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  1. RustyBrat
    How much do you want for the rear axles and what condition are they?
  2. RustyBrat
    Maybe... I dont know haha i love the 360 maybe the dune would look better in person
  3. RustyBrat
    Electrical ghosts are the worst... Trace wires and look for shorts i guess
  4. RustyBrat
    I need both front axles and both rear out of a 78 brat... Mine are all making noise and whatnot. Used in good condition would be fine... Does anybody have any?
  5. RustyBrat
    Are the original axles all still good?
  6. RustyBrat
    Subaru needs to build these... They would sell extremely well i think...
  7. RustyBrat
    Gotta have some angles... Plus... Way too much rim
  8. RustyBrat
    Yes they will
  9. RustyBrat
    Okay thank you! Ive only been able to find front ones...
  10. RustyBrat
    i think i like this... but im not sure...
  11. RustyBrat
    the 78 brat runs again!
  12. RustyBrat
    so the brat is RUNNING AGAIN! yaaayyyyy! im pretty excited about that im going to have to find another electronic dizzy for the wagon, but that can wait. i still have lots of parts to steal! next comes the struts, calipers, discs, and shoes. my only mishap during the engine swap was that i pulled a cv joint apart on the brat... so right now it has one axle pulled and is rwd, which sucks. alot. i hate it. all the axles on the wagon are destroyed, and so are all the ones on the brat... so im going to have to buy 4 new axles for the brat. am i correct in saying the front axles are the same as the rear? so the engine and transmission and clutch are all good in the brat now, that makes me happy but the sad fact is, it still drives like crap. im thinking its a combination of one stuck front caliper, two blown struts, reeeaally bad ball joints, no rear shocks, bad axles all around, and the fact that the front inner mounting point for the drivers side rear torsion bar has a broken bolt, and can thus move around as it pleases. im going to weld all the rear lift blocks together and make a sub-frame. i still have a loooong way to go... and no money. but on the bright side, i can get all the parts except ball joints and axles from the wagon
  13. RustyBrat
    thanks for the input truly, but i really want to keep the electronic in the brat... i know i can get the brat running and honestly i dont really need to get the wagon running again anytime soon. in fact im looking to sell it asap... no money...
  14. RustyBrat
    do it!
  15. RustyBrat
    so both engines are installed completely! everything is ready to go, except i did not know that a 78 and 79 have different distributors. the 78 has a regular style, the 79 has an electronic. i finally found a thread that tells me how to convert from regular to electronic, so i can at least get the brat running again! the only thing is, i dont know how to convert from electric to regular, so i cant get the wagon running... unless i get another electronic distributor setup, which i probably cant afford. but anyway! im proud that i managed to do this stuff! oh and cleaned up the shop well today, had to scrub the floors with soap for a while... stupid 90 weight. update tomorrow on getting the brat running, i'll take a video or two! anybody have any idea on how to get the wagon running again?
  16. RustyBrat
    I looked into doing that, but the wiring goes all the way to the igmition and who knows where else, so i would have to pretty much swap the whole wire harness. I FINALLY found a thread that told me how to convert from reg. to elec. disty, so i can get my 78 brat running again but i have yet to find one telling how to do the opposite
  17. RustyBrat
    cool!
  18. RustyBrat
    really? wow haha i didnt think the control arms would go that high!
  19. RustyBrat
    Okay... so i just swapped a low mileage ea71 and trans into my brat out of a 79 wagon, and put the old engine and trans into the wagon. thats all done, my problem is the distributors are different! the 79 is an electronic distributor and the 78 is not. the thing i want to know is, how do i make them run again? i cant figure it out... there are two wires that come out of the distributor cap on the 79, a blue and a red one i think, and when they were on the wagon the ran over the engine and plugged in by the firewall. on the brat, there is nowhere to plug them in. i was going to swap the coils and capacitors, but after tracing the wiring from the capacitor on the brat i found that i would have to basically swap the entire wiring harness... i guess my question is, how do you convert from running an old style distributor to an electronic one? somebody please help they are immobile until i get this fixed...
  20. RustyBrat
    looks awesome... bet she rides like a lawn tractor though haha no flex left!
  21. RustyBrat
    does that even count? there's no snow!
  22. RustyBrat
    o will assume you are asking op...
  23. RustyBrat
    wow hahaha, im betting my brat has a 0-60 of... almost a minute. hell even my chevy on 35s can do 10 seconds
  24. RustyBrat
    brought the wagon down to the shop, did all the same things, pulled the engine, put the brat engine in the wagon, everything bolted up perfectly. pushed it out of the shop and... no go. it turns over but there is no fire. by this time it was dark so we pushed it back into the shop and i got to looking at both engines, and as it turns out i have to swap coils as well. when we bolted the brat engine into the wagon we noticed we had one plug left over from the wagon's coil, but never thought much of it. well as it turns out that plug goes from the coil... i forget the name, transistor maybe? well anyway from the box beside the coil over to the distributor cap where two wires go under the cap. i guess thats the difference between a 78 and a 79! anyway no big deal i pulled the coil out of the wagon and tomorrow morning i will pull the brats coil and put it in the wagon and vise versa. hopefully that solves the problem!
  25. RustyBrat
    today was a good day got both doors completely painted and back on the brat, started her up (had to jump it, played with the headlights too much ) and drover her down to my buddy's shop. got the shop all warmed up and dove in! pulled the struts out, pulled the axles off the transmission, drained and removed the radiator, drained the transmission, pulled the driveline, unhooked everything to the engine, unbolted the engine and transmission mounts and yanked her out with the cherry picker! the engine is currently sitting on the floor of the shop, tomorrow im going to bolt tires back on the brat and roll it out of the shop, roll the wagon in, take its engine and trans and set them on the floor, take the brats engine and transmission and install them in the wagon, roll the wagon out, roll the brat in and install the wagons engine and transmission into it! maybe i will get it all done tomorrow but maybe it will take me until sunday, we'll see! i have my dad helping me, thats him you see in the pictures, and yes. he is a dork. havent touched the fenders yet, waiting for my cutoff tool to get here! anyway here's some eye candy
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