'83 AMC Eagle SX4

[89 MJ]

7 minutes ago, Eagle_SX4 said:

Your welcome. The rest of the exhaust follows the original eagle routing I tried to use an XJ tail pipe on the passenger side but you would need to move brake lines and reroute the stock fuel line.

Sounds good. My exhaust is all brand new, so I should just need to replace it around the header. 

[Eagle_SX4]

@89 MJTook some pictures but it is hard to see because it is so tight in there.

[89 MJ]

Those pictures are great! Thank you!

[Eagle_SX4]

Well my seat broke again. I am going to weld it back together tomorrow. With some reinforcements.

[89 MJ]

I hear that’s a common issue on SX4s. Second or third time I’d heard of it in the last month or so. 

[Eagle_SX4]

Got the seat welded back together and then plated top and bottom. It won't break in that spot again.

[Eagle_SX4]

Got some brand new seat belts installed. They are from https://www.seatbeltsplus.com/.

 

They look just like the Chrysler era jeep seat belts but are brand new and are a very similar design to the originals that I pulled out. The driver's side belt had started to tear.

[Eagle_SX4]

When I got it my car didn't have any radio system in it and I got just a parts store antenna kit and it never worked well. I finally found and installed a factory am/fm radio antenna.

 

[Eagle_SX4]

Finally got around to mounting my modified Dodge Challenger mirror (driver's side) on my car. The passenger side is next. It took some cutting to change the angle at which they mount a steel plate and 2 tubes of JB weld steel stick epoxy. 

[Eagle_SX4]

Changed the rear diff gear oil today. Everything looks good in there. 

 

Also today I started to change all the front suspension bushings. I got the passenger upper ones successfully changed today and the rest will be tomorrow.

Thought this would be a hassle but it went very smooth. A while back I bought a spring compressor built just for the AMC front springs. It replaces the shock and you just tighten it up and it compresses the spring safely so you can get the upper control arm out to change the bushings.

[89 MJ]

23 minutes ago, Eagle_SX4 said:

Also today I started to change all the front suspension bushings. I got the passenger upper ones successfully changed today and the rest will be tomorrow.

Thought this would be a hassle but it went very smooth.

Glad to hear this went well. I’m dreading the day that my car needs them. 

[Eagle_SX4]

On 1/3/2025 at 8:36 PM, 89 MJ said:

Glad to hear this went well. I’m dreading the day that my car needs them. 

It was a lot easier than I had thought it would be. This is the spring compressor I used. https://www.ebay.com/itm/253333083643

 

It worked very well and if you need to ever remove the front springs don't use any other type of compressor. Using this one you do need to remove the upper control arm to get the spring out but it is so much safer than trying to use a different style of compressor.

 

Replaced the front springs on my dad's Eagle without this compressor and one of the outside spring compressors popped off and hit my knuckle, I have a scar from it. It could have been much worse.

[89 MJ]

Thanks for the link!