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Off topic / Re: Retaining and Gaining Members and Moderation Help
« Last post by 89 MJ on Yesterday at 03:29:38 PM »
Thanks for reaching out.  Maybe let the administrators chat and see how we can best use your offer to help.  Thanks again.
Sounds good. These forums are too valuable to be at risk of losing in the future. In the mean time, I will probably be making some posts just to try to spark some activity.

I think the biggest problem is that Eagles are in this rough spot where they are a touch too new for the AMC purists and classic car people where anything after the Pacer is dead to them and the Eagle being a lot of Jeep bits overlaps with the 4x4 forums where if the car has not rusted itself back into the earth it's been modified, driven, beat up and at this point is a barely safe husk of a unibody.
I'll call out Junkyard Digs because he's had at least three at this point. One while still drivable he took out for fun until the transmission fried and he threw a rod, which to me and a few other videos makes me think the current generation still see Eagles as somewhat disposable in comparison to Boomers and K-cars where if Red-Green didn't hack them all up, the rest met their demise in demo derby's.
Adding to that there's just not a lot of them left. I have not seen one in a junkyard for six years (with almost all my spare parts coming from backyard graves) and the Pacific Northwest gifting to us it's lack of winter salt means there should technically be more left here than anywhere else on the planet.
I agree, but I also don't agree. Eagles were produced in similar numbers to Jeep Comanches (I'm a member on the Comanche forum too, which has a much larger number of forum "regulars"), many of which had a similar fate to our Eagles. In my experience, my beater Eagle gets more compliments than my restored Comanche. In general, I would also say that the current generation seems to appreciate them. I'm 20 with an Eagle, I have one friend who is also 20 and would like to own an Eagle, and another friend who is in his mid-upper 20s and is actively searching for an Eagle.
There most certainly are not a lot left, like you said, but I have seen roughly as many Comanches (roughly 180,000 produced) as I have Eagles (roughly 190,000 produced) since I've been driving. I have seen an Eagle in an junkyard, but not a Comanche.

I do agree that they are too new for AMC purists and classic car people, but we are starting to see a price increase in both Eagles and Comanches because people that are my parents' age remember them growing up. Yet with popularity increasing, forum use seems to be decreasing. Part of this could be because people don't work on their own stuff anymore, but I've found that forums are a much more knowledgeable and helpful than Facebook groups are.
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Off topic / Re: Retaining and Gaining Members and Moderation Help
« Last post by MIPS on Yesterday at 12:56:40 PM »
I think the biggest problem is that Eagles are in this rough spot where they are a touch too new for the AMC purists and classic car people where anything after the Pacer is dead to them and the Eagle being a lot of Jeep bits overlaps with the 4x4 forums where if the car has not rusted itself back into the earth it's been modified, driven, beat up and at this point is a barely safe husk of a unibody.
I'll call out Junkyard Digs because he's had at least three at this point. One while still drivable he took out for fun until the transmission fried and he threw a rod, which to me and a few other videos makes me think the current generation still see Eagles as somewhat disposable in comparison to Boomers and K-cars where if Red-Green didn't hack them all up, the rest met their demise in demo derby's.
Adding to that there's just not a lot of them left. I have not seen one in a junkyard for six years (with almost all my spare parts coming from backyard graves) and the Pacific Northwest gifting to us it's lack of winter salt means there should technically be more left here than anywhere else on the planet.
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Fuel Systems. / Re: SolVac for all Eagles?
« Last post by MIPS on Yesterday at 12:27:33 PM »
Up against the firewall around the diagnostic connector and the wiper motor is there a 4-pin Packard 56 connector just hanging there?
The vacuum side of the Sol-vac provided additional idle RPM over the solenoid kick for things like hot starting and raising the ported vacuum high enough for the canister purge valve to open. I suspect someone deleted the vacuum portion to delete hoses and modified in just a solenoid so that you still had idle kick for the AC/lights/defroster.
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General Mechanical / Re: Transfer Cases and Axles
« Last post by vangremlin on Yesterday at 11:27:05 AM »
Thanks for the offer to help.  I know I struggle with understanding all the options available - especially when is it time to switch to a different transfer case because your viscous coupler is shot!
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Off topic / Re: Retaining and Gaining Members and Moderation Help
« Last post by vangremlin on Yesterday at 11:21:38 AM »
Thanks for reaching out.  Maybe let the administrators chat and see how we can best use your offer to help.  Thanks again.
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Hatchlings / Re: New owner of 75 hornet Sportabout
« Last post by Taylor on Yesterday at 08:09:18 AM »
Besides bookmarking the individual post you could print what you need. I have done that and keep a folder of those print outs.
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Fuel Systems. / Re: SolVac for all Eagles?
« Last post by krimmth on Yesterday at 07:58:42 AM »
Thank you!

According the documentation I am sure my Eagle has a BBD carb.
Now I need to find out why I have only a Solenoid with a wire and not a combined one with electrical and vaccum push.
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Fuel Systems. / Re: SolVac for all Eagles?
« Last post by Taylor on Yesterday at 07:23:54 AM »
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Fuel Systems. / SolVac for all Eagles?
« Last post by krimmth on Yesterday at 07:00:33 AM »
Hi,

Currently I try to solve some issues with the carb (258 engine)
I saw that my eagle has no SolVac installed, I believe it is a 83 or 84 Canadian produced version for the European market.

Is it possible that there is no SolVac installed in my eagle but only an electric one?
I found no vaccum connection and no loose vaccum line around the carb.

Thanks
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Paint / Automotive Paint and Bedliner
« Last post by 89 MJ on March 26, 2024, 11:29:47 PM »
I grew up in the northern Midwest, I have worked in a body shop, my dad owns an automotive restoration shop, and I have completely restored one vehicle with two others planned. Needless to say, I have seen and done my fair share of restoration of parts and paint and bodywork. I can help answer paint/primer/bodywork/bedliner questions.
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