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I repair ecus from time to time if you file down the end of a fine point soder pen and use a good flux core soder. Most boards are coated so have to clean any coating off. I use a big magnifying glass to c the cirucut in detail. I just did a ecu for 02 outback shop had pinched wire and burnt a trace was able to remake it with one straind of wire sodered across the burnt trace.

When i do head gaskets i remove the pistons and clean out the oil ring lube holes. The bottom holes are always pluged up and makes for poor lube on bottom of piston. Witch may cause it to burn oil or hurt piston i knurll them when they are out to tightens them up in bore.

2.2 and 2.5 are not the same found out the hard way wreaker got us wrong one dident set any codes but ran realy rough and lean.

brat pics

The local dealer here informed me there is a recall for clutch peadal sicking somthing to do with slave and line to it. They say change both and i use dott 4 brake fliud seems to help. If the fork is broken it will twist little bitt when you push clutch

Had a engine droped off in a box is a early jdm 2.0 has a weird valve train with lifters in head like a ea82. Have never seen this type of heads before. Has anyone seen any of theese jdm engines apart before. To bad the shop who worked on it tryed to remove the lifters with a torch and damaged one of the heads. Engine only had 100000 kms on it had a complant of ticking shop got over there heads and ruined a realy nice engine. It a shame i'll i could find wrong was a bad front crank seal. Was probly pulling air into oil pump making it tick

check fan realy

iv'e seen offset ground cam pins somting to same efect not shure if it worked though.

there is a inline fuse for carge circut in dash harness one thats in its own holder was in early years

38 is were the bolt stirps out not where i tourqe it i tested the max 1 lb at a time till it striped to c how strong it was. To confirm my tourqe was wrong it was ok then whats the max now we know. Dosent mean i'm going to tourqe the crap out of evrything.I'm the only subaru shop in B.C as far as i know not my choice but it means evry subaru here comes to me.So thiss whould be why subaru people share info so if there is a mistake it gets caught i'll be the first to say i'm wrong fine thats part of the job.Dosent change the fact i have to do subaru head gaskets all day long.

soild valve train or hydrolic ?

yup thats why i phyiscaly checked when in doubt go and check i have 50 of theese heads so not a big deal i'll keep my specs to myself lol if i strip a bolt i hili coil it or just get anuther head. oh and if i could spell and use good grammer i whouldent be a subaru mecanic id be a school teacher all good fun

my other brats are a 79 with a ea 71 and a 77 with a ea71 and a 84 with 2.5 turbo automatic i whant to tbi the old brats with the ea 71 but have to cut down ea82 manifoild to get right width bitt hard whant to keep the coolant jacket intact but i'm shure it will work its a tiny bitt lean on ea81 so ea71 should feul just right

yup ea81 tbi but its the 1rst gen body has a 4 speed high low and i put rear disks on it had it for 12 years dam good truck only been tbi for 5 of them put a 100 amp alt on it to use it to jumpstart dead cars at my shop and do parts runs

put my touque wrench on those bolts 98 impreza head tried 30 clicked tryed 35 clicked tryed 40 striped the aluiminum tried 38 clicked very fine line so 35 is a bitt high but 15 seems a bitt low anyway they strip at 38 ft lbs on the short bolt roler train the ej 2.2 turbo striped at 33 ft lbs call me wrong boys clicked at 32 ft lbs anyway [ i was wrong ] i will suck it up theres the limits boys ps had to wreak to good heads to find out but hey for the cause and hili coils are cheap i will hili coil those bolts and post the tourque spec after

i get this on alot its a wintertime problem up here the ignitor grounds through the coil mount on bottom bolt has a bad habbit of geting a bitt of corosion and makes a poor ground and will still spark but no injector pulse clean up the mounts where coil is bolted on to bare meatal and back of coil mount there is a raised aluiminum pad on back make shure is very clean and try agian i get thiss problem lots only time loyales get towed into my shop unless timing belt is broken

may need a tach fillter like a gm uses ive had no trubble geting tach to work on ej covertions ej haress black with blue stripe ea harness yellow of coil leads mind you we have verry few digital dashes but it all works the same i belive if i remember right the digital dash was not so good whould replace it with loyale dash that has all 4 gauges and analog

mines a 91 fun justy 2dr i put a turbo on it and 14 in aluminum wheels lightened it up probly about 120 hp 1200lbs gos like stink my bros svx couldent catch it in the corners pulls hard i go 1-3-5 who needs second or fourth i have a lifted 81 wagon with a 2.5 turbo twin cam seems boring after the justy its the quwickest subaru ive ever seen [ not the fastest ] and its a totaly capabble 4x4 go's anywhere i point it

belive so probly to rusty on mine to send so far

i know dam canada i have so many parts and dont know how to market them to usa

give the dash a good whack above the light thats out that ushaly turns it back on

belive me i fixed my share of bad coolant sensors and harness but you dont learn anything if you dont meshure how whould he know what is going on or what he should see if you dont meshure it and the one thing ive leaned after doing subarus for 15 years is never expect to see the same problem on the same model of car it dose happen but evry car is an indavidual

i call bull try and beak on i dare you hell try and strip one out good luck butt have one losen off good chance i use those bolts for alot of applacations and cant break them but on somting with as mutch load and vibrations your asking for it not being tight enuff oh well call me an over toruqer but my engines do not come loose ever and have seen alot of low tourqe specs in manuals that are diferent in the factory manuals and low toruqe wrenchs even my snapon one was out i belive that most of the subaru bolts are tourqe to yeild bolts when it comes to engine theese engines expand and contract alot and stuff moves i may do stuff different but there are hundreds of my engines on road and non died yet everything from ea71s to ef 1.2 ejs and eas they dont come back hell i'm not even going to knock on wood