Re: [Amc-list] big a** wrenches

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Frank Swygert wrote:

> The "big nut" drive shaft isn't as bad as everyone is making out. How often do you need to change u-joints? Once every 10 years unless something unusual happens?

Yeah, it's just funny. The PITA is -- who the !!#@! has a pair of 1.75"
open ended wrenches?!!

Soon, me :-) I'll tell ya how it works out.


> Everyone is so used to the way things have been done over the
> last 40 years that if something is "different" they get all
> discombobulated over it.

The older I get the more I *LIKE* the oddities. Like trunnion
front ends -- if everyone thinks I'm nuts, fine by me, more
parts for me to drive my cars on -- trunnion front ends are
superior to ball joint designs.  It's a BETTER DESIGN (for a
tall-fendered car). It cost AMC more to make; BFD today. It is
weirder to setup; eh, that's what brains and TSMs are for.

Ball joints fall apart when you don't grease them too, only you
can go to a store and buy new ones -- so far anyways. Probably
not for long. Then you ball-joint fans are screwed! :-)

Maybe when I'm done I'll prefer big-nut rears. [Probably not.] If
I can only find a replacement seal... :-)

There's few things on AMCs I've personally seen that are
inherently bad designs -- 70-up door hinges, for example, or
70-up 01 chassis doors that crack and split. The stupid fuse
blocks. Wavy-spring seats. Plastic valve covers. Luckily for
us, none are deep-design like Vega engines. (The aluminum six
doesn't really count. And I still want one :-)
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