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Huh, what? I love old owner's manuals, just got one for my 84 GL, and it goes into such detail. Tells me how to adjust valves... It's just crazy. BUT - do I really have vehicle posture adjustments? This seems extremely useful to me, as I had been thinking of seeing if I could juuuust squeeze a titch more clearance out of Sadie... Thoughts?

Oi, MotM, ask not, for I can toss my tools in the back and shuggle on down to the Low Country and take you up on that! Probably have to wait till after December 2 at this point, have to hand in and defend. NO STRESS!!! J

2001 Forester: * Rear seat cupholder (hey, it's really cool IMO to get a new part from subaruparts.com or wherever and fix something like that) * Fake wood trim kit from Subaru for front area * Replaced shift boot and leather shift knob from Subaru * Installed the retractable package shelf over the cargo area, and Subaru package netting * Scored a set of 2007 steel wheels in the box from Freecycle.org for when its salt season (the Forester is an S, and my alloys are PERFECT) * New Goodyear blah-blah-blah tyres... they were expensive, supposed to be the best on the market for ASRs. * Fixed 7 chips in the windshield * Tuneup, changed hoses and drive belts, alignment, chap at the shop said the axles and seals were all in premium shape. Due: *Timing belt. I'm dreading doing it, makes me nervous with the opposing heads. I've changed a lot of Toyota timing belts, but all 4-cylinders, in line. 1984 GL Wagon (this year) * Intake manifold gaskets, some of the snake-basket vacuum leads - gods, I need a Weber * Radiator, belts, hoses * Front rotors/pads * Passenger front axle (needed the car, couldn't be arsed to rebuild) * Repeated attempts to change the muffler, finally went with running a weld up the seam, and still looking for someone nearby qualified to swap out extension pipes onto my Bosal muffler * Ignition switch * Installed a Clarion cassette player that came with the car (Subaru option, apparently, says Subaru right on it). The FM that came with it was also Clarion, and sounds honestly slightly more clear. * Just picked up a brushguard and EA-82 5-speed from ShawnW (thanks!), but the 5-speed is going to have to wait till spring, I'm still driving the GL * Started in on the rust on the rockers and quarters. No holes, except in the quarters, but I didn't want the rust to get any farther. Decided that the quarters needed to be replaced, and I don't have the time before snow flies, so I ground and sanded and POR-15d everything and I filled the fist-sized holes in my quarters with bondo to keep the snow and salt out for now. DUE: * I have lost current to the fan switch. I'm afraid that the PO's idea of wiring repair (I don't have the heart to go to the 'What Stupid Sh*t Did the PO do to YOUR Suby?' thread) may have effed the fuse block. Probably going to have to take that somewhere and have someone just fix it, I've doinked with it repeatedly to no avail. * Front driver's side wheel bearing - probably just have to nut-up and take it somewhere, I don't have a press. * Rear axle boots are very dry, one is torn * Looking for a set of Impreza seats * Intend to try and find one of those turbo EA-82 wagons and kype the rear discs off it * Some chap on the board from the Netherlands had put, I think, an XT instrument cluster in his 83? euro GL. I'm still thinking about that. * Still infrequently burning A/F and losing coolant... but not always. So, eventually I'm going to toss another mill in there. Probably stick with the EA-81, with a Weber. MIGHT consider SPFI, if I wind up near one of the real wizards from the boards. The list goes on, for the GL. If anyone is in southern Wyoming and feeling like they want to shoot a chilly afternoon, I'll buy the beer and the timing belt kit, if someone's willing to hold my hand while I work.

And straight from Bosal's website, they no longer make a muffler for wagons, 80-84. Seems pretty random, but who am I?

Thanks Miles, I had been kicking that idea around, becuase it doesn't look like there are any other options for a Bosal muffler. J

Fantastic! I swear I've searched and searched for these links. Thanks Twitch

Super n00b question: Are the rear axles as tetchy as the fronts? I have just discovered a fresh tear in a rear axle boot (while replacing the muffler), and I am wondering if I should just nut up and get new rears and be done with it?

OK, so this is a Bosal muffler, made in Canada, from NAPA. It's the only muffler they list, and it's 1-2" too short from the flange to the muffler, and the rear hanger is wrong. Anyone have any alternate sources for such a muffler? I already bent the extant muffler back into a cylinder shape, and had a friend tack-weld the burst seam (not very successful), I suppose I can buy some PC-7 Hi-Temp and wing it, but I kinda want a real muffler...

REALLY? I'll be buggered. OK, at least one of the studs is quasi-bonded to a nut, so I guess I'll go buy new studs. Do you recommend stainless? J

Is there any magic bullet for an EA-81 exhaust manifold gasket? I blow them out in ~1,000 miles, and obviously it's not hard to replace, but crikey, I'm at it again. The NAPA exhaust-gasket-bonded O-rings didn't even really fit, IMO, and blew out in a few days. The one thing that has had some limited success (though now blown out at 1,100 miles) was hi-temp gasket material, and Perma-Glue hi-temp 'gasket maker.' I'm tempted to try and find a real donut, with bevelled edges on both sides, I'll just have to remember to dig out my caliper to measure the ID of the pipe. Ideers? J

OK. So, the fan blower blows when I jump direct power. So, I guess I need to find out if any of you guys have a heater switch?

Nope, the fan does not turn at any speed on the dial, and it worked until 15 minutes or so before I began taking the ignition switch apart; this is why I feared that the two things were somehow connected (that I'd knocked a wire loose, yoinking on the steering column). I've run down all of the connexions and wires from the switch to the fan, I suppose I need to get jumpers now and see if the fan spins with direct power. They sure didn't make it easy to get to, did they?

OK, I did a large amount of work on replacing my ignition switch and so on, and after getting everything all bolted back together, horn works, clock works, blinkers work, ignition works a treat! And suddenly, the blower motor doesn't work. I have torn 90% of the dash out of my GL, and all wires are properly connected, I've traced all the leads throughout the Flying-Spaghetti-Monster style snakebasket under my dash, and everything seems to be attached and intact. All fuses are good, I have switched them out with brand new, and switched those with fuses that do work in other sockets So. What's the over-mind think about that? Did the switch just pop? Blower motor, which always worked flawlessly and without any squealing... Ideas?