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Engine wont start anymore,backfiring trough carburetor. Startup mechanism has come loose and 2 pieces are missing, probably sucked down by the engine. This is the worst thing that can happen.

Engine wont start anymore,backfiring trough carburetor. Startup mechanism has come loose and 2 pieces are missing, probably sucked down by the engine. This is the worst thing that can happen.

I overhauled subaru ea82 engine this summer and it has been running fine, ive been beating on it pretty hard and revving it a lot. (rally driving no regural highway cruising). This summer i changed all seals and gaskets, replaced cam tower O rings, new oil pump seal and mickey mouse gasket, new lifters. It revs up fine but its low on power. Bent valve? Skipped tooth on timing belt? It has good oil pressure.

Subaru has developed some kind of engine noise, can anyone identify what that is? My guess would be bent valve or it has skipped a tooth on timing belt. It revs up fine and has good oil pressure, but its down on power.

wow this car looks amazing! You've had 13 subarus huh? thats a lot

Rear end got back in Been driving my subaru every weekend so far, having a lot of fun, not making many pictures/videos. Front wheels won't hold air so i got inner tubes in them, recently driver side inner tube broke and when i replaced it it instantly got hole in the same spot as the previous one so i am guessing that the wheel is bad or tire has something poking in it. Currently got a slick spare tire in front. Weather is getting cold so i doubt ill work on the car this year, also got another project going on. Plans for the future: 6 lug wheel conversion with bigger tires Fuel cell (gas tank is leaking, also fuel fumes in the cabin are horrible)

Its not pretty but its functional. Prolly gonna put it back together tomorrow, ive also ordered new brake hoses to front brakes (driver side hose rubbes against tire and is leaking bad), esitmated arrival is 1. october from Rockauto.

Car has been working amazingly well and ive been driving around like mad man. Until recently i noticed a weird stance on rear wheels. Just now discovered that rear end has broken loose.

Yep i had those shark teeth stickers laying around for a while now, always loved them but they didn't fit on my cars until i stick them on my Subaru. Got the brakes bled and did a tiny test drive. Sorry for bad quality video its uploaded from phones whatsapp.

Haven't posted for a while but the car is pretty much ready. Build the scoop to fit my Weber 36DCD carburetor. Exhaust is finished and done. pic of my home made headers: Changed trans and diff oil 75w90 Rear diff looked quite good. Ive been battling with bleeding the brakes for a few weeks no, no success Bought master cylinder repair kit form rockauto but still nothing, the pedal wont build up pressure. Got the seatbelts in Car is pretty much done, it runs and sounds great, only if id get the brakes bled i would drive the sh#t out of it.

Cool! It looks really unique. Also its been nicely done, can't really tell that its been hacked up.

Looking good, keep us posted!

Finished up the wiring today, brakes are still not bleeding. I disassembled my carburetor and wrote down what was in it. Ended up changing main jets to 140/145, changed secondary air corrector to 180 and idle air jets to 50/55. My carburetor came with 25 choke sizes for primary and secondary, i changed chokes to 26/27.

Im having trouble with bleeding the brakes, i let my master cylinder to run dry, i bench bled it but it still wont build up pressure to lines. Are there any rebuild kits for loyale master cylinders? Perhaps i twisted the rubber inside the cylinder? I cant seem to find replacement part. Will some other subaru master cylinder work?

Rear brakes are done. Forgot to order brake adjusters and they were rusted shut. Luckily after soaking them in diesel and cleaning the rust off they started working like brand new. Never done drum brakes before, but luckily with the help of Haynes manual it was not so bad. Got the engine in. Got almost whole exhaust done today from scratch. My cousin brought me a new KIA muffler but unfortunately it had too small diameter inlets. Now waiting on deciding if i should leave it straight pipe or make my own muffler from scratch. Don't mind the welds ( i got flux core welder at the moment) they are strong, they just don't look good. I bought brand new Weber 36DCD for really cheap and now waiting on trans dapt adapter and some jets from amazon. My main goal is to get the car running for my birthday ( 15 July) if everything goes right. Meanwhile ill try to finish up some of the wiring and plumbing the engine. Got to find someone to weld the carburetor coolant port on intake manifold shut.

Wow the almighty bumblebeast, ive been browsing heavily weber conversion thread you wrote, didnt think you were still active. Im surprised to learn that you are a lawyer. Legal documents are hard to read and understand, your tutorials on the other hand are very detailed and well written. Many thanks to you

New calipers arrived, front brakes are done, new calipers, new hoses, new brake lines, new brake pads - you name it. Finished up new engine mounts: One of the rear bearings needed replacing and it was insane amount of work, i messed around with it for a week to get it out, i welded up a tool to get it out, i heated it, beat on it NOTHING WORKED. I ended up taking whole rear control arm out and making a relief cut and finally it snapped open, now im having trouble getting the bearing race out. Seriously, never again! Ill take that bearing to my friends place to press the old one out and new one in. Hopefully it goes well.

Haven't been working on my Subaru much, been busy with work. Also picked up 1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (my dream car) that needs a lot of work and money. Anyways stuff i got done on Subaru: Fuel system is all done, new main hose and return hose, deleted vent tube and charcoal canister, drilled a hole to gas filler opening and routed hose there for ventilation. New low pressure fuel pump. One wheel was barely turning and i found out that tie rod end was rubbing bad. Someone had used a different tie rod end. Then a ball joint bolt started to mess with me, and ofc i broke it, dumb of me not to heat it first. Ended up cutting the bolt in half and drilling it out. Got all new boots and grease for cv joints, decided to replace them just in case (i hear its hard to get new axles) Had to drop the diff to get drive shafts out. One of the rear cv boots had water in it and ofc the joint had rust damage. I just re greased it and hoped for the best. Since my car came with no front end, i hooked up some "tractor" headlights and made a "custom grille" I finally got my clutch release bearing springs but ofc one of the little springs was missing from the set. So as soon as i get that last spring the engine can go back in. Don't know what to do about carburetor, the current hitachi one is so dirty and messy and leaky. I wanna get Weber DGV for better performance but don't know yet if i want to buy one, they tend to be expensive and also they need an adapter. Also i need to figure out how to block the water passage on intake manifold.

My cousin visited me and complained what an eyesore one rust spot is (there are tons of rust spots but this stood out real bad) So he grabbed a welder and fixed it for me while i was working on some wiring. Ive been messing with brakes, every piece of brake system has been fighting me and i ended up getting everything new, some parts have already arrived from Rockauto but most of them are missing so ive been working on other brake stuff that i couldnt get online. Was hoping to do a cheap fix on brake calipers but these pistons are not salvageable. Couldnt find any new pistons online so i ordered new calipers. Rear brakes cylinder broke in half when i tried to connect brake line to it. I got drums and backing plates sand blasted. Backing plates needed new lip so i made them from scratch. They are not very accurate but turned okay i guess. Also any suggestions for rear diff lock? Does parts from newer subarus fit? Should i just cheap out and weld the diff? I was thinking about fabricating something like phantom grip. Would some valve springs work strong enough for phantom grip?

Thank you so much for the warm welcome! Also thank you for the information, i didn't know that L series stuff won't fit my hatch. Hatchback currently has ea81 in it and ea71 as a spare in trunk (with twin carburetors). I haven't had time to pick up 4wd transmission for ea81 from the previous owner (i spoke to him about month ago to see how he was doing, he is 80 year old man who was sad he could not longer drive a car due health issues). But it will be big trouble finding rear end for it, i live in Estonia which is a really small country in Europe and here are almost NO old Subarus. I checked the vehicle registry and there were only 2 Leones and 1 Brat registered. Hatch has a mint interior it looks like brand new, i will try to get some pictures next time im visiting my country side house. I chose to build this L series wagon because doing projects the right way is time consuming and expensive (my main project is 86 Volvo 740). I had pretty much lost all my motivation to work on cars (hadn't done anything to my Volvo over a year) so i wanted to butcher this wagon together just to get my motivation back and work on it with no pressure. Since mice had eaten the wiring and ive always wanted to build rally style dash, i finally did it: Since the car came with no seat belts, i want to put in a harness so i built harness bar for it: Floor was really rusty so it was a challenge, i welded in some new sheet metal for the floor and added 6mm thick metal plates for the bar to mount. Transmission mounts were totally shot, one was broken up and transmission was super loose. I got these rubber mounts form hardware store and managed to make new mounts with exact same dimensions. Don't mind the purple paint, it was only paint i had in garage to prevent metal from rusting Today i got drum brake cylinders from rockauto. My order comes from 5 different warehouses so im expecting 4 more packages and brakes are done.

That is actually really nice rust repair! After grinding the welds i recommend body sealant (i believe its called seam sealer), its amazing and it will look factory after that!

Hi everyone! Im a new member here. I have never been into Subarus, didn't know much about them (except that they are hard to get parts for where i am from) so i have stayed away from them. My wife has always been joking around that when she gets her license she would want a Subaru (she has seen those WRX STIs somewhere and every time someone says Subaru that car comes up on her mind). So few years ago i bought her "a Subaru" as a gag for her birthday. It was a rusted out Subaru Leone 1982 Hatchback. That car has been sitting since then to have a proper rebuild. So two years ago i found this 86 Loyale for 200 Euros for a parts car (Wifes Leone is 2WD so this Loyale was supposed to be a donor for 4WD). As soon as i bought the Loyale we decided to trash that car a little and we had so much fun - so much that i destroyed the clutch. I got some other car projects going and due to lack of time and money to "properly" do those projects i decided to hop up my motivation to change the clutch on the Loyale and do some winter beating, so i dragged Loyale home from my country side place. To change the clutch i decided to take the engine out (didn't even use a cherry picker, just pulled it out with my buddy and our raw strength). Clutch was pretty much gone. So changing the clutch became so much more Engine was gunky so i decided to re-seal it with new gaskets. So i took it to pressure washer first. Also found out that previous owner had messed up ALL threads on headers. I had my friend drill and tap new 8 holes. (I don't have the pic of new holes) but i decided to build new headers. When i opened up the oil pan i noticed that a lot of junk came out. The car also had crazy lifter noise so i decided to replace cam case O rings that were pain to order. Im not so sure about lifters being sealed in their place it silicone, anyways on of the lifters had came a part so i ordered all 8 new lifters and put it all back together. So i got new exedy clutch for Subaru XT 2.7l, i got my flywheel machined 1.6mm. New water pump, new pulleys, new timing belts and tensioners, new cam seals, new crank seals (front and back), new valve cover gaskets, new cam case O rings, new oil pump gaskets. This car is a parts car for my wifes Leone (which im not going to restore least not before 5 years) and THIS Loyale im building is pretty much trashes. Every part of this old Subaru keeps fighting me and more i disassemble the more needs replacing. I am not going to restore this car, its just for having fun (maybe do some ice racing) and crawl offroad around in my country side forest. So why build so much? I don't know! My friends keep giving me a crap about sinking so much time and money into this old Subaru. I got to admit i became huge fan of Subaru engineering and these old cars are awesome. There will be more to come, currently messing around with brakes (brakes are completely shot - front calipers don't move in any directions, caliper pistons are destroyed and couldn't find new ones, rear drum brakes were braking off everywhere i touched them) i got new brakes ordered from Rockauto and it will take some time for them to arrive. Also im missing those clips that hold clutch release bearing to the clutch fork (been waiting 2 months on those clips) so then the engine can go in.