Re: [Amc-list] pre-64 American (Nash) suspension

["Bruce Griffis" <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don't forget Blaser's! I tried my usual supplier (not naming names,
they might have just had a bad week or been too busy). After no call
back on a Wednesday and a Thursday then a holiday on Friday, and no
call back on Monday and Tuesday (and with leaving messages with a
co-worker eah day) - I called Blaser's.

Got a call back within the hour, got plenty of good info and got some
questions answered. Got my box'o-parts today.

I wasn't going for trunnions or trunnion rebuild parts - but for what
I needed they were fast.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Davis Martin wrote:
>> So where is the best place to get replacement parts and what do they usually cost. I am not talking about already rebuilt stuff for big $ I would like to do them myself. Are the bearings and bushings available at a [parts store or is it amc vendor only stuff?
>
> I think everyone calls Galvin's, Parts Depot, etc. Bushings are fairly
> cheap, many AMC app bushings will fit; the OEM ones have a built-in
> depth stop for the press-in, but you can set the depth by measuring. The
> replacements are not exact but seem to hold up fine. It looks like
> post-1970 AMC bushings would fit top and bottom.
>
> I've got 8000 miles on my home made suspension parts now. I checked it
> weekly, then monthly, nothing's loosened etc. I made my own trunnion
> bolt with a short chunk of chrome-moly threaded rod from MSC Direct, no
> way to know if that's wearing excessively except to remove it, and I
> have no reason to do that (or to believe it's wearing badly). It greases
> fine.
>
> Fabbing the parts was trivial.
>
> http://wps.com/AMC/1963-Rambler-American/Suspension/
>
> THe page says there's a 'shopping list' for MSC but it's not there. It's
> all described though. Just O-rings and that rod.
>
>
> Of all my AMCs, which all have mostly top-notch suspensions, this one is
> the quietest. The Hornets crunch and groan; the Classic lower arm inner
> bushings and home-made strut bushings groan. The American is silent and
> smooth.
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