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Brosky
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Shawn,
The dealership that I started out in back in PA sold AMC's along with six other car lines. I remember working on some very fast Gremlins with factory V-8's. Once the warranty was over, the gloves were off and those things could kick some butt, if set up properly.
As we've talked about timing on this forum over and over, I am reminded of this AMC service call. Back in 1973, I got a call from an owner of a new 232CI 6 cyl. Gremlin. He had taken it home from the dealership and had driven about 10 more miles to get a sandwich with his wife. He said the car had no power, the temp gauge was in the red, but the car wouldn't shut off. So I drove down with a loaner car and some tools.
The tech who had just serviced the new car left the distributor hold down bolt just loose enough for the timing to retard itself to about 20 degrees ATDC while they were driving it. I never saw anything before or after like this. The exhaust manifold was glowing bright red and you could actually see through the steel and make out the threads in the bolts.
Luckily, I never let the owner see what was going on, or he would have called the fire department. I simply moved the timing ahead to where it should be and took it for a quick spin with the hood partially open on the safety catch. It cooled down after about 3 miles and I took it back with the hood closed and all was well. That car had over 120,000 miles on it when traded in and never burned a drop of oil.
The dealership that I started out in back in PA sold AMC's along with six other car lines. I remember working on some very fast Gremlins with factory V-8's. Once the warranty was over, the gloves were off and those things could kick some butt, if set up properly.
As we've talked about timing on this forum over and over, I am reminded of this AMC service call. Back in 1973, I got a call from an owner of a new 232CI 6 cyl. Gremlin. He had taken it home from the dealership and had driven about 10 more miles to get a sandwich with his wife. He said the car had no power, the temp gauge was in the red, but the car wouldn't shut off. So I drove down with a loaner car and some tools.
The tech who had just serviced the new car left the distributor hold down bolt just loose enough for the timing to retard itself to about 20 degrees ATDC while they were driving it. I never saw anything before or after like this. The exhaust manifold was glowing bright red and you could actually see through the steel and make out the threads in the bolts.
Luckily, I never let the owner see what was going on, or he would have called the fire department. I simply moved the timing ahead to where it should be and took it for a quick spin with the hood partially open on the safety catch. It cooled down after about 3 miles and I took it back with the hood closed and all was well. That car had over 120,000 miles on it when traded in and never burned a drop of oil.
