20 Most Recent 1983 AMC American Motors Eagle Questions & Answers

There is NOT a 9/16 nut or bolt on that it's metric!

Do you have any idea what ignition system it has, as there were 2 or 3 used in around those years on the AMC products. If it's the HEI system, I'd suspect (1) pickup coil in distributor, or (2) module in distributor. If it's not HEI, let us know and we can help further.

Yeah Pal, just set the idle up a bit so it won't die when you let off. If it's flooding, the carburetor float needs reset/lowered in the bowl.

Silly, you don't need a diagram, just use a 8 inch c-clamp with the hook on the back of the caliper and the adjustable screw in pad on the outside of the outer pad itself and screw the c-clamp in till it stops to squeeze the caliper piston all the way back in to it's casting to give you the room to put it back on the same way you took it off. To remove it, jack the tire off the ground and remove it. Use the c-clamp to squeeze the piston back in, remove the to caliper slide blots from the back that the caliper slides on, pull the old pads out and put in the new ones, being sure they are turned the same as what you removed, then put the caliper back on, placing the slide bolts back in and tighten them tight, then put your tire back on. Pump the brake pedal till it up and hard again, then do the other side the same way. No problem. Happy to be of service my friend.

You'll find your firing order on top of the intake manifold, and also each cylinder is marked at it's position.

contact the manufacturers technical division quoting the vin number and other details and they should be able to look up the build records and advise you of the key code.

It is not possible to have just one wire out of place. If you have reversed two wires the engine will run terribly (if at all). Likely back-fire, almost no power.

i dont think your car has the type of cumputer that there talking about

could be catalatic converters or fuel filter

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tilt steering? if so most likely bad bearing you will have to tear it down and replace. if not tilt sorry but still could be bearings depending on how it wobbles most bearing not ajustable

Low fluid level, or just plain worn out, it is a 32 yr old car....

Loosen the top bolt and use a bar to pry outwards on the alternator till it moves to it's tightest spot to tighten the belt. Then tighten the top bolt while holding the alternator out with the bar. You're done.

Fill the master cylinder with brake fluid, leave the cap off, open bleeder on left front wheel cylinder till fluid begins to come out and close the bleeder. Go to the right front and bleed it, this is gravity bleeding and works fine without a helper to pump the pedal, when fluid starts to come out close bleeder. Now go to the right rear and bleed it the same way. Then lastly, the left rear. Bleed it and you should be done and with a good pedal. If you don't have good pedal, you'll need someone to pump and hold the brake down as you bleed each one from the closest to master cylinder around to the farthest from it in sequence. It's the only way to bleed brakes.

Yeah, You're right on the position of the solenoid, and you hook the side large post to the hot post of the battery with large cable, and the large post on other side of solenoid to the starter with the large cable. The single wire that comes from the starter switch goes on the small post to the front, and if theres a second small post, it doesn't have to nave a wire on it, but normally it is a power cutout to other things that are not needed to be powered when cranking. Use a test light and have someone crank the engine over to test and see for sure which wire is the one coming from the switch before you connect it.

Right turn is green, left turn is yellow, running lights is brown. This is same on all vehicles in the USA.

If starter is good still, Check the battery connections on the battery and at starter. Clean then shiney. Check also the solenoid wire connection from the switch at the starter solenoid. Be sure it's clean and tight also. Then just be sure the battery is up to par.

d/s under dash area