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Offline max98059

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Re: the spirit of the eagle build
« Reply #90 on: September 07, 2012, 04:09:26 PM »
yea well u were right
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Re: the spirit of the eagle build
« Reply #91 on: September 07, 2012, 04:18:54 PM »
sadly.
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Re: the spirit of the eagle build
« Reply #92 on: September 09, 2012, 01:11:01 PM »
so yesterday i took my car off road for the first time and i broke the front left half shaft
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Re: the spirit of the eagle build
« Reply #93 on: September 09, 2012, 11:02:01 PM »
it broke the inner joint so i had to jack it up out in the middle of the desert and take apart the axle then beat it apart. what a job in the sun. and idk how i did it. but i think i didnt like going 25-30 mph on the red gravel road. i am thinking s10 half shafts.

heres some pics of my outing today and yesterday.



  its like 105 and 40% humidity out there.

  my wife.



i only had 2wheel drive.


the cactus these 2 both r over 400YRS old
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Re: the spirit of the eagle build
« Reply #94 on: September 09, 2012, 11:10:29 PM »
i thick that the spirit upper control arms are different and give like a 2" lift. but mine is pretty high.
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Re: the spirit of the eagle build
« Reply #95 on: September 10, 2012, 12:24:20 AM »
lol yea i took a look at the eagle arms i have and they r a little different so. but it sits really tall much taller then carnucks stock wagon. and all i did was leave the stock spirit spirngs and arms when i did the 4x4 change. oh yea i forgot one of the jeepers here said that the amc eagle is not an offroad car and amc didn't own jeep and when i was out and abt today he was stuck in a ditch. i pulled up and said well i guess u need a tow truck cuz my car is a pos wanna be 4x4 and he said no please help me so i pulled him out and he said thank you and i said that was in  2 wheel drive, his mouth just dropped.
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Re: the spirit of the eagle build
« Reply #96 on: September 10, 2012, 10:24:01 AM »
Bummed me out because I put in brand new front springs to get lift and got only 2 inches. It does however ride MUCH nicer than it did before. (I used new springs for a Concord wagon with V8 and AC which had an extra coil round)
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Re: the spirit of the eagle build
« Reply #97 on: September 10, 2012, 12:23:06 PM »
well now u can get the spirit control arms and get 4" of lift.
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Re: the spirit of the eagle build
« Reply #98 on: September 13, 2012, 09:08:18 PM »
Sadly, I won't unless I sell some of my other projects
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Re: the spirit of the eagle build
« Reply #99 on: September 16, 2012, 02:03:21 PM »
I was at a shop yesterday getting an oil (edit: not old) change (too hard to do myself with a broken shoulder) and checked out the drivetrain sitting on the floor from an '04 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 (V6 auto). The trans seemed almost identical to an AW4 but it's a 6 speed and the tcase front output is MUCH closer to the trans pan edge as well as a smaller overall tcase body. I wonder if that would work with a Jeep AW4 bell (I know the Jeep AW4 and 88 Toyota 4runner auto are the same bell pattern on the case as I test fit one, but the front out was on the wrong side)
   Reason I brought this up on SOTE's thread was I'm thinking maybe it could have fit with no floor modifications to make it 4x4.
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Re: the spirit of the eagle build
« Reply #100 on: December 03, 2014, 01:36:35 PM »
Well guys. It looks like SOTE is going to rise again! Making a deal to part trade against the Grumman van I sold Max98059 as he is too busy to do anything with it in the near future.
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Re: the spirit of the eagle build
« Reply #101 on: December 09, 2014, 11:54:08 AM »
That's good to hear. What does it need to get on the road?
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Re: the spirit of the eagle build
« Reply #102 on: December 09, 2014, 10:58:19 PM »
Still waiting for his old landlord to release it to me. NEVER work for your landlord on a 24-7 basis!
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