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As long as oil was changed at regular intervals and it never was let run low on oil, there is never a reason to need to split open the case of a early ej22 (up to about year 95). They are capable of a million miles on the bottom end if oil was changed n time. Never really hear of any problems at all from anyone on the ej22 concerning the rings, bearings, etc. That is why Subaru was able to accomplish the land speed enduarnace record of averaging over 140 mph for a stretch of 28 days straight, on 3 91 Legacy turbo cars. That engine is a tank. They pushed those 3 cars to 100km in less than 30 days, all while driving rates of 140mph average. http://www.hemmings.com/hsx/stories/2007/01/01/hmn_feature30.html

Please to Subaru, make a non interference motor again kinda like the ej22. end

check brake drag.

yep. when i had my 06 outback, I had a brake light bulb go out. Open gate, take out the 2 bolts, and then you have to twist out that plastic cover then you gan get you the housing bolts. It was NOT simple, not a good design at all. This was one more design thing fail that put me over the edge and was a easy call to not keep the car. For reference my 94 TW and all my other leg sedans, had easy covers to either flip up to get the to bulb holder, or a plastic cover that snapped out of place to get to the bulb holder. Whoever thought it was necessary to remove the whole housing is and obvious joke on society.

wofc watch out for critters.

sorry for your misfortune/mishap. This is why i refuse to go full coverage insurance on my BRAT or other older cars. The insurance companies simply CANNOT fix our cars anymore due to lack of parts. If parts are not around ,they cannot fix for less than a total out. That means a total on even small damage, and that will for sure ding the resale / title status for future.

do not know if that is correct, as people on bbslegacy central sometimes go replace the fronts on the turbo cars with axles from FWD car, cause the shafts are beefier on the fwd model, think splines all same.

what engine is this? first post does not say, could be ea71, ea81, ea82 ej22, ej25etc and it will let me know if fel pro is okay or not, cause on EJ25, no way is fel pro ok

got a nice thing for my BRAT in the back.

are you not using the only advice we can gice, OEM Subaru Head gaskets>\\I bet you are using the off the shelf of a discount store, which you can search, are junk junk junk

at least with a Nokian snow you can run the tire 5 years or so tii the tread is gone. On a blizzak, the tread is hard after 1,5 year and worse than an all season. That is why everyone sees blizzak for sale after so few of miles and years. They get junky after like 5k miles. Nokian, is good till the tread is gone.

no. srry. the front grille fenders and side markers are for a 82 but the bumper is not a 82. that is not a good description the front grille is a juke. It IS a GL, cause it has funtops. I can sell you a 76 US Brat or a 89 US BRAT if you want...lo

Your BRAT was looking even better than the first time i saw it.

Just did oil change on my 91 Civic Si hatchback. -went to Chicago and back yesterday to pick up a BRAT RB, so decided to do the oil change today after returning. Last oil change was in july of 2005 at miles 64,350 So i changed it today, Sep 10, 2011 miles 67,900 I averaged 40.2 mpg on this trip, and 2 hours of that was city driving in Chi traffic.

hakka4 nice winestone tw, i had the exact car sold it when it had about 180k my former

^ that's it, more info is roll down the front windows, and gently squeeze the rubber channel a little tiny bit narrower right at the triangle of wherre the mirror mounts (make sure glass window is down) then put window back up, test it out on a little country drive. If you want to get even more anal on this then apply some rubber restorer/conditioner to all the door rubbers...

The other day renewed my leather outback limited seats in the BRAT using the remaining Leatherique product i had from when i had the SVX. Seats are again like new.....thinking of waxing before the fall cold sets in later in the fall. Started the Legacy SS in the garage, idled it for like 15 minutes while the 12v compressor aired up the low front tires, also ran AC to lubricate the seals and such, wow it was cold AC, too bad that is my winter car with nice Nokian snows. Need to read the CEL code it was showing.....when parked it no codes in spring, so that is a new one. looked at the 84 BRAT with ej22, I still have not tried to attempt to start it after i purchased it over a month ago. Bid on a few auction cars.

Legacy is a much more refined car, no problem holding steady cruise doing 75mph cross the country. Just saw a 94 with 466k miles on it still going strong looked good too. They hold up really really well.

From the pics it looks great except for the bottoms of the body where they painted it black, possibly needed to cover rusting.......but the price is good on that if it is solid.

down under, Australia

What year impreza and trim level. Do not leave bags of chips, food crumbs etc in there.

Those braided flex pipes leak over a short time...In fact, mine looked good, but with the car running, could feel air escaping all about the flex portion. I took it to a shop, they cut out the flex part and put solid pipe in place of it.

I had the fender off my 85 BRAT and never had to remove hood or wipers. Left them on to install it back as well. If you don't have dents in a replacement fender, you are better off to leave as much factory paint, primer sealer on it, Taking it to bare metal is a no-no in automotive world in that case. The right time to take to bare metal is if you need to stick bondo to it, or grind out rust. Factory paint is better primer than anything to can respray

wow. Nice deal, even with 4 different wheels/tires. You know that front bar is worth near 200 alone. It looks mint to me.

Around here, it is mainly worrying what the dealers did to it?