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I've used the redline gear oil before and it works ok. Switched to amsoil svg and the tranny shifts better with it even on the coldest of days. No notchiness, just smooth shifting. I am curious if the subaru extra-s is a synthetic fluid?

Regarding the clock, try getting a little fresh solder on the pins of that resistor. It's like the old solder oxidizes somehow and doesn't conduct well. I've fixed two clocks that way and both looked like they had been a little warm on that corner of the circuit board.

strut mounts may make some clunks as well. I replaced them when I did the struts and shocks and all sorts of noises disappeaed then.

Did you have to use this thing to get out of Duluth? The flooding looks crazy there, hope you are ok.

He put a '96 in mine, last of the non-interference motors. The advantage is the obdII which is nice for diagnostics. As far as the debate goes, I sold off my legacy but I'll drive my ej swapped GL until the wagon breaks in two...

My cousin had an '83 Tercel 4x4 wagon. Looks like they kept that body style in '87 even though the rest of the Tercels were the next gen. You won't win any races from a stop light but they are tanks. My cousin's went for 350k miles, surviving two teenagers learning to drive a stick, before being totalled in a wreck. It was still running good and wasn't too rusty for being a MI car. IMO, they are great vehicles.

I think I had some ethanol free gas when I got in the mid 30's. I've put 50k miles on the wagon since I bought it from you and the mileage is regularly around 30-32 mpgs.

30-32 mpg in mine. 34 mpg with an ea82, so they are pretty close. The ej22 is so much nicer to drive though.

One of the nice features about the ea82 era is the tight turning radius. Someone down the street from me was throwing a party and I was blocked in with about a foot on each end to give. Jumped in the car and bump...bump...bump.....bump....bump....bump and I'm out!

my loyale bogged down like that when the element in the catalytic convertor broke loose. I could hear it rattling around, but didn't give it much thought until anytime I would go uphill it would plug the exhaust until I got leveled out. Might want to check if anything is loose in your exhaust.

out of the '90 loyale manual: fuel pump relay (blue) lock tab on top BW BW LB LW L=blue B=black W=white I think it should be the same colors on yours but when my relay went out I found out that someone had already replaced it with a different colored relay and different colored wires which made the job take a little longer to figure out.

I wired mine into the factory radio and it complements it perfectly. Not the tightest bass in the world or the loudest or lowest but good enough to fill out the completely missing bottom end from the door speakers. Barely fits under the passenger seat. I also picked up a factory cassette deck with the 7 band eq from a board member and run my tunes through an adapter so I could dial out a little mud. So everything looks like the stock radio but sounds much better! The eq helped out a bunch, but mostly with the low-mids and midrange frequencies.

If you don't want to take up your cargo space and don't need it too loud, I've been using a kenwood under-the-seat sub and it actually sounds good. The door speakers just don't make much bass on their own.

mine would idle high until I grounded the pin that told the ecu that it was a manual transmission instead of an automatic.

Looks like it'll last another 25 years no problem! It takes some work to keep them from rotting away here in the rust belt.