MilesFox

classic example of improper installation, shizz, i use used belts and tensioners all day, used mixand match belts cross-country and back. but i have seen new installations go within a month. make sure you take all the slack out of the DRIVE side of the belt BEFORE you take the slack out with the tensioner side. as long as the tensioner spins freely, its good. the spring wont matter once its all tightened down. just 2 cents from proven experience..........

yo the ea81 bolts up the same as single port, but the ea81has the injectors in the HEADS. ea82's have the injectors in the manifold itself.

try hi-temp silicone. i made a block off by cutting the asv tube, and welding a spark plug to the hole

i voted for tims hatch and eyesore

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time to kick this into gear and start taking it seriously. the way things look i wont be leaving butler right away, and look, its may already! i still got a lot of stuff at the carbola that needs to be cleared out. bring your wagons and your roof rack, because you may have parts just given to you. anyway, here is what i had in mind: if you want to come early and help set up come friday. the swap itself will be on saturday, we will park out in the grass and set up a show and shine, and the swap tables will be all about the building. there is a pool table inside, and a bb court across the tracks. if anyone wanted to stay the night we can camp out at the carbola, or at my place if i still live there, and we will go do some baja'n on sunday. the baja'n includes a field for rallying, woods for trails, and a pit for obstacles. our mud is sandy and rocky, so no IOWA stickiness here. if you dont want to drive yours in the woods hop in a trashwagon for the ride! that way everyone has monday to get back home and situated before work.

it really dont matter. the whole exhaust manifold on my pinto(trashwagon 3) has no exhaust gasket

had it happen to me in someone else's car last weekend. it doesnt break anything, but it obviously tears the boot. if you can find all the balls pop them in and reassemble. there is a circlip on the inner diameter of the DOJ, put it back in to hold it together. my experience los the circlip, but i put it back together and drove it 100 miles from there with no problem

drama got old a long time ago

yeah, the dl "STD" hatchback from 85 up had the 1600 fat case motor, which had the same dimensions of the 1800 motor. yup, mm hmm, it will fit.

it maight look like its separated, but that is how its supposed to be. you will understand once you have it apart.

an lds will have a final gear of 3.700 for most models(turbo) and some turbo legacy and xt6 may have them. the brat has a 3.9 gear, and the 3.7 will not match. you may swap the gears between the differentials to make a 3.9 lsd

pulling the motor is easy. you do not need to take off the starter to pull the motor or replace the clutch. might as well replace the rear crank seal since the motor is out. try this to remove the flywheel: use a 10 or 12mm wrench, box end on a pp bolt(once it's removed) and butt the open end against the engine stud this will allow you to remove or torque the flywheel mounting bolts. if you dont have a torque wrench, tighten down by hand (snug with a wrench, but no torque on it.)then torque 1/4 turn. same for pp bolts

we all know that an ea82 fits nicely in an -84 body. if you ever seen an ea81T has similar setups an ea82, vane MAF, battery on driver side, and similar components on the manifold. so how different is the 83 and 84 ecu and mpfi system than an 85-86 ea82? and how compatible would the ecu and mpfi work for the components on the other motor?

shawn, sorry to say but zanny dook forgot the sweater in the white ford truck, the one that pulled out the legacy. you got one of their numbers... any word on the sedan from desmoines? tom, one of your vice grips was left in subiemech's car. it may have gotten mixed in my tools. i will have to go through them. anyway in case you noticed you didnt have it.... kurt, if there is anything we owe towards the cabin let me know. it may be a while, but i will see what i can come up with for you, vicky, and mr starry. i have a jop opportunity available and i am going to jump on it like stink on rice. currently i am working any available hour on my boss's house. i did however manage to make it back home with 15 bucks left. gas was pushing 2 bucks our last fill-up. kurt pulled a lot of weight in the recovery effort, i just want that to be acknowledged. junkie, i might not be thge "sharpest pencil" but no one else would have fixed a ball joint and an axle off the side of the road and drive with a suspended license for 2 hours after. and if it was broken and undriveable, i would have stayed with it and got it to a secure location. sorry tom for not calling you, but its like me to show up out of the blue. i would not have driven it if i didnt trust my repair. if the axle was broken or missing parts, 4wd would have got it back the same. subarus are a lot tougher and more reliable when broken than people give them credit for, or are trusting to drive them like that for that matter. broken axle, 4wd and bent trailing arm all winter long, and 2wd diff lock across country. used timing belts all the way! it has been done, no question avout it!

my setup uses ea82 lower control arms, drilled out to accept the xt ball joint. i did this because my xt control arm had a the bolt seized in the bushing i used the xt6 knuckle, caliper, and tie-rods. i used LEGACY struts, with ea82 spring and ea82 strut cap. the legacy strut knuckle attatchment had to be widened for the xt knuckle, and the holes are bigger than the xt bolts. i used the xt bolts. i was going to use the legacy axles, but i couldnt get the nuts off. i used the legacy ball joint to replace one that was bad on the xt knuckle, it fits the same

Tim, it turns out that the PD got my message, and now i am re-scheduled for june 21. matt got picked up off the street by officer duhammel no sooner than he came outside, he was going to turn himself in today. all is good, i worked with eli 10 hours today. i am seriously considering moving to fort wayne with zanny dook if i get hired on at this cleaning place. but i still intend to keep my operations at the carbola. although i like it at mo-dub, i need a more consistent environment if i want more than just a half put together subaru. i hope everyone made the best of their experiences this week. oh, yeah, tim, we owe mister starry 100 bucks, 50 towards the car, and 50 fopr the tilte work. i will try to rack up my hours while theyre available.

we got home in one piece at 10:30 this morning. trashwagon has a bent tierod and its tearing up a tire. multiple off the side of the road adjustments didnt help much, how can you eyeball an alignment? matt has a warrant, and is hiding in the apartment like he doesnt know what to do. hopefully i dont have one myself. but it wouldnt surprise me if my public pretender fails me. oh well, nothing out of the ordinary. at any rate, we had more fun the way it all went down, more fun than if everything went right. im going to take a nap:burnout:

still at subiemech's, just getting around to going home. zanny dook wrecked my car. it was a combination of my jackass move and his inexperience behind the wheel. this is how it goes.... we went to des moines to do the head gasket on the sedan. we spent most of the day till 4 pm, got it all together, and some title work done. it needed a fuel pump from sitting for 10 years. we drove the turbo wagon to subiemech's. but it ran out of oil 3 miles from his house. we stopped and added oil. we tried to find zook spur. what is with these iowa roads? all of these roads with the same name, like oak st, oak ave, oak blv, oak place, i dont get it. zook road or zook place? anyway in fear of cooking the motor, i decided to stop the wagon and use my car to find the place first. yeah i was driving, but only on a county road after the car was acting up, 3 miles form our destination. so shoot me why dont you. anyway, in an act of frustration, i see a farmer lane and ABRUPTLY lay on the brake and cut the wheel, sliding sideways to a stop. just then here comes a trashwagon with the front wheel s locked up, plowing into the rear quarter. DONT LOCK THE BRAKES, he could have steered around. oh well, what do you expect. im not mad. minimal damage, a busted headlight(that tow hook wrapped up there) and a broken taillight, and *light* damage just on the corner of the bumper. so we got the wagon to subiemech's safe and sound otherwise. we got in subiemech's ride to go after the sedan. a battery and a fuel pump later i attemted to start her. after some long cranking she finally lit up. the carb is junk from sitting. i got it to warm up and would you knbow it, we had a fire. matt runs off like he thought it was going to blow up. i said that only happens in hollywood. this is iowa. we had to push the car and 3-point turn to get close to a hose, after the fire extinguisher was inoperable. so we had to leave it there. subiemech is going to take delivery to his place with a tow dolly. we are going home, the guys are fixing my headlight right now. one day i will be back, with a turbo, and hell, trashwagon 5's motor for the sedan. i already have a 2wd 5spd flywheel modified to fit an ea82, so that will get it back home. was it a wasted effort? well, at least both vehicles are secure, and now we know what they will need to drive back to indiana. see iowa another day...

after we got unstuck, we took eyesore into the nearest town until we could make our way back home. just as you would have it, the ball joint popped out, and tore the axle out of the DOJ. luckily we found 4 of the bearings under the car, one in the doj, and one 200 feet behind. i got it all back together, saving the axle, but the circlip is missong, and the boot is gone. but it got us back to coon rapids no problem. i used some steel cable to tie the ball joint to keep it from popping out again. miles fox saves the day! sorry tom never heard from me, was pulling his hair trying to locate his car, till it up and shows up in his driveway. i say get new ball joints!!!!

look for a chevy smallblock thermostat, 54 mm. they have 160, 170, and 180 deg, at the napa store. you may have to make a small hole for the air bleed.

this weekend calls for a trashwagon, ford trucks, mud, stuck, and police officers. the extended forcast predicts windy and sunny days, with a good chance of recovery, and everyone making it home alive.

well, here i am with both cars, eyesore and subiemech, all safe and sound. would you know that we had a ball joint failure and it ripped the axle apart. luckily i found 4 of the barings under the car, one in the doj, and the last one 200 feet behind the car. we had to use subiemechs car to make a run to the hardware. i managed to put the axle back to gether, and set the ball joint. i used some steel cable to tie the ball joint up to keep it from popping out again. i saved the axle, but the boot is shot. no other damage excep for the corner of the fender got pushed in a little. subiemechs car lost its inner fender skirt, and the sheetmatal was acting as a wing, so we had to remove it. but i brought a fender to fix all of that, so it would have come off anyway. i told the dude in the legacy that we were taking eyesore and subiemech's car to onowa, and to send someone back to us to take us back to my car, so we can all meet at the campsite. well, no one came, and we broke down, and then had to go to the campground ourselves in subiemech to recover matt and out stuff. miscommunication? well, we are all good now. so now we are setting off to deliver subiemechs car to his place, and to see about keeping the sedan and wagon from demoines over there. although eyesore was very frustrated about not knowing the whereabouts of his ride, it in the end saved him t he hassle of trying to find a way to get it, same for subiemech. i pulled through what i could for these guys, i feel i have done may part as anyone has. one more thing, in my opinion, i think these guys with the ford trucks should share some of the road expenses, being if that they never went out, and we waited a day to get our soobs, there would be little or no damage to the roads. how can the edge of a field be a roud? put up a street sign and call it one. see you in desmoines

well it looks like i made it out here to eyesore. sorry, no van and trailer, but we did get the turbo wagon running. sunday i am going to try my luck at doing the HEAD GASKETS on the sedan, and if i got it to run, sure i'll drive it back! i brought some parts, i hope to sell enough to make about 50-75 bucks, as i will need a little extra flow to drive back one of these cars. would anyone have a mounted tire on the rim? i brought a pair of ea81 fenders from out west, 1982. i have a pair of ea82 wagon headlights, and a pair of sedan taillights. i also have an ea81 wagon taillight, passenger side, 1982, and the bezel for both sides. i brought the turbo crosspipe for archemitis, i left it with mcbrat. so here we are in a TRASHWAGON SIX!!

i would say 89, since that was the last year for GL. i myself had an 88 gl wagon dual range. 89 gl-10's all were full time with lsd's, but i dont think there is a dual range full time besides the RX, as a standard option anyway.... an 85 or 86 i have been told are the best for off roading with their gearing.