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Save the rear hatch,it's special...same for the ceiling liner.Save the trim around the hatch too.THere's screws from the inside of the pillar if you do remove them. I love mine.Too bad I don't drive it.:-\

Keep on rockin in the free world.....whatever that means... !!!!!! You GO girl.

I thought I heard something about you losing you job,or was it your dad,and your job was up in the air??Anyhow,don't talk about it here if you don't want to.Sorry to bring it up,but YES the freakin northeast is always the first to feel it.The cornkickers don't know what's going on,but the Spanish Invasion has them waking up.Everybody wants you to work for crumbs and they take home the meat.Well,I think it's time to learn more Spanish and start a payroll.Pretty soon guys like me will be cutting throat 'cause working for tyrants blows. OK,let me see about October and if it goes into November just dress warmer. BTW,I'm predicting a MAJOR SNOW STORM this season putting NYC in peril.FEMA hires the Interpol and takes over the City like some Kurt Russell movie or something.

Yeah,maybe the following weekend instead. THere's a lot up in the air on my end right now.I have people interested in my home but really need to button things up. At least most of you guys are a lot closer.Going to be another looooooong day for me,so I might camp out Friday night or Saturday,or both since Harry's is open on Sunday. ......oh,I almost forgot,I'm damn broke right now too.Looking to dump some stuff off,have a couple of quicky side gigs,hopefully I can go with more than plastic and coffee money.

First part,yes.Second part,no,it's not leaking at all.Very tight engine and tranny,....look,no spots!!! Thanks again guys.You all might as well let this one drop and when I change the modulator I'll give a full report.If I need help from that point then we'll dogpile on it once again. Cheers!

It's October already!!...that's the update. :-\ How are we looking for the third weekend this month?

Thanks Tom,I knew that.I've replaced modulators before but they never made the car smoke at all,just shifted badly.

Thanks Pat.You'd think maybe more folks have experienced this and chimed in.Hopefully this will be the last automatic I own untill my body requires one. I think in my whole life I've maybe owned 2 automatics as drivers-discounting parts cars. Well,no time right now but maybe I can get to it later today/tonight. I've had modulators needing to be replaced in my wife's automatic 3spd Subarus but they NEVER made a cloud of any sort so this train is just coming down the tracks for the first time in my town.Thanks for the insight.

After talking to my brother,a former Subaru mechanic from the 70's through early 80's,it would seem Pat has the answer.Modualtor swap as soon as I can.Stay tuned.

...you're welcome,but I'm just the first(?)guy who wrote it out nicely. The EA81's can be yanked from the driver's side w/o removing the dash,BUT you need a Dremel type tool to cut the box.Save the cut piece and glue it back on after."clantieri" did an ecxellent job of this in his,and my,former 84 4WD wagon.

GET THIS CAR THE f OUT OF THERE! Well worth getting,even just to turn over.

It must have been Austin,he's everywhere!!!

Runs a tad bit toward the warm side but never overheats. Never see any dust,it's a true vapor/steam with a light gas smell and is very light,doesn't hover around low to the ground like an oil,it just lifts into the air but in a thickness which would make most folks think it's an oil blower. I'm still thinking it's choke related and it's dumping too much gas in. Keep 'em coming.Eventually I'll have it fixed.I've never really seen anything like this.I am TOTALLY familiar with oil blow by,oil in the cylinder from leaky valve seals,headgasket failure,and intake manifold gasket failure and this appears as neither of those.Very strange. If it had the "maple syrup" smell then I'd go right to intake manifold or head gaskets.But it doesn't.

...as in turning the car off,performing an errand,and returning to start my car again. If my car began smoking with nobody behind the wheel and not running I'd call for an Exorcist.

I probably have a couple of doubles.For the cars I actually own I insist on keeping two.One for home and one to stay in the car. When I get settled into our next home then everythnig will be sorted through....one more time:rolleyes: ,and I'll then release those not needed back into the wild. Off the top of my head I'd say there unnecessary versions of the '81,'79,and I think a double of 1975...all speculation untill I can confirm. The one just posted in the Marketplace by the Canadian dude looks to ba a decent deal.Then again,I just scored another '78 supplement for $0.99 and a full Engine/Body for 1982 for $4.99 The Canadian guy says his manual is 3 1/2 inches thick,which has me curious.Definitely sounds like something I'd like. Keep in touch and check for when I move,then give me a little time to get things in order. Send crablegs!! LOL

Please join us at our off roading meets in the Pine Barrens,NJ. Also,let us know if you guys have an off roading (light duty is fine) spot and maybe we can make the trip north. Be sure to check the Meet 'n Greet Forum and I hope to see you guys start your own meet,hopefully somewhere with a little off roading or even joining in a TSD Rally would be cool. Pine Barrens is fun.Sandy trails for the most part but we make it exciting,or can,with speed.There's some water fun and a spot or two you can test something lifted should you have a high roller.No real rock crawling.It's fairly flat down in southern Jersey.One look from the tower we went up and I thought we were in Kansas.....FLAT.Could see Philly in the distance and I guess Atlantic City...anyhow,just wetting your whistle,stop down if you can. There's definitely momentum building on the east coast.Less snobs,more people leaving oil spots. It's not that there's no Subaru,that's for sure.It's just that now people are starting to see the value of keeping the older ones going longer instead of just turning them over like when everybody was raking in the money.Looking like those days are sidetracked for a lot of us here.That's when you really get to be involved.We've got a great group in the PA/NJ/NY/New England area and we've helped each other bigtime and pretty much always had fun doing it. Cheers!

Smeels a little fumy,so I tend to think it's dumping way too much gas in the mix.I'll need to go over the carb/choke sometime soon. This is NOT normal condensation,but thanks.I've had lots of cars over the last two decades and when the car smokes after just shutting it off for five minutes it's not condensation. I detect the slight smell of the new gas we have here.We'll see,but any ideas are appreciated,thanks.

I've got loads of mannies from '71-84 but no time to help most folks in most situations so please,only in desperation.Almost EVERY ONE of my manuals is buried in storage right now,too.....so there.

What I've seen is that people from the northeast will look in for info but not get involved.Feel used? That's what the difference is between us and the west coast.People here don't romance old Subarus because they have to be realistic.I've said this for nearly 30 years,Subarus are the Bic lighters of cars.Use them and toss them away.There's always another one coming.That's the theory I live by untill one comes along that's worth holding onto,like my '78 wagon,and the latest '82 GLF. Good luck roping New Yorkers.

I'd sell it and buy more Subarus. It's just that I personally just went to a car show here and saw tons of muscle cars,etc..and I'm sure most everybody has seen the usual drive in car shows all summer long.I know I grew up with muscle cars in the family,really could appreciate them back then.But I appreciate them a little less now that the prices have become what they have and the gas issue. I think it's completely amazing that you saw a 360 anything there at that show.360 truck,now there's one to get!

Looks like it'd be coolant but there's no smell of it.The coolant in the car is probably old,but it is still fairly green in color.Do you think that old coolant possibly sitting for years is so diluted that it'll smell more like water steam?Because that's what it sort of smells like. Not blue smoke,no oil burning smell at all. Intake manifold gasket????Maybe a slight crack between the water passage and the fuel mix duct?? This is Connie's (Bucky92) former 1982 1800 GLF.

This one: http://www.carsatcarlisle.com/schedule/fall/index.asp I hear James Dean might be reincarnated for this one. But seriously folks,I'm sure there's going to be some wicked cool old cars there....but doubt there'll be an old school Subie. Jon,mark your calender,bud!May....third weekend....you own old Subarus....one excellent gathering,trust me.A whole heap of us balked this year but most of those are committing to this year's show and we've gained some vintage Subathusiasts,something like 10-fold,here in the NorthEast so our representaion and variety of models should be greatly expanded. Scott goes nuts out to make the show special for the gang and despite that it's a really good time. ...just kidding Scotty.

Maybe I didn't see something but from what I think I see it looks like I'll need an inverted Torx,or spline,socket for this adjustment. I'll be "going in" sometime later this week for a pan drop,screen change,clean out,band adjust,etc.... Help this blind man see,please. Thanks

Why would there be old Subarus there this weekend? The real Import/Kit Show is the third weekend in May,every year. We'll be there then,pretty much count on it this coming May.

No sweat,thanks for the thought.I'm probably going to whip out the plastic money and get something decent since this car might end up as my personal winter car.Connie,I'll get the underwash carwash often,trust me. Next meet at Connie's she's going to serve squab!