MilesFox

i went with jared to go look at this legacy. jared didnt know what driveline it was until the day we went to go look at it. aside from the front fender rusted away where the marker light goes, and the driver seat belt not retracting, the car runs just fine, about 175,000 miles it has a *slight* wheel ebaring whirr but not loud and not enought to throw off the handling. the steering wheel is a degree off and the car pulls slightly to the rignt, but not enough you go in the ditch if you let off the wheel. there is some minot collision damage to the hood and radiator support and the ac system has been removed(probably because of this) there is random duct tape on the injector wires and one on the oil sender wire, and some oil on tip of the motor from where it leaks past the sensor aside from the aesthetic problems, this is what i noticed: first of all i showed the owner there are 2 dipsticks, wheich he almost filled the wrong ones on his other legacy. i mentioned to him that it is possible for fluids to leak across the diff to the trans or vice versa. he did not think of that. the diff fluid was at the tip of the dipstick, and the regular ATF was all over the dipstick with tiny bbubbles. the car shifted just fine.presume the me i siuggested changing the fluids and see if one changes color or goes down in level and the other rises. i presume the bubbles were from incorrect fuel levels the car would have been ok for 800 bucks but wasnt worth more than that. as it was, if it were a 5 spd 4wd it would have been worht more the asking price

if you prefer 4wd its all bolt up, 4wd will just swap in easy as that(when you have all the necessary parts!)

ok, the ej22 head swap sounds like the answer. thank you

i have had the idea of taking the insert from whatever car's cup holder andmaking holes on the flat part of the dash, insert cupholder there.this would work as long as its not some 44oz fountain pop

come on man, who do you think you are replying to.. anyway ihave already bought new struts and brakes and replaced the transmission and have new tire.....so on so dont giive me that wha ti DONT want to do is go spend over a hundred dollars in o2 densors knowing it will do me no good. HOWEVER, i do have the ecu and was just wondering if it would work. otherwise there are spark plug anti foulers the WRX folks use on catless downpipes, and i'm sure some resistor could be installed to fool the ecu into a proper mixture i can live withthe check engine light, and i am very intimate with my CAS so no, its not about to break off at this moment. (it acts up usually from a warm start within 30 min of parking, one out of every 4 warm starts.) i have already priced that but i'll go buy it when it really gets bad. what i would rather not live with is 20mpg when the car can do better, hence my question so if i have to trick the o2 then it would be easier to trick only one. thank you skip, that answers part of my question. i guess the other half of my question will be answered if i plug in the ecu and see if the car runs any one else?

the rubber o-ring hardens up and sort of locks it in place. be sure to replace the o-ring if its bad enough. but other thwn that, it just pops straight out

BUMP, i said..

4 spd means 4wd dual range. otherwise a 5spd for that model is FWD. 5spd 4wd's were in the ea82 models. basically i am telling you its 4wd with hi lo, 1800 ea81

the last time i looked up a soob hitch it was located near detriot. the price they gave you shouldhav ebeen factoring labor. you should be able to get that hitch for closer to 160-175 i would believe. but i no longer work at the u-haul check draw-tire/valley/thule since that are the manufactures vending to u-haul the one listed with u-haul is while supplues last, life cycle W, probably no longer in production. you could go with any generic bumper mounted tongue style hitch, some universal fit type.

if you write it in amny HTML format i have webspace to host it.

the car will have to be moving to engage, disengage. also, the steering wheel should be straight, dont use the button while turning! it's not a vac problem if the 4wd is in fact working. the vacuum controls a diaphragm thet pushes or pulls on a rod to actuate the 4wd

somy 263,000 mile legacy has a check engn lite. obd2 scanner calls for ccam angle sensor and o2 sensors. i am not worried abotu the cam angle, since a wiggle under the hood will make it start if the car acts up... anyway my exhaust is holloed out. i have read that the 1st sensor reads the mixture and the 2n monitors the cats. i have also read about spark plug anti-foulers. now here is the real question i am asking would it eliminate the 2nd o2 sensor if i swapped in an ecu from a 91 legacy sedan? how would the 1st gen legacy ecu differ from that of a 95?(power maps, etc) i have the earlier ecu left over from an attempted ea>ej swap, and since obd1 motors can be swapped in place of obd 2's , then this is why i am asking this question. EDIT: might i add my car is manual transmission, no EGR. the spare ecu is a 91 fwd 4eat

** I learned that the washer fluid would siphon out, the valve prevents this. It is wired in parallel with the pump. I run old used antifreeze in the bottle in the winter. the nissan part may be the same OE manufacture for the valve. that is just gross, like nasty (unless you meant the smokesreen:rolleyes:

i would offer a stack even, put on a timing belt and do the brakles, and keep it! if you keep the car it willlast a while, especially with new brakes and good tires, and the interior and body are nice and the rust is minimal. i know you PNW guys would junk a car over the pictured rust spot but somewhere like wisconsin,or the rust belt in general, you would expect a small amount of rust anyway. that would be a 1500 1750 dollar car easy appearance wise if you were to sell it around here at least(WI) based on the asking price the seller would probably expect to take 1000 even. if there is not a lot of other buyers and the car i still around go back and offer 800. take 1000 cash with you and if she doesnt take 800 as an offer, show her the money and say take it or leave it

tht wold be 14mm.if you have a 13 mm bolt its really a 1/2' and isnt original. sorry, but i had to point that out, since the whole car is 10, 12, or 14 under the hood

from what i have read the ea82 has a 92 mm bore. and an ej18 is obviously 1.8 liters. according to other reading the ej18 bore is the same as the 20 and the 22 do ea82 turbo pistons swap in? what would compression ratios be. if the ea82t is 7.7:1, and carb is 8.5, and spfi is 9.0(or is it 9.5) then... what would be the compression ratios of a normak ej18, an ej22, and whatever various WRX motors there are. and head interchangeability? basically the idea in mind is to put an ej18 turbo in an rx as if it were the normal ej retrofit with stock wrx or mild aftermarket parts.

ok that is more the answer i sas looking for. because i already have an rx with its driveline, and a junk 95 legacy transmission with a bad gearset(5th should be ok) and the differentials are still good. as far as the ej18 stuff isnt it a 92mm bore like the ea82? i'll have to start another thread for this. and for that notion it would make more sense to build the rx gears up with lo range into the ej transmission case. the donor car i have my legacy trans received a 93 trans in it's place, ans so far it looks the 95 and 93 casings are identical externally.

i have actually seen aftermarket caps that have been numbered wrong on the terminals since other makes(nussan)used the same distributor. the terminal on the capclosest to the master cylinder is #1,just to the right of the screw/clip that holds it on. rotation is counter clockwise and firing order is 1-3-2-4 the #1 on the motor itself is the front passenger side, 3 being in the rar, and 2 and 4 being on the driver side, 2 in front, 4 in back

ok i got lost there between both replies. so if oyu puyt the ej rear diff and casing on the rx tranny is there still a dual range or not?

athough donuting nicely, the driving looks more random than coordinated. and i dont get how people can do 360's, do them on accident even, and i can't figure out how to do them on purpose! aside from the random driving the videography was rather wellf or the ol' random u-tube flick

have some fun with it along the way!

i read thru to page 14 but there was a brief mention about center diffs. so that prompts me to question: will the vlsd from a 95 legacy type transmission swap in place of the RX full time 4wd 5swpd d/r center diff to make it true AWD with lo range? and if so, can the original diff lock be made to work with a legacy vlsd center? and with that having lds rear, put in lsd front, 5 lugs, an EJ18 with ea82 turbo pistons and wrx turbo.........oops i started to dream

if the car is a FWD 5spd then the 4wd clutch will be to large at the input shaft. resurfacing the flywheel is not necessary as long as it's not burned up or scored. tou can use one of them round sanding discs thatmount on a drill chuck to clean it up. the 2wd flywheel has to stay with a 2wd transmission. the 4wd flywheel and clutch will not work unless you swap in the 4wd transmission and with not much more work than removing the original transmision, you may as well just swap in the 4wd! it will all bolt in the same and you would have all the parts necessary.

take a look at the o-rings at all the nylon lines that run to the top of the front struts and the rear struts. the compressor is in the driver's side fender, if you do have a leak you may find it there. typically a wiggl of the lines will reseat the o-rings, or you can apply some silicone grease to them

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