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aemeijers

On 5/21/2011 11:04 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 21 May 2011 22:42:31 -0400,
wrote:

On 5/21/2011 9:29 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
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"The wipers on my 68 Javelin stop working."

"Check the fuel pump."

"The car runs fine...I said the wipers don't work."

"Check the fuel pump. There's a vacuum booster pump bolted to the top
of the fuel pump that powers the wipers. They can leak."

Okay, so Javelins were really 1959 Ramblers under the skin. But you
gotta admit, that first year Javelin sure was pretty. I did a real
double take going through a 73? or so Hornet hatch at a dealership- the
load floor cover over the spare tire was painted plywood- the company
was so broke by then they couldn't even afford tooling for a simple
almost-flat ridged metal panel.

And that plywood deck did NOT rattle, and was very stout - you never
saw one dented or damaged. Why use steel???? It was protected from the
elements and was not required to be air-tight like floor-boards, or to
stand up to exhaust heat etc.

And the Javelin was MUCH different than a '57 Rambler. It was a '68,
more or less. The 232 and 258 sixes were pretty good little engines -
and the 290, 304,360 engines were better than the 287, 290, and 327
Nash engines of previous generations -- and they were not BAD engines.

No argument there- my family owned several of the AMC straight sixes
with the seven main bearings- it was about the only part on the car that
held up well, aside from the perennial leaky valve cover. I think Jeep
only recently stopped using a descendant of the same engine. Wiki sez 64
through 06. That is a production lifespan up there with the ford and gm
small-block v8s.

But vacuum-operated wipers by the late 60's? Almost Made a Car, indeed.
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