[BaadAssGremlins] Dealer installed C/C!? CANADIAN CAR!? F.L.B.T.?? ARRRGGG!!

["Bill Renshaw" <lionwren@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got to messin' around with my Hornet yesterday, and before I do my 
Homer impression, and do sumfin' really stoopid, I was wondering if 
anyone here could give me some info on this car. This c/c has got me 
just stumped and before I go cuttin' and a yankin' stuff out. I would 
like to know if this c/c would or could be a dealer installed/option 
accesory. Come to find out this c/c doesnt look like, after all, an 
aftermarket item. It has brackets that mount to the carb, that look 
like a factory or dealer installed item. The vacume "box" that runs 
the c/c, on the p/s inner fender look like its been there for the 
life of the car The "funny little blue thingy" which I now will refer 
to it as F.L.B.T. on the intake manifold, which I have never seen 
before, which has its own supply of vacume, off of the intake, which 
has a vacume line that comes from the distributor. The vacume 
advance, which has 2 vacume lines(never seen that before either) one 
goes to the carb as normal(vacume spark as normal) and one goes to 
the F.L.B.T. When the car runs(which is really good) the F.L.T.B. 
makes a funny little "clicking" sound. The F.L.T.B. has a vacume line 
that goes to the "box" for the c/c. The car came with the original 
owners manual and it states that there was a dealer/option installed 
c/c. Could this c/c be a dealer installed option? I thought that the 
car would of came from the local AMC dealer in Moscow Id. On the back 
of the owners manual someone had wrote where the car and what dealer 
the car came from. It came from a dealer in Calgary Canada. 
CANADA!!?? Why would someone buy a car in Canada and bring it to the 
States? Is that, or was that a common practice? I need a sevice 
manual and my "cherished" clymer or chilton or what ever it is only 
goes back to 71 and has nothing about a c/c. I know that I have alot 
of questions and I hope that I didnt confuzz anyone here more than 
what I am already. Anyone who can, once again, point me in the 
direction of a service manual for a 1970 AMC Hornet, and maybe give 
me some idea on the c/c and the Canadian thing. I really dont want to 
do anything to the car, and do the Homer Simpson thing, like, tear 
stuff out that maybe very rare and very hard to find and then........ 
D-OH!  Bill "confused in Northern Idaho" LOL!! 





 
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