MilesFox

wee- hee! that's what i thought! go for it, Yosh!

zanny dook's 88 spfi 4wd AT has a 3.9 also

you will have to cut away part of the lower control arm mount from the ea82 crossmember and weld it behind the mount on the ea81 crossmember. this woll locate the ea82 lower control arm back farther, to make up for the curvature. if you put the ea82 lower control arm with out first swapping the mount, your axles will grind on the frame, and they will hyper extend on extreme suspension travel. once the swap is done, you will have to use the ea82 axle there is a diagram by rguyver floating around, but i dont know where to look it up! on my installation, i used the ea82 strut, knuckle, and spring, and it all fits with a modified ea81 strut cap. you will have to swap in ea82 inner and outer tierods, but i had to modify ea81 because i had a manual rack. you can also put in ea82 rear trailing arms, if you trim them up a bit

the xt seats supposedly will fit, i dont know if you need to swap the tracls or make a mounting plate. many on the board have done so. the pipe from behind the y pipe will fit against the turbo down pipe. the only difference between the exhausts is the midpipe between 2wd and 4wd. my car, used to be turbo, has a carb motor and spfi y pipe, and the y pipe fits against the turbo's mid pipe. so that means a turbo pipe will fit against the spfi midpipe! jim, josh found a 93 impreza for 100 bucks. all it needs is an axle and its good. super clean and rust free, 150,000 miles! once that gets fixed, josh is selling the grand am, and thus we will have the xt6!!!!!!! we can swap the rear disc from the xt to the spfi wagon as well!

on the contrary, the only wiring a carbbed motor needs is the wire from the dist to the coil. assuming the headlight and alternator wiring is not burnt up...... and if the wiring to the coil is burnt, run a toggle switch to both it and the fuel pump(after swapping in a carb fuel pump)\ i dont know, that is wah ti would do at least. considering there are NO soobs in junkyards in my area, and me having a spare motor. its all a matter of circumstance and personal preference!

so if you were driving a corvette he would never have pulled you over?

jim, the driver side fender will have to come off(or at least pull the top away) to remove the wiring harness. although there is a harness on the intake manifold, there is the body's harness that goes from under the hood to under the dash. i would say the most difficault part would be the harness swap, making sure you get all the harness, but not more than what you need. we will have to remove some of the tape and separate some of the wiring, because a lot of the headlight and other wiring will run thru the same channels. i'll bring my haynes book for reference from the wiring schematics. i have pulled entire hrnesses from a gl-10 turbo sedan, a carbbed wagon, and a 78 brat. there is a lot between all that is similar, mainly the headlight and underhood wiring. so with that experience in mind, we should have no trouble isolating the spfi/turbo harnesses. but the wiring harnesses might be the most time consuming of the operations, amybe we should swap the wiring first, and then the motors., and get the turbo motor into the wagon and running first, before getting spfi into the xt. or just save the spfi and motor and not put into the xt, if you can never get a title and decide to part it out myoss feece should be back from florida by next weekend, his hands would help a bunch!

suppose you can find a carbureted ea82 for cheap. slap it up in there, use the 86 distributor. that is what i got in my 87 gl-10 turbo. got the car with the turbo motor in the trunk. put a car motor in there and drove it for 1000 miles. got the turbo motor together and drove it for a day or 2, until it took a dook. now i got the carb motor back in there. that is the nice thing about 85 and 86 distributors, they work as standalone. i believe you can use the turbo dist from the car itself, it is standalone with a knock sensoe, wheras others(87 up) have the optical type since the car is nice enough, you may want to consider that if you can find a motor for cheap. you will have to find a y pie too, but it will fit aginst the rest of the exhaust!

assuming that both cars run, i personally think you should use the gl-10 brakes, seats, and accessories in the wagon, and pu the wagon seats,brakes back in the gl-10. then sell the gl-10 or keep it as a spare soob!

we got stopped in ohoi coming home from jim's. the y brought the dog. there was a little something stuck under the center console, you know, the leftovers, so-to-speak. anyway, the dog snoffed around and alerted. the cops were crawling all over the RX, i was making comments like "is he fixing the parking brake?" they all look on the ground as if something had been tossed. they had to have us remove the air box to check there(because it was too complicated for the cop) nope, they didnt find anything. they act like we were wrong but we got away with it. but it didnt help that my buddy had some seeds in his pocket!(he forgot they were there) anyway, we tore apart the center console to fix the radio and do some wiring, still didnt find it...................

are you using toyotas or chevys? i think i used aomewhere in the half-inch range. the studs should be 12mm and 1/2 is real close to 13mm. i used an old hub, popped out 2 studs, bolted the hub to the rim, and used the hub as a template. if its a chevy rim you will have to grind out the center to fit over the axle nut hub! also, find some 21mm lug nuts, as the soob 19mm nuts will want to pull thru the chevy's existing holes(and wallow out)

jim (86 subaru) picked up a pair of genuine boots from the dealer for some 11 bucks each, and they included the band clamps

go ahead and they will fit. 5spd dual range, single range pushbutton, and RX full time trannies use the same driveshaft. the rear half of the driveshaft is the same between ANY 4wd soob

i have sprayed cars while running, ran them for a while, turn them off for a minute, then they dont start. water in the cap. happened twice, they were both soobs!!

hey, my 84 wagon did that. i would grind the hell out of it to get it in lo, then to later find out the linkage rod had a loose bolt! but that was my first suabru.....

i replaced a timing chain and gears on an 80's pontiac bonneville to get it to run, only to find out it had a rod knock. crankcase was full of atf. but obviously the dude never intended to flush it out. what a waste(but i got paid to fix it!)

if both parts are in good running order. why not take the goodies off one car, and take the leftovers from the other and put them back on the donor? if you wanyed rear discs on the gl, then use the old drum setup and put them back on the gl-10. tyhey will interchange the same. i take it the gl-10 is an automatic. and the gl is a stick? 86 is my favorite year for a soob. good luck!

yeah, you dont want to have a ball joint fall out, and end up parting your wagon out over a bent strut, and then complain that you caould have fixed it after it was junked, like someone i know...............

my car dropped a valve seat, i believe. did your heads have cracks between the valves? mine had trouble after an 8000 rpm rev. (i know that wasnt good, but i just so happened to be at a high school parking lot with weak oil burning rice wannabes!)

how about using a flywheel from an ea82 2wd? i believe the ea82 and ea81 used the same 2wd transmission.

zanny dook bought a car off robert. he haqsnt transferred the title yet. but he is excited about getting his license. i tell him "why dont you got title the car" and he is like "i'll do it when i register it." and i am like, it needs to be on record to register it" he doesnt know what to do about it. and he wonders why his car keeps getting parted from!

take the (halogen)bulb out. if the bulb is uot it may dry out. if you can get the whole headligt out you can bring it inside and put it next to a heat source to dry out

it could be the skinny vac line for the heat selection, the one that goes into the passenger strut tower

so the fan works, but the heat only comes out the front vents?(bi-lev) there is a small skinny vac line that comes off the passenger side of the motor and runs up to the strut tower, tghat is what controls your heat selection

dont even get me started about the po-lice!