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I got some of the OPs last time out of necessity, and they told me the same thing about them being made in the same factory in China. When I pulled the EMPIs they said Made in Taiwan, so either EMPI's factory moved to China or they have their information wrong. They might go through the same distributor or something so they are thinking it's the same factory. I haven't had any problems with the OPs for about a year, but I still think the EMPIS are higher quality.

It's probably a Cali model feedback system. The O2 sensor isn't going to help. If you have all the feedback emissions stuff still hooked up to the carb, it would be best to cull all of it and tune the carb without it. It's undoubtedly not functioning correctly anymore and you can pass deq without all that stuff.

Nice, I was just wondering about this.

Mine does it too. I assumed it was McAfee being overcautious.

I'm not sure what you have been reading, but a '90 Loyale should be easy. Could you describe your level of experience doing automotive wrenching. Do you have a brass/bronze/aluminum drift punch? The earlier generation wheel bearings like yours are way easier and less involved that the Legacy and Impreza bearings if you've been reading posts about those. You could buy the bearings and several tools that would make the job easier for less than the price of having a shop do it, but it kind of depends on your ability and willingness to do it.

Here's an old thread of mine with some good information on the subject. http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=99877&highlight=fpcu

Yes it is. In earlier models they were sometimes green.

+1 Inquiring minds want to know. That sounds great. I'm a convert and I haven't ever seen the stuff.

When I redid the headgaskets on my ea81 about 7,000 miles ago I used GDs DIY head resufacing method with great results (although I clamped my sandpaper instead of glueing it). I replaced the intake valve seals for a couple bucks, pulled all the valves, and cleaned any and all crust off the valves and seats. It cost the price of the sandpaper, WD-40, the valve seals, and my labor. I have a granite slab and valve spring compressor so you might have to purchase some glass if you don't have something like that around and buy or borrow the compressor if you don't have one. It could of course be better but it's an old ea81, it works great, and it's way cheaper than a shop, especially if you can't find a good one nearby. You can always swap out nicer heads a little later if you want. http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=126869&highlight=%26quot%3BDIY+head%26quot%3B

I thought of you Monday, I saw a really nice one parked by the food carts. It was two old cruisers put together, but they had repainted it really nice with nice components. My cell phone was dead or I would have snapped a photo. If I see it again I'll try to post something up. On another note...I usually see one or two tall bikes on the Hawthorne Bridge during my morning commute and I'm thinking those guys are completely above the guard rail. If they pitch they're going over. no bueno

That's pretty nice one. You'd hardly get a second look here in Portland...lots of tall bikes. Some of the bicycle crossing intersections even have buttons for tall bikes. I haven't built one myself. I like how yours is laid back a little. Most of the ones I see here are made from old mountain bikes and are more upright. They seem a little too far forward and prone to pitching the rider in a hard stop situation. I am planning a tandem-recumbent-trike build once I get a new welder. Looks like you are ready for Burning Man, but as you mentioned a brake would be a necessity. Enjoy your commute. I do an 11 mile bike commute to-and-from work every day and the vantage point from a tall bike would be kind of nice.

Thanks all.

I am doing the rear disc brake upgrade on my brother's '93 Imp. Since you are supposed to keep the plastic retainer in the bearing set while installing it, that would seem to imply that the bearings are pre-greased and do not need to be washed and re-greased, correct? These are the Beck Arnleys I have.

I haven't been to Richardson's yet, because I am always going remote, but once we are in a family way I think Richardson's will be the way to go. They are not far from where we were on this trip. Their property is highly productive, and I am totally jealous. It's cool that they let people collect there. Even though they charge a fee, they could just as easily hoard it all and sell finished pieces. It's way cooler when you collect it yourself. A friend of mine just went there with her family and had a great time..highly recommended to anyone passing through there. Thanks on the paint job. It originally started as a little bit on the hood and eventually I just did the whole top. It's mostly bed-liner topped with epoxy wheel paint. It turned into a hardened enamel type texture and hasn't chipped at all over the past five years. Eventually I will probably do the whole car in green and black, but it works great for now.

Thanks, it's too bad about the rusty states. My newest car is 24 years old. This trip just goes to show how much value and capability a 30 year old Sube has. I wish Subaru would make a new version of the hatch with dual range and a lift. I think they would be so popular they would have a hard time keeping them in stock.

I agree the 14's are nice. I sold off the 4 full sets I had because I sold my two wagons and I am going to do a 5 or 6 lug swap in the future. I decided to just run stock until then. The 13" tires are a little cheaper too. If you know how to pick a line on the washed out backroads you can do a lot with the 13's. Eventually I am doing a 4" lift, so we'll see what tire size I end up with after that.

I actually haven't and it's a bugger because I have found lots of sign and been on other camping trips where my friends have seen them. I have always just missed them. I wish I had gone jogging with my wife that morning, but then again maybe we would have been talking and scared it off before we saw it. I have seen just about everything else, including a giant mated pair of Lynx, which is rare this far south, but no mountain lion or wolf. I don't think I have a healthy enough fear of the lions. I kind of wonder if they can sense that I am more likely to run toward them than away, so they don't reveal themselves to me. Someday I will see one and hopefully it's not the last thing I see.

Tons of cool rocks and minerals. The area we were in is adjacent to a valley area that has deposits all over the place. Thundereggs, jasper, agate, limb casts, petrified wood, and of course Glass Butte is a mountain of obsidian and the John Day Fossil Beds are on the north side of the main Ochocco Forest. The towns that are big enough to have a Chamber of Commerce will stake claims in the name of their Chamber of Commerce so the public can come and collect. There are also lots of ranches that charge a little money to come dig on their known deposits. They will also assist with back-hoes and stuff as well. It's hard to convey what it's like with all the public land we have here. It's a wonderland. I almost forgot the Sunstones down south (gem quality feldspar) with 6 acres of public collecting area and nice fee mines open to the public. If I think of it this weekend I throw up some pics of some of my finds.

With everything you have done and checked. The only things I can think of are that something isn't quite right with the disty or the flywheel is clocked wrong. The computers on the '83 basically just controlled the feedback systems of the carb. A Weberized ea81 that has had all the emmissions hoohah removed will be unaffected. Is your exhaust hooked up and leak free?

If you have an idea then state it. I have an idea too, but you are the one that has to provide us with information. It sounds like your secondary is open. Check your idle speed screw, and make sure you have a little bit of slack in your throttle cable.

I always like seeing peoples photos of their Subaru adventures, so I thought I would throw some up from my last camping trip in the Maury Mountains, Ochocco National Forest, Central/Eastern Oregon. Normally, I would take the Jeep for a trek like this for clearance, cargo room, and rock hauling ability, but it was still in the middle of several upgrades. So I rebuilt the carb, changed the oil and filters, packed the Hatch and we were off. The odo had just rolled 290k. It was dark when we got to Elk Horn campground, but we had the place to ourselves. Nice place, recommended, no fee. I generally like to get more remote than official campgrounds, so we crawled around and found a nice spot on the edge of a lava plateau. It was beer' thirty at that point. Whelp, we made a little campfire, had a little dinner, and my wife lost a dental filling. She was ok for the night, but the next morning she wandered around in the lava field and actually got a cell signal. She made a dental appointment and we drove 200 miles back to Portland to make the afternoon appt. I realized my radiator fan hadn't been coming on, so I put in a new fan switch. As I was pulling out of the driveway to hit the store for re-supply I discovered I had a flat tire. The next morning I got a new set of Toyos and we were back on the road, and back to the Maurys 18 hours later. We decided we could find a better camping spot, so we explored some more. I rolled a rock and got it stuck under my cat, so I resisted the urge to gun it and pulled the scissor jack for proper rock extraction. We did find another camping spot, it was very nice. We later discovered that this area must have been a major Native American flint-knapping area because it was littered with flakes and discards. We saw one lone antelope up here, which was the first I have seen solo and at elevation. They are usually in herds in the lowlands. I gave us a nice show and hauled out of there at around 40 mph, so about ~2/3 speed. We got some nice hiking in. Didn't see or hear another human...just the way we like it. Me looking for the mountain lion, who's scat we started seeing around. This looked like a good den area Found some nice old growth Juniper. This broken old tree is probably over 2,000 years old in my opinion, maybe a lot more. I have found a lot of ancient Junipers out here in the 5000-7000 ft elevation range. This one is around 5,500 feet. Some day I would like to do some real field research on these and find out for sure. This one was over 4 ft in diameter at the base. On the way back from that hike I started to snow. No problem, but it sleeted all night, and my otherwise awesome tent decided to suddenly stop being waterproof. We "slept" in puddles. We still had one more night of camping before meeting friends in Bend, so the next day we decided to make a day of it before driving back to Portland again. My wife went for a run while I drank my coffee. Turns out, she ran up behind a mountain lion in the road. She mistook it for a horse at first because it was so huge. Luckily she's a very quiet runner and got out of there as it was turning around. She came running into camp breathless and carrying a giant Flintstones club of a stick and I'm thinking, man she must really like that stick. She was totally freaked. Like many women, my wife has mixed feelings about firearms, so I have to admit it was kind of cool to have her ask me to strap on the Browning. We decided to spend the rest of our day elsewhere. We did stop to look for cat prints, but the road was hard packed gravel. We stopped by the Maury Mountain Agate Beds but it requires a good amount of digging and has been picked over a lot. The view was nice though We decided to go to the Southfork Limb Cast area and try our luck finding limbcasts. It is known for pink and green quartz casts. It turned out to be a very non-descript, middle of nowhere, amazing place. Limbcast material was everywhere. Truly a rockhounding bonanza. We got there late, so we didn't get too much but it was awesome. Driving out: Back to Portland, shower, sleep, back to Bend Dropping into Warm Springs Indian Reservation Tumalo Falls After a fun weekend in Bend it was back home for some R & R We did over 1,200 miles on this trip. The car drove like a dream. I have been using the STP oil additive recently and the engine is really smooth and quiet. We got 31 mpg on the highway fully loaded and foot to the floor on the mtn passes. I would have preferred not the drive so much, but the fact that the car drove so well made it much more tolerable. It was about as much fun as you can have with stock wheels and no lift

One thing I learned from GD on setting the screws on the Weber was on the idle speed screw when it says 1 1/2 turns in maximum you really just want it less than one turn to start out with, maybe even try it with a 1/4 turn engagement with the throttle lever to start with. It seems to be fairly sensitive to that adjustment. I recently installed a Weber on my Jeep and knowing that little tidbit saved me a lot of tuning headache and time. Of course if you did that already, then I am out of advice. I think the Weber tuning instructions are misleading. It says in bold 1 1/2 turns maximum so naturally people adjust it to the setting they read, rather than working your way up to maximum if needed.

Without knowing what kind of car you are talking about, it sounds like you are describing a torsion bar. Our picknpulls charge $19 for one.

The OP recently picked up the engine. The PO re-did the guts of the disty. Seems like verifying the timing and advance would be the first step before just about anything. Any time I have seen an engine stop running with gas spitting out of a carb when gas is applied from idle (in several makes of vehicle) it's always been a timing issue. I am not saying it can't be something else, but the timing is the most fundamental setting of the engine and should be checked before anything. The PO installed new guts in the disty...I doubt he works for the Philbin group, so who knows what that involved. The flywheel could even be misaligned. I doubt it would run like that, but these engines can putt through a lot of adversity. Undoubtedly, the carb should be gone through, but jumping to carb before timing is placing the cart before the horse. To texasjack, is this in or going in an ea81 or some other vehicle (dune buggy, trike, etc...)?

What would cause the gas to be spitting out of the top of the carb? I think the idea is to verify that the timing is proper first, then move on from there.