Originally Posted by
Ford_Six
They are kinda neat cars. The weekend mail delivery person here uses one, and honestly that's the only AMC product I'd even really consider buying (I have had very bad experiences with an FSJ and an XJ Cherokee).
Funny you should mention the XJ - The Eagle was a an experiment that AMC performed to see whether or not a vehicle with a unibody could hold up to the 4WD - It was the predecessor to the XJ (YJ?) Wrangler. The AMC 258 inline 6 is, more or less, still in use today in the form of the Jeep 4.0 liter - Swapping parts between the 258 and the 4.0 can produce a 4.6 liter stroker...
I was on the AMC List for a while and can probably tell you anything you need to know about the Eagle... I even wrote up an article on how to bypass the MCU - You can still find that writeup here:
http://www.skidmore.edu/~pdwyer/amc/eagle/bypass.htm - Somewhere around here, I have parts microfiche for the 80-87 Eagles...
OK, now that I've taken this thread wwwaaaayyyy off-topic, I'll leave now
