ivantruckman

Wow that old girl must have took a hit, nice sectioning

subarus are very easy to work on, any qualified mechanic could adapt to a subaru ,its basic mechanical knowledge and a good repair manual. however some repair shops that i know here in Michigan don't care about anything except billing you hours, its very hard to find a good mechanic, you could ask if any Bord members know of a good repair shop in your area.

1988 loyale ???

if i removed the compressor personally , and it was still under pressure, I would trust it.

I use a mixture of coloidial silica and fine alumimana powder , I work maintainence in a ceramic factory, im not sure where you can buy the materials, but you may be able to get the manufacturers to send you a free sample , if you make up a company name, the small samples are more than enough to do a thousand resistor blocks, the coloidal silica is manfufactured by "remet corporation" and the alumina powder is called "a152 sg" the "coloidal silica" is a liquid binder .the alumina powder is the body , i mix the two in equal parts , you can use a little paint brush to apply it ,and it air drys . I was able to just use 220 grit emory paper to sand the wire and regular flux core solder, i did apply a little paste flux as well ill pm you some pics when i get home , i have one fixed and ready to install in my shop

the blocks dont look right, they appear to be angled towards the rear of the car and not towards the engine if you look straight down on the strut is shouldnt be centered in the tower hole, it should be noticably offset to the center of the vehicle

i found that it easier to lift the body 1.5 inches less than the suspention on the front. ie 4 inch strut tower lift with a 2.5 inch cross member lift, the rear would be , 4 inch shock bracket and a 2 inch body lift . you can over flex the front by 1.5 inches and the rear bu 2 to 3 1/2 inches I would not want to lower the engine any more than nessasary or the rear diff any more than nessasary

If you can solder ,you can make coils yourself. take a pencil and wind nichrome wire 9 times around , you can get wire at ace hardware , then solder it in place. i use to rebuild them but now im working 60 hours a week, if you can solder i can get pics of how to do it , and a material list let me know

if all else fails, there are two extra holes in the cylinder head at 90 degrees from the older ones , if you have the resources to cut your flanges and rotate them 90 degrees, annd reweld them. the dang 12mmx125 helicoil kits are around 50 bucks , much cheaper to rotate the flange than buy a kit. unless you have to pay an exhaust shop to do it

I ran 195 70 15 blizzacs , they did rub a little when i had a full 4 people in the car, 205 15 , will not work without a fender trim Good luck finding any tires that size anymore

didnt the ea81s have an external regulator ??? do you have pics of the alt. ??

I got some off ebay last year, the kit had the boot and clamp and grease with it

I didnt know it was a coupe. looks awsome lifted, just waiting for some big ole knobbies

you could build 1 inch offset blocks, or try to crank down the strut ajustment,

agreed.. it takes more force to roll up a window, you could look for a used motor ??? .

I think there are better platforms than a subaru for a monster lift, if your going to do somthing like that you may as well stick it on a jeep frame, or a truck frame, even with an ej engine your not gonna be throwing 50 foot roosters at the mud pit, although im a "purest" I like my lil ea82 , I still think it would be awsome to re engineere a subaru like that... but with a 4 inch lift, and off road tires the subaru is cheap ,durable as hell and unique, I just cant see doing that much modding, than it ceases to be a subaru

Yaaaay Connie, Im glad you didnt crush Lil blue, like you said you were gonna....lol, glad to se its working out for you

Thats a beater, thats not rust ,no salt used up there?

I went to the local junk yard to find some 15 inch 6 lug rims, they don't have anything that old, i did find an Isuzu trooper however , so now i have 5 matched rims, with center caps, went to the tire store to find some mud tires. cant find anything in a 28 inch, nothing !!! , closest thing is a 29.5 x7 what now ?, 14 inch pugs are impossible to find here in the east. not to many options

are those 4x140 rims on that mini ?????????????? shwing!!!

I looked at there website http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10365_15070-34760--,00.html ill need to get a state parks sticker, and a new orv sticker, and a flag, yikes, any other thing I'm missing ?? , wow what a nice park

Dude michigan rocks I have 4 ea82 wagons. one I just finnished a 4 inch lift on. I have never seen a lifted ea82 in michigan, Id like to make the trip to the west side of the state to go wheelin, let me know, we can have 4 cars then, lol

Usally the cam seals leak as well, just over the exhaust, and crank seal, look for oil coming out of the plastic timing belt covers

dont forget to use dielectric grease and heat shrink tubing

hahahahhaa , and then posting it on usmb to find out who owns it... Cool