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EA82 u-joints are pretty strong from my driving time in a soobie. Yes I have gone through 3 driveshafts, but that was after I smoked the carrier bearing, then drove on the stock 16 year old ujoints for 2 months. I've dropped my clutch pretty damn hard, and an axle will snap before the ujoints/driveshaft. I shoulda took a picture of the ujoint on the shaft I took out today. All the needles fell out of the caps. There was 1/4 inch play on each stud/cap. drove it like that for the last two months. Thats with iceracing and jumping...

I've hit my share of stuff with my wagon.. I'm going with bad bushing or blown struts. these control arms are strong as hell... There is a lot of rubber in the sooby rear end.....

down with domestics..... hp with big blocks is for fools... hurrah for 4 cylinder power beeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiitches oh yea..... support our troops

goddamn, if we had that translated to american, I wouldnt need a woman for a month

I've been here for a while, and after lots of reading of posts from here in the us and ones from europe and austrialia, I'm wondering why we dont have a comparision/difference chart for our cars.. along with the named differences, what other options, (such as LSD, rear swar bar) stuff like that is changed between here and the other side of the world

there has to be a way to weld something in the center diff though to lock the rear.. This is where we need John (mudrat79) or miles. they'd know how to do it, if it was possible

take the idiot light plug that goes to the pump, and take a real oil pressure gauge sender to napa. I had to do this. it involves a 90 degree fitting and then a adapter. I think the hole size is 12 mm on the stock oil pump gauge fitting....

I know FT4wd auto wagons dont have diff lock, but I think the Manual in Rx's do.. you'lll be fine.. take a junk front cv axle, and take the outer DOF off it, install it do you have an axle stub sticking through the front spindle and you'll be fine.. You WILL be replacing drivelines/ujoints though.. Soobies have *************** @ss unjoints/rear drivelines Oh yea weld your rear diff.. funny how I typed w e a k and it made it **********************

nah dont do that.. get a carb'd shortblock with turbo heads and you have a good turbo motor for that RX... don't ruin it by under powering it. a ea81 automatic would drive like a dump truck

more fuel more air more spark more exhaust flow add NOS heheh.. just turbo it and run 10 lbs of nos Jamal - 200 at the crank? WJM did that with a EA82.. old news I'd like to see someone do that naturally aspirated out of a 2.2L Or 400 bhp with a turbo no NOS

this is on the oval track..

I'm gonna make a lip on that take off... think I can fly about 30 or 40 more feet before I land.. gotta get a helmet and a neck brace and I'll hit it at 85

65 mph + sand bar in middle of frozen river = sunday fun The military plows a road across the river

Anyone bend valves on a N/A EA82? We had one come into the shop today.. old customer, bought the car drove it for a year tried starting it at -50F and it would never run after that. I compression tested it and the #1 had 0 psi... figured stuck valve. so went I get to it, the valve springs are laying in the valve cover around with the big spring clip. The valve is sitting about a 1/2" down farther then all the closed valves. I hit it with a hammer to bust it loose and nothing happened. These are non interference motors, so how far down would a loose valve have to go before it would hit the piston and bend? Also, what other damage can I expect from this happening? I didnt pull the head because I have another EA82 sitting on the floor in the shop that I'm gonna drop in. Just wondering if I'm going to be replacing a piston and rod. Is it worth rebuilding????

tonite me and my roomate went out with the wagon and the brat and played around on the motocross track. Got stuck, busted out the old home town purse line. Havent had to use the stuff in a few years.. Man I love this stuff.. http://www.samsonrope.com/home/newcommfish/purseline-2in1stablebraid.cfm?ProdNum=176 I use the 1" stuff.. 40,000 pound capacity. its pretty spending but its worth it because you wont rip tow hooks or bumpers off. I can't remember the amount of stretch it has, but its a lot. This is the stuff you can take a 50 foot section, tie it up, nail the gas, and right as you see the line starting to come off the ground, let off the gas and just the stretch will pull a sooby buried in a snowbank. I pulled out a 2000 F350 with 35" tires and he had the entire passenger side of the truck buried in snow to the to the frame. (we were driving on top of 4 feet of snowpack in the spring) 150 foot of line, 25 mph, one pull truck came out.. Check it out.

The EA82 from (85-89) had the solid black bumpers with the blinkers flush to the bumper. Loyales have the colored bumper with recessed blinkers.

I've used a belt sander with really fine sand paper on it. Run it cross wises agains the head so you know you are keeping the sanding paper level.. It worked.. cars been running good for 6 months

you can take a rubber mallet and pound on the edge the the boot and turn the axle at the same time to press it back into the spindle. I always grease the hell out of the bearing and spindle space after I get the old axle out. Another way to do it, if its a really right squeeze is put the axle in a vice, up the spindle on the axle shaft and pound the spindle DOWN onto the axle. (this requires removing the tierod and balljoint from the spindle.) then just line to the pin holes on the inner doj to the tranny, slide that on first, pry down on the control arm get the ball joint in, pry the strut back into place bolt it down, pop the tire rod in done deal.. this way makes it easier if you are doing it outside and the axles are cold along with the grease

I rev my car to 5500 before I shift.... Every gear.. it doesnt complain. I do it everyday, all the time

damn hijackers

word dude.. you are in the banks? we gotta hook up pm me your phone number

Yeah dude, that would probably be easier then me trying to figure it out myself. get me a cost and I'll see what I can do

gunslinger - do you have a template or anything for the brackets you made? It would save me a lot of time and hassle if I could just have the stuff made up at a machine shop

thanks for the quick reply. That will make it a lil easier, but harder at the same time. gonna have to get the tape measure out and draw up some brackets. 3/4 inch wide 1/8 " thick flat bar should work eh? Anyone else try this with a ea82?

alright I did a search for the last 20 minutes and couldnt find anything to do with ea82 with legacy seats. I found the diagram for ea81 to legacy seats. Are the ea81 and 82 seats the same? or do I need to make different brackets then the ea81 diagram shows.. I got a really nice set of legacy seats at work that'd be real nice in my ride..