American wagon
1968 Rambler American sedan
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According to a February survey of Internet holdouts released by
UCLA's Center for Communication Policy, people cite
not having a computer as the No. 1 reason they won't go online.



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