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Last year I lent a set of my tractor tires for my subaru to friend so he could have them on his demo derby pickup.One of the tires ended up getting torn right across the treads when they tried to load the truck on the trailer without ramps.The torn section made it so if I tried to simply put an inner tube in the tire with would have bulged the tube/tire outwards and blown the inner tube. That tire was 80 bucks a pop (literally). However, I am poor.So I am bolting an old tire's tread to the tire on the inside.The tire I used was an old 165/80/13 tire off one of my old subaru wheels I had around.The old subaru tire the sidewall was torn open.So I bring out my jig saw and cut the sidewalls away from the thread. It was like cutting through butter. The tread inside my tractor tire will be secured by 12 carrage bolts with rubber epoxied over the tops. Then I will have an inner tube inside the combo to hold air. the tractor tires are offroad only so maybe the bolts sticking through the tire will give it even more traction. I will take pics tommarow after I finish it up.Didn't quite have enough time to buy the bolts before the shops closed. Oh well. Oh yea, in my haste to get the project done I neglected to remove the tire from the wheel before I cut the tread off.Any idea of how to remove the sidewalls from the rim?Will burning the rubber off damage the steel wagon wheel?I was thinking about taking my propane torch and just burning through the tire at the bead so it comes off..

I was thinking of painting my offroad toy in military camo.Any one have any subarus done up in camo or any suggestions?

neat.scouts are cool but i was always told to stay away from them because of parts availbitity. not sure if thats true though...

Ihscout54 does your user name mean international scout? If so could you post pics?If not I am just crazy...

beck arney 061-9131 I bought the car with a blown clutch.The throwout bearing wore almost all the way through the pressure plate,the disk was shot but the studs wernt touching the flywheel yet.I am thinking that the clutch cable went south as well because if I pull on the cable this white lining comes out.

that is what I did.

so do I adjust the nut towards or away from the front of the car?

with the pedal I have like 1/2 the travel before I feel any resistance.

I just bought a brand new clutch kit for my 84 subaru wagon with the 4 speed DR 4x4 transmission.I cant seem to adjust the clutch to where I can actually get the gears.I can find reverse only because it grinds.I cant find the other gears at all.I can put the car in gear then start it up and the car still tries to go forward even with the clutch fully pressed.The adjustment nut only has maybe 1/8 of an inch before it runs out of threads.How do I adjust this stupid thing so it will go into gear without grinding or having the throwout bearing whirr on the pressure plate?

A brat doesnt really have a frame.as for the rear diff you can always weld it. on the road it doesnt really suck.the rear drive isnt engaged until you put it in 4wd.so it just drags along.

The nuts are M10 X1.25..just an FYI.I ended up making a ton of trips to ace hardware to sort that out.Then one of the nuts I bought turned out to be a M10X1.5.At that point I said "F*** It" and for the mean time the subaru will only have 1 nut plus the antipitch bar holding it in...At least until I get get the drive to pay .70 a nut for a damn metric nut.

so are you going to put a passenger seat in the thing?

Just wondering what the bolts that hold the motor mounts to the crossmember on an 84 EA81?I did a clutch job but managed to loose both of them.

mufflers are optional.

Crap, I lost BOTH motor mount bolts.Are those M10X1.25 or M12X1.25. I need to get to the store before it closes... then after that I need to reconnect the heater hoses, put the radiator back in,bolt the skidplate back on and reconnect the exhaust system then hopefully she will be a runner..

Got both bearings sorted out.Now I am having SOO much fun trying to get the engine to mate up to the transmission.I have spent the last hour and a half trying to get it in but its not happening.Course if I had another person helping me it would probally be hooked and and running by now.

I was about to say that will buff right out, but it looks like it already buffed out.

How often do the throw out bearing and the bearing in the flywheel go out? EDIT: got the throwout bearing fixed.Now what about the bearing in the flywheel?

If you dont mind changeing tires when you go offroading, I am running a set of 6.00X14 R1 tractor tires mounted on 14X6 6 lug nissan rims.They are about 26" tall.They were about 80 bucks each at les scwab.

makes me want to not even bother replacing the thing if its gonna be that hard. that and i dont have access to a press of any sort.

are you stuck there? in the pic where you are shooting a huge roostertail over the car?

I was expecting to see "a little mud on the tires"

I have the engine and transmission apart on my 84 EA81 wagon to do a clutch job.just wondering, what is the proper way to change the throwout bearing?I dont want to start prying on stuff in the fear that I might bend the linkage or something. thanks in advance.

I have never heard of anyone brag about the longevity,reliabily, or crash worthlyness of indian vehicles.so i dunno.

if the axles hold up keep your foot in it all the time.it understeers like no other when you let off,It will have very good turn in however when on the gas.Turns have to be taken a little differently.Come in like you are doing a scandinavian flick,flick the car where you want it to go and try to smash the pedal through the floor.You might have to experiement abit with that to get the right amount of flick.