workman

Nice find man! looks like my old baby. Where did you find it and how much?? Congrats on the sweet car!!!

Yeah, $900 is kinda high but he already took it in:banghead: to fix the bearing..175:eek:....whatever I guess, havent paid the man yet. As far as fourth gear goes, its not grind it to find it quite yet, goes in fine but will eject out once rpms get lower (40 MPH and below in 4th). Probably on its way out??? Wish I knew of this forum when still had it, coulda kept the damn thing and kept fixing it....love the writeups on here and the great advice....

Thank you for the info so far GD!!! Just on a side note, How much does an 83 subaru four door gl wagon weigh? Reason is, I might tow it back to where I live on a car dolly, 300 miles or so, and want to know if my pickup can handle this or if I could damage the car in any way by towing it so far.....pretty sure Im getting back into the old car:) 178K and decent shape, other than the fourth gear "pops out" under 40MPH for $900 sound fair? New clutch, brakes, radiator, alt, plugs/wires, and some other repairs. I really dont want to have to put a new tranny in it soon, could just be right around the corner when fourth no longer works????? Once again, thanks guys for the info!!!

So can you bolt an 85-89 5 speed up to the ea81 engine? And by dual range I guess your talking the transfer case as well. One of the reasons I love the 80-84's is the 4hi/lo selector, never got into the push button selectors that ive seen on some of these later model cars. That and I dont know what it is about the 80-84 body styles, but I love em...

THanks for the replies....I searched this forum and found a pretty good writeup by nug on replacing the wheel bearings...and seems to par with your responces. The car has 178K on it and the only other problem I have is the 4 speed tranny will pop out of fourth when going below 40-45. It did this when I owned it as well, I sold it at 161K. Really want to get it back, kinda of attached to the old rusty hunk o metal. Have owned three of these, one blew rod at 299K, and the others 4 speed would NOT go into gear anymore..260K abouts...

SO, after chatting with the guy who currenty has the car, and after he explained to me that the wheel has in/out play in it, I have concluded that it sounds like a wheel bearing (or a loose connection to the axle). having never done bearings before, how tough is this going to be? Like what tools will this require....I work on my own cars/trucks and have for ten years so I know how to do quite a bit, just never bearings(thought u needed a press/puller for these..) Really want the old car back but cannot afford to have a shop do this...

Sorry for the lack of proper terms. I believe it is the steering knuckle on the passenger side front. possibly the front hub. VERY long story about this car, used to own it for a long time, sold it, then guy after three years wants to sell it back to me (cause I love the car:rolleyes:) just dont want to buy it back again if I cant tackle the current problem on my own Thanks for the replys

I am new here, and I have a problem with my subie. It needs a new passenger side spindle, according to a mech. friend. How hard is this to replace, I have never done one before