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I'll def. be keeping an eye on this thread.

Hope that helps.

I'll see if I can snap a pic later and post it up.

That bit about changing the wiring or it will kill your deck, I dispute. I've had a kenwood deck in the Loyale for over 2 years now with no issues on stock wiring. The only issue that can be had is if you were to try and adjust the fade. Because of the common ground, if you try and adjust the fade to run just the back or front speakers, or adjust it so the back or front speakers are out of balance, that most definitely will cause problems. If you keep the fade at 0 (all four speakers getting equal power) you should be fine. It is smart, however, to run all new wiring, as I did in my GL. You don't *have* to though, is what I'm saying.

Eek. Fortunately didn't hit you in the head! Hope you're feeling better sooner rather than later. Just out of curiosity, was it still running after the impact? Does it start/drive in it's condition?

Also, hope you are well after that.

Damn! That sucks. That thing looked like it was pretty nice. Frame bent?

Yeah, as mentioned, it's not like a quick pull and replace. I'm pretty sure if you look in the engines section of the ultimate Subaru repair manual on the main page, there a write up about the swap. Long story short though, it's a bit of a Labour and price investment

How does adjusting the clutch work? I saw the linkage at the trans, and I fiddled with it briefly, but the nuts seem to be locked together tight. Guess I'll have to get two wrenches on it to adjust it? The damn strut brace/spare tire support is in the way.

High rpms aren't a problem so long as you keep on top of your oil + filter changes, and tranny fluid. It's pretty common for people to swap in the engines from later model subarus. They are the EJ series engines that produce more power and do so more efficiently. EJ power in your EA model vehicle equals a noticeably faster vehicle, and better fuel economy to boot! As for the timing, you have to hook up those green connectors to disable any type of timing advance and such by the ECU, have your car up to op. temp, hook one cable from your timing light to a ground and one to a spark plug. Point the gun at the flywheel and it should flash in synchronization with the '20' degree mark on your flywheel. If the timing is correct. That's the quick and dirty of it.

He'll be using the s10 to bring back the EJ22 he's going to eventually swap in after he falls in love with our site and the car and checks out how easy the swap is.

Sounds great! I only started suspension work about a year ago when I did all new ball joints, tie rod ends and inner tie rods, and new shocks on the Loyale. Suspension work is fun, you get to beat things with hammers. It's frustrating too, though, as the reason you're beating on things with hammers is usually because stuff is stuck. I remember the one ball joint took me like 2 hours of hammering in different places to finally get it to come out. Putting it all back together is fun though. What's not fun is the messed up alignment from changing the tie rods though. Still haven't gotten the steering aligned. I envy the tranny pull though. Anxious to get to that stuff myself, and wow, you sure are a youngster. Planning on a career wrenching? Seems like you like it a bit.

Or throw a known good fuse of the same amperage in it's place. Check your lights after. Hopefully it's something simple!

Stupid question but it's always possible to be over-looked; Did you check to see if you blew any fuses?

Hopefully it's not too rusty! Good luck with grabbing that lil brat! That thing is nice!

That's your steering rack. Looks like you might have a little leak. How's your power steering fluid? The rod going into the boot is your inner tie-rod. The piece that attaches to the end and goes into your wheel hub is the outer tie-rod, or tie-rod end. you're doing all this work by yourself? That's quite an endeavor to take on, and, as I understand, it's the first time you're doing so? Kudos to you and I'm jealous. Still haven't got that far into my car yet. Be careful though!

Definitely replace the fuel filter. It's right under the hood in the driver's side corner close to the windshield. As far as the noise goes, are you saying that it's a different pitch? Or is it constant. Reason being, the SPFI cars have pretty loud fuel pumps and you can usually hear them. Another common thing is if you're sitting at a red light with the blinker on, you'll hear the fuel pump whine change pitch with the blinkers. It's normal. Power windows; do a search for ultimate subaru message board slow power windows on google. It should get you to the threads that are already written on here addressing that. Basically, you should take the door apart and grease the tracks for the windows. Dash lights sounds like a loose wire/ground in the cluster. High RPMS on the highway are normal. Car was designed for interstate speed limits of 55 back in the day. I've personally cruised for 10 + hours to canada at 65mph with no issues. You should be running at about 3900 rpms at 65. You can even cruise at 70 or 75 if you want but it's going to hurt your fuel economy. Is your car FWD or 4wd? Pics would be cool too. We all like pics here. =) Congrats on the purchase (it's def. a steal) and welcome to the site! Hope we are all able to help eachother. PS: NGK spark plugs. ALL the time. Subarus love them. Also, check the timing when you get a chance. You have to connect to two green connectors (somebody will correct me if I'm wrong) when you check the timing. They are by the fuel filter and there is a black rubber dust cover on the bellhousing for the transmission under-neath the spare tire. Timing should be 20 degrees IIRC.

Thanks for posting the result for future reference. Nobody even ventured a guess to it being the injector!

Just don't use the 4wd when you have different tire sizes on. Different tire sizes = different rotation speeds + 4WD = severe drive-train binding that will break stuff. FWD will be fine.

what's the craziness on the intake manifold on the EA82?

Rust, could you describe exactly how you flush the engine out with that engine additive "cocktail" you use?

That's Ben. Here he is. http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/topic/129379-meet-ben-the-gfs-93-loyale/

Any of you guys recognize this? Never forget seeing it the first time. After turning on to the salt flats and basically having no boundries...I decided to start driving towards that mountain. Adventure-roo! First time I'd ever had the car off-road. I needed to branch off of the trail at some point. And it didn't take long for me to high-center it on a bush and get stuck haha (Very loose ground under the tires didn't help) After getting the car un-stuck. You can see the freshly exposed ground where the car was in the previous picture. =P Funny enough, after getting stuck, and getting un-stuck, my group and I went for a little walk leaving the car where it was parked above. After about an hour we go back to the car, pile in, and I proceed to drive straight out of that spot to the trail, going to the right. What you can't tell in the picture is that there was a steep drop from where the car was parked and the actual trail, and I practically *immediately* high centered the car for a SECOND time lol. I know. I'm a putz. A bit of se-sawing the car and we were back on our way. =) /FIN.

Time for some more pictures from the trip! Pictures vary from Colorado or Wyoming or Utah, or Idaho or Indiana. Not quite so sure. jjCharger highway patrol. Colorado. Beautiful rolling hills. Ever see the default desktop for windows XP? Ames monument.Pretty sure this was in Wyoming. Lincoln. Also Wyoming IIRC. Action shot. More to come.