[455Grandville]

Originally Posted by KS circutguy

She bought it (used)without my help. It was actually a nice vehicle for her. Only problem was right after purchase it would smoke after cold starting.
My good friend happened to be service manager at that Jeep- AMC dealership and after I called them out on the smoking he had a Tech replace all the valve stem seals and it fixed the issue.
She drove it numerous times from NY to WA state without issues.
Later the next year we moved to Arizona to get away from the winter snow, not fun for an up and coming tech.
I worked for a Toyota - AMC - Renault - GMC in Kingman, Arizona the new Cherokees just came out after I started. We had a hard time keeping them in stock they sold so well. Worded for 2 1/2 years before we finally moved to the best state in the land (imo) Washington state..
No extreme heat or snow and cars don't rust, a great place to wrench for a living.
AMC's were pretty decent vehicles it was the Renault's that were total **** boxes.

Originally Posted by Sirrotica

I read somewhere that the Packard V8 was used by AMC/rambler, and Nash somewhere years ago after Packard folded. Well that part is true and Packard was used as a fill in for 2 model years until AMC started to manufacture their own V8, learn something new everyday. They are 2 different designs.

As most Detroit I 6s the AMC is about as reliable as an anvil, no argument here ford chevy AMC and chrysler straight sixes last forever with minimal care.

Packard had a 320 V8 that they used in 1955; it was a huge engine with 5.00” bore spacing.
We had 374 or 352 cubic inch Packard come into the shop when I was 18 for a rebuild; it was a pretty durable piece of cast iron.

The Rambler 327 had tiny ports and a mild cam, it didn’t have much potential for high power.