Re: [Amc-list] Ambassador for sale

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I don't have anything here to compare side plates too, but I believe that the entire 4" is in the crossmember. The engine mount plates are a good ways back on the Ambassadors.
  I always thought it would be a great crossmember to set the engine back under the firewall on an altered wheelbase Classic! You'd have to be planning on loosing the torque tube too though.


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Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5

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From: "Swygert, Francis G MSgt 436 CES/CECM" <Francis.Swygert3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> The first sentence could be misleading -- that's why I added the
> caveats, which I thought covered most of what you did, just not in
> detail. 
> 
> All the glass is the same -- for the same body styles. The stripped unit
> body is almost the same except for the quarter panels and the 66-67
> Ambassador stretch. 
> 
> One thing I do want to clear up -- the torque tubes ARE THE SAME for
> stretched Ambos and all other 63-66 models, one for V-8s, one for sixes.
> I recently looked that up in the parts book. The suspension crossmember
> is different for the 66-67 Ambo due to the engine setback/longer
> wheelbase, but that just affects the engine mount perches. I believe the
> side plates must be different -- will have to look that up now! 4" is a
> lot of engine setback from the crossmember, but could be done with just
> the perches. It's been to long since I've looked under the hood of a 65+
> Ambassador! 
> 
>
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