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Thanks I will give it a shot. Any advice for the bottom one though?

Hey all. So I'm having a problem with getting my bearing housing off of the bolts from the ball joints. Seems to be stuck on there really good. I've given it a few solid upward whacks with a rubber mallet, and also tried to force it up with a spacer between the castle nut and wheel bearing housing (as suggested in the Keep Your Subaru Alive book), to no avail. I end up popping the spacer out before the assembly travels upwards. They've been marinating in PB Blaster for about 3 days now, and I'm still stuck. I'm thinking of going to get a pickle fork to see if I can wedge them up, any other advice before I set out to do this?

Wow. What a crash. Glad to see your family made it out of that. Hope they are ok.

^^ Sound advice

So you can see what I mean..

Okay, so I keep telling myself, "ok just need to do this one last thing, and I'll get to start it and drive again.." Well, that just never seems to work out. So, I put everything back together, and I decided it would be a fine time to do the brakes. So I start with the driver's front side discs, change the pads, and when I put it back together... the Caliper is oozing brake fluid right out of the seals. Wonderful. So I ordered up some caliper seals and went about rebuilding the Caliper... Took me a while as I've never done one before, but it really wasn't all that bad. Pulled the piston: Piston pulled, boot removed, and all cleaned up before pulling the spindel Piston re-installed. Handbrake fed through the guide and getting greased up Voila Sweet. So I rebuilt my first brake caliper. I haven't done the other side yet, so I ended up buying a second set of seals just in case. I also had some new rotors, and since the calipers were off anyway, I thought I might as well pull the hub and slap some new metal on there since the old ones were just starting to get a bit of a lip. ....aaaaand that just uncovers some busted grease seals on the wheel bearings. They are cracked and falling apart. So... next step is another thing I haven't done.. cleaning and re-sealing the bearing housing (and replacing the bearings if need be...) Wish me luck.

I dig the wheel and tire setup on this. Looks meaty without a lot of modification.

Hey Bert.. I've got a factory brushguard if you want one.

Motor's in...

Had a really long weekend consisting of: Fixing transmission brace alignment. It was off-center, and wasn't able to get all the bolts in. It's good now. Changed front brakes Painted the underside of the hood Bolted fenders on Pulling the motor out of the bed and getting it back into the garage -- putting on the new clutch disc, pressure plate, and primed a new oil pump and bolted it on. Sweet! Thanks wifey for helping me bolt that hood on. When/if I get new motor mounts that fit I will drop this thing in...

After doing some digging --- it looks like the DEA 6702 look to be the right size/shape. Anyone have experience with these?

Hi guys. Need a little help. I need engine mounts rather quickly. I have ordered two sets of mounts from Rock Auto, and neither one fits. One was their Westar mount, and the other was Subaru Genuine, but it was a transmission mount. I am losing money by having to ship these parts back (ridiculous RA won't cover THEIR mess up).. The Westar was CLOSE, but was oversized, I couldn't mount it to the bracket. Who has a mount for an EA71 BRAT? Which model/type specifically? Thanks.

I had success screwing it in with a spanner wrench for my grinder. -- Mine is/was bendix type.

Transmission is back in I will need to put this into gear real quick. My wife and I just bought a new house! Sucks that I'm going to have to move this project, but I'll be going from a 1-car to a 3-car garage! Can I get a hell yeah??

Yeah, under the tire, passenger side. There's a little shelf with two studs, that's the factory mounting location. Fuel filter just above it.

I checked mine and it's blue/white. Comes right out of the harness. My wiring diagram also says blue/white.

Your jackman looks like a 13. 14's are really hard to come by. I think I read people were able to stuff 205 or 215's on 13" jackmans.

Okay nothing super crazy this time. I got the wiper motor, washer tank, and fuel pump all mounted up. Did some painting on the brake line guard (wrinkle red), and then I started running the wiring harness. I found some wire conduit I had in periwinkle, and decided to run it and see how it looks. It's so clean compared to how it looked before. Can't wait to see how everything looks in there.

And this is all taking place in an itty bitty one-car garage. I am so ready to move. I want to finish this truck but I hate working on it. I have the engine and trans in the bed. Good thing this is a truck, else I'd have nowhere to put that stuff.

Hey guys. The wife and I took our honeymoon to Alaska (in July) and since then, I have hardly touched this thing at all. In LV it's so damn hot out that I really have little drive to do anything. However, this last Labor Day weekend I was very excited to get some things done. I did finish painting the engine bay, but sadly, I didn't get much further than that. In any case, with the bay painted, I'm much more clear to getting this thing back on the road. I wanted a friend to come by to help me stab the transmission in, and not scuff up the paint, but he flaked on me.... so I cleaned up some parts and masked up the hood for some painting (on the underside)... Anyway, here's some progress: I started with this: Guy I bought it from either didn't care or was just pretty bad at painting (No offense, Mark, you're still a nice guy...) So since there was a lot of surface rust, and some fairly bad spots I just decided to strip to bare metal, repair what needed to be repaired, and then re-primered and re-painted.

I thought there was a notch on the body and on the bottom of the distributor shaft. I can't recall, to be honest. I'll be going through my Haynes manual tomorrow reassembling my car so I'll look in there and see if I can get the verbatim instructions for you.

Soooo... I used a 12 point 11/16 socket. Got it off, but it did crack two of the tabs in the process. I haven't tried to hook it back up yet, so I don't know how well or if it will fit... Guess it's a good thing I live in a desert with about .001" of total rainfall annually. Anyway just finished painting the engine bay. I'll post pics in my other build thread when I get it all put back together.

IIRC--- Theres a notch and a hole that line up on the distributor. With the motor at TDC, line the dist up with those two points and stab it in. Hook up the timing light to Cyl 1, start the car and enjoy the disco light on the flywheel, rotate the distributor as needed. Carb may need adjusting. That's the jist of it, anyway.

Timing marks are in the window for the flywheel on the bellhousing assembly. My 1600 is pretty gutless too, and struggles above 65mph. But I had a cylinder misfiring since I've owned it. Haven't got to drive it yet since I've fixed that problem (I hope).