Event Coverage The Rambler Adventure-Up The River

What do you plan for brand and grade of oil when you get it back together, to avoid flat cam lobes?

 

10w30 from walmart....the valve springs are small, the cam and lifters are well broken in, and despite the rumors, there's still zddp in modern oil, and it gets used up only as needed, no matter how much is in the oil.

 

Some inspiration?
https://inlandempire.craigslist.org/cto/d/lake-elsinore-1956-rambler/7518936423.html

 

That’s it Jim. You could build it like the Nova and call it the back up

 

Or the RamBlur

 

way too nice

 

Hmmm
Wonder if a T-10 out of an AMX will bolt up to that!

 

No, it's not an easy transmission to replace...and I like the three on the tree, too

 

Jim,
Some good info here: http://www.ramblerlore.com/AMC/

 

heh...that's my friend Tom's site. I have his number, I text him directly when I have a question, and he replies to my fb posts about the car.

 

Weren't these early Rambler OHV 6s an engine designed as a sort of "conversion" based on the older Rambler flathead six short block? What a wonderfully, oddly American Motors approach to engineering a new series of engines!

 

yeah, and they kept making the flat head version for the cheaper American for several years

 

Which means it will run on carpet cleaner or lighter fluid.

 

Perhaps we should call it the "Rustler"

 

Yep, the last year was 65, which is what I have.
Wierd little motor....

 

Intake manifold? We don't need no Intake manifold!

 

It's half way to the Ford/Chevy integral manifold heads, but not quite as hard to modify.

here's a picture that shows the intake manifold pretty clearly. Notice that lots of head bolts go through it!

 

Is that a “plate” on top…i/e what the carburetor bolts onto? Or all one piece?

Edit: I zoomed in, I can see clearly now

 

Ok... Yes, a small supercharger may bolt on in place on intake.

 

A peek under the intake plate. Pretty high tech, eh? or not.

 

Of course, there's also the aluminum block version of this 196 engine, new for 1961.....

 

I understand they didn't often survive

 

I know it’s O/T, but the intake manifold plate set up is the same idea as a B model Cummins. It’s intriguing how Nash pioneered this concept.

 

It amazes me that they could get even fuel distribution with that wide open box! Atleast with a Cummins, all you have to worry about is airflow.

 

^^^^^ Maybe those two little kick out are acting as venturies (hope I spelled it correctly)?

 

The exhaust manifold looks like they stole one from a 287/327 V8.

 

kind of similar, but not....the holes on mine are in a line, they aren't on the V8.

 

Boy, I would be real tempted to mill that head some to raise the compression a little. But that's just how my mind works!

 

Little bit of bowl clean up work under the valves ? Touch the port areas to clean up casting edges too?

 

The oil filter was easy to get to and kept the left side of the engine from rusting and generator lubed.