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Right but what I don'y get is why this resister is mounted on near the bottom of the vent box inside the box itself.

got these ordered from a dealership today. It seems like whenever you get parts for a 30 year old subaru you get the "two units left in the whole country" line. So can anyone explane how that resistor works? I don't get it.

try this guy: http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=123340 Although I never bought an axel from them, Napa and car qwest tend to sell good parts.

like the title says. i can't find on ebay or from subaru. Anyone have part numbers? the resistor I am refering to is the little plug in on the bottom of the heater (vent) box. By the way how does the resistor work?

i want to put good sound in my hatchback. front and back. I have seen ea81 front speakers mounted in three places: 1. a single 6" long oval speaker mounted on the face of the dash above the glovebox 2. a single 4" long oval speaker mounted on the face of the dash next to the driver side door 3. a pair of 6" round speakers mounted low in the doors (would require cutting my doors) The only place I have seen rear speakers mounted is above the rear wheel wells. To mount 6 inch speakers here would require removing the evaporation tank thing on the passenger side rear wheel well. I would like to see where you guys have mounted speakers in an ea81 era hatch or other vehicle. I am thinking of using the two behind the dash locations in the front, probably 4" speakers and the wheel wells in the back with 6" speakers. What say you?

Are all gen 1 windshields the same? Specifically can I take a 78 brat windshield and put it in my 77 stage 2 wagon.

$850 sounds like a lot around here if it may need an engine. I think it comes down to how bad you want it. With patience and time you can find a clean hatch body for next to nothing. I got a clean bodied hatch out of a gulch off route 36 north of Left Hand for free, I took parts and scrapped the rest. Wish i didn't but my point is they are still around here if you keep your eyes open. just sayin... by the way lyons, why is your name lyons? I live in Lyons.

the plan is this- put together my ultimate car. I drove this as a daily driver for a while and grew to love it. Over the years I've collected everything I came acrossed that would make this sweet- I've got a perfect interior, xt 6 seats, lsd, louvers, roof rack, every piece of trim they ever threw on these cars. I just figure if I'm going to drive around in a 30 year old car, it should be a really cool one. It will be a two seater with a boot behind the seats for my dog to ride in comfort. I wouldn't really call it a restore. Give me the winter and I'll show you guys something real nice.

......on which to paint a masterpiece. This is my 1980 hatch. the second Subie I ever owned (I think I'm on #10 now), and this has always been my favorite. This baby is as clean as you ill find them, no rust at all. i am ready to put it back together after i just got it painted. I took this off the road a couple years ago and have dragged my feet, but it is time! my blank canvas has arrived. this is an interesting model, too. It was tagged "1800 DL automatic. It was one of the first models to have an ea81. Anyways, enjoy the pics. You wish this was in your driveway. It is really gutted and ready to be put together. I have so much sweet cheese for this car I won't even begin........

In Colorado i would guess the car you describe would go for $400 to $800. but you are in Idaho. dats right baby you da ho.

Rust free with 60k is definately a great deal @ $500. Sounds like you should not be accumulating more cars though. maybe pass this deal on to another USMB board member?

It'll be her daily driver, we don't have to put many miles on our cars, we walk to work. I will replace the auto with a 5 speed d/r if she wants, other than that, the plan is to drive it!

I got a great wife. She puts up with me and she is really pretty. Can't beat that. Recently she surprised me. We (my wife and I) run a print shop 3 blocks from our home. Our next door neighbor at work is an auto shop, of which the employees constantly give me crap and I them. Carol, my wife, drives a 97 Jetta which has been a great car but is starting to look like crap and at 160 k miles will soon need the original clutch replaced. It also has a plugged up exhaust therefore big power loss, and little things like coolant leak that needs fixin. I hate working on it. So my neighbor at work lives in Estes Park and his little old lady neighbor is litterally 94 years old and has had an 86 gl wagon which she bought new till two years ago when her son bought her a new volvo which she hates, and two years later is willing to let Wayne, my shop's neighbor, sell her old wagon it has 80k ORIGINAL MILES! The guys next door keep razzing me hey why don 't you buy that, which I won't even bother to ask my wife cause I got 3 subarus and she is not in the mood for more. Than they razzed me about it in front of my wife, and she turned to me and sid "would that work for me instead of the Jetta?" I love her. So we got an 86 4wd wagon rust free for $1200. It's a beauty.

What is the biggest obsticle? This is on an 85 that has a 4wd auto tranny. I have done a fwd auto to 4 speed d/r swap on a ea81 era car, all by my lonesome. I know what's involved, just wondering if the ea82 is equally straight forward. My main worry is, Is the tunnel big enough or does it need hammering and/or cutting? the hole for the stick need to be cut bigger, this i understand. I need your imput to decide to buy or not.

There is an uncracked gen 2 dash board at CAP on Radcliffe in a red hatch. It's the brownish tan color. There is a slant console also brownish in a red hatch in the U pull and pay on Zeno. Somebody need em? go get 'em! I hate to see rare parts go to waste.

I want parts, too!

Awesome. Thanks a lot.

Thanks it's amazing how hard these are to find "Illustration for reference purposes" the ones pictured are not for gen 1 subarus. I hope these are the right ones.

3 years later, I still need shocks. The part #s Subaru 3 provided all came back bad a couple years ago (either discontinued part or obsolete #). Has anyone bought a new set of gen one shocks in recent years?

Brat seats are almost always worth grabbing. Hard to tell from the pics how complete they are, often times the pistol grips are cut off of them because you can't squeeze much more than a child's rump roast between them. Even so, the plastic seats in good condition are almost always worth grabbing as well as those headrests, and be sure to grab them complete with the sliders. From the pics it looks like there is no longer a mounting frame for the seats welded to the bed. Whenever you find rear seatbelts for a brat, they are worth getting. When I say this stuff is worth getting, I mean they are rare enough you can always unload them for a more than you paid. You won't get rich, but these parts are easy to remove and as a subaru fanatic I actually enjoy saving these parts from being crushed. What is the light blue gen 2 car in the pics, and were any of the gen 2 cars you saw in really good shape, inside or outside?

and KEEP YOUR ARMS OUT OF THE WAY!

Drop the trans from down unda. Pull the torn up seat out of the car and slide it under the transmission and drop the trans onto that, crude and fast style. last bolts you remove are the crossmember bolts. everything else first. let me know what else you see at that jy.

I have done it from underneath a couple times. A transmission jack is a huge plus, and a second pair of hands is also a huge plus. I have done it without either and it's a pain in the arse.

Speedwagon, The number of yards with the old ones is fewer and fewer every year. This one: http://aurora.upullandpay.com/PriceGuide.aspx is currently the best. there are usually a few ea81 and a bunch of ea82 cars. They recently opened or aquired another in denver: http://www.upullandpay.com/Locations/denver/default.aspx I haven't been to this one yet, let me know what you find if you go. Definately check out the one in Aurora, though. There is also this place: http://www.pullnsave.com/weekendspecials.htm which until a few years ago was the best in all the land. Very few ea cars there these days, but worth a look. It's a shame about CAP. Used to be a great place. last time I was there I think they had one ea81. I gotta get used to the fact that there are not as many of these cars left as when I first got in this game. U pull and pay has a place in Co Springs as well. good luck and let me know what you find. In fact, keep me in mind if you see ANY Gen1 gars at all.

I see you are in albequerque, I suppose if it were a dealership in the 4 corners states, It's possible there were only 50 and we are more likely to see them around here.