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if youre feeling confident you can drive the car with no cable. its a bit tricky but can be done. tim's trashwagon replica snapped the cable and i drove it back to the house freeway driving is the easiest as there is no shofting involved anyway you will have to start the car in gear to get going, wind the gear out moderately and pull into neutral and light pressure on the next gear, once the rpm idles down and matches the next gear's rpm it will go in. this is best if you wind the gears up to downshift you will want to be off the gas, pull out of gear, and rev the motor up a good pull, let off the gas and put pressurte on the next gear down, once again she will go in once the rpm matches the speed. put in neutral when stopping and turn off the car. start over if you manage to downshif into 1st and can slow down with enough gap ahead of you you can keep it crawling till the light tiurns gree so you dont have to stop, so long as traffic doesnt fill the gap. its not recommended for "daily driving" but it will get you off the side of the road or even get you home. try parallel parking in this manner, it can be done, but only if youre comfortable with the notion.

sorry about the pics being down in the article, as the server is down for maintenance. email me for the pics. milesfox@yahoo.com

install a pushbutton! not the heavy duty starter switch, but the generic "horn switch" from auto zone or the like, run from hot to the switch to the starter solenoid. my car has a little small pushbutton mounted on the bezel, being a 2wd at to 4wd 5spd conversion. it also has a loose wirte under the hood for starting it there as well

hey im all open at this point so the sooner the better, before i find a job and have to commit to it. my insurance is good till the rest of the month but i need to come up with 75 bucks by the 23rd to continue the next month. i got a line on some local work here that may work out for that situation

since the nut came off to bein with, maybe you are missing a washer(s) there shoule be the nut, and begind it a flat washer with a beveled edge, and a conical split washer. make sure all these washers are present. also the flat washer is slightly convex, make sure the convex side is out. this washer is what torques against the cone washer and keeps it all tight.

stay away from the AT as it is a belt drive like that of moped or snowmobile, once it goed bad youre done for. unless you get it as an at withthe mind of looking for a 5spd

yo i have found and downloaded all the photo bucket pics from the meet. i would like, if possible, any other pictures that were taken, especially at the carwash so i can put them on the website. i will be working on the website now that i have the computer set up and cable modem access, also i will be working on the subaru alliance video. tim borrowed a mac from the dude in LA so its very possible the alliance video can be on DVD instead of VHS

yo folks, here i am in milwaukee agian. so far i got 2 potential subarus to fis and a pending application at harbor freight and maybe an interview at radio shack come monday.... yeah the power tour was fun. on my way to milwaukee i managed to get 457 miles out of the sedan before i ran out of gas, could have got 475 maybe if i didnt go downtown chicago. anyway i left from columbus oh so that is pretty good for the same tank of gas i have never been to much of a car show so it was all out going to the power tour. i got a lot of" i havent seen one of these in a while, i used to have a BRAT" in response to the subaru. indeed we were the only subarus on the power tour, i did see a wrx but i think it was part of the vendor setup, and a legacy gt that was part of another vendor setup. we got the replica wagon from iowa thursday, painted it friday, finished the paint saturday morning, peeled tape and hit the power tour. we put on the mirrors and grille and trim at the venue once we got there. not bad for a car resurrected from a farmers field in iowa, to drive to milwaukee 4oo miles and then round the power tour. so fat all it needed was a little bit of oil and lots of gas. trouble free otherwise considering it has a sharp metallic noise coming fom the motor. neds valve lash adj i say, the guy who sld it to us said he drove it like this for 50,000 miles we had a tv and vcr under the hood with the ac inverter, and posters with pics of the original trashwagon 5 from the wcss5 meet on display with the replica at indianapolis. i had the sedan all cleaned up with posters of pics from the alliance meet, all the mud we were the FIRST ones there to indy, considering we drove all night from springfield as to not be late to indy. all the while im towing this tow dolly since milwaukee, and am averaging fairly good for fuel economy. with the dolly i still made my 360 mile mark, which averages out to about 27 mpg i got my car in on the drag race, the tech inspection was "seatbelts, if you have a convertible a helmet, and anything else i dont feel like f*'n with" for safety we had to wear long pants and have the windows up. being a bracket race and never racing before i figured i would run 20 flat. well i ran 20.43, i was late on the green light but launched in 4-lo, thru 3rd, shift into 2 hi tho carry the rest of 3rd and hit 4th before the finish line. all with 2 5 gal gas cans in the back, oops, weight or safety? anyway here is my time: r/t .657 60 2.546 330 7.968 1.8 12.736 mph 51.19 1000 16.886 1/4 20.435 mph62.78 from indy we went to my place in fort wayne, stayed the night, and picked up the rx in the morning. the sedan towed pretty good with the rx, i would take off in lo 1st and get going and shift to hi 1st and drive as usual. i ran an average temp of 230 with the heat on. half way across i picked some mud out of my radiator and such. then traffic jams in chicago man i HATE driving thru chicago since there is absolutely no way around it without going way south and west or without a big lake in the way. anyway i managed to make it to milwaukee on the same gas in tow, 300 miles to the same tank. after arriving to milwaukee and unhitched the sedan still runs 230, so i will blame the thermostat and not the towing for the temp being so high. she did not overheat, nor puke for that mayyer, but the sedan seemed to have been running warmewr and warmer as the miles went by. i have put 10,000 miles on this car in the past 3 months since i put it together with whatever thermostat was in the intake i used form a 91 loyale. time for a new one, and brakes too since they feel chunky. anyway im dwn for the east coast jog sometime beforew my next court date aug 1st, so long as i can come up with the gas to get out there first

suppose the sender is different than the4 car it is in. for example, a car with a dummy lite that has a motor(and sender) from an analog dash will have the oil lite on all the time and it will go off with low oil pressure.

check the fuse. my dim headlight got me arrested. after pulling relays and such i found the right fuse was missing. there is a fuse for each light at the fuse panel, check them first

one thing about this car is if you swap in a full time transmission with diff lock, the mechanism is the same for the pushbutton and the diff lock, so with a full time tranny swapped into this car the 4wd button will lock the diff.

also depending on the size of the lines, any aftermarket trans cooler can work, such as from a jc whitney catalog or the like, for domestic hot rods and such, 3/8" lines

compression comes from the pistons and not the heads the difference between spfi and car heads is the carb heads has egr ports on the side of the exhaust ports. depending on emissions in your state, you can put carb heads on the spfi block to retain the egr piping system, orjust go the simpler route and out the carb intake on the spfi lo9ng block, if you would be eliminating all theat piping from the exhaust ports

#1 cylinder is the front on the passenger side, rotation is counterclockwise 1,3,2,4 is this ea82 or ea81 motor?

yo we have the go-ahead to get the trashwagon replica from iowa, we will be hading out tonight and arriving in the morning, we need to bring this car back and have it painted by friday night, so we can take it on the hot rod power tour we will be going from milwaukee to indianapolis. from there we will deviate the power tour and head out to columbus. jason, john, ed, jim, we will be in the area come sun/mon, maybe if we can stay over each place tim will be bringing his camera and may want interviews about miles fox and the subaru alliance. also i will have a camera for my own footage and on top of that, jerry henry from L.A, a camera man for hire who has been behind the camera for shows like monster garage and monser house, will be along for the ride making a movie about tim making a movie about me, who is making a movie about a guy making a movie about a guy making a movie who is having a movie made about him making a movie about,...anyway there will be 3 cameras we may hit the junk yard in columbus, we will have the tow dolly to move cars around for john. we will also be going to for t wayne to pick up my rx from zanny dooks. this will all be within the upcoming week after this week i cam make plans for an east coast trip if anyone still wants me out there, i will have till august 1st before any court dates

yo tim i will ask if anyone can burn the original non shrunk pics on a cd, and i can put them on my website the sedan did better than i anticipated, such as the temp, it ran cooler on the trail than it does on the highway. jason let me use his tires, the ones i had were wider and bader so my car would not have gone through half of what it did without them. the hill in the mud pit my car would have made it if i was closer to first in line, but by the time it was my turn it had rained and the bottom was too sloppy to get a running start. me and danny were stuck at the bottom of the hill, i got hung up on a pipeline and danny got me off of it, but we both needed a tow up the hill we all had enough radios to go aound, each driver and the spotter had radios so communication was great and made for good organization. without the radios we would be all traffic jammed in eachothers way. we had to hollar to let one car through at a time, this made it easier to catch each car on tape for each obstacle. jason pulled the bronco out of a hole and another truck. aftetr we got back to the "parking lot" some drunk hillbillies came around dissing soobs like "cars had no business being back there", showing up after the matter not knowing we owned their trails, walking through obstacles that others have rolled their vehicles in. it was all good fun, jim did well for never being baja'n, same for ed, the rx had a taction advantage. this for myself was the most technical and extreme off roading i have ever been in. i got stuck only once, not including the hill, because i doubled back after i made it through to lend some assistance, and got up against a tree to the side of my car. i got a little crease in my door but i can live with that.

ok let me clear up some mis-information i am reading about the axles. use the ones you have. for 2 reasons 1. ALL 3at autos are 23 splines, same as dual range non turbo trannies 2. the 3at turbo axle has the same diameter doj and axle shaft as 25 spline axles. another thing about at gear ratio, this will not apply to your build, but here goes. all turbo at's are 3.7 85-86 turbo or non are 3.7. 87 and later non turbo at's are 3.9 there you go.

from what i have seen the 87 harness is more like the 88 and up, but may have connectors like 86 models, such as the disty and such. the cruise will mount physically and will swap. the dash should support it, you will need the appropriately matched steering column/wheel to match.

yo im in columbus right now today. but im in indiana till the alliance meet. IMMEDIATELY after the alliance meet im moving to amillawauka wis-tune permanently. anyway what kind of deal would you make for the parts? we are running out to IOWA between tues and thurs after memorial weekend, what will you be doing. we could use some drivers as we will be attempting to bring back 3 or 4 vehicles in one trip. gotta have a trashwagon replica before june 4 for the power tour. anyway keep in touch and hold on the parts for me if they are not going anywhere

sorry i havent been online all week, but i have found that ea82 strut caps will fit on legacy struts. so im sure they will fit on the impreza struts as well. coil compressor tools required

yo i will be bringing an 8mm video camera to themeet. i have plenty of tapes. sorry i lost my 4wd when my rear diff fell out of my sedan, but im still down for off roading. i have a tow strap should i get stuck, heva teh 4wd handy!

did you get into the timing belts at all? ea81 or ea82 subaru? anyway adjust your ign timing with the o deg mark. unplug the vac line and plug it off when setting initial timing. if its fuel injection plug in the green clips on the firewall on the driver side to adjust the initial timing. rotating the disty to the left advances and to the right retards it. http://www.warpthree.com/milesfox/subaru/service/service.htm

my car rarely ticks. i ran my oil for 5 k miles or so before i changed it. fresh oil and filter she ticked for a day or 2 and it went away. if other seals are leaking this will provide a loss of oil pressure to the top end as the oil is going out of the motor rather than to the lifters run some atf in your oil and run it till your next oil change, at least a good 1000 miles or a weeks worth of daily driving or maybe a month.

maybe myself. just only if i had the parts to mock up. ea81 turbo wagon rx conversion i foretell to the future! trashwagon8

yeah you had a blown head gasket the milkshake was not related to the cracks, pull any good head or the one off the other side of the motor and they will be there if they make you uncomfprtable smoosh the crack down with a drift. its all metal and no water passage, the very worst that can happen is a valve seat will fall out in severe cases for example, my buddy had this rx ea82 gen II turbo heads, pulled them off cause of a rod knock. cracks between the valves. cracks all the way down to the valve guides. port and polish and carb compression block and road trips and 10k mile later no problems