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Hey LPG,thanks for the info.what is a "clutch switch" haven't heard of one.hope to do a long road trip soon and cruze control is so easy. again ,thanks,Todd:banana:

Hello,has anyone put cruise control on their stock brat.mine is a carberated 84. i got spoiled with the e 82 wagons.i,m sure there are some after market kits out there.i just want to know what has worked for you? so any ideas would be great.thanks,Todd

hey gang,so what is a good after market cruise control for a 84 brat?i want to do some serious cruzin and i have been spoiled by having a 88 wagon with it. so any thoughts? thank you ,todd

so did you ever install the cruise control in your brat?.its only been 6 years now haha.but seriously folks.....i want to install cruise control in my stock 1884 brat. i hope its easy. i hope with all the new technology it will be a snap.hey i'm a hopeless optmist,sorry.it could happen...so is there a good after market cruise control out there? thanks,Todd:banana:

hey Doug,thanks for posting the pictures.i can never figure it out. now to repair the attempted lowrider job.someone took the strut apart and removed the spring on the passenger side.its a lowrider for sure now. i jacked it up and carefully incerted a piece of doug fir so now it looks even just sidding there.i'll run down a strut or two. we'll get her cruzing again.i want to paint it the original LSD Yellow.that wierd yellow green kinda, sorta yellow submarine lookin thing.anyway its stashed in a my barn now...c ya,todd:banana: i love that dancing banana!!

it should be near your right foot if you are sitting in the drivers front seat.look up to the right of the gas pedel.you might need to remove the defrost tube to see it better. you can open it with some plyers ect to get the fuild flowing through the heater care. kind looks like a siringe? with a steel rod coming out of it. it could be the heater core is plugged.after you have it warmed up feel the small 1 inch heater hoses that go through the fire wall.they should both be warm.if not something is pluged or held shut like the temp switch we talked about. anyway good luck.not a good time to be without heat......bummer,Todd:banana:

hey Markus,thank you,very good job on the pictures.although i don't really don't like to draw attion to myself....haha ..i have had the thrasher sience 1995,the speedodometer broke in 96 with 247,000 miles on it.i would guess its got over 400,000 but thats a guess. you wouldn't think so by looking at it.....i love it!!!.anyway thanks again,i love to show it off. Happy Trails,Todd:banana: i guess this is my life in car form....

yes the "other way". is to use a dremmal tool and open up the plastic caseing on the drivers side of the heater core area. hunker down and look in from the drivers side at the area where the heater hoses go into the heater core. i just cut away enough plastic so as to pull the old heater core out,kinda like pulling out a tape deck or radio(hope this is all making sence) once you have the old core out make sure there is no sharp edges ect that could put a hole in your new core(the last time i got one from napa it was around $80 bucks i think).once you have the new one in place some zip tyes and some calking will hold it in place.i have replaced 3 or 4 heater cores this way.like you said who wants to pull or split the dash(those enginerers!!!) so again i hope this makes sence and works well for you.happy trails,todd:banana:

i too have been in the same spot.i ended up driving around with the pin out and if fiannly broke loose.what a affair though. drive for a block or so and check it out.good luck.they can be a bugger! todd

i say amen on the tire size as well.i have bought a subaru wagon with a "bad"tranny.only to notice different size tires.i put on new tires all the same size and it fixed the bad tranny.as far shifting out of 4x4 just go in a straight line for a short time and it should pop right out.the differnt size or even tread style can make shifting in or out very hard. good luck,todd

cool,thanks ,todd:banana:

hey gd,thats cool.does it matter what they look like inside.i compared 2 of them and the stuff inside the dist. were different. just 2 ways to do the same thing? thanks todd

so i limped it home.my daughter had brought down a "vented"dist.with 2 lines on the vacume advance.i didn't want to screw things up so i chanced it.i looked around my place and i have a few like that,vented and 2 lines on vacume advance.are they interchangable with non vented with one line on the vacume advance? any advice would be cool.thanks todd

thanks gd,i'll check it out,todd

i checked for play by trying to rock the shaft around,it seemed good.could this still be messed up even though the bushings seem ok? todd thanks guys!

thats sounds like a easy fix. thanks for the comfermation.todd:cool:

so here i am 100 miles from home[at my inlaws]and my dist.is jumpimg all over beond 3000rmp's its a 86 1800 overhead cam ,,,carberated 4 dr.4x4.in the past if any, ea81 dist did that i just oiled the dist bearings and bam its fixed.so i oiled mine and its still jumping around and craping out in higher rpms.any ideas? i'm having my daughter bring down a different distributor just as a stab in the dark.any thoughts would be cool.thanks,todd the old guy:confused:

hey folks, can a 84 brat pass emissions in los angles with a weber and a 1800 ohv.the motors tight. i have heard that you just turn in the air mixture in as far as you can and have it still idle.sounds to easy.any thoughts. see you this weekend.todd

john prine, dan hicks and his hot licks, commander cody and his lost planet airmen,david bromberg and yoko ono[yea right]i do like "stoned ruffneck' music.we have a record player in the shop.fun to see what can be had at goodwill for 99 cents rock on toddw/northern alinence?

hey general, thanks for the info. i was close but no cigar. take care, todd

on my friends 84 brat[ea81] had heads milled. now to adjust non adjustable valves. its been years since i did this, tighten all the way down, set 15 min., tighten till contact and 1/2 turn tighter? right?? any info would be cool .thanks todd ,see you at hood river

hey dr. i,m not biased. its just over the years i've seen trouble w/turbos. and yes lack of maintence probley had a part of it. i'm just asking around before i think of geting it. i'm good w/1978-1988,s i just don't want to get in over my head,with electronic power steering,air bags ect. it all sounds so advanced. anyway take care todd

r/x 6 or xt/6? anyway i got a chance to pick up a 2dr.coupe type w/a flat 6 ,are they a good machine like the nonturbo e81/e82 flat 4's. i heard there kind of touchy,frail?so are they tough, well built? true/false. todd

so how hard is it to get rid of air bags? i'm looking at one. are those 6's as strong as the e81,e82's? i heard there a lot of headaches. true or false toddhttp://community.webshots.com/user/todds173

hey isra, try this http://community.webshots.com/user/todds173 i'm still learning this. stuff take care todd