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Grey Ghost
AMC Apprentice Joined: Oct/11/2009 Location: Route 66 Il. Status: Offline Points: 158 |
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Posted: Mar/11/2019 at 6:40pm |
The original dizzy gear was chewed up but not toast yet, found cam gear only had oil coming out of 1 hole. replaced the gear with a new one and rechecked oil flow now has full oil coverage. Installed a dizzy out of a Jeep with a GM hei module, pulled carb found fuel leaking out of primaries, pulled the bowl found 2 gaskets on the power valve so replaced both. Oil was fuel diluted drained out like water.
Starts right up motor seems to run well has brake and suspension issues I didn't want to go to far. That's where it's at now. |
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amx007
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installed new electronic ignition and adjust timing some others things and now to tighten it up yey
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dream red white and blue
1968 Chicago auto show amx 290 4 speed 1969 driver Amx 290 auto |
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BU1
AMC Addicted Joined: Aug/11/2016 Location: MN Status: Offline Points: 2019 |
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And the problem was...............?????????????????????????
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AMO #2726
#1 1968 AMX Rally Green 343 Z code 4spd since 1975 #02642 #2 1968 AMX Rally Green 290 N code 4spd since 2019 #02959 |
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amx007
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Big thanx to grey ghost it’s running and now to get it road worthy
Gary
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dream red white and blue
1968 Chicago auto show amx 290 4 speed 1969 driver Amx 290 auto |
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Dirtydog
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maybe cracked distributor cap. Maybe fuel pump fuel filter clogged. Go with electronic ignition. Make sure your exhaust is Flowing right nothing plugging it up. Just throwing some ideas out for you
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Grey Ghost
AMC Apprentice Joined: Oct/11/2009 Location: Route 66 Il. Status: Offline Points: 158 |
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Gary if your talking about one of those large cap HEI units I don't think it will clear due to your power steering pump location. The Motorcraft style distributor with a remote module and MSD coil I believe would be a good dependable upgrade and would look close to stock. Give me a call or send me a text if you want to tow it over here to get it running. Sonny
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amx007
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Hey sonny hope all well, wanting to get runing, paint guy want running car, ( so he can mess it up again ) lol I like the idea of up grading distributor I’m thinking there was a different distributor in there since the old owners switched parts out what if gear is wrong ? I know of a coil distributor in one for sale your thoughts gary
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dream red white and blue
1968 Chicago auto show amx 290 4 speed 1969 driver Amx 290 auto |
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Grey Ghost
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Gary we can do an electronic ignition upgrade, I have a stock Motorcraft style distributor (we will need to install your original gear on it) use a GM HEI module and a MSD blaster coil which should give you more spark output. We did this on my sons Pacer when his stock module gave out, it will be more dependable than points.
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amx007
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carb fresh rebuild from ace
Thinking on changeing to solid state ignition Thoughts Edited by amx007 - Feb/09/2019 at 12:58pm |
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dream red white and blue
1968 Chicago auto show amx 290 4 speed 1969 driver Amx 290 auto |
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Greyhounds_AMX
AMC Addicted Joined: Nov/14/2009 Location: Kansas City Status: Offline Points: 1268 |
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With 150 psi on each cylinder it seems like you could rule out major internal mechanical problems, like cam timing.
You could pull a plug wire and let the spark jump to ground so you can see the color. Blue white is good, orange not good. The carb could be plugged up with rust fines. Over time I've seen the rust settle to a cake, and the fuel drained out pretty clear then. If you pull the front bowl you'll be able to tell if that could be it as some will settle there first.
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1968 AMX 390 w/T5
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