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I noticed some of those things, but what I noticed immediately is that the proportions of the car are not flattering. I wondered if it was an air-cooled, rear-engine setup or something. The front end design of grille, headlight bezels, bumper, etc is fabulous. The back 3/4 view is not good...

I have seen diesel-engine torsionals break a transmission, but it always happened to a component that was loaded when torque converter lockup clutches were applied, and the damper springs on that clutch were not effective to dampen the torsionals. And when it happened it was always traced to an...

Mine happened from putting 235-60 tires on teh front of an 80 Cordoba. Hose rubbed on the tire. Apparently it took awhile of the right steering/suspension conditions allowing the rub (as I found out afterward). Had to do a hard stop and the hose burst. Hit car #1 about 30mph - pushed it into...

No, this was in pre-production durability testing, AFAIK no bad designs ever made production. What was durable for 1 MY of production might not be good enough for the next year. 2010 brought a ~50hp increase, and IIRC that's where the trouble started. We started cracking them, and they sent a...

I see you are a new joiner, so there's nothing of your car here for folks to refer to. We need a price, pictures, description, etc.

If you are driving and get into some type of emergency evasive action, make a hard swerve with the brakes and put fluid pressure inside the hoses, one of them might fail. Might take years to experience such a situation, when you've forgotten all about this. If you've ever had a front hose or...

No, we were breaking flexplates during transmission testing, and every MY the engine torque output was increasing, and we'd find last year's flexplate wouldn't survive. So they'd scramble to try different shapes - circle, ovals, kidney-bean shapes. The GM engineers were trying to make a durable...

I'm not a construction engineer but this setup looks sketchy. Half the supports up to the roof are perched midway between the columns, and that steel looks like it is 4", although it might be 6". It's hard to tell if it was a barn that got chopped up and skinned in metal, or a metal building...

Not really any other way to do it. The speedo must be recalibrated to measure correctly - then the odometer reads correctly. Other speedos with the numbering on the speedometer assembly (like the 69-72 Fury) got a different silk-screened (?) metal plate with the appropriate numbering. But for...

Holy cow, Batman. An old-school tire, in 70 series, with a whitewall.

That's would be tempting if I wasn't so disciplined about avoiding trouble.

FWIW, I would not use that new flexplate. Those half-moon cutouts look to have sharp corners, and sharp corners make stress concentrations, and that's where things break. Whoever did the CAD design for that needs a little what-for behind the woodshed. Along with every engineer afterward that...

Both bumpers are slightly twisted. Passenger front corner, drivers rear corner. Poor paint coverage behind drivers front bumper corner. Body side molding inserts are missing and painted black. Front seats are incorrect but at least back seat recovered to match. This is the only improvement I...

Seems like they are being more realistic and now auctioning it, albeit the reserve might be that ridiculous $29,500.

Thanks for the correction. I will use my newly-corrected AMC knowledge whenever applicable. Actually, it's been so long since needing AMC info, that's why I don't remember it correctly.

Cool. Can you post the part# of the longer hoses? That might be helpful for future surfers that read this.

@SPF Required I have a set of 70 300 wheelcovers in fair cond I could sell you at a reasonable price if it helps. Would allow you to pick the best to start from? Shipping will be salty, though?

I am disappointed. @Big_John isn't coming. :(

Is that piece of boxtube no longer in use, then?

At the risk of sounding like an *** - are the new hoses longer than what is in the pics? (if it wasn't your brakes I wouldn't be asking)