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hmmm.. good idea, I'll have to put that past my soob mechanic. ( I do the work myself, I just go for him for parts and getting help with short cuts on working on the car.. Best advice he gave me was about getting the crankshaft belt pully off.. Put a breaker bar on it, brace it against something solid and turn the key.... Spins the nut right off..

k, well then try this goto the throttle cable where it hooks to the linkage.. theres a cable adjustment.. loosen that up a lil bit and see if your rpms drop a few at idle... my car idle'd high and I turned out the idle screw a lil bit and nothing happened.. I loosened the throttle cable a lil bit and that dropped me down to my 700 RPM idle. BTW all you have to do is get it down to 1000 RPMS I think.. I just checked my IM sheet and mine was idleing at 1056 when I took my IM test.

-5 F? did you have you car plugged in? My hitachi carb soob is the same way man.. Do you have your preheater hose hooked up from the exhaust to the carb? You need an oil pan heater and a block heater.... if the temp drops below 5 above plug your car in.. I just did that to mine, and I was amazed at how good it starts at -40F. Just my 2 cents

Electric fan, so yea I think I will cover all of it over til the Elec. Fan. Wooohoo now this gives me a reason to go 4x4 at -40F.. Thanks guys..

2000 to 2500 is what you'd get rid of that for in alaska.. with the mods and stuff, maybe 3k

Hey guys, well its -40 F this morning, and yesterday I replace them themostat cuz of a old sticking one.. Now my car is cooling too good.. I threw tinfoil over my grill to try to cut down on raidator cooling, but it didnt help all that much.. How much of my raidator can I block off with card board? Should I just block the whole thing off and drive and test to see how hot it will get? I put a 180 F thermo in there, maybe thats too low of the temps up here.. but I dont really know.... Someone help, I'm tired of freezing my @ss off

The alcohol thing came from one of my friends professors from Auto mechanic school.. He used to work for an IM place and he said it would work.. I did it, worked for me.. All it does is burn cleaner..

also I dont know if your alternator has an internal voltage regulator, or not, but when my volage regulator died, it wreaked havok on all my electronics.. whats your volt meter runnin at while the car is runnign/

change the coil, could help

First of all, Fix the exhaust leak.. if its a small leak, fix it with jb weld.. jsut make sure it dries all the way.. From my expirences with getting IM's (I failed 4 times before I passed) they will usually do the test for free. its the certificate that costs the money. so if you fail you shouldnt have to pay. Another thing, run your car down til less then an 1/8th of a tank.. Then get some of the Heet that has Methyl Alcohol in it (NOT THE KIND WITH ISOPROPAL ALCOHOL - WONT WORK). Dump in 3 bottles.. Then Run your car around driving hardto get your Catylistic converter nice and hot (its what reburns the unburned gas). What kind of soob is it.. If its a Hitachi Carbbed one, they have a little cap next to the Idle screw, its a little bigger then a pencil eraser.. Drill that out.. Your Air mixture screw is under that cap.. So if it fails, do that and lean out your mixture a lil bit.. Antoher thing, change your oil and air filter. That makes a difference too.. Lemme know what happens with it. Good luck

caleb, how do I tell if mine has a ecu?

synchros? I take it you mean the gears ingauging right? so for cold weather run synthetic, hot temperatures use reg gear oil? Also who knows something about tranny heaters? I was thinking about getting a batteryblanket and wrappign it around the bottom of my tranny for the time being..

Grab ahold of the CV shaft and see if its got up and down play in it.. Also pull that tire off that side and inspect your brakes.. while you have the tire off you can check that bearing.. grab ahold of the axle stub and see if its got up and down play

do I have that type of diagnostics on my 86 GL carbed wagon? The ECU codes or what not?

Well, its -35 F outside right now and I just went and drove my car.... My tranny was froze pretty solid.. I let my car warm up for 15 minutes and when I let the clutch out, the cold tranny killed the engine. Can I run thinner oil in my tranny and if so, what kind? I was wondering about SAE 30 if that'd work?

The chemical General is reffering to is called purge fluid.. We use it in our chainsaws to neutralize the gas vapors, if we have to get flown somewhere in a helicopter..

Think hes got a XT turbo and a XT6... I take it the 6 is a 6 cylinder model?

SO whats the deal with these XT's? I think I have a good chance of getting ahold of a nice one up here... worth buying?

OMG, you own a soob and you dont know what hammerite is? its the best spray can paint available.. its paint with I think is fibreglass in the paint so it goes on thick, and when it dries it turns to a nice glossy coat. You can get away with 2 coats of hammerite and it will last about 10x longer hten Krylon or any other kind of paint. $3.50 at Napa or Shucks

paint that spoiler with some hammerite and put that ****er on the back next to the hatch back..

So there I was on my weekend booze cruise in the soob, outside temp is prolly -25 F... I hit my brakes after about 20 miles of doin 70 mph+ and I found that my pedal was really hard to push down... Usually the petal goes almost all the way to the floor pretty easily.. Why is it doin this? water in the brake fluid freezin up in the lines? I only had a problem once last winter with it doin that, but it was -45 F when it happened? Any Ideas anyone?

try resetting the check engine light

Yeah The Light went out.. If I remember correctly.. back in the day when I first got the car (35,000 miles - one owner, my mom) I think the egr light came on at 50 or 55,000 miles and it had to be reset.... Car runs great.. if the EGR really went out, the car would run like **** wouldnt it?

Where can I find a Factory Service Manual for my 86 GL?

I said screw it and drove over to the subaru dealer and made them show me exactly where the reset is.. You have to remove the kick panel over the fusebox, then unscrew the fusebox right behind where the fusebox was up and to the left is where the reset wires are..