MilesFox

i have in my posession now a TRASHWAGON 5. did some "light" baja'n, broke some stuff, things fell off. but a bad ground and a blown fuse later, we are in sound shape to make our way home so far we have almost 4000 miles behind us, about 5-700 to go, we are chillin at the "eyesore" i tell you his wagon and my wagon go hand in hand among the same caliber. he even had a "honk if anything falls off" , just as mine has. the trashwagon ran out of gas a few times, it took the 3rd time to realize the gauge was not accurate, it runs out when the needle is right above the red. dont worry, the 3 gas jugs i had were stowed on top, and my electric siphon kit saved the day. took lots of pics at each stop, not to mention over 25 hors of footage. we still have another 25 hours of footage left to burn,... the car is in sound shape, i had to replace the fuel filter, as it was done in from the faulty gas tank. i fixed the bulb in the fog lights at a burger king, got a nice sideways drift for the camera in the parking lots. now i dont have any fog lights from catching air in the sand pit here in iowa. all is good, no conflicts. although we did get pulled over in the same town we met the trashwagon, it was the RX this time, for a license plate frame that partially covered the "indiana" on the plate it looks like we will be heading thru the rest of iowa thursday. so if you mcbrat or shawn w woul;d like us to stop by, let us know when so we can pace ourselves accordingly so what happened? ......................................................................

the big minnie. see you in so.dak.

yo, we are in minneapolis right now. might as well take this 5spd with us, since its going to junk. maybe an hour under the car and we will be on our way to SO. DAK

sorry joe i didnt make it, but i will see you at the iowa meet!

run and hide, lock your doors we will be stopping off in the minneapolis area. we plan to be there 12hrs from when we depart. we plan to leave early in the morning as possible. from there we will sake some side routes back to the highway, closer to soux falls SD. our longest hauls are going to be South Dakota and Wyoming. we will make a flat out run, rotating drivers and sleep. i figure it will be a full day's driving from soux falls to montana. if this all plays out right, we will be ready to meet my car on sunday morning The NORTHERN rout we will dismiss, we will backtrack to wyoming, and cut south to i 80 thru NEBRASKA, IOWA. we will be making some stops along the way in iowa. from what it looks western nebraska is pretty much desolate.

trashwagon candidate? hey, i saw the car and it is SOLID, no rusty framerails on this one. jim, try your hand at removing the outer t-belt covers, and checking it out

thanx for bringing this post back, much appreciated!!! all is good now. things are going according to plan the RX no has a good trailing arm, a 5-lug from the trashwagon six. so we have a bum leg so to speak, with a legacy tire. we tried a 13 impreza wheel with the RX tire, but the rim did not clear the XT6 caliper. so by this measure we took out hte rear axles to save the LSD. we will bring the axles, and a rear disk 4-lug pieces, as we may come across a trailing arm along the way. we mounted this van console on the ceiling, reverse mount, and a CB. on the back side is the dome lite facing out, a van light with a switch, and ambient light also in back is a 12 volt plug in. we had the headliner out to mount the ROOF RACK. we will be substituting CARDBOARD for a headliner, to spare the original. as the van console is temporary "unfinished" for the trip. has anyone ever made a conversion wagon? we carpeted the way-back, for comfort. all of the bulky soft luggage will go on top. the RX has proven its reliability having over 5000 miles since the turbo MPFI on carb block swap, open timing belts, and no muffler. it has seen back to back 1000 mile trips, weekends in a row. we will pack minimaly, as when we see trashwagon 5, it will come with spare parts and axle tools. room in back will allow one full body lying diagonally along the driver side folded rear seat. camera equipment will go directly behind the passenger side rear seat. clothes, blankets, or food can go in the rear driver's corner tire iron and plug kit will ride with the spare tire, oil between batt/alt. the jack stows in the rear quarter, towstrap in the other side, axles in the smuggler's box. tools will be packed minimally, subaru survival kit: 12mm socket, extension, ratchet 7/8 crank pulley wrenchbox/open combo 17mm and 19mm wrench 3/16 punch combo 12/14 wrench 10mm socket, and wrench 8mm wrench screwdrivers(stock soob unit) pliers(stock soob) spark plug tool(stock soob, use with 7/8) little pieces of wire, ties, and odd screws, razor blades, tape this is enough tools to do the timing belts, with covers, and axles, anything short of the head gaskets if we planned on doing the head gaskets we will bring also: 1/2 dr ratchet, 17mm socket and extension, torque wrench 14mm socket and extension for 3/8 ratchet 2 of us will have 400 bucks cash each, with atm access to other money if needed. this trip is pretty well covered for, the only thing i am not sure about is what kind of time we will make. but we have a full week anyway.................................................... its coming down to the wire now. we got the key to the apartment, the RX is all fixed, trashwagon6 is a rolling chassis... we will be leaving early in the morning on FRIDAY MAR 19. we will make our first stop 12 hrs later in minneapolis area

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the relay will have a power source for the lights or whatever. the switch wire from the relay will go to the switch, and then to +12v the relay is pretty much an electrically powered switch itself

things looking good. i made back my money i spent on bond, so no dent in out budget. i have some rendezvous along the way and back lined up, all is a go at this point. just have to get the car ready a little. i got my plates renewed for both trashwagons, i will be bringing an INDIANA plate and registration, and ins papers for tw5

we can still access the thread from here http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11396&highlight=road+trip+ii we can use this thread to post replies, or post replies to the link if it will let you. i will be posting updates on the original thread, as long as we can still get to it from here..

just pretend youa re on the OLD usmb, ezboard. all your old usmb logins should work if you had global accounts anything goes, just show some respect. i know that a lot of you are upset with the usmb as of late, but i dont want this to be an anti-usmb flamesite. but if we can get our feelings out, we will all feel better

in my opinion, ant decent car with a title should not be parted out, but fixed instead. i myself would buy a car with a bad head gasket, knowing i could fix it. perhaps you should pitch your sell to someone who would be wiulling to fix it themself

po.box 333 Depot st. Butler, IN 46721 ATTN SUBARU ALLIANCE make payable to DONALD CANFIELD if you chose to donate. thats up to you if you wish. i wont ask for any amount, but anything sent will be appreciated i will be coming back thru IOWA, and i am setting up meets there, so that mean im coming thru wyoming and nebraska as well

subarus like to ground thru their switches. you can search for GROUND, strategic adding of more ground wires elliminates electrical gremlins

no, i mean off the side of the throttle body. you can get in with a short screwdriver from the side, from under the fuel rail if you have a gasket you can pull the whole throttle body to replace the TPS, as to have more control with the screwdriver, so you dont strip the screws

the #1 cylinder is on the passenger side front. the distributor turns counter clockwise. firing order is 1324. there is a rubber plug on the bellhousing that can be removed to access the timing marks on the flywheel. line up the rotor to #1 cyl. the timing should be 8 deg. btdc

napa victor series gaskets, the package lists parts as made in japan. a set will run about 100-200 bucks depending on if you are doing the heads or not. you can get the seals fairly cheap for the cam and crank seals, oil pump seal is not too much the napa gaskets are of better quality than the felpro, but felpro is less costly, and they work just as fine

the RX that we have does the same thing, at around 2500 rpm. we had swapped an air meter with a wagon, but that did not help our problem was the throttlel position sensor. there are 2 screws that hold it into position, we turned the sensor so it thinks the throttle is more open, and it cleared it up for the most part try to "tune" it if you can and be on the lookout for a known working part

the hub fits over the spluned shaft of the axle, the rotor bolts to the hub. it is not necessary to remove the brake caliper pads or rotors to take the axles OUT. but, however, i DO take them off to install the axle, you have to remove the 2 17mm bolts in back for the caliper bracket, and then the hub/rotor comes off i like to yap around the knuckle to start the axle. it is POSSIBLE to install the axle with the brake assy. on, but with the PARKING BRAKE engaged to hold it all still BUT, be careful of how you line he axle thru, as if it is not straight, you may booger a spline in the hub

it is possible the start of a bad head gasket can blow COMBUSTION gases into the cooling system, causing the cap to puke out coolant, because the pressures from combustion will exceed the capacity of the radiator cap. is your car puking? try running with the cap off, and see if it runs cooler check the oil for milkshake lookin foam, check under oil fill tube, pcv lines on the valve covers use a compression tester to see if it has consistent readings

an ea81 front crossmember will be slightly too wide to fit the gen 1 body, but could be modded to fit without too much effort if building a lift, yo can use the lift to adapt the width difference same for lifting the back, the lift will have to be designed to fit the body on one side, and the ea81 suspensipon on the other ide MAY I SUGGEST using an ea82 rear suspension, and modding the ea81 front crossmember to use ea82 lower control arms, inner/outer tierod(or custom lengthen ea81's inners) so with that setup, you can use the bigger ea82 brakes, have more travel, and get some positive camber. also, you will be able to use ea82 axles, since they are more readily common for replacement, and with the option of using a82 axles, you can use an full time transmission with 25 spline axles

if you can make it to montana/idaho border area the weekend of march 20-21, the SUBARU ALLIANCE will be there to rescue a trashwagon, all of to be documented on film, if you would like to be a part of that, let me know milesfox@yahoo.com

cool, if you are in that area., get ahold of mt smiths and MSSLGECKO, so we can all meet at once, be more convenient, and you will get a chance to peep the ol' TRASHWAGON pm or email me with the specifics as they come i predict i will be there sunday morning, no lter than sunday eve/mon morning, depending on our stops along the way, and if we decide our stops to be met on the way back instead, we may be there saturday evening well, anyway, that is my estimation of when to be there. we can make a stop in missoula, call everyone, and go from there.....

an xt or rx tranny will install the same, but they both have 25 spline axles stubs, will not fit ea81 axles. BUT, you would get that to work with either custom made axles(expensive), or an ea82 suspension conversion like on traqshwagon 5(if you can weld) i had to make a carrier bearing mount for the driveshaft, i used an ea82 driveshaft for 5spd. any 5spd driveshaft will work for your choice of 5spd tranny