"AncientOfDays" (ancientofdays)
03/04/2014 at 12:10 • Filed to: 1985 AMC Eagle
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"AncientOfDays" (ancientofdays)
03/04/2014 at 12:10 • Filed to: 1985 AMC Eagle | 2
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The exhaust situation has hit a small snag. After I put in the new catalytic converter (pics below), I went to attach the new intermediate pipe behind it. They're made by two different manufacturers, and just barely don't fit together. I can probably get an adapter for that, so it's not a huge deal. Also, the muffler has been hard to find, but I think I've found someone on eBay who has one, so hopefully that's another crisis averted, but the exhaust is at a standstill for the moment.
The new cat, installed. You can see the transfer case sitting on a jack behind it:
Not hard to tell where the old pipe ends and the new begins:
It's just as well, since I'm not ready to start the car again just yet. The last link in that chain is ready to go in place though. I'm referring of course to the transmission cooler lines. Earlier, I had thought I would get new metal lines and connections, and custom bend them to be like the old ones. Thing is, though, then I took the old lines out. All the bends and curves and stuff were so convoluted that it was really hard to pull them out of the narrow space they occupied. Custom bending new lines would be hard enough, but getting them in without damaging them or anything else would be impossible.
The old metal lines:
So I settled on getting high-pressure hoses instead. Turns out this was also easier said than done. Transmission cooling hose, which - fun fact - can handle up to 400 PSI, is readily available, but not in the diameter I would have needed to be able to clamp it onto the existing connectors. I'd have to invent some way to adapt between the two. After a half-hour search of a local parts store, with a very patient parts clerk and a not-so-patient 5 year-old son, I found an arrangement that should work. Behold, the old connector + teflon tape + that new thing on the right.
The teflon tape is necessary because the threads of the old connector are metric size, and the threads on the new one are a roughly (but not exactly) analogous SAE size, so it's not really tight without the tape. The new thing on the right + a new hose connected to the right side of it, replaces this:
Curious about the pre-Oppo stages of the project? Satisfy your curiosity !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> AncientOfDays
03/04/2014 at 12:16 |
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Eagle :) love these things
Any pics of the whole car?
crowmolly
> AncientOfDays
03/04/2014 at 12:20 |
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You are using teflon tape to bridge incorrect threads? And that's a quick disconnect for an air line, not a barbed hose fitting. Not appropriate to clamp hose to. It will not be fun if the hose blows off on the highway. Also, it's not "SAE" or "metric", I think it's 1/4" NPT which requires teflon to seal. Plus the quick disconnect is not made for a 45* flare and the 90 (and the old line) are a flared connection.
I would find out what threads are on the 90 (looks like 1/4" NPT) and replace it with an appropriate one from Home depot or a plumbing store. It looks like you need a 1/4" NPT 90 with a barbed fitting on one end that's appropriate for your hose size (3/8?)
Why not just go with push-lok fittings and hose?
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AncientOfDays
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
03/04/2014 at 12:22 |
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Yeah, I'm thinking for the next post I'll gather up the ones I have of the whole car, plus take some new ones. So check back for those in a day or two.
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AncientOfDays
> crowmolly
03/04/2014 at 12:40 |
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Well that makes a little more sense than what the guy at the store said, who I think was making an educated guess based on the sparse info from the connector's packaging. I'll check into getting a more well-suited connector.
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crowmolly
> AncientOfDays
03/04/2014 at 12:43 |
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What size hose? I can do a quick poke around for you just to get a ballpark.
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AncientOfDays
> crowmolly
03/04/2014 at 12:46 |
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It's 3/8", like you had guessed.
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crowmolly
> AncientOfDays
03/04/2014 at 12:54 |
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http://www.jegs.com/i/JEGS-Perform…
Also available at Lowe's in regular brass (which you can then return if it doesn't work).
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AncientOfDays
> crowmolly
03/04/2014 at 12:55 |
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Awesome. Thanks a bunch.
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crowmolly
> AncientOfDays
03/04/2014 at 12:58 |
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No worries dude. Keep fighting the good fight! :)
Lazzris
> AncientOfDays
03/04/2014 at 13:02 |
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That's my kind of project
mutatedjellyfish
> AncientOfDays
03/04/2014 at 13:36 |
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AncientOfDays
> mutatedjellyfish
03/04/2014 at 14:00 |
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Yay! I tried to pull the pictures from your old classified ad on the forum, but they seem to have gone away. If you still have any that you can email to me, that would be super-duper.