Alexx

I found the name of the person, "Albert Klein" "1963 VW" He actually went through many engines and ended up somewhere between 1.5 and 1.6 million miles. However, I cannot find the article where his car was crushed by some huge vehicle that rolled over on top it. I vividly remember both stories, first of his achievement, then his car getting crushed and him surviving.

I recall reading about an elderly gentleman who was near 1 million miles on his VW bug when it was crushed, like a bug, but a big truck. He was devastated. I'll have to try and find the original article and if I do I'll post a link. Happened in the early 80's I think in the Pasadena, California area.

Front wheel drive only subarus would not have a rear differential, correct?

Oh yeah, if I take the oil out and then can't get the other plug loosened I'm in trouble. Anyone have a picture handy? (I'm not asking anyone to shoot a shot, just if someone has already shot it). Can I use that synthetic stuff? I think it's called jolt or shock??? Should the car have been driven prior to draining the oil to make sure it all drains, and if it's 100 degrees out, does that make up for not driving the car prior to draining the oil?

How does the rear axle get lubed on a front wheel drive Subaru? Thanks in advance!

The car is actually running Ok right now. But I'd like to have some place I can go to occassionally. The last time Roo Builders rebuilt my carb and it's still fine, but I'd like a steady idle. It's not too bad, but I notice I can't use the cigarette plug as a charger because the voltage output irregular, probably because of the not perfect idle.

Thanks for the lead. A bit far away from me but perhaps way better than nothing. May I add that they need to be specialists in carburetors?

Anybody have any recommendations?

SOA might bill the owner of a 1.7 million mile car for loss of income because they never bought a new subuaru. Lets do the math, 1.7 million miles divided by 250,000 miles per car equals about 7 subarus worth of money the owner would owe SOA. No wonder he doesn't want any publicity just in case SOA comes a calling.

I really like the 81 wagon. It feels more like a regular car with that extra room for putting a lot of stuff in.

Thanks for that, but it is a bit disconcerting to actually see your own response at the top, the page full of topics, yet it's a mirage. I thought something was wrong because the topic number five on page one (the first four I had responded to over a two hour span) was dated Dec. 18th, aka three days ago. I suspected that maybe the forum had been down for everyone else and that I was the first one to get back on. But a couple of hours later when the new two new topics I started (one about fuses, the other asking where everybody was) only had 1 and 3 views, I knew something was wrong. LOL, I just didn't expect my posts to be gone forever.

Our posts were only a minute apart, so that's why you didn't see it. Kind of bummed about those lost posts, I spent a bit of time on a couple of them, well over half an hour for the three lengthy ones.

Well, you see the message right above yours right, the email notification states the name of my topic, which now doesn't exist. I started that topic, but it is nowhere to be found, and the topic number has been reassigned. I guess forum software is "developing" to the point where we can all be on the same forum but each not see the same thing, how sad. This entire morning, all I saw was posts that dated to Dec. 18th, then my four responses. lol, after three hours, there were only 3 hits on my topic, and they probably were all mine. Don't mean to be paranoid, but this can't be a good thing, everywhere else I was this morning I had no problems.

Check out this email notification that I just got a few minutes ago. Hello Alexx, pleiad7 has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - I'm confused. This forum is dead??? - in the Older Generation of Subarus forum of Ultimate Subaru Message Board. This thread is located at: http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=68867&goto=newpost if you click on the link, it goes elsewhere.

I posted four messages this morning. For some bizarre reason it was as if I was the only one posting. Now I see that those four posts appear to be gone, as if I never made them. I spent a bit of time on a couple of them. Also, the dates just below my four posts were all from Dec. 18th and earlier. Can somebody explain what happened?