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I don't think the front of an EA82 is the same as an XT6....

that happened to my blue wagon last fall. just as I was pulling into my alley, all the lights came on, it looked like it does when the ignition is on, but the engine was off.....so when I pulled onto my slab, I popped the hood, and the crank pulley was hanging by the alternator belt. the bolt was still there, thank goodness.....but very much no longer attached. yikes!

I assume it's the same one that's on their site: http://alliedarmament.homestead.com/LiftKit.html

yea, what car are we talking about? lifted? what kind of axles?

I've left lots of CV balls, and a few pieces of that rear DOJ....but everything else I picked up ripped off the rear bumper cover once, didn't realize it until I got home, but I went back for it the next day. I peeled my roof rack off a couple times, until I trimmed a foot+ off the crossbars....good times

I've already got the xt6 control arms, but was thinking that the legacy stuff wouldn't be quite right. the axles are the right length and everything? I thought the legacies had a wider track....

wait....so the front axles, knuckles, etc. will work from a '94 legacy?!? I just picked up one for an EJ donor....I wasn't expecting to be able to use this stuff!! sweet!

you could, but the stock one is pretty beefy. I'd say just leave it. IMHO, the only reason to get a different one, is once you've got a lift, the stock one won't reach anymore...

you have an EA82 your loyale should have a skidplate (assuming it's 4WD) from the factory a brushgaurd will probably have to be completely custom. Allied Armament, or TWB fabs is probably your best bet. look for their posts in the vender section here.

or easily bypassed, but it would be nice to have a way to do that, but disable it at the touch of a button (or flip of a switch). So us offroaders could reach down, and turn off the fan for 30 seconds while playing in the water.

OK..... http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/photos/showphoto.php?photo=8529&cat=500&ppuser=3242 http://media.putfile.com/Tribute-to-the-Chuxwagon http://media.putfile.com/Chuxwagon-2

I like the base model.....would the fan relay be manually switchable?

yep, thanks for the clarification! mikie, I like the sound of that, however, a) I doubt they're available for an EA series tranny and b)does it still have the manual lock option?

yea, all EJ AWD have viscous center LSD. but it's not locking. We want both

don't worry about being a killjoy. like I said, I haven't seen the innards of either tranny, so I wanted to know just what you told me. thanks man!! hopefully you are thinking of something else

so I was talking to one of the local subaru gurus.....one of the few that's ever had more than just a loyale in his liftime. He's had a number of XT's and an RX, and a bunch more. anyway, he started a project, and got into EJ series cars before he ever got terribly far, and never finished. but he thinks it could be done. he's got an RX tranny, torn apart, and a Mazda 323 ciscous center diff with mechanical lock that he thinks could very easily be mounted in the RX box so that even with the lock off, the center isn't open.... well, since he has no use for this project anymore, and has offered to give it to me, and, naturally, I said YES. but haven't met up with him to get it just yet. anyone have any ideas on this? maybe looked into it, or seen both trannies apart and can comment on it? I have never seen the guts of either tranny, so I'm going only by my basic understanding of how they work, and what he told me.

I have to disagree with dustyriders reman'd argument....I've had reman'd axles fail so quickly offroad, that I wouldn't feel safe on them every again. I'd want to have at least 2 front and 2 rear spare reman'd axles to feel confident that I could make it home! I think they're too weak. the stock ones are plenty weak. the big problems with diff stubs come when you're running a welded spool, where you have lots of torque on one side, at normal axle angles. running an open diff, or even LSD greatly reduces that risk (it also does reduce your capability, but for my uses anyway, it works better).

I think he/they means the earlier EA82s (my '85 wagon had it) with a switch on the dash to unlock/lock just the tailgate. when I parted out said '85 wagon, I took the switch, and I can tell you this, the wiring is different, there is no harness in the dash that'll work with the switch. but I bet you could tap into it and wire it through a switch...

I've seen many people with cone filters up on the roof. just make sure to extend the hose back away from the windsheild a bit and put a sheild over the top/front to help prevent rain problems.

ressurected for these pics of the custom 1/4" stainless steel skidplate that 95lwrx built for the PoopenVagon and another pic of the tube bumpers that MorganM and Archemetis built for it:

That's Subaru_Styles'......you can see his wagon in the background

I think he meant water coming from a deep puddle, stream etc. not out of the engine....lol

the engine in my blue '88 wagon seized in January....haven't figured out the culprit, but it was leaking oil, had been overheated a number of times, a PCV hose was off, and a number of other things. I took the passenger side head off last weekend, and the cylindars looked great! just a little carbon, but nothing serious, so whatever went wrong, it happened on the other side...or the middle

I like where you're going with this.....but I have no idea how you would do it. And, as QMan has said, the axles really are the shear pins in our case. they are the weak link. if you're putting too much force on the system, they will break before the diff does etc. And if you're careful with your driving style, and have the car setup well, you won't even break them all that much.

make sure your frame isn't twisted. my '85 had similar exterior damage from a tree incident while wheeling, but the reason the fender buckled, was the shape of the entire car had changed slightly, it never did track straight after that :-\