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well, I swapped in a presumed good amplifier (the car it came off of died of rust, and HG failure), and still nothing. fuses and fusable links are fine.... I'm gonna take the insurance off of it, if Murphy's law is in effect, it should be back in no time :-\

well, my '85 was pretty tired, it could barely get 6.5k my '88s both can hit 7k+ (more like 7200) the '92 hit it around 6.8k

^^ I doubt it's that much :-p I heard this phrase on here not long ago.... "a redline a day keeps the mechanic away" let's just say I know where the valves float on all 4 of my EA82's I can't comment on mileage, as I've never had a good example, my '85 ran like crap, my '92 had a 3-speed AT, and both my '88's are running ~28" tires.... and on gas, I put 90 in it once for the heck of it since it was the same price as the 87....no difference. we ran nothing but the cheapest ethanol-filled crap they'd sell us in my '92 loyale for the last 5+ years and 100k miles. leaks oil and is underpowered, but no problems

fair enough, that's why my mom doesn't give.... anyone else?

in one of the other threads about this, QMan spoke of it with a very personal tone (like he either did it himself, or witnessed it) and said they get mangled very easily.

well, I was still playing hockey when my dad bought the '92 loyale.....so 5yrs now? '85 GL Wagon 5MT DR...2yrs '88 " " blue, now lifted...9 mo. '88 " " black, lifte.........2 weeks

just a little reminder.... I collected about $50 from some of my local MNSubaru members last weekend So Austin and I were thinking of putting together a small DVD of our little day trip we took up there last year (the one where his wagon was floating.....you know the one), and selling it for $15 or so a piece. and putting the profits towards the Crawl. or even donating the materials personally and putting everything as a donation. would anyone be interested in this?

I would LOVE to have a lower 1st gear for every day driving! I was going to make a seperate lever this summer for the lo range reduction, so I could get 2WD lo without removing an axle, but if 1st was just a bunch lower, it wouldn't be an issue.

a subaru will float long before the water get's to the window, just as long as it's sealed. no need for any foam.

most EA82 GL's were fuel injected too and I used a cluster from an '88 SPFI GL in my '85 carbed GL, plug and play it's the fancy digi dashes that use different senders

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=51382&

or just go to http://www.alliedarmament.com they're just reselling 88hatchmonsters. or acting as a middle man of sorts.

as long as the drivetrain setup matches, it'll work. an AT single range 4WD GL gauge cluster will fit in an AT single range loyale. a FWD GL cluster will fit a FWD loyale. I'm not sure about the dual ranges, as they have a 'lo' indicator. so someone else would have to chime in for that, but if you happen to have one that matches, you'll be fine.

huh....good to know

you add a traditional transfer case behind the stock tranny. much like it would work in a truck or jeep. this requires quite a bit of modification, as the tcase needs somewhere to mount, which means you have to essentially build an entire frame under it. Also, you have to lift the car enough that you can put a second diff under the tranny. which means at least 8" this 'could' be done on an imp, but I'm sure it would be very difficult. it's been done repeatedly on EA81's, but only 2 or 3 times on EA82. even the extra complexity of an EA82 makes it much more difficult. so I'm sure it would be very hard on an imp. not to mention that the stock tranny would have to be modified to send all of the power out the rear output. Mudrat did this when using an EJ AT in his EA81 hatch, but it required pretty extensive modification. or, swap in an EA D/R tranny, which would give you the second lo-range reduction, but also open a whole new can of worms as far as modification goes. I'm not saying it's not possible, but it'd be pretty darn tough.

yea, I can't think of a way that it would do this accidentally. it sounds like someone did it on purpose. but the loyale's did not come with DRL's from the factory.

For all of you that didn't see it:

It's the open house at the Iron Range Offroad Park in Gilbert, MN to raise awareness for responsible and legal offroading. You can get into the park for free. Let's try to get some more subarus up there. There will be lots of jeep guys, and the local S10 ZR2 club is probably coming, aswell as my uncle in his Landrover. If we get enough people to come, it'll really get things moving on the new Virginia expansion to the park. My place is only an hour away, so lodging will be free. Who wants to come? Mick? Austin? Archemitis? Tim? also, this is a great place, with lots of terrain, a stock subaru would be more than fine up there.

good point! I didn't think of that....if there wasn't a blown fuse before....there probably is now I'll see if I can find a better test lead. Thanks!

I got an almost full page spread in the Readers Rides section on my car. I'm going to take a picture of it to save it. I'll post it up later. And I just sent them an email, with a huge list of everything I've done to my car, and attached 5 or 6 hi-res pics to it. I just got my copy on Friday, so those of you who are subscribed, it's probably on it's way

well, I still couldn't find my multimeter.....but I dug out an old electric Radiator Fan, cut the plug off, extended both the wires, propped it up in a safe place where the blades couldn't hit anything, and went around testing things. I figure even if there isn't all of 12v getting through there, it'll still spin the fan a little. touched it to the battery (just to make sure my system worked..) and it spun (and reminded me why I replaced that fan.....bad bearing, yikes what a horrible sound) Anyway, I turned the ignition on, and started touching my wires to stuff. and got nothing. nothing at the + and - sides of the coil. tried + and ground too. then I stuck the wires in both of the connecters going to the coil. nothing, even in the one that plugs into the amplifier. at this point, I'm thinking it's going to be something stupid. but I just don't know what

wow, and you're in it! "Can anyone tell me why the interior smells like something died in it?"

Anyone? or notice that one of the testers for the Honda CRV vs forester vs impreza was TEX?! or see the huge article about WJM's RX and a how-to on Megasquirt? or catch the '86 XT Turbo the magazine picked up as a project rally car? but I'm telling ya, the best part was page 23

Why Thank you...that was a fun day that's exactly right! I noticed that very early on in my FWD loyale, when going through snow, if I went in forward, I could almost always back out! weight distribution? like most of it in the front, not much in the back :-p

everything's plugged in.... from the weather we've been having the last few days, I doubt anything got melted