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MilesFox

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  1. the power comes off a relay mounted just above the ecu on the steering column. there is a green and a brown relay, i believe the brown one is fuel even if you have 12 v at the pump make sure it is ggrounding at the body as well. make sure the relay is getting power. yes it its possible to hotwire the pump to the coil/ign circuit. you may as well get the relay to take off from there. check allt he wires to the relay since it is turnrd on by a ground int he ecu
  2. mmm rustoleum metal flake blue. like the color, although the execution is por. should you lnow how to weild a paint can then finish it off the same color something fierce
  3. do the driver side belt first, then rotate the crank and do the passenger side. if you never removed the disty then you are good. if you did remove it, line up the timing after the belts are on
  4. 95 legacy just about to turn 260,000 on its original motor. the transmission has less miles than the car by more than the trans has itself
  5. i bet on one year. if i can put 20000 miles on a torn boot through 2 seasonsof winter and cross-states driving, then i will bet a strut swap is not anywhere near as damaging
  6. your mechanic guy lined up one of the cams out of phase. the motor is essentailly running on 2 cyls, firing on the exhaust stroke on one side. flip a cam 10 and be ok happens all the time with domestic influenced mechanics
  7. 1-7/8" but 1-3/4" will work as well (if the first is not available
  8. make sure you lined the timing belt with the 3 lines and mot the 0degbtdc marks http://www.economysuperstar.com/milesfox/subaru/service/timingbelt.htm
  9. well depending on what you want to do for a project or what you want to do for another car, here are your options: a 5spd will swap in if you have all the parts, all bolts up no fabs. timing belts are not the end of the world to work on, its simple once you understand it. you are in denver so im sure you can find any subaru ever made running rampant to no end, take your pick!
  10. looks like an 86 gl-10 this was the fuel injection offer while the other gl's were carb'd. the seats are fluffier and so are the door panels and even the sun visors.i have the older door panels in my 88 sedan.the cack seats should fold down thru the trunk i would grab them too.
  11. hey i spent about 750 on gas in the camper. we went the first time in the lincoln i and it got good 16-18 mpg. both trials ome tank at 75mph and one tank at 65 mph. 10mph speed difference made for about 2-3 mpg by the way the camper went all around 4500 mi with a trailer at 15 mpg. about 250 gal of gas
  12. if walmart did the tires ask them to balance the tire or at least rotate the wobbly tire to the passenger rear. usually if you buy a tire at wal-mart they havelifetime balanceor rotation. find the receipt or find out how thay have you listed intheir computer
  13. get the xt6. if the motor craps thden at least you still have 5 lug suspension if the one you get has air suspensions swap in the rear struts with any older subatru and thefront struts with imprezas. the suspension has the potential to retrofit 05 legacy struts and brakes on the rar and anything to current line wrx sti brembo setup on the front. my.02
  14. well we just got an obd!! scanner at u-haul so we dont have to down equipment over check engine lights. first chance i get i will pull a scan. i bet i get a CAS code... i re-aligned the front and now the car doesnt pull with the road creown as much. i think i will need taller springs in the rear since there is a loto fo body roll. the car is a little bit drifty with the pos camber in the front and neg camber in the rear. but the way it rolls the rump roast end needs to sit up more and be a little more stiff for my drift'n with ease! the soft snow tires it 40 psi makes for some interesting low speed handling characteristics (low speed=soarp cornering. what if the rear diff ratio supposed to be for a 95 5mt vs a 91 5mt? (my car is an 'outback' trim level for 95 on a legacy L trim rather than the body cladding style for 96 and above
  15. So i have desmond jone's subaru legacy wagon 1995 i had replaced the 5mt with one from a 137,000 mil 91 legacy. the motor has 259,000 mi and a recent timing belt. and new snow tires with less then 2000 mi on them so i put on forester struts for 1998. car rides better being new struts, but the rear looks to have a little negative camber the forester strut spring rest is higher up than on the legacy, but overall he strut rod vs the damper is the same. would the trailing arms be longer for a forester? or would the difference be in a forester knuckle? i would think the knuckle, but i have nothing to compare to! the front is fine, it almost seems to sit higher than the rear. as if the rear springs sont fill out the rear struts enough because there is a lot of travel on the rear when i jack the car up. i also have a check engine light, and now and again you have to unplug and re plug the crank angle sensor to start the car from a warm start. overall its a lot more solid than my 88 sedan.
  16. the hose diameter on the ej is larger than the ea82 radiator. an xt6 would be a better match since the hoses are larger than ea82, and if thy are the same size as the ej's. if you use a legacy radiator you would have to cut into the radiator support to let it sid down in about an inch and a half, otherwise it sits too high and you cant get it to fit inside its location i have mock installed an ej22 down into a gl-10 all but the wiring harness and the radiator i never got that far. this information is based on my attempt
  17. hey i broke an axle once and had to park my car on an enbankment and after hitch hiking to a junkyard and returning the with another axle i put it on and my vcar would not go. i already hjad taken one bellhousing bolt out before i thought to check the 4wd linkage, which actually was bumped into "false neutral" when the car ran up over the curb of the embankment the other 2 times i had seen a clutch not engage was once on a 81 glf that sat in a farmers field for better than 10 years and the other instance a clutch was smoked so bad the dust made the disc stick in the flywheel.
  18. i hope that is not a plastic intake. the new subarus can be parts cars for our older ones. thet the yuppies crash them up and leave us with a bountiful harvest!
  19. i just put forester struts in my 95 legacy. the front does appear to sit higher than the rear. but then again i still have to change out the other side inthe rear! when the car is on a jack i can stick my head inside the wheelwell.
  20. instead of having the electric motors at the wheels why not have them on the front and rear diffs?
  21. if no one has called it out the LF and RR wheels are on the wrong way. the fins should point forward. looks like a diagoan tire rotation instead of front to back. just giv'n you hell. have fun
  22. i have put an ea81 intyo an 88 dl with a 2wd 3at. it can be done. didnt run right nd then got junked before i realized the ea81 timing marks are in different degree relative to the ea82 flywheel(flexplate)
  23. heck i got almost 20,000 mile off my bad axle till i took it out. i have towed whole cars with blown head gaskets. rove 40 miles or better on flat tires, etc. u b ok
  24. if you want to go cheap you can swap in a carb motor and swap the fuel pump for it to work and figure out the carb electrics but its a motor. if you replaced the block with the same heads you could go na mpfi if you just leave the turbo off and get the correct boot
  25. that is so mad stupid absolutely f'n amazing simple so you redrill the backing plate and put it on the xt6 trailing arm. sweet!
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