Mav's Lifted 1985 Eagle Wagon Limited/Sport Stroker - Picture Heavy! - 04/09/10

[Mavericke]

yes, most them have hitches... which is wierd because I had never seen one on an Eagle before.

Most ar connected to the bumper though. Not sure what it would tow.

As for the Spirit... we nevermade it out the barn when you came out :/ totally forgot... we put you to work right away, LOL!

[83Eagle!]

Hey you updated your vehicle list in your signature.  Nice.

[Mavericke]

Hey you updated your vehicle list in your signature.  Nice.

Yeah, I took your advice.... it was over due. Updated some other stuff too.

[jim]

Hey you updated your vehicle list in your signature.  Nice.

Yeah, I took your advice.... it was over due. Updated some other stuff too.

If the collection keeps growing the forum will have to start adding hard drive space.

[amc78concord]

Hey you updated your vehicle list in your signature.  Nice.

Yeah, I took your advice.... it was over due. Updated some other stuff too.

If the collection keeps growing the forum will have to start adding hard drive space.

Just buy like 10 terabytes and call it good 

[Mavericke]

Yeah no kidding... I probably need to weed out my project threads. I could probably get rid of a couple of them at this point... but they sure do tak awful long time to type up, LOL! And I refer to them alot... so idk... maybe I just need to finish them and call it a day, LOL!

[jim]

I wasn't talking about the threads.  I was talking about the length of the signature!

[Pat]

I was wondering if he had enough room to list everything. Hey, Mav. you've got the sanctuary, you need the room in the signature. 

[Mavericke]

LOL... yeeah yeah yeah.... I think there are others here with much longer signatures! Don't be mad because mine is poetic and totally cool... I mean, we can't ALL be great, right?

LOL!

[Pat]

I see 1 5h1trolet & 1 Mopar ( & they bought AMC ). Everything else is AMC. Looking good.

[Mavericke]

Yeah, the Chevy wasn't my first choice... but the price convinced me. I'd love to have a Dodge Ram van identical to this one with the 360 in it.

I actually already have a 304 that I'm considering dropping in it... just not sure about how the tranny would match up.

[83Eagle!]

Yeah, the Chevy wasn't my first choice... but the price convinced me. I'd love to have a Dodge Ram van identical to this one with the 360 in it.

I actually already have a 304 that I'm considering dropping in it... just not sure about how the tranny would match up.

I always liked the Ram vans myself, but after having some of them in the fleet at work I'd take a ford or chevy over the Dodges anyday as far as the full size vans go.  Of course none of them were v8, so I might be speaking out of turn.  The 360 seems like a great engine. 

[Mavericke]

Yeah, well I've had nothing but bad luck with Chevy... although it did keep us safe in the accident. Chevy parts are also expensive. Ford's prices are cheaper, but the parts seem to hold up. They both rust out, although you see more rotted out S10's than you do Rangers, lol! Not sure about the vans. But Dodge seems to be in a class of it's own.... back in the day, I'm not sure I'd own a Dodge truck... but really since taking on alot of Jeep's ideas and later AMC's... I've found alot more similarities than you would imagine.

Anyways... I was always a Ford/Motorcraft guy... but I'm pretty much all Mopar now. I mean, I love Jeeps... I love Dodge... that must make me a Chrysler guy. *shrug* Or should I say Fiat... LOL!

[83Eagle!]

Yeah I think it honestly has more to do with the care of the vehicle than anything else.  I thought the Dodge Passenger vans we had were dogs. But they were 3.9 V6 powered as opposed to the V8 Fords.  V8s (or bigger) in vehicles like that just perform better.  For the human services field I was sad to see the Chevy Astros go.  Those were easy to work on and were bigger than any minivan, but smaller than the full size. 

[Mavericke]

The astros were nice... my parents owned for awhile when I was a kiddo. Still... an ugly grocery getter though. What is it with you and grocery getters? LOL!

I mostly agree with the statement about how the vehicle is taken care of... but still there are some cars that are just junk fomr day one. Read anything about Toyota's recent fiasco? Exactly. That Blazer I had was the biggest POS I owned.... and I loved it probably more than a man should love a machine... well unless it's the chick machine in Terminator:3.... any man could love kind of machine, LOL! But that's not the point... I babied that truck... upgraded... dealt with all the tweaks... I guess I'm being more hard on it than I should. When I wrecked it, it was running fantastic with just over 100k on it. Maybe, I'm more hard on it because I miss driving a newer vehicle that was set up perfectly the way I wanted it. I mean... that truck and I had spent alot of time together. It was my first (and probably last) "new" vehicle. Still though... alot of issues with that thing from day one. The have horrible crappy intakes that blow out if your truck sits in the sun too long, lol! Ok... it's not that bad... but it's still pretty bad. That's just a junk-poor design flaw.... and they never fixed it! Take it to a dealership and the idiots will install another crappy cardboard gasket that will blow again! Duh!?

The same goes for my Dodge in that aspect... from what I've read... the Belly styled FI-318 Magnum has probably one of the worst intake gasket design flaws ever... this design flaw was carried from 92-07!?!?! WTF? See, that has nothing to do with how you take care of it... they just blow because they are crap junk designs.... and I expect that out of new vehicles... but to continue doing the same thing for over 10 years is a bit ridiculous, don't ya think?

Ok... rant off.
Sorry, lol! Obviously,not aimed toward you... just getting really upset right now because the tax money is gone - we spent more than we probably should have... and it's all on ths truck that popped up last minute... this "great deal" that cost me twice as much as planned... $250 to legally have it tagged...
$140 for new intake gaskets and new plenum repair kit....
$170 for distributor
$5.99 x 8 Bosch Platinum 4-prong plugs
$80 for all new fuel lines
$60 for an oxygen sensor
$85 for a Map sensor

plus several other things I can't remember... like wires, oil, filters, fluids, about 6 rolls of black electrical tape, thermostat & gasket, a full tank of gas that was burned up really fast because of how horrible she was running... by the way, that's 32g and she was dry... do the math! Oh yeah, and all the fluids? The expensive Castrol GTX High Milage performance stuff? All ruined because of the bad intake gasket... had to drain the coolant again too. It's one thing to buy a part... and another thing to buy the same stuff twice, like those fluids... and then the thermostat that I got the first time was tricking the truck into running too cold and too rich... so I had to buy another one. Get this... you have to remove the alternator to get to the thermostat housing... it's about 2 hour job! GRR!

So tonight... we install the new plenum kit and gaskets and the new oxygen sensor... if that doesn't fix it... then I'm going to finish the job the PO started... but this time I will just drop a match in the gas tank! LOL!

Ok.... NOW the rant is off... sorry, LOL! Needed to vent!