Just cruising through

[mr.mindless]

I'm trying to decide on my next car for an around town beater and highway cruiser, and among a few other choices an Eagle has come to the top of my list.

I'm a big-time DIY guy and have been (forgive the blasphemy but I'm of the "adopted cousin" opinion) a Mopar fan since birth, so it seems pretty natural if I can find a clean enough example to start with, and get over trying to daily drive a 30 year old car.

I've got a '98 Dakota on 1 tons and 42s, a '97 Ram on 19.5s with an '02 24v swap and 13 speed road ranger after breaking 2 5 speeds in a year, and my current beater is an '00 Nissan Frontier that I got too good a deal on to pass up. Nice truck but I need more cab and don't need a second truck bed... I set it up with a tow bar though and it's come in handy that way a few times.

Looks like you all have a great wealth of info here and I'm enjoying digging through it.

[IowaEagle]

Welcome to the Nest.   You should have fun with an Eagle.  Your Dakota is a desendant of the Eagle.

[carnuck]

Yup. Some of those got the AMC 2.5L, but that was more the Jeep Commanche influence

[mr.mindless]

I found a sweet '87 wagon in Colo Springs that just went up on CL that I'm sending a friend to look at tomorrow night.  I'm working in Denver this weekend and may bring a stack of Benjamins with.


Buuuuuut I just test drove a local nearly rust-free '87 325is that I kinda love. And that sure is a lot easier to get home to NY than something in Colorado. decisions....

[Prafeston]

I love those older 325s!!

[eaglebeek]

I'm trying to decide on my next car for an around town beater and highway cruiser, and among a few other choices an Eagle has come to the top of my list.

I'm a big-time DIY guy and have been (forgive the blasphemy but I'm of the "adopted cousin" opinion) a Mopar fan since birth, so it seems pretty natural if I can find a clean enough example to start with, and get over trying to daily drive a 30 year old car.

I've got a '98 Dakota on 1 tons and 42s, a '97 Ram on 19.5s with an '02 24v swap and 13 speed road ranger after breaking 2 5 speeds in a year, and my current beater is an '00 Nissan Frontier that I got too good a deal on to pass up. Nice truck but I need more cab and don't need a second truck bed... I set it up with a tow bar though and it's come in handy that way a few times.

Looks like you all have a great wealth of info here and I'm enjoying digging through it.

Welcome to the 'nest. And a question...how did you arrange for compressed air to shift the Roadranger?

[mr.mindless]

Quick and dirty job with a small Thomas electric compressor with a 5 gallon tank. Off the shelf pressure switch and no dryer.

I'd really like to replace the Accessory Drive Unit with an air compressor/power steering pump instead of the Dodge-issue vacuum pump/PS pump but then I'd need an auxiliary source for vacuum to run HVAC selector and cruise control. But if a pump is going to fail it would suck to loose those less than it sucks to loose trans range selection, speaking from experience (pressure regulator failed on me once)