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I have the spot and there is a bulb in it too. I took it out and shined a light and it is there. So I guess I will just splice one in with the wire already there in the round plug? I will let you know if I need it; Thx. Start heating up the soldering gun.

I have found that if you are replacing one side the other side isn't far behind. Plus, then you know both are good and document it and you can see how long you go before the next replacement. I always inspect every once in a while to look for cracks in the boot. Usually the one close to the exhaust pipe.

I have found that if you are replacing one side the other side isn't far behind. Plus, then you know both are good and document it and you can see how long you go before the next replacement. I always inspect every once in a while to look for cracks in the boot. Usually the one close to the exhaust pipe.

Here is the pics of my Rx. So with the stock size tires on, I have 6.5" inches of clearance at the bottom of the rear diff.

Go somewhere where you can make the tightest turn you can either left or right. Then come to a complete stop and crank your steering wheel as far as it will go, left or right depending on the direction and then make a complete 360 circle. If the cv is bad, you will hear the famous "click, click, clicking" noise to let you know.

Cool. Thx Bratman just ordered the speedo. So I have the dash cluster out and I have two plugs out of the back of the speedo. One white and blue and another plug, black and yellow with red stripe. So I am going with the black and yellow one like you said. So once things are hooked up, with the Brat flash the ECS light in the dash for reading codes?

I am dying laughing right now. So funny, I'm reading the posts out loud to my wife and we are both laughing. Just let someone talk for about 5 minutes and you will know if they know what they are talking about,,,,or if they "don't" know what they are talking about.

I don't have the stock ea speed o cable. So can you get that from Rock Auto or do you have to get that from a Subie dealer???

Cool. I'm on it. Thx Bratman.

Here is how I made a bracket on the Brat. Just going to wrap the filter with some rubber tape and she pushes down snug.

Here is the pic of the spacers dropping the diff slightly to correct cv angle. Notice how straight the cv's are. No stress here.

So in my Brat I have 2.2T. I have an Sti 5 speed. My question is how to make the speed-o work? The 5 speed has the vss coming out of the tranny and I am not sure how to make this work. I know someone mentioned that I had to connect up the vss to the dash of the ea. Any advice?

I am not sure where he got that number for the swap. My donor car was $500 and then I rebuilt the 2.2T motor. It is a lot of work, don't get wrong, actually more than I had anticipated. I still have my ea81 rebuilt in the Rx with only 6,000 on her. As a matter of fact, my ej swap isn't done still and I have been working on her for years now. I actually thought of putting the ea81 heads on that they make for the airplane heads. More flow and polished but that isn't cheap. I would love to see more mods for the ea81 you may have or have done that I could use on the Rx. I think most go the ej cause they are already lifted it and are pushing way bigger tires than stock and it eats up that 85hp rather quickly along with the mpg. I am not trying to discourage in fact I like what you are doing. It would be awesome to do performance mods that didn't cost huge amounts of money and you didn't have to change a bunch of stuff. So keep what you find coming. I am interested and of course we love pics. Nice points GD

I rebuilt my ea81 just because it is such a great little motor and put it in my Rx. But I wanted more for my Brat and that is why I decided to do the Ej swap and put in a 2.2T. I was afraid to start but just did it anyway and if you just do the adapter plate ej-ea, get the 5 speed ea tranny, then you aren't really changing anything but the motor and upgrading to a stronger tranny.

I'm liking what you are doing. I may have to do a custom fuel tank for the Brat because I have the 2.2T and are being told that the older tanks don't have the baffles to work with the efi engines. Plus it is such a small fuel tank. Either a custom one or a surge tank. But a surge tank doesn't fix the capacity I can carry.

I must comment RAD; I love the ea81 and is why I fell in love with them and proved itself to me over and over again. But as you stand by the ea81, u should also be standing next to the ej. The Ej is based from the ea. Why do you think it is easily getting 300,000. I had one in my Brat. But the amount of money you can put into the ea to get more out of her, you could easily upgrade to the Ej and have more in hp, fuel injection, torque. If you did just a regular ej engine upgrade with the adapter plate it wouldn't be difficult. I took my Brat ea81 rebuilt her and put her into my Rx. But when you want to pass someone, you really have to get on her and being screaming way to high just to pass safely and I didn't like having the feeling of not knowing if I have enough room to make the pass. I needed more Hp and torque and the ej was the way to go. Like others have said, you won't be able to get that much out of her. You have to come to the point that even though the ea81 is great, the ej is better, hands down. It's just technology. Subaru took a great motor and improved it to the Ej. But the ea81 is a swiss watch.

I already asked in another thread, but the disadvantages or advantages this mod. It seems the easiest is just to re-drill.

So have been researching and have to ask, especially the ones that have changed the lug pattern; It seems like the best and economic solution is just do a re-drill of the hub. Cheaper and you don't put any added stress on the hub bearings. So my question is, what are the advantages, disadvantages of the 6 lug to the 5 lug? Is it just that you can do a brake upgrade???? Comments please..

I second that notion. Subaru not being Awd. I was disappointed.

Thx for the confirmation.

First off, I am sorry for your lost. Second, way cool that you have your Best friends car and are going to do something with. I like to do a mix of both, street and offroad. I like to make it performance wise as if I needed to take it off road and had to get on it, it would only grin at me.

For anyone out there who likes to learn stuff, I taught myself how to weld. I went and bought a lincoln flux core, Lowe's, $400 with the rolling stand, and then on youtube, a guy lists all the parts to buy and how-to guidance to convert it to a mig. Best thing I've done so far. You can do the thin sheetmetal to fix our cars and you can do thick stuff too. But I always have the arc welder for the big thick stuff. So my advice, don't be afraid to learn, you just have to jump in. I never thought I would be able to do what I did to my Rx but check it.

Anyone else like to comment.

iac valve? Please help me with abr.

Yep, What DaveT said; get underneath it and grab ahold of the driveline and try to turn it by hand, shake it, see if you can't get movement. If not, not your u-joints.