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1982AMCConcord 
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Joined: Jul/13/2012 Location: Kenosha, WI Status: Offline Points: 1287 |
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 Posted: May/11/2022 at 12:46pm |
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While this might not be real exciting for most people... I managed to hit 15.5mpg with my Concord cruising around town and some minor county roads. This is the first fill up after getting the carb re-jetted and tuned at the end of last Fall just before winter set in. Now I'm curious what a fuel injection set up might offer. Mmmm?  |
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1979amcspirit
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Joined: Sep/02/2021 Location: Montreal Status: Offline Points: 109 |
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Posted: May/11/2022 at 6:45pm |
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Nice car.. I really dig the colour! Also one thing I noticed was the lil chrome molding around the rear wheels... That caught my eye, are they stick to the Concord? My spirit has only the molding and not the lil wings... Very cool.
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Ollie
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Posted: May/12/2022 at 6:47am |
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John, You need to come to the AMC Races in Cordova this year and we will go head to head. Hopped up 258 vs 304.
Having AMC Fun, Ollie
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1966 American Convertible -- "The Rambler"..SOLD
1974 Postal Jeep -- "Rapid Delivery"...SOLD 1969 Rambler 220 post car--"Road Warrior" 1989 Jeep Comanche Pioneer, 4.0L, auto, 2wd |
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1982AMCConcord
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Posted: May/12/2022 at 7:30am |
The wheel well trim is the thin stainless version from a 1979 Concord 2 door. My originals were the wider aluminum versions but they were in poor shape so I took them off. I added the mudflaps and the window ventshades as well to set off the rest of the chrome stuff. I'm really happy with the overall look. Especially the black top. I color coordinated everything the best I could. |
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1982AMCConcord
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Posted: May/12/2022 at 7:33am |
I'd like to go Ollie. Maybe that can happen. Not sure yet! The Concord runs well. I think it could be tinkered with still. Not sure it can beat "anything" quite yet but if I make it we can certainly find out my friend! 😉
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1979amcspirit
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Posted: May/12/2022 at 8:23am |
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I wish they had AMC races here in canada
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1982AMCConcord
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Posted: Jun/03/2022 at 2:27pm |
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Well Spring is here and things have started arriving on the front porch. Next up is spindle drop plates, rubber strut rod bushings, Addco front sway bar, Redhead Quick Steer steering gear and new power steering box. Also be revisiting the front suspension a bit because it chirps (like a bird) over every bump and pot hole something fierce. I only have two sets of poly bushings in the front. The coil spring isolators and the strut rod bushings... and those are getting replaced. So... We're going to grease the coil spring and isolators with Super Lube this time when it goes back together.  Also adding the Hornet peg leg AMC 15 2.76 axle... although not posi it should give it a little shot in the arm in comparison to the original AMC 15 2.21 gear!  There are some other things I'd like to do but I think this batch of parts will be all I can do before the Homecoming Show at the end of July!  The Kenosha History Museum is really going all out this year because this year will be the 120th Anniversary of Jeffrey/Nash/Rambler/AMC. I hope it will be a lot of fun. I'm really looking forward to it..
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1982AMCConcord
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Posted: Jul/15/2022 at 6:29pm |
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Well... As usual... Things didn't go to plan over the past 6 weeks.
My fuel pump failed. My distributor failed. And my oil filter adapter started leaking really bad! So while I didn't get everything accomplished... I'm just glad I managed to get the car running in time for the Homecoming Show in Kenosha. And truthfully... It runs better than ever. After all this time... I think the distributor was suspect the entire time. BEFORE  AFTER  Distributor gear looked good... So we reused it even though I had all the parts for a complete Timing Cover and Cam/Dizzy gears service.  |
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1982AMCConcord
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Posted: Aug/04/2022 at 8:41pm |
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I drove my car around during Homecoming week like a daily driver and got real close to 16mpg!
I'm very very pleased. My previous best was 15.5mpg. It'll change once I swap the 2.76 axle in but still... Very happy with the mpg on a little 304 with a 500cfm carb.  |
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1982AMCConcord
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It was a heck of a summer. I had a great time at the Kenosha Homecoming Show at the end of July but unfortunately I didn't get much accomplished on my car before the show. I had to wait until after it was all over to make progress on it. But it has been nothing but failure after failure again and again. These parts being made for our cars are complete garbage. For example... I am on my 4th fuel pump in 3 years. .. and then all these stuff below failed me too! Most of which where out of the box dead! I'm really starting to wonder if we're going to be able to keep these cars going because parts are such garbage!
I tried to swap to the Addco front sway bar and it didn't fit. I could get the chassis sway bar bushings to sit on the bar but the bar was too wide at the ends to connect to the end links and be able to sit in between the tires. I called Addco... The would not refund me because I bought them from Jegs three years ago. They did tell me to send them my stock sway bar and they would re-bend on based in the OEM shape. So... That's was a huge waste of money. I would have to pay for two bars to be shipped back to them... So basically I'd pay three times the price of their bar new just to get what I thought I was buying up front! Then I tried to swap the Redhead quick ratio gear box... The thing wouldn't take fluid and couldn't be bleed properly. Spent 5 days messing with it. Decided to rip it out and return it. What a huge headache that was. I ended up just buying one from NAPA instead.. which worked fine. Next I tried to swap the power steering pump with a Lares Remanufactured unit from Rock Auto. Nope... It wouldn't pump fluid out of the box!!! Again... Back to NAPA... Theirs worked fine... After that I swapped out the strut rod bushings to Mevotech rubber ones because I hated how harsh the poly bushings made the ride. I could feel all the shock in the dash board. They were ridiculous. So the rubber bushings were fine for about two weeks until they started knocking. I took the car to the shop thinking maybe something loosened up... Nope... The rear bushings were already "beat out" and the metal sleeve was touching the strut rod mounts! So then I had to contact a local guy who had a set of old stock Clevite bushings. I have to try those now!  And finally... The distributor I swapped in has started spraying oil out of the distributor shaft gasket! I tried to get two new gaskets... They both allowed oil to spray out and gather on top of the timing chain/oil pump cover. So I spent the last several months scouring eBay for a good OEM distributor and came up with a brand new Mopar Performance Distributor the other day. I literally punched in the part number I had for it into eBay, found it and won the bid within 10 minutes of finding it. It was an incredible piece of luck considering how many times I wanted to give up and finally just buy an MSD instead. Anyway... I sincerely hope this distributor will get me a good seal at shaft gasket now.  Last but not least... The car has been running fantastic... I knocked down 16mpg recently...  Edited by 1982AMCConcord - Oct/08/2022 at 10:09pm |
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