Re: [AMC-List] 1988 Eagle Premier

["Rhett Butler" <amc.inline.six@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, the Premier has a longitudinally-mounted engine. It's not transverse,
like most FWD cars. So it might not be in that evil of a place. However, if
I get the car, I will hunt high and low to find a manual on it so that I can
repair whatever's reasonable myself.

Does anybody know how possible a 4.0 conversion is? Since the car has
absolutely no value at all, when I get enough dough to play with it, I might
try to turn it into a more proper AMC by changing out the Eagle badges for
AMC ones, and maybe putting Concord or Ambassador emblems on it,
and installing a 4.0 would be nice. I'd probably try to find some '91-92
taillights as well because I like them better.

But that's IF I get this car, and IF I ever see fit to play around with it.
Just thoughts bouncing around in my head.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Peace,

Rhett

On 9/27/06, Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Rhett,
>
> I just changed the A/C compressor clutch on my 96 Ram last weekend. It
> wasn't that bad of a job (it took me about 3 hours, an hour of which was
> getting the pulley off). It would have gone much faster if A) I had a
> wrench the right size to get the fan off the engine so I could get the fan
> shroud out of the way (a problem you're not going to have) and B) the
> puller I rented from AutoZone had deep enough jaws to fit on the pulley
> (it's on there with a light press fit). I also rented a clutch holding
> tool
> which worked great for the old clutch but not for the new one (this also
> added time to the work). The only other special tool I needed was a pair
> of
> snap ring pliers. The only really bad part of the job was not being able
> to
> get the part from anyone except a dealer and it was $219 plus tax.
>
> All this being said, I would try and find out what exactly it will take to
> fix this. Being that the car in question is front wheel drive, the
> compressor could be in an evil place. Also, my experience was with a
> Sanden
> R-134a compressor which is most likely not what's on this car.
>
> Matt
>
> At 12:03 PM 9/27/2006 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hello all! I'm looking at getting an a-b type car for not much money, and
> I
> >found a 1988 Eagle Premier ES for sale.
> >
> >The problems are a burnt-out "air compressor clutch" and a driver's seat
> >belt buckle that needs to be replaced. Is this "air compressor clutch" a
> >part to the air conditioning? Is the vehicle otherwise driveable with
> this
> >problem until I would get it fixed?
> >
> >Apparently, the car has all service records since new and has 140k on the
> >clock. I've owned an AMC before and used to be a regular on this list
> about
> >5 years ago. If anyone can provide me some advice, that'd be great.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Rhett
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