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Reinstalled the stereo and added a few more guages on the PandaWagon. -
Yeah, I'm the same way. I replaced the t-belts on my blue wagon when I replaced the leaking head. I did the same with my sister's roo when I resealed that engine. Even though it's not that bad of a job, it's the inconvenience that bugs me. Much better to replace them when they're almost due instead of having one snap 600 miles from home in the middle of the Nevada desert.
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Alignment on the PandaWagon - no more squirrly feeling at highway speeds. Now, onto finishing the guage installs, more cleaning, stereo, plug holes, plug coolant leaks, and fix the "I don't wanna go slow, GO FASTER!" attitude this thing has.
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Cleaned the carpet and upholstery in the PandaWagon - great scott, was that dirty!
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EA82s are solid with proper maintenance. EA82Ts are more prone to failures due to that head gasket issue all EA82s have. Just don't let it get too hot and properly maintain it and you will be fine. I have a 87 GL 4WD 5sp wagon with SPFI (Single Port Fuel Injection). It's got 172K miles on it and I am getting 23-25 in town and 25-30 on the highway depending on how fast I want to get there.
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That's awesome!
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On my drive home the other day, I found the temp gauge wandering around on my blue 87 wagon. Found the fans were not doing their job. Rewired the fans and put them on their own circuit - happy fans now! Having CEL issues on the same car - CEL on while sitting at the stop light, touch throttle and CEL goes off. Check for codes after drive - nothing. Car sometimes bogs badly at part throttle with no CEL and no codes. Stupid heat cooked 20 year old EFI....
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Yes. If I were to move the engine back and go to RWD, I would have the same tail swinging problems on dry ground that I did with my old 86 wagon with an EJ22 and RWD on wet roads.
I have three addictions: Torque, traction, and the sound of Subarus.
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I was wondering when it would hit them that this thread is a few months old. Unfortunatly, we also have not even seen a single flake this winter. Probably won't see it till later next year anyway. Supposedly, we are going to get some next week, will see. If so, I have a Suby wagon and a camera ready for it.
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Whats broke on your subaru lately.
subynut replied to The Dude Abides's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
My daily SPFI wagon has a bad case of indecisiveness: Yesterday, I took the car to meet someone - cel on, cel off, cell on, cell off after every shift. Pulled into driveway, cel off. Started it back up an hour later, light off till I touched the throttle and here we go again: on, off, on, off all the way home. Pulled into the driveway, it's off. I touch the throttle and it's on again. I checked for codes: purge control solenoid. All that drama for a purge control solenoid?:confused: Today: no cel at all. -
New From Flagstaff, AZ
subynut replied to Subie2Go's topic in Meet n' Greet. Your USMB Welcome Center
Greetings from Sierra Vista! -
Another issue with the radiator on the roof, is weight. A radiator full of coolant probably exceeds the 100lbs the roof can carry.
Decisions..decisions
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Another idea I thought about is to put it in the back of the wagon and seal off the passenger compartment right behind the back seat. I could then knock out the side and rear windows and feed the air in from the sides and right out the back. That might work if the aerodynamics of the car agree with the idea. Only issue is how big would the side scoops be to catch enough air and will they block my side views since the rear view will be practically nill with the ducting back there feeding the radiator. I would put an electronic rear view back there to fix that.
I could get away with this in cooler country, but here, I have to keep engine cooling a high priority - that means enough airflow to keep the engine happy while humming along the desert floor. Also, with the extra air resistance of the radiator on the roof, will I be really gaining anything at faster speeds vs a mild build of an EJ25?
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I also looked at cutting out the upper and lower radiator support and moving the radiator forward and moving the bumper forward, but the question still remains, will there be enough airflow to remove the heat out of the radiator?
The other place to put the radiator is on the roof, but after some measurements, I will have issues with airflow through the radiator at highway speeds. Even though the EZ series cooling system flows better, if I can't get the heat out of the radiator, what good is it?
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I have run into a major problem with radiator placement. There is zero space in front of the engine - I tried placing a radiator from a RX7 in the front, but I had less than an inch between the radiator and the engine on the bottom and about 4 inches at the top (after I chopped the upper radiator support out for room). I will also have to take a notch out of the bumper for the fan. The air will not be able to go under the engine, all of the air will all have to go over it since there is no place for it to go around the sides. So, it will have to work it's way around the accessories to get to the back of the engine compartment, down, and out. I looked at opening up a hole in the hood right at the nose of the car, but the aerodynamics are so squirrly there, that I will have to put a giant cowl hood on there to direct the air over the top.
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Yet another freaking newbie
subynut replied to Natureboy's topic in Meet n' Greet. Your USMB Welcome Center
We have a neighbor a few doors down with a Forester and a honda accord - guess which one stays outside at night? We are back up to 7 Subarus in the family. It's always easy to tell people where we are - just look for the house with all the Subarus in the front yard. Oh, and welcome to the board! -
It really all depends on how you drive it. When I switched from the hit-touch-e to the weber, my in town mileage did not change as long as I drove respectfully, and my highway mileage went up about 3mpg and I did not have as much trouble holding the speed limit. During the winter, I would idle the engine to start the defrost process while I finished getting ready to work. I lost about 2 mpg on the tanks I did that on.
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Yet Another Muffler Question
subynut replied to smallwwb's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
If the rest of the exhaust is still in tact, then no, you will not harm the engine. Maybe your ears, but not the engine. I've ran streight pipe for a few months, and the engine did not care. -
Replaced the rear stay bushing for the shifter, the tranny mounts with STi mounts, and installed a short throw shifter on my parents' Outback. Wow, what a difference! No more bouncing shifter while getting on and off the throttle and far less slop in the shifter either.
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SPFI codes for EGR and Purge are because it is getting a funny reaction to the solenoids. Most likely the solenoids shorted out and the computer does not know if they are working or not. I had the code for the purge solenoid - checked the impedance of the solenoid: open circuit. Inserted a 1/2 Watt resistor (picked a resistor size roughly in the middle of the specs of the solenoid impedance range) in the connector on the harness, bypassed, and removed the solenoid. Voila! Computer happy and besides taking 2 tries instead of 1 to start in the morning, drive ability unchanged. I am not sure of running with the EGR enabled all the time would effect drive ability or not. Might cause it to run too lean till it warms up. Only way to find out is try it.
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Reassembled the engine for my sister's suby yesterday and reinstalled it into the car. Idles smoothly and good power, but the TOD is quite noisy. Then TOD was drowned in this awful racket - one of the cooling fans died. Oh the noise when the bearings die in a electric motor! So, what was supposed to be a simple CAM and carb swap, turned into a tear down to the short block due to an intermittent sticking valve, HLA replacement, and fan replacement. :-\
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Pulled the engine in Barry (my sister's Roo) for a clutch replacment and misc work: Called around today and not one machine shop is open today. Will have to have the flywheel resurfaced Monday. Installed Delta Torquer Cams , installed Weber, found that the motor mounts were shot, ordered those, plummed the PCV system and found more hoses that need replacing. Can't complain, I really have not done much since the last trip to WCSS, so, it's been just over 3 years since I have done any major maintenence (besides oil changes) on this car.
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Yes, exactly! Been driving Bonnie, but no funny clunks. Weird.... I guess she just does not like Mom.
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I don't get it, I go to Subiefest and 2 Subarus die within 12 hours of my departure: 02 Outback (Bonnie) made a loud "clunk" then stalled twice, mom says, when she was driving it. 87 Wagon (Barry) decided his clutch was done and would go no more. I looked at Bonnie and I saw nothing visibly broke, test drove her and no funny sounds or vibratons. Will continue diagnosis... Barry has been due for a clutch for quite some time and he finally decided he had enough. So, I pushed Operation PandaWagon back to the back burner and will takle Operation Barry Power Up while I have the engine out for the clutch replacement someware between sleep and work.