The Chrysler K-Car Club

Make a great boat anchor ?

Depends what kind of boat, a row boat, no too heavy, a small motor boat sure! Nothing larger than that it's not heavy enough then.

That's strange, I have found it came in handy for getting my LeBaron moving for the last 29 years!
Martin

You are obviously not interested owning a first generation LeBaron, Dodge 400, 600 as most of these cars had the 2.6 through 1985. That is dicounting quite a few cars. You should start your own club.
Call it "The other two-thirds Chrysler Club." Anchors Away!

Oh come on people if we can't have a laugh at ourselves now and then this would be such a clinical and boring car club like some of the Mercedes owners clubs out there. I know the 2.6 can be good, everyone does, but when you get the temper-mental ones that never work right you get pissed and start hating them, I've said it before. Come on lets have some fun, and laugh at our cars foibles.

id use one as my toliet, imagine taking a crap in the cylinders and flushing it LOL

I think that Butch is just a little bored since the christmas tree business has slowed down.

Seems they made 2 versions of the 2.6, one ran forever and the other was forever in the shop.

if you have a 2.6 needing replacement but want to keep your trans, get a 2.4 out a mitsu fwd. the mitsu truck/suv with 2.6 and the 2.0/auto combo had the wider bellhousing pattern whereas the fwd cars and my 87 ram 50 2.0/5spd has the narrow bell housing. the 92 expo (fwd minivan) was available with an 8 valve roller camshaft 2.4 w/ 6 bolt crank pattern. the eclipse got a newer gen 2.4 with dohc in 2000. you will just need to have a torque converter that will fit the early 6 bolt crank like the old 2.6/2.0 or the later 7 bolt pattern. you might be able to adapt a transmission from an eclipse to get a 5spd. automatics are dogs and have no overdrive ratio.

I find a suprising number of 2.6 Ks. Last year, visiting sellers, I drove a number of LeBarons with smooth running 2.6s. All of them are slow from a start, in other words, no kick, but get up to 75 no problem. Jonah's 81 Reliant is the most smooth running next to last surviving 81 mitsu I every saw and drove. The other 81 2.6 mitsu I drove ran like crap.

id love to go up against an 81 2.6 V.S my 2.2, but I wouldnt now do such a thing, as the engine is 30 years old and I dont want to blow it up.