Uberoo

A friend gave me a set of 235/75/15 tires.friday/early morning saterday was spent fitting the tires and drilling some rims.Once they were on my friend and I thought it would be great to go play abit.Why not, we were only like 7 miles from the area where we go offroading. So we went and gassed up. Him in his ranger with 36" bald superswampers and me with 3 mixed allterrains and one worn out mud tire. So we drive to where we go mudding at and my friend tells me to lead because its easy to pull the roo out but not his ranger. Ok, right off the bat I drive into a big mud hole/puddle etc just a little to fast.The subaru stalled and water/mud starting pouring in.The water level was about 2" up the back of my chair. so we go and pull the subaru out. We let it drain all of the water out of the interior and fire it up. Before we left to go play I probally should have wired the radiator fan to a switch instead of straight to the battery,oh well, I have a couple parts cars.The fan was toasted.Amazingly the car didnt overheat or get much warmer than what it normally runs at,even without a fan at those slow speeds. I am not sure why the car stalled in that first mud hole because it fired right up after the interior drained(all of the body drain holes where allready unplugged except the drivers and passenger side front footwells,oops). So then we drove through a few misc mudholes that arnt worthy of mention.Evetually we find ourselves in a nice meadow with some pretty well established mud holes.I set out hammering my rear fenders because they were rubbing a bit.My friend decides to go and play in one of the mud holes. he gets stuck when his front diff started plowing dirt.After I got finished fender clearancing (thank god I had my 10 lb hammer ) I tried to help him get unstuck. Try as I might I just couldnt budge the stupid thing.One jerk ripped one of my rear tow hooks/loops off. After that I decided that I was gonna just go and get one of our friends to help pull it out. I left them a small shovel and made my way back the way we came,avoiding the deep spots of various mud holes and moving at a pretty fast clip. I got out to the main road and started driving towards my friends house. I got maybe a block when I saw a superduty with argressive tires hauling firewood. I stop and flag him down. Then I told him the story then eventually I guided him to my friend. in my haste the coolant disappeared somehow or an air pocket formed. So my car started to run a bit rough. I shut her down worried that I toasted the motor.We let it cool down and put some water in the thing. she seemed to run fine so we went and played some more after my friend got unstuck.She ran fine the entire day and didnt loose any coolant so not sure what happened other than my old radiator falling out of its mounts. I used a rachet strap and a bungie cord to hold my radiator in for the rest of the day. It seems that some of the holes were just a little bit rough. I managed to brake one of my cheapo walmart lights from the abuse, even though it never got directly hit.My driver side mirror also fell off.As did my muffler.I think I will replace it with a glasspack... I need better tires ASAP because full throttle in the mud holes seems to break alot of stuff.Towards the end of the day the driver side front CV let go.Thankfully it stayed in the cup allowing me to get home. It seems I might need to do some things before I head out again: Finish removing ALL of the carpet out of the car so that way it can drain Find new radiator fan,wire it to SWITCH!! Securely mount radiator, 25 year old soldering does not hold the radiator. Need to weld up the rear diff. Waterproof the engine and electronics, so it wont stall out as soon. Replace left front CV Find some 235 mud tires. Bring towels in waterproof baggies to put over the seat so its not so wet.Maybe wrap seat in plastic? Things that might be nice to add: muffler garden edgeing fender flares put right front fender back on( I took it off because It was smashed, I have a parts car with a straightish fender just couldnt get to it because its on a friends property but he wasnt there... Stronger more durable lights(metal) CB radio-maybe some sort of radio would be nice.Might see if I can find a waterproof portable sterio and wire it to the car...maybe... MORE POWER!!!! with the 235's it is very gutless.. DAMAGE REPORT: Left front CV One rear tow hook set of cheapo offroad lights my mirror muffler smashed off radiator fan sorry about the book. Pics will be along soon.Just have to recharge my camera's battery.

got the tires on. 3 mixed all terrains and one worn mud tire. After they were put on we decided to go play,so I will make a new thread detailing that.

My friend has an 1987 nissan pulsar NX with an automatic and throttle body fuel injection. The car runs great when its cold but when it warms up it loses all power. You can rev the car in neutral like its nothing.Ive tried to replace the O2 sensor but it didnt change anything. Playing around by holding the car in gear the car runs great below 3.5K after that it drops to 2K and will struggle to accerate. Anyone have any ideas? the head was recently off but the car runs great other wise so I don't believe it has a cam timing issue.It idles at 1K rpm smoothly.Does anyone know how to check the computer codes.

so how did you tip the car over?If it was steep enough to roll/tip a subaru then the other rigs must have flopped on there sides numerous times... or is that how you are supposed to service parts under the car?

is it just me, or does the guard not look square with the car?

yea other than the fact that we still have enough gloss black paint after painting derby cars to paint it and its going to have some chrome rims.. My friend convinced me to paint it and leave the chrome wheels alone.not sure where nice paint and bling fits in offroad,but... the paint will be a pint of rustoluem sprayed through a gun...fancy...

heres a couple pics http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/Uberoo/Subaru%20stuff/?action=view&current=DSCF0021.jpg http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/Uberoo/Subaru%20stuff/?action=view&current=DSCF0022.jpg

pics arnt much to look at,other than a little more hieght and a front fender cut out to fit the 235's.I suppose I might be able to get pics tomarrow.

Its lifted, its just I have been working on a demolition derby car.As soon as I am done with that I will pick up the 235's and some 15" nissan wheels...and get some pics...

you know that it isnt gonna protect against trees,rocks,stumps,etc but it will protect against tall grass.

well lets see Ive broken the back window out of an 87 GL out fourwheeling.I saw a jump so I hit it,but I had all of the pieces for my new exhaust in the back... Ive went though a mud hole that got a chevy with 44" boggers stuck...Although I had 26" tractor tires and a welded rear diff...

if you had the chance would you chose the same mod again?

so how did it drive?Did it hook up out of the turns?how did it turn etc?

if that has 12" wheels go and find some atv tires for the front of an atv then give er hell. :burnout: :burnout:

looks good,but I always thought it was best to start out with a slow 2wd vehicle and learn car control and how to be smooth then switch to slow AWD,then finally fast AWD?

all a lift does is allow more clearance for tires without beating the panels.It raises the bumper height a little bit, but the real lift comes from come the tires themselves. Where I go offroading which is mostly mud I havent needed a lift. Because the subaru can drag its belly in the dirt the whole time and not slow down.Now that I am trying to go snowwheeling I need a much wider tire,that happens to be taller.For the tires to fit a lift was/is needed...

No thats for smoking the green stuff.with the rear sliding glass open so you can pass to the passenger...

dont forget ID.

I dont consider the bed of a regular truck to be "IN" the vehicle. I consider it to be "ON" the vehicle,because cargo that is placed in the bed sits "ON" the floor.

it seems he didnt skip town.he was just a little hard to find.supposidly we both are gonna meet up at the dmv thursay morning and figure out just WTF is up.

I think he skipped TOWN after some "bad blood" involving another friend.

A couple of months ago I bought an 84 subaru GL from my friend. He had lost the title, no problem so we went down to the DMV and had a new title sent to his address.Aparently he got the title but was away when it arrived so he ended up loseing that title as well.SUPPOSIDLY he went down to the DMV and had a title forwarded to my address.That was two months ago.I havent seen anything yet. I am wondering what to do?It seems like he might have have skipped town because he slept with another friends girlfriend or something.He doesn't answer when I call him and he doesn't seem to be at his house. I dont really want to start out again with another subaru because Ive already changed the clutch and clutch cable, lifted it and put some lights on the roof.I have plans for bigger tires and a diesel engine swap.I am just wondering what I can do?I would like to track him down and beat him to a pulp for the aggravation he has caused me but that wont solve anything.

roger roger. my friend who is giving me the 235's has an air impact wench..So I will just crank it up when I go to get tires...Now I have to save up for some rims...

how about wagon patrol? seeing as most of the vehicles are wagons or offroad cars??? if the subarus were something like honda's or toyotas you could call it large applicance offroad but subarus are not applicences how about body damage INC?

so then cranking the nut up all the way yields about an inch of additional height?I gained an inch but the front skidplate is higher than the rear diff.