MilesFox

i am not riding either a 77 suzuki gs550 or a 81 yamaha exciter 185, because they got stolen out of the alley. at least i got one good ride in november, ask mick. to hell with my riding season this year. time to break out the wal-huffy beach cruiser. go pedal power!

there are 2 dipsticks! the one on the top of the trans takes regular ol' gear oil, somewhere around a quart

there are 2 styles of (optical) distributor, either will work. the spfi disty has a short rotor and a round shaft the turbo disty has a taller rotor and cap, and a d-shaped shaft. the plug is round for 85-86. 88 and up has a square plug. for 87, the spfi has a round plug, and mpfi has square plug. you can swap the pigtails from one disty to the other and that will work. otherwise, i have a disty from an 87 rx i am yanking today. email if interested milesfox@yahoo.com

the car weighs about 2700 lbs you can tow this car on a towdolly. leave the car in FWD, the 4wd off. the only drive wheels will be ON the dolly itself. in front wheel drive mode, the rear diff and driveshaft are disconnected from the trans, and roll along idle. you will be fine using a front wheel tow dolly, since this is part time 4wd rans and not a full time awd, no center diff yhis car is approved on a u-haul dolly, and you can tow with any vehicle that weighs more than the subaru, any v-6 size car or chryslervan is approved by u-haul. the trbeca should do it. i towed a wagon with a hyundai elantra over 300 mi with no problems

real simple. take off the pitch stopper bar at the top of the engine. remove the nuts on the studs to the motor mounts. you can place a jack under the front of the tranny just behind the engine cradle. you will be able to jack up the motor at least 3 inches, and have plenty of room. do the engine mounts first. reinstall the pitch bar, and then take the tranny mounts off

you need to have a 4wd gas tank, so the diff clears it. you can get away with a FWD gas tank if you had a good 3" lift kit

loosen the frontmost bolt for the crankcase halves, just above the oil pump:banana:

what you are speculating is correct. right now the one cam is out of phase. if you are reading the haynes book, the procedure is correct in the text, but the illustrations do not demonstrate the 360 crank rotation between cams. iot foils everyone!

this may sound obvious but is the coolant low? the symptoms seem so to me. the thermostat housing can get hot from steam, but if there is not enough coolant flowing over the thermostat, it will never open.

otherwise, you can swap the ea82 flywheel and clutch onto the ea81. the holes are larger, but the bolts will fit and torque. be aware the timing marks are different between the ea81 and ea82 flywheels, so be sure to transfer the marks if you can.

radiator!!!

firing order is 1-3-2-4. #1 cylijnder is the front passenger. rotation is counter clockwise. #1 on the disty is the terminal on the rear of the cap just to the right of the clip/screw, pointong at the master cylinder. the timing belt sequence is spelled out in the Ultimate Subaru Repair Manual forum

use subarus. if you got there in a subaru, then only a subaru can get you out

if you are referring to an ea82, the chime is located just to the right of the stereo. you will see a tine little "vent" on the dash below the fan switch, and that is where the chime is. it plugs into a pink connector. you can get to it by dropping the glovebox door

there should be some sort of connector under the dash, that when you plug them together, resets the light. they may be white plugs on black wires. the light is manually tripped by the odometer at 60,000 mi. if you take the gauge cluster out you will see a switch activated by a cam on the odometer reels. cheap dealer service trick, really

86 brat, 275,000 miles, 4spd d/r. with t-tops, the motor has had at least a new water pump and spark plugs, deep cell battery. the fan blower is burnt out. everything else works like it is supposed to, the exhaust is solid there is body damage on the passenger fender. rust is very minimal for wisconsin, ther is no rust on the doors, virginia native car. so how much is it worth? i am considering selling it to the parts guy at the soob dealer. i am asking 800 bucks. i would ask 1000 even if it werent for the fender. i would ask 1200 or 1500 if it was ebay. i don't want to gouge a fellow soobist by asking too much, but i don't want to sell myself short, having one of the only functioning brats in wisconsin, at least between milwaukee and madison

for ea82 there is a slight difference in caliper dementions after 87. you are less likely to have clearance issuies with pre 88 ea82's

this is a common issue. generally it is caused by the skinny vac hose that runs to the manifold is accidentally disconnected when you get unbder the hood to do some minor maintenance. it is easily unnoticeable. also, a symptom of this loose hose will be the vent selector only blowing out of the dash vents on any setting. the skinny vac line comes from the intake manifold on the passenger side and runs along the strut tower. it will be spliced with a reducer between the intake and the canister itself. otherwise, if the vent selector itself is working, suspect the vacuum switch solenoids, which are located behind the driver strut tower. there will be lines from the canister and from the solenoids to a diaphragm on the transmission. be aware of an audible click to determine the solenoid is working. you should hear a click each time you turn the 4wd on or off, since there has to be vacuum to the diaphraagm to move it either way for both the on and off positions

sounds like a bad wheel bearing. i will bet the timing belts were improperly installed (wiht engine swap) and the 4wd issue may be a vacuum line not connected to the motor. see if you heat selector works

people would rent 14 foot u-hauls with some of those loads. if you are refeering to 'crazy' things done in subarus, i would be better off not to say.

the pistons are rotated to seat them being that the parking brake is engages with the front wheels. similar to that af cable parking brakes to the rear like nissan. the hill holder is a subaru design that holds brake pressure toe the rear brakes while the clutch was engaged and you had let off the brake pedal. the brakes are dual-diagonal, so the driver side front and passenger side rar brakes are ganged together, and vice versa. you will want to start your brake bleed procedure from the rear wheel, then its opposite front wheel diagonally. although, this will not be necessary unless you open a brqke line, or just wnt to flush out the fluid. subarus are tricky with this, you can hold down the cluch pedal while pumping the brake, since the hill holder does play into effect with the breking dynamics of manual transmission subarus. cv axle are easy enoufh to change with the proper handful of tools. if ask about book time for labor rates on subaru axle replacement, it will usually include the bearings and removal of the whole knukle/axle from the car, and have the parts pressed out, and pressed in, with better than 300 bucks in cost. with technique, you can change an axle with no more effort than mowing your lawn on a Saturday afternoon. if you want to be aconomic, just change whatever axle at a time as needed. read up on USRM on timing belt and water pump articles. subars really are a good beginner car for a mechanic with straight-forward engineering you would thing should be universal

look at the hose between the block and the manifold. usually this leak will dry up as fast as it leaks, but will drip now and again before the block heats up. sometimes the coolant will run off the back of the motor or puddle up in one of the spark plig castings. check the water pipe o-ring where the lower radiator hose connects. if it leaks there it drips elsewhere on the bottom. you can pop the water pipe off by removing the 12mm bolt where the ground wire is. real easy to fix if that's the problem.

it could just have not been full of coolant to begin with, along withthe loose belt. if this is a fresh head gasket job i bet its still ok. if the car was only idling it would have been more of a mild overheat. if you didn't cook the oil you should be ok.

chop out a section of the midpipe after the cat and put it there. take the leftoer length op pipe and replace the muffler with it. this works best, with what i have found out making random exhausts with cherry bombs

about the wheel clearance, you can grind off the edge of the calipers to correct that, or use ea82 spoke wheels. 85 and 86 ea82 calipers clar a lot better. i like the gold wheels. it remids me of this: that is a firebird wing on the back