AMC Cars & Trucks - Answered Questions & Fixed Issues

It came with an inline 6 cylinder engine.

sadly amc has been out of business for more than 50 years here noone will ever find parts

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Thank you for this tip. There are a lot of 4x4 that use vacuum to engage the front drive.

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Its powerful, torquey engines were among its best features. Under the hood, the '83 Jeep Cherokee offered a famously reliable 258 cubic inch, 4.2 liter AMC inline-6engine; drivers looking for more power could upgrade to a 360 cubic inch, 5.9 liter V-8 plant which put out 255 horsepower and 380 lb.-ft. of torque.

The smallest engine was a 232 hp engine and a top speed was 100 mph in theory.

Jack up the rear tires. Put the car in gear. Do the rear tires spin? If no check to see if the driveshaft is turning. , if no, then you will have internal transmission problem. Also check to see if the shifter to the transmission became disconnected.

6 cylinder 195.6 cid with 127 hp 8cylinder 287.2 cid with 200 hp

154km or 96 mph

about 2 degrees at 500 rpm

Open the hood. It is by the passenger side strut mounting. It is the thicker hose with the larger port.

The 6 cylinder had about 120 hp while the 8 cylinder had about 130 hp

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About 100

Speedometer registered 90 MPH, anything after that was guessing.

Depends on how it was equipped