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if you are determined, then yes please fix up and save the BRAT. The effort will be worth it, but make sure you are doing it well enough to pass the inspection. Would hate for all the work, effort, time, and money to still not pass your inspection.

if its lojac, then maybe ask around what it would cost to start the service back up, with all the cars being stolen, it would be a nice feature to have, especially if there is no cost, which maybe there is no cost after initial install.

did it not pass?

the wheel well is what holds the shock mount, the wheel well acts as the backing to the mount. How long have you had this. It would be cheaper probably to go find a rust free BRAT on the west coast that will pass your inspections. If you have rust in the wheel wells, that didnt pass inspection, then you more than likely have other serious rust as well. I just passed a very rusted out BRAT to a board member, and it had SOLID wheel wells but nothing else on the car was solid.

"Can I just get rid of this? or even sell it?" Whatever you do, be smart and don't throw this in the trash, don't sell it for at least a year from the time you get your car going. I have seen too many times, where something like this is sold or tossed in the trash can, and then turns out the car needs it to run right. go ahead and try to find another of it like when that time comes, be smart, KEEP it in a box for a long time to make sure you dont screw yourself. Seen people throw away perfectly good parts with a scratch, then they cant find one as nice and it is not a good thing.

water in the fuel will cause blockage at the fuel filter. the filter material is made of paper, and the water will soften it causing blockage. You need to change the filter if you do suspect water in fuel.

plain old key blanks are like 2 bucks at the hardware store. I agree, I cannot figure out why they had to go to the method of security they have done. Maybe someone on here can argue the reason, and maybe it will make sense, but no matter what the reason, i do not want that tech. For someone like me, who needs a spare key (my 06 only came with one key) I would have just gone to true value over a lunch break to have them copy the key on any of the older cars. Now, I have to take a vacation day to drive the 70 miles one way to the nearest Subaru dealer, to have them spend half a day to get the key programmed, etc). that is NO benefit to me whatsoever. Now, does anyone know ow to yank out this system so i can use regular keys.?

Like i said. finally someone else also confirms. thanks

its for the tweeter option read the recent post on adding heated mirrors about what i posted, definitely the plug is not there for heated mirrors on some models, but it is for tweeter.

give it a few days time. i have seen it take a few days to fully work. but then its good.

Way To Go SUBARU SOA. side note, Toyota had no cars on the list of Top Safety Picks this year. Time for Subaru to take the lead and let the others play catch-up. 18.5% of the cars that made the list were Subarus. 5 subarus made the list of 27. only 27 total vehicles made the list this year.

also, before tearing it apart, you can measure the tolerance somewhat by grabbing and shaking axle cup near the transmission (on both left and right side) and measuring movement. Then set it the same.

My dad helped me replace the speedo drive gear inside the front diff. We left the tranny in the car, pulled off the right side axle, marked the retaining ring on the tranny, counted number of turns in until firm bottom, counted number turns back out for removal, pulled the seal cover, pulled out bearing, removed the small driven gear via snap ring, that has to come out to pull off the BIG drive gear, pulled out the speedo drive gear (big yellow plastic ring that was stripped) replaced with new drive gear, replaced seal with new (that part is mandatory), put back together, counted number turns in til firm bottom, and counted number turns back out to keep it the same. I have pics of all this, and yes it was done with tranny still in the car. So some of you guys have it wrong, I for one, have done this repair, was done when car had 159k on it, and now the last i heard, car had 195k plus miles on it and still going I would hope.

if you are stuck and wheels a spinning, your speedo shows pegged but you can be at redline, so speed is not an indicator sometimes.

depends, but sometime in 2003+? they started putting built in immobilizer security in these cars (immobilizer key with micro chip) and I would think there is no way to disable the system. If you take it out, then no start, no move, no run situation. Best solution is to get a junkyard system that has warranty. car-parts.com is good, and pretty reasonable and cheap to ship. Good luck.

It is REALLY hard for any car, car engine, etc, to go much over 75k in Japan. its a small island, they have strict inspections, 99% of the people there wouldnt be caught dead driving a car older than 4 or so years. Its a status symbol to have a new car, new gadgets, newest phones, best techonology applies very much to what they drive. thats why. " Owning and operating a car in Japan is very expensive. The country is small and made up of several islands, so rust is a problem. Japan has a great puplic transportation system and very strict smog laws. Cars are inspected every 3 or 4 years. Just the inspection fee averages $1500.00, plus the repair cost, which is usually several thousand dollars. Gasoline cost 3-4 times what it costs in the USA. Cars are used mostly on weekends or daily to get to a train station. Cars with any body damage(including rust) are considered unsafe by authorities and cannot be used. Labor is very expensive, so many cars with minor body damage and perfect low mileage engines and transmissions end up getting recycled. Japanese citizens have a propensity for owning and driving only the latest model cars. It is a point of national pride for them. These conditions result in Japanese drivers not driving very much. So, NO PROOF at all, but common sense with facts tells the proof. The average mileage on our engines is 30-40 thousand. This is an average based upon the average mileage of a car in Japan. Japanese vehicles are driven an average of 5000 miles a year for 5-8 years. This is the average. Your engine may have more miles or less miles. There is no way for us to know the exact milage on any particular engine."

reported to have crushed all but 100 that were moved to the new location. that was a pretty awesome BRAT..

did not know its a new site. I will bookmark it and check back for updates.

IOWA search for trails on that site: no trails found i tried. i was not too surprised. i rate the ....cough ....yota site fail based on this. you other fun guys will be happy to get something.

so they moved the access cover from in the back to directly under the rear seat cushion? still on passenger side?

replace the o-ring on the bottom of the trans filler dipstick tube first. No need to drain fluid or anything, just undo the 10mm bolt head holding the trans dipstick tube to the transmission housing, find the smashed brittle deformed oring, and replace with a "ATF, gas, oil resistant" oring of same size. Then test for leaks after wiping off the old ATF leaks. I bet that is a good chance for the source of your leak. edit. I think there is a middle support bracket also up near the starter that holds the tube as well,

http://www.sjrlift.com/ works for me on a MAC with safari so I would assume just give it a try again.

4eat turbo leg 91-94 is quite alot faster than the 5mt turbo of same era, and quite i mean about 20mph higher. I have owned 3 ej22t factory cars (1992 turbo sport sedan 5mt, 1993 turbo sport sedan 4eat, 1994 legacy turbo wagon 4eat) no way i would go top end wager on the 5mt. I would bet on the 4eat hands down all the time on this one. 4eat no prob geting to 140 i had to shut it down to fast for road, but easy EASY cake to get that speed, wheras 5mt pushed to get to about 125. thats all

i will give 560 for it that cheap

I had a JDM engine once, it was in my 91 RHD Honda Civic EF9 SiR hatchie. wooah. That was a running machine, 8200RPM redline stock, vtec kick in at factory set 5300 rpm+. was like a turbo from 5300 to 8200. Now, I do recommend a JDM import at 650-900 over a used USDM engine that can run a little less. Reason in miles on the JDM is going to 99% of the time be less than 75km, which is about 45k in miles.