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does the EA82 centre bearing support just fit also as easily in an EA81 trans tunnel - any idea ? Something else I thought about but didn't - recover interior lights, coolant overflow bottle bracket and centre bearing support

Genuines were under 30 bucks each at subarupartsdepot.com

like Subruise said - google "mizpah" mizpah engineering do exchange reco HVLA for EA82 - was something like $6 each 3 or 4 years ago. Comment on his site from someone felt that more care went into their reco work than new ones churned out of a factory. Depending on how his stocks of EA82 lifters are you may get them as exchange, pay another $1 for no core supplied....he was calling for old ones and was offering a dollar off for each one you sent in I got a set, and running so nice and quiet, bled up quickly on start up even though though had been sitting in rebuilt engine 3.5 years !

I sort of thought it best to screw them in while pipe was hot, hoping the minute expansion while hot does not expand any more or someone behind will cop a puncture I forgot to say that as the screw popped through outer pipe, I could then feel screw drilling into second pipe inside so the thread should be in two pipes. Going to dump a blob of silicone to hold the heads to the pipes It is like a different car right through the rev range. Thought I was going to have to punk up my pipes a lot more than that before I found the spot I am happy with the cheap'n'cheerful success

I heard this one day at a shopping centre, looked around corner to see a 911 convertible whose driver los tit in a left hand turn, collected a keep left sign and its half cubic metre of concrete anchor, accompanying them on their career into and over a square concrete gutter. Median strip gravel swept everywhere as a result, bent axle and whopping great ding in rear guard and his pride - exposed while he waited an hour for a tow truck!

:D would happen before the turn as it took some planning on how to take a corner, as it did not handle at all well at the sort of speed it was being propelled at

Sheesus, how hard was that ?? Only through discussions about the web to find these Y pipes are double walled, pipe inside pipe (so, I was not getting bigger pipes fitting L Series Y pipe on EA81). Inside pipes can burn out or rot just below flange at head, pipe inside rattles like buggery on acceleartion, some cruise, some backing off, sometimes goes dead quiet. Went dead quiet after I fitted EA82M and then it came back. This idea came to me. Tried one screw up top first on RHS, then LHS, then lower RHS. 5 cents a self drilling gal screw with 8mm hex head. Tookl mere minutes to do first and go for a drive with more screws in pocket, drill driver beside me. Jono's 20c fix

Bit eye opening aren't they those pics !! Tony would enter his forum, ask some questions, and next minute he has found a SC12, another few days and it on and running in a few more days. If it was me, it will happen in another six years time ! Once spoke to guy running EA81 with twin carbs, twin turbos in a VW Beetle, reckoned it would do a WRX off at the lights but needed a days planning to take a corner - so it is do'able.Know no more detail than the shop that set it up, must go poke nose around one day. Gees, while I have an EA81 turbo side head off, should investigate an oil supply and return hole for a turbo fit :evil: it is just about to get twin Hitachi breathers fitted..see if a turbo exhaust fits without turbo dimple ......

and since saying that the car has been stripped out, to reveal a lot of play in the outer rear bearing of that hub when nut undone and compared to other side in same condition - bearing allowed axial ? play of 3 or 4 mm !

No one excited about the VW this time ? Here's my find - 25 year old, 239,000km EA81 4WD 4 speed Brumby first spied about 4 or 5 years ago, sitting in a carport with th e family car sitting on an incline out in the elements. Next door told me it had been there for years, engine had 'blown up' and just sat there. I would look up the drive to see it still there when in the area (sometimes just a special drive to see ) I even got around to knocking on their door a year before i got it - no one home then. Next time for the knock was just before Xmas when I'd been quoted enough for a new tarp, estimated what another non rusty tailgate was gonna cost and offered same total for the poor thing. Owners jumped at it - free space up in the carport for the family only other car, on level ground. Got it trucked home to first wash the 8.5 years of crud off it, cleaned under, removed those pink/green pin stripes and polished her up. Engine was not a goer. Did not really care, but found it a challenge to hook up all the emission vacuum lines to get it to run - something an invoice suggested a dealer had already done @ $450 in 2006! Tell tale open vac pipes, left over rubber tubes in the cabin suggested was not quite right :D . In all fairness the invoice read that it needed many more hours to get it right and had exhaust leaks - something that had plagued it since purchased 30,000km earlier for $6990. Found receipts for another 3000 plus there is another engine ...a new battery fitted did just 44 km before car was parked, a little disabled due to acc cable melting and jack knifed. The years rego was paid up front- near $600 never used or redeemed! It took me four hours to remove all the emission vac lines and fit up as per should be - fortunately I had a carb on a manifold of same era to copy , replaced a plastic valve that melted out due to the replacement engine having a different EGR hook up - oh, Brumby had air injection, no EGR, so I became the first of three to figure out the EGR pipe coming from the head, supporting a jack knifed melted outer casing accelerator cable - just needed removal and plug up hole in head it came from. It was blowing hot exhaust all over the work someone did on the emission hose job I got it running with a spare acc cable, 190 - 200 psi in all pots, drove it 100y to test the gearshift , parked it until time allowed for my project. Four months later, start up , something went knock - three pot boxer has no power or won't idle. Rocker off to investigate zero comp, banana shaped push rod came out, so too the rocker shaft, head off , inlet manifold still sitting there - I ya ya, no inlet gasket, just goo ! - head off to find black sticky gunk over one side of the inlet valve stem - stuck the valve shut. Read in here that old fuel causes the gums and varnishes to deposit on the valves of boxers causing them to stick - reflects my first attempts to start on what fuel was in the tank - though it was then drained and refreshed.Think I still know the cause of my problem. Lucky for me as I have a few spare EA81 headgaskets that have been a guest of the ever helpful Mr T'subaru and are coming my way soon. Considering other head off to check and clean heads, shave a bit to up the fun.

sounds like stuck exhaust valve

"mark as read" wow JesZ, nice work, every detail included, with the exception of the colour of your underwear it would seem This is a good write up, detailing the thoughts that must cross the minds of many of us so busy with practical improvements on our cars, whether they be Subarus - or heavens forbid - a flippin; KIA :D I'm glad it is all working out for you, resolving ideas to try one or the other option. Just curious if you get rain in the Honduras and whether you have tested the levels of braking in the wet ? After I added the disc rear to my Brumby, the next few days were wet, so got to test all ranges of braking in the wet. I was able to brake and steer at the same time, with perfect control of the vehicle at all tested speeds. The drum brake set up that was overhauled 100,00km earlier, essentially had done stuff all work in all that time. Drum brakes should be outlawed on any new car in production anywhere in the world ! With the Bumble beast getting a bit long in the tooth - is it time to upgrade to an EJ series, or did they continue the EA82 into the Impreza and Legacys in CA ? Waiting for the disc conversion completion now

You don't want to hear it, but isn't China the destination for our squashed bodies ? Project Cheap Grief had to come to an end, as planned when it was bought from a wrecker in 2006, complete with cooked engine, leaky 3 speed 4WD auto, dinged door, no bonnet, no lights and squahed up floor from being carted about by fork lift. The good bits are eventually going into an '89 Brumby. Wet petrol sytem is coming out - barnacle tank, Hitachi carb, tank venting lines'n'stuff >> dedicated dry gaseous propane/butane fuel system in - initially on the EA81 about to score twin Hitachis to snort LPG through , disc brake rear just to keep on topic , once the sticky valve is sorted, maybe a few though skimmed .....

or this : gave me zero comp after it was 190 or 200 psi when I parked it four months ago. Prior to parking it , I had it running nice after 8.5 years of going nowhere. I tried to start it on the stale fuel, blew the intank mesh clear of barnacles with 90 psi, got it running, drained barnacle urine and feaces out, fresh new fuel into barnacle lined tank. Happy that it was running right for storage, went to restart and things got a little noisy, blamed dormant starter motor, got a miss, no power to even reverse the beast. Putting it down to the black sticky, gummy crud on the valve stem of #3 inlet coming from stale fuel ? Bent the push rod

get hold of the speedo function of a GPS device to check your speed - checking it against another car may get differing results from brand to brand Fitting bigger wheels and tyres, increasing your nominal overall tyre diameter will make you think you are within the speed limit, until the fuzz jumps out of the shade - radar gun pointing at you !

something as positive as a door lock central locking solenoid, they are three wire for thunk open, thunk shut operation. I must have one somewhere...or a pair of starter motor solenoids, and an 87,87a relay could be used to operate the vacuum solenoids as they are an either/or operation - connect 87 to one solenoid to keep vacuum going one way, 87a to switch it the other way. Just unsure if I have seen one or two vacuum lines on my clanger vacuum can ??

EA81 5 spd 4WD box, really ? Only seen FWD 5 Speed, heard about rare 5 speed 4WD touring wagon box for EA81 Benefits of the EA82 5 speed behind an EA81 engine is nicer shifter design, lose the old floppy EA81 4 speed shifter issues. I would like to include better gearbox mounts, but I have used EA81 4 speed gearbox mounts each side, retained the EA81 gearbox x member and had no problems. Bragging points having a 5 speed. Hmm, point out the diff ratio is 3.9:1 for all the EA81 boxes to compare with, only 1 of 3.7 diff in whole chart ! I thought 3.7 was the more common, or typo ??

my 84 has single headlights, and yours the twin ! I had troubles with my uncles 92 Brumby with twins. Some goofball fitted after market inserts that sported replaceable globes but also earthed things out so all four beams were on high when switched to low beam. Sealed beam inners sorted the drama, after I switched the combo switch, the light switch etc. Did you buy online and got a link ? I found my EA82 ran a trickle voltage through high beam while low beams were ON. The trickle was about 1.4V and was not enough to make the HI glow inside the single EA82 headlights, but was enough to trigger my driving light relay, turning the driving lights on during low beam, the headlights hi beam remained off as wanted, I suspected either something was wrong or Subaru let a trickle through to ? save the hi from surge blast or something ? giving longer bulb life ?

easy for you, driving on the wrong side of the car actually, the gadget is on my side, just the cable takes the job to the plunger on the left . I thought same, but how strong is the diaphragm and manifold vacuum ? Surely it aint real strong ?

who even said drum brakes work, or EA82s shoe adjusters !! B4 I went disc rear, my drums had been machined and shoes ground to match, adjustment checked at 10,000km oil change intervals. 10 oil changes later came the disc conversion to note very minimal shoe wear at all - sort of indicating they had done very little work over that time. No wonder the disc rear feels perfect

anyone tried the search function on this topic? - well, the elimination of the bagel sized vacuum cannister item planted out on the dizzy side of an EA82 AWD single range 5 speed manual box with centre differential lock up option. I thought this may be necessary to fit into a RHD MY/EA81 in order for the canister to clear the heater hoses entering the firewall , was told that the boys in the US have done so with cables and levers, not done any search in here yet myself. I was thinking the EA81 MY air flow control switching betwen fresh or recirculate cabin air might be a first step in just controlling the vacuum switching duties.

no oil gauge, yet you have a sender - lucky , especially if it still gives out a varying Ohm reading - just find a gauge. Other than someone swapping in an oil pump, maybe the whole engine was swapped in from something with a gauge.

Well, yes, that is hydraulic lifter noise, might be some more noises in there as well. How long has it been like that? Just buy it, suddenly develop? You going to dive in and do what ? I would check oil level, oil pressure, oil quality, oil supply and pot compression first before diving in to replace them with new or reco HVLA's

Just playing with my pedal boxes today,noticed I kept one from an auto - don't have any clutch cable pull point I fixed my first one that did this to me in my EA81 Brumby by welding 10mm rod to the inside edges top and bottom ? Subsequent ones go the full 2mm plate riveted in place at same time I was adapting to EA82 cable. Word is if you have pedal box out for repair, may as well swap in, read, convert, to EA82 cable for its easier mounting, once yo have worked out its extremes, others have also used the EA82 clutch pedal - gives 10mm more pull at clutch end , less effort ? EA82 pedal box is not a direct fit in to A81

I hope you have guessed by now that it is the oil pressure gauge sender unit