Re: [Amc-list] that nutty "big nut" rear, photos

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Oh, just be glad your able to do it!
I'm very slowly going insane, wait, we decided it was too late...

Oh well, The pity would be that if I did go off the deep end no one around here would ever figure out what all the crap is for !!!


--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
" Chronic Pain Hurts"

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Matt Haas wrote:
> 
> > Just click your wrenches together and repeat three times: There's no nut
> > like a big nut!
> 
> See if I'm still joking around tomorrow -- it's driveshaft day.
> 
> Got the bell on last week. Today, all the little junk then the
> trans. I didn't have a clutch alignment tool (hard to find,
> oddball shaft), so I eyeballed it for concentric, but left the
> clutch plate bolts loose.
> 
> Car's on jackstands, I dragged the trans underneath, got
> sideways, got it up on my hip, stuck it in the hole... went
> right in first shot! Not even 5 minutes!
> 
> This bell has a lower dust cover, so I just turned the flywheel
> round and round bringing the bolts up tight. Easy. Had to remove
> the x-member to put the tin cover on, no big deal. (Remember
> this is a four-point mount car, the rear x-member is on the
> bell right behind the clutch.
> 
> Then I broke both shoft rod clevises. They were hard steel
> and brittle! Frozen to the shafts, lock nuts frozen, etc. One
> of the few parts I didn't take out, hot tank, media blast and
> paint. Welded them back up fine. Took 3+ hours to get all the
> small stuff back in, wired, tightened etc.
> 
> Parking brake adjuster rod -- nuts frozen, sheared coming apart,
> so I'll weld on a new long threaded section. ALl that junk gets
> painted and greased.
> 
> Tomorrow, the starter (BIG PITA!!) and driveshaft, rear.
> 
> Other than old-neglected-car junk, it's an easy car to work
> on. It's tight and cluttered only around the clutch linkage,
> a bunch of brackets, springs, levers, exhaust and starter all
> in the same corner. Took me an hour to figure out how it all
> went together there!
> 
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