Re: My new ride

From: Phillip Batson (pbatson68@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 16 2012 - 15:22:10 EST


Does it look like this? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15476516/1985_amc_eagle_4x4_wagon.jpg

Why the attraction to AMC?

----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Maskalans <dml@tepidcola.com>
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Cc:
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 8:29 AM
> Subject: DML: My new ride
>
>
> Those of you who are friends of mine on the book of faces know I was cross
> shopping the oddest pairing of mid-cheap cars ever for the last couple weeks,
> E30 BMWs and AMC Eagles.
>
> Well I found a 325is that I loved, but I didn't move on it quickly enough
> and lost it by a couple hours.  I didn't lose the next one I set my sights
> on though, an '89 AMC Eagle wagon.  I was in Denver for Monster Jam (now
> side job #2 behind the transportation stuff) and the car was in CO Springs.
> After I was done Saturday night, I went down to the Springs with a couple
> friends who came up for the show and drove it back up to Denver.
>
> Then spent Monday and Tuesday driving it back here to Rochester.  I stopped in
> Kansas at Kansasland Tire (*highly* recommend these folks) to have a shimmy
> checked out, and found that both rear wheels are bent; nothing else amiss. Gave
> me a chance to go over the rest of the underside of the car on a lift and gave
> myself a list of to do items but nothing scary at all. Needs a muffler, one
> front wheel bearing for sure and probably the other, brakes, 1 driveline ujoint
> and one front CV axle. Not bad at all for a $1200 rust free Colorado car.
>
> I've done a sneeze of carb work on it, it's running pretty well. Still
> need to check the idle tubes for clogging, find a tach to really set my idles
> and timing at 1650, I think it is, instead of "that sounds good" RPM,
> and I may set it up for premium fuel with a little more timing. When I advanced
> it a bit too far (misread the marks) it made a huge difference and was just
> barely pinging under load on 89.  I'll see how I like it as it's set
> now, correctly. (9˚ static).
> --
> Michael Maskalans
> Rochester NY
> 585.935.7129
>



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