AMC-List Digest, Vol 9, Issue 49

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: pulling an axle (Tom Jennings)
   2. AMC Wheels 15 inches and beyond! Bling? (John Elle)
   3. carb id question (Eddie Stakes)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:18:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] pulling an axle
To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, johnny kazek wrote:

>    Possibly another stupid question:   Initial torque to attach hub with
>    or without wheel on?    Start it without then put tire on?

It's a lot of torque, and hard to apply. What most people do
is put the wheel on the car with at least a few lugs, snug,
drop the car onto the pavement, apply the parking brake, and
THEN tighten the nut. Even then the car will want to roll :-)

You can get really close on the torque with a 3/4" drive socket,
extention and breaker-bar. Assemble all that onto the nut so the
breaker bar is horizontal; put a jackstand under the extention
so it's straight out from the axle.

My breaker bar is 18" (1.5 foot). I weight 150 lbs. 1.5 * 150=
225 lbs of torque on the tip of the breaker bar, applied there
with the ball of my foot. I pick up my 40 lb tool box and it's
285 lbs of torque. Go from there.

>    When this works out I'm buying all you guys a beer-

Sapporo!



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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:28:50 -0700
From: "John Elle" <johnelle@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] AMC Wheels 15 inches and beyond! Bling?
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Wheels to fit AMC cars from junk yard sources are not limited to 14 and
15 inch wheels although there are a lot of wheels manufactured that will
fit these cars. To see a fairly complete list go to;
http://www.amccf.com/
and follow the directions to enter the site and look under technical for
the incredibly large choice of AMC information until you find the wheel
list. 
But to continue on into the newer wheels, the Dodge Caravan and Chrysler
T&C used 16 and 17 inch wheels and have the same bolt pattern. 
I have a set of Ford Bronco aluminum wheels that look as if they will go
on an AMC car with out interference as far as I checked at this point in
time. I also have a set of 17 inch aluminum wheels that appear as they
might work too from a T&C. Right now I am running the 16 inch Bronco
wheels on my T&C as I blew 2 tires and shredded the tread on a third one
all with in a weeks time and the Bronco Wheels had almost new tires on
them. No sense in wasting good tires. With wheels of this nature you
start getting some interesting off sets which may or may not work in the
long run. 
John
 
 


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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:51:48 -0500
From: "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] carb id question
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Cc: MPARKSMCE@xxxxxxx
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First great website, i enjoy it alot. I hate to bug ya, but could you lead
me in the direction to ID a carb? It came with my AMX, and cannot find any 
info
 on it on the web, i have about 3 hours looking.It's an autolite and the tag
says  2T4M AA EC 28
 thanks if ya can help! By the way, i live in the same town as that  picture
you have for the AMC dealership in Corydon Indiana, i freaked when i saw 
it,
and tomorrow i am going to bug the people that have it now, and see if there
are any goodies left, it's still a mechanic shop....and the coke machine 
still
 works....thanks, mark
MPARKSMCE@xxxxxxx
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anyone that might be able to help Mark positively ID the carb feel free to 
give him a shout, and post here, he will be reading it, might even join, 
thanks in advance to all who may reply.
Eddie Stakes
Eddie Stakes'
Planet Houston AMX
713.464.8825
eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.planethoustonamx.com
Email is currently HEAVY
5-12 day reply times, call if important 



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