Re: [Amc-list] got no wheels!

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Sounds like one step forward!
Just don't forget to keep an eye out for the next place to put your foot down!
I worked on the XJ last weekend, this weekend I discovered both axle joints are toast...
The bad thing is I knew they were going or gone, but with everything else I forgot I heard them complaining last winter/spring when 4X4 eas engaged. Now they are real gone, I'm looking to find time to get them replaced. at least they aren't froze so we can still drive it for the time being. 
  I need to get them in soon. Still needs an e-brake cable too.
Have fun with that ever expanding list of American issues! 

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Damn, it's all ready to go, but no front wheels!!
> 
> Got the engine together, pumped gas through the pump and lines until clean, 
> cleaned the carb, fired right up and I set valves and head re-torque (2 bbl 
> car you have to remove the carb to get two head bolts!).
> 
> Left the oil line to the head finger-tight, lost a few ounces of oil. 
> Ooops. No sign of the missing spider either.
> 
> Heater valve sprung a leak (it was a valve-shaped lump of rust before I 
> worked it over), it's a lost cause. Plugged the head for now, no problemo. 
> Then the radiator lower tank seam sprung a leak. All of the brass in the 
> radiator converted to corrosion decades ago, so no surprise there. It was 
> on the short list, now it's top of the list.
> 
> And so it goes.
> 
> I hope the clutch lasts long enough to evaluate it, the trans long enough 
> to build a replacement, that the rear wheel bearings don't grind out of 
> their housings, that the motor mounts don't fall out until I find 
> replacements, ... everything else I can fix on the side of the road!
> 
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