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Thanks for the response. The problem was a rotten line at this plastic 3-way union.

Hey everybody I was hoping someone could take pity on me and post or point me to a picture of the vacuum lines I'm supposed to look at if my four wheel drive is no longer engaging? It's a 5 speed, push-button 4wd on a 1988 Subaru Leone wagon (New Zealand version of the GL, I believe). I've looked in the Chilton's manual and didn't see anything about how to troubleshoot it not going into 4WD anymore, even though it was engaging fine a few months ago. From looking at Beataru's recent thread here about being stuck in 4WD it seems vacuum lines might be the problem also for being stuck out of 4WD? But I'm an idiot about how to go about finding the right ones. My tires are the still the same as the last time it worked and I've tried to get it in on all types of grass, sand, rock, etc. Any help you could give is much appreciated.

Thanks to everyone for the info. Think I'll take the advice of portable heaters (Amazon has some seat heaters for $15). Well I'm off to change the thermostat...the one in there now is either stuck open or just plain missing. Anything tricky I need to know about draining the coolant or is it pretty straightforward? Thanks again

Hello everyone, I'm new to the board but have gotten lots of good info from it so far. My wife and I are traveling in New Zealand for a year and so just bought an 88 Subaru Leone here (GL it's called in the States I think?), carbed, 4wd. Needless to say I've fallen in love with the thing and never intend to drive any other make of car once I get back to the US. Anyway, I bought it with the heater core bypassed but because it's had several owners I don't know from anyone if it was clogged, leaking, or what. I've read here that the EA82s had brass ones that were unlikely to leak, but want to pressure test it before hooking up the coolant lines and finding out the hard way. Anyone here have any idea how to do that? Should I not go over 15 PSI or so? Because we're traveling I don't have much access to more than basic tools so this has become like a MacGyver episode for me. I'm thinking with some hose and rubber balloons I could inflate one on the output pipe, then watch for deflation. What do you experts think? Should that do it, or should I go to a mechanic and see if they have some handheld vacuum gauge I could pay to rent? Ideas welcome... Thanks