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Inside Your Eagle / Speedometer wobble
« Last post by MIPS on Today at 01:59:32 PM »
I touched and it broke it.....kinda. x_X

When I was in the dash last fall to repair the headlight switch I also went into the cluster since it was out and lubricated the odometer gear because it had a really annoying squeak. Ever since then there's been two problems:

-At low speeds the needle wobbles between 0 and 20 and will bounce against the pin that keeps the needle from dropping below 0. Above it's pretty good but you still occasionally catch it wobbling a little
-When it's cold out I've caught it a few times where the odometer is rolling but the speedometer is stuck at zero. Once it frees up it might slingshot around to 160 and then start working but it acts like it's stuck. Presumably the 3 in 1 thickens up a lot in -25.

My guess is when I put 3 in 1 oil on the speedometer/odometer assembly it's washed out/diluted a thicker lubricant that helped even out the natural wobbling a magnetically coupled speedometer will make. I have no idea what to do about this.
I asked over on the AMC forum and their suggestion was that me oiling the speedometer was not the issue but the entire speedometer cable was binding at slow speeds and to pull, clean and lube it. Easy 30 minute job*. Thing is everyone stopped offering advice as soon as I asked how you are supposed to pull the cable out of the sleeve.

I have the one-piece non-cruise cable. Do I just pull the dash and cluster and then pull the entire speedometer cable out without issues re-indexing the gear when I put it back in or do I also need to separate the sleeve at the transfer case (draining the transfer case in the process?), separate the gear and then pull it out from the dash? If I have to pull the cable out of the transfer case are there any seals I need to be ready to replace?


*clearly they have not pulled the cluster out of an Eagle.
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I think something small would make sense.  These days its always the "bigger is better" mentality.  The Ford Maverick truck is a good example of people wanting something small.

I know it's not a Jeep, but I would like to see something like the IH Scout updated and brought back.  I guess Volkswagen owns the name and may bring something out but don't know that there are any real plans to do that.

The Maverick is a great example. And it looks like we’ll be seeing a Scout in the next few years as an EV SUV
https://www.scoutmotors.com/
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Project Cars / Re: My First Car - 86 Wagon
« Last post by vangremlin on Today at 11:26:46 AM »
Thanks for sharing the story.  It's cool that the guy you sold it to actually sold it back to you.
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I think something small would make sense.  These days its always the "bigger is better" mentality.  The Ford Maverick truck is a good example of people wanting something small.

I know it's not a Jeep, but I would like to see something like the IH Scout updated and brought back.  I guess Volkswagen owns the name and may bring something out but don't know that there are any real plans to do that.
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Project Cars / Re: My First Car - 86 Wagon
« Last post by 89 MJ on Yesterday at 07:37:16 PM »
That is a pretty good looking wagon, the Comanche ain't bad either. :rotfl:
Thank you!
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Project Cars / Re: My First Car - 86 Wagon
« Last post by maddog on Yesterday at 07:22:06 PM »
That is a pretty good looking wagon, the Comanche ain't bad either. :rotfl:
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Off topic / Re: Retaining and Gaining Members and Moderation Help
« Last post by 89 MJ on Yesterday at 05:26:43 PM »
Much to my annoyance, forums are flaunted as a dying breed. Why talk about things in a public space which others can view when you have more niche (and arguably more likely to disappear) chat groups and boards like Facebook or Discord, the latter having been occasionally advertised as the replacement to forums. The big thing is that neither Facebook or Discord is regularly and automatically archived because external services like the Wayback Machine cannot see beyond the login screen. Forums such as this on the other hand, even after this site closes and shuts down, most of it still remains in the Wayback machine.

I saw somewhat of the same coming from my experience with top-end computer workstations from the 90's. Silicon Graphics Computer Systems had a sizable and knowledgeable community. By the end of the 2000's the community shrank and the moderator pool began to basically be one custodian. Everyone who maintained the hardware had moved on, there was no new contributions to third-party solutions and the equipment itself was pretty much worthless. Eventually the site was too high maintenance to keep running for how little traffic it saw that wasn't spam and shutdown. Silicon Graphics hardware would not ramp up again in value and form a new hobbyist community for nearly a decade later. It's been sustaining itself quite well since then.
Eagles seem to of been at this point for the last decade. They require agonizingly large amounts of regular maintenance, the parts vendors are slowly ending production of some specialty components and because most communities don't yet see 80's station wagons as collectible (you should of seen how :censored: the local Corvette community was when my province started offering 30-year Collector's Plates to first gen Dodge Caravans in 2014) there's very little momentum in the community right now.
Thankfully while this site has it's bugs and formatting error's, it's still here.


Us Eagle owners are super lucky to still have this place for sure!
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Off topic / Re: Retaining and Gaining Members and Moderation Help
« Last post by MIPS on Yesterday at 05:10:05 PM »
Much to my annoyance, forums are flaunted as a dying breed. Why talk about things in a public space which others can view when you have more niche (and arguably more likely to disappear) chat groups and boards like Facebook or Discord, the latter having been occasionally advertised as the replacement to forums. The big thing is that neither Facebook or Discord is regularly and automatically archived because external services like the Wayback Machine cannot see beyond the login screen. Forums such as this on the other hand, even after this site closes and shuts down, most of it still remains in the Wayback machine.

I saw somewhat of the same coming from my experience with top-end computer workstations from the 90's. Silicon Graphics Computer Systems had a sizable and knowledgeable community. By the end of the 2000's the community shrank and the moderator pool began to basically be one custodian. Everyone who maintained the hardware had moved on, there was no new contributions to third-party solutions and the equipment itself was pretty much worthless. Eventually the site was too high maintenance to keep running for how little traffic it saw that wasn't spam and shutdown. Silicon Graphics hardware would not ramp up again in value and form a new hobbyist community for nearly a decade later. It's been sustaining itself quite well since then.
Eagles seem to of been at this point for the last decade. They require agonizingly large amounts of regular maintenance, the parts vendors are slowly ending production of some specialty components and because most communities don't yet see 80's station wagons as collectible (you should of seen how :censored: the local Corvette community was when my province started offering 30-year Collector's Plates to first gen Dodge Caravans in 2014) there's very little momentum in the community right now.
Thankfully while this site has it's bugs and formatting error's, it's still here.
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Project Cars / My First Car - 86 Wagon
« Last post by 89 MJ on Yesterday at 04:25:02 PM »
Up to now, my build thread for this car can be found on Comanche Club. Both threads will be updated from here on out. The build thread is linked below:

https://comancheclub.com/topic/66355-1986-amc-eagle/#comments

If you don't want to read through 8 pages of me turning a bunch of Comanche guys into Eagle guys, I'll give a brief summary with what has happened on this car.

2016: I acquire this car at the age of 12. It needed an engine. It was originally an AL car.

2017: I put in engine in it and sold it in early 2018 to buy my Jeep Comanche (pictured with the Eagle in a couple of shots). It moved from WI to PA.

2020: I got in touch with the owner and said if he ever was going to sell it, I would like a chance to buy it back, or at least know where it went. I wanted to know what was going on with my first car.

2021: I get a call from the owner. He was ready to move on from it and offered it back to me. It came back later that year loaded up with a bunch of parts to install. I installed the Gronk performance carb, DUI distributor, new fuel tank, and built some ball joint spacers to I could clear the 225/75R15s. The car is driven with a Christmas tree on the roof for the month of December

2022: The car gets a transmission rebuild in the month of February. The car hauled stuff to my graduation party in May. In July, it went to the Kenosha Homecoming show along with my Comanche. Here I made two new AMC friends, one of which I later got some interior pieces from. Not much else happened because I started my first year of school in AZ.

2023: The windshield in the car had been leaking water for years, I knew there was some floor rust, and I wanted to change the carpet. I replaced the floors, carpet, and windshield all in one go. I also swapped in a Chrysler 8.25 from an XJ and regeared the front axle to match. The new gears are 3.55s. I returned to college. Over winter break, I moved the driver seat backwards 2" to give me more legroom. I helped a friend move stuff around their property earlier in the summer.
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Off topic / Easter Jeep Safari Concepts. What would you like to see produced?
« Last post by 89 MJ on Yesterday at 03:32:39 PM »
I feel like the last few years of EJS concept vehicles have been lacking. For the most part, they seem like production vehicles with bolt ons. My favorite one is the Willys Dispatcher because it seems to be the one that is truest to what Jeeps were about 20+ years ago.

1st: 2016 Short Cut Concept
2nd: 2024 EJS Concepts
3rd: Wagoneer Vacationeer
4th: Wrangler Low Down
5th: Gladiator Rubicon High Top
6th: Willys Dispatcher

I would really like to see a production version of something like the 2016 Short Cut concept. For a daily driver for me (and probably lots of people), there is not much reason for more than two seats. I'd love to see a Wrangler that's even shorter than the current two door and comes extremely basic. I'm talking like a radio, doors, a top, cruise control, air conditioning and a back seat are options. Just give me a small Jeep, a 4 cylinder, 6 speed stick, and a Dana 44 in the rear at a reasonable price (no reason something like this should be more than $20,000) and I'd be happy. What would other people like to see Jeep put into production?


 
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