TheDirtyJeep401

Welcome to the club. Hope to see some progress on it!!!!!!! :thumbsup:

I want to find one. I bought a OEM replacement and now my rockers are hitting the valve cover. :wall:

I don't think its worth it. Wish I had that valve cover though..................

All they try to do is make Land Rovers look like luxury Jeeps. Dosent work for me. I don't need 43 diffrent settings for sand, snow, rain. I have a jeep, all of those modes are already built in free of charge and you never have to switch between them. Plus guess what last longer............ Overheating my butt. Waiting for the day a Land Rover challenges a Jeep to a Off Road Competition. That would be worth watching.

Well that sounds pointless. Lol hope you get it all together soon

As long as the rear gear ratio is the same as the front, you are fine. If you wanted to have a manual transmission and have 4x4, you will need to find one with 4x4 capabilities. So instead of having a 2 wheel drive AX-5, you will need a AX-5 with 4x4, If you do put 4 wheel drive in. your rear drive shaft will need to be shortened. And your not sounding dumb, half of the stuff I didnt know I learned from the club. No one is dumb on here. :thumbsup:

Look good bro :thumbsup: Wanting to repaint my bumpers too Whats with the three holes above the tailight?

And that steering wheel, is going. gonna try to get one from another AMC style wheel that I like.

I know, the engines a 304, and the tranny is a m44

Ok, saw something about it and wasnt for sure. Thanks

Will a yj 2.5 valve cover swap right on to an older 2.5?

Thanks, yeah she originally had green interior and green tops. ugly combo in my opinion. before it sat for many years, my dad started to swap the black interior out of his 72 Javelin into the 71. Good thing though that I have all of the interior peieces (excpet for the carpet). Just 2 peieces are green that I have to paint or find a replacment. 71 AMX, my dad wasnt a huge fan of that year but I thought that they were nice looking cars. I'm assuming its a 390 or 360? Either way, still a nice car to srive. :thumbsup:

Reason I don't like Mustangs is because Ford always broke down. I have loved AMC's since I was a kid. My dad first car was a AMC Gremlin X he bought for $1000, I bought my first vehicle The MJ for a thousand. Out of all of the years my dad has owned the Javelin (before I was born) I had never seen what it looked like in the interior ir under the hood. The only memories I had was of the car sitting with a car cover on it all of my life. Nver seen the Interior , never seen the engine compartment. Told my dad that and he looked pretty sad. all he did was get mad if I wanted to look at it. Since I got accepted into automotive college classes in high school, he gave it to me to fix up. Now that is all I want to work on (and the Comanche of course) And as for the CDI factor, girls are gonna really like a supercharged or turbocharged 401 :brows:

You would have to get a 4x4 AW4 trans. As for 4 wheel drive you will need the front axle, more than likley a D30 and front drive shaft shift linkage etc... Youll have to shorten the rear drive shaft too.

Whoa hold on thar ...As I recall sir, I swapped you my old lop eared mule and a slightly (if questionably) used squaw for that bent and filty old musket.A swap is fair and square Mr. Jim (though admittedly I got the best of the deal). Gotta hand it to you for your memory too. :rotf:

That would have been a killer car to have. The car next to the javelin (covered in the pic) is a 68 AMX basicaly the same thing. Have a total of 4 AMC's , love the cars. I wish I could slap people that think the Javelin is a wide body Mustang :thwak:

That would be nice to have, I'd rather have that than a mustang lol

I tried getting under it. it was originaly a 2.5 and it still had the transfer case and everything. He didnt tell me much about it since he was in a hurry. Also it was an auto.

Might be vaccum lines. For the heater check the radiator coolant. and A/C , I don't know because I don't have it :(

This was my dads 71 Javelin. He has owned it since 1989, and held on to it since. It has a factory 304 in it (getting rebuilt). Right now I'm going to make it road worthy so my dad can at least have the joy of driving it since he only got to drive it for 2 years out of all of the years he has owned it. My Plans are: -Rebuild the current 304 and Tranny -Get electrical done -Basically get it street legal and drive able first -Interior finished Once that gets done -Rebuild 401 with mods and convert to fuel injection -Rebuild M11B transmission -Body work -Repaint Factory Snow White -Install NOS parts ( not Nitrous, New Old Stock) And other things that I know I am missing. All of the interior pieces are in my room, and there are a lot of pieces the only thing not in my room is the seats. So that I can restore the interior trim and panels She may look rough, but for its age its in good condition. I truthfully thought that I would never get this car, but he gave it to me, and I want to let him see it run again, since he can't fix it up himself. I love my Comanche but this comes before the MJ, not that I'm not going to work on the MJ, its just I am going to bust my butt to get this thing going again. The Comanche runs, the Javelin dosent. I'm building it the way he wanted it. Because he has planned it all out for the past 24 years. (Plus we both share the same ideas) And thus the revival of a beast....................Begins

:agree:

He put a Buick 380 in it, ill put the pics up in a bit.

Has there ever been an engine swap in a comanche that is supercharged? If not I'm looking at one right now.

Have you done a tune up lately?