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  1. Hsoj
    Can you look through the clutch fork hole to see how its looking? You can do that with it running or not. ( just keep someone ready on the brakes in case a tire catches your pants if its running.. safety first ) There is just enough room to peer in, use a tube if necessary and a flashlight and get someone to activate the clutch. (kinda cool regardless...IMHO)
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    You could try to air bag the car. De-clock the rear torsion bar and find the right air strut you can modify for the back. On the front you can use a "Universal Air Aerosport" slip over air bag. You have to make all your own seats and mounts though. I havent got a model number for the rear that I can afford yet as the rear is where it can get expensive.
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    If you get a hose for a washing machine, and cut it in half, you can flush the system right at the heater with full water pressure and full catchment. Then flush the core in both directions for a good cleaning . You can leave the system all together by pinching off the supply to the motor before you pull the hoses at the firewall. The washing machine hose should fit right on unless its some fancy braided one or something weird.
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    If your punch is good and flat and the right size, give it a tap, use the back of a screwdriver if your worried about force.
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    Hmm, could you cut and weld on a piece of flat bar, then cut the back of the pedal off so you can depress it further? It would be better than moving the firewall forward..lol. Somewhere I have an ej pedal.....It might be a gas pedal though....
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    Ill be sharing all your posts with my friend. Im hoping he gets a subi too....lol. We can nail this down if we work together.
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    Im not sure about anything. I need to hear about what you all want as a market. Me, I'm a Carpenter who builds what you want. Metal is different. I'd like a very close to original trim piece myself but if it was better I'd be interested too.
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    The same thing happened to me when my clutch plate spring came loose, the ones in the center on the disc itself. Shifting when the motor was off was fine but as soon as it was started I couldnt shift. I even took it to a shop to see if they knew what the weird chattering I had when starting in first gear was before it blew. The spring was bouncing around in there and lodging itself into weird places so it would work sometimes but not others. Try to get a mini flashlight into the clutchfork bootie and look into the starter hole with the starter removed, maybe with a little extension mirror and see if everything looks ok in there. I'm not guaranteeing you'll see anything, but you might. Look past the the pressure plate fingers and rotate the motor looking for fresh scratches on the dirty clutch plate. Heck, you might be able to see through the clutch fork bootie too. Good luck!
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    If its not adjusted properly it could do that. That was what happened to my brat when one of the clutch plate springs busted loose so I couldn't change gears. The plate is in correctly I assume, not backwards? Bent clutch fork or like in Carfreak85's post, linkage problems? http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/topic/149901-ea81t-w-ea82-5-speed-difficult-to-shift/
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    So I got a few ideas, but what if I wanted to make a run of a few? Does anyone have any input? I have a reliable machinist who can make anything (including airplanes) and we got to talking. For a close to original looking one it would be about $70each for a run of a hundred of them. Thats a lot to shell at once. Thats also a rough estimate but chrome is hella costly and there isn't that much of a market. What do you all think or want?
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    That's Phizinza's build thread. http://offroadingsubarus.com/83sedan_4wd.html
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    Nice writeups! Thanks!
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    Its one thing to grab solid power and switched power from the harness but the grounds will give you issues and can kill a deck. It's way better to use all new wires for the speakers to eliminate feedback and potential future issues. On the newer Kenwood decks it will tell you when you have a default and turn its self off. The older Kenwood decks internally cut volume off but some will just fry and all it will take is a speaker ground grounding out. Most people think that a ground wire is like drain pipe, it is sorta like that, but in electrical systems, it has to be remembered that its a very small drain and you dont want to over fill it as its got some power in it if its being used by something else.
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    Maybe someone can point me out if I'm wrong but cant you get a 3.7 rear diff gear ring and just install it in the diff? It sounds like you can wait for shipping. I'm thinking from a transmission shop or something.... Too much work/cost prohibitive?
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    I talked to action machine about getting head work and they said they could but asked why because the net gains are so small. They claimed cam work would be more worth my time. Delta cam used to do the heads i believe. You could talk to them. They do good cam work.
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    So here is my question, if the flywheel is ground down too deep from being resurfaced and the pressure plate is bolted to the out side of the flywheel, would the release fingers stick out farther? So, that would give you the need for even more throw in order to shift, correct?
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    Ok. I just pulled mine and I'd show the pics if I could get it to load. Basically, on the clutch disc, one of the springs tore loose. ( It does make it hard to shift with a spring bouncing free in there..lol.) The shop is going to check spec and resurface the flywheel and I'll know by morning if the xt6 spec was on or off. Remember, this is on an ej'ed vehicle.
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    Youll never know till you get there. Oil on the clutch would mean you have a gusher of a leak, regardless its a new clutch. There is a flywheel in the way. I'm doing mine now, if I can get my phone to upload to picasa I'll share.
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    Im having the same prob with my ej'ed 87' Brat but not with my 82' wagon, both have 5 speed d/rs. My wagon I had to reinforce the clutch petal by welding on a piece of modded1/8"flat bar. Im about to pull the clutch in the brat cuz I think it delaminated or shattered or the springs broke, It never did shift right. I had to always slam the petal to the floor to get it to shift, making sure it was buried in the carpet.
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    I hate to say it but....I would pull the motor and do the heads and all the seals and put it all back together so I could know its all done and I would know the condition of everything. Just so you dont have to throw good money after bad. I think the hardest part of doing head gaskets is the cleaning anyway. It does take some time and it seems daunting the first time but really its the way to go. If you try to lap the heads yourself and its not badly warped from overheating you dont need to spend money on shop work and you are only out the cash on the gaskets. People say these motors never blow headgaskets but you really dont know what the previous owners did to the car. Half the people who sell these cars have the "drive it till its dead" attitude and it could really be dead. Wait...isn't it dead? I have a 130k brat, got it with a blown head, an 82 wagon with 249k got it at 210k head blew at 220k, and 84 wagon with 113k Blown head cuz the previous owner killed the dash and messed with carb, overheating it, had a 87 I got free with a blown head, a 90' lego $400 with a blown head and two other wagons I got with blown heads around 150k. Personally, I think non subi people sell these cars cuz they are about to blow. Otherwise, who would want to sell a good car? Knowing its good right from the start will save you a headache later.
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    http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/topic/86889-whats-up-with-the-bad-mileage/?hl=%20fuel%20%20mixture%20%20meter This is the only reason for an O2 sensor with a weber.
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    Of course!
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    I built a pair of little tabs for mounting the EJ radiator to the lower core support and zip tied the radiator to the upper support. It gave me a little extra room for the pusher fans in front of the radiator. Everything stays stock EJ that way eliminating funny custom little parts. Thats on an Ea81 though so the room was needed for the fans.
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    Rear Springs....?

    Hsoj replied to 88Subi4x4's topic in Off Road

    I added ea82 4wd rear springs to my ea81 to get rig of some sag issues, I could almost flip that thing as it took away any decent handling of the car. It was real easy to get it up on two wheels. It kinda sucked off road too, it made the front account for all the travel, so it was limiting. On a wet day after a couple of dry weeks, when the roads are slick, that thing would break free and fish in 2wd and was something to watch out for. The only time it really did me good was when I was coming down from the pass after picking up a full size cast iron wood stove to deliver to my dad. Then it rode like a Lincoln....lol.
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    Wow, that guy is in seattle! I wonder who he is! I have a 5spd d/r mated to a 22 in my brat and I have yet to need the d/r for really anything as I dont have a lift in it and I'm not planning one, though I love the 4wd and the 5spd. The low range is really only nice when you want to idle your car up to a stop sign at the top of a hill in rush hour traffic...lol. The real question to beg would be a rear e brake conversion w/ awd suit your driving style and/or whats your preference between awd vs. 4wd?
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