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Well I found out it is the air conditioning step off valve. Basically keeps your car from idling too low while running AC.

I doubt I need it considering half ea81s dont have it but I'm curious if anyone knows

I've recently done the weber swap on my 84 ea81 and while deleting the vacuum hoses I noticed I have a diaphragm attached to the top of my intake manifold that I dont have on my stock 81 gl. What is this for? The metal "L" used to contact the throttle bracket on the Hitachi.

Also I would like to add if anyone has an Instagram I keep a build page on there to log my photos. Feel free to follow me at fuji4x4

I've been a member on the forums for around a year now and this is going to be my first non question post. I figured it's time to start giving back now that it's been around a year. I will continue to post a few entries until we are up to date with my mods.. This is my 84 4x4 GL I received from my grandfather as a gift. When I received it a year ago its clutch was warn to the rivets and basically everything was moldy. These were the only KNOWN issues lol. As you can see she looks like she was in a lake. But she cleaned up nice. Next step was towing her to my place and learning how to work on my first subie. (Photos as of Feb/Mar '19)

I keep seeing it and I hope someone saves it!! GL 3 door hatchback!

Also would like to update anyone interested. She has been running perfectly smooth since the PB fix and the OEM cable

When pushing in clutch the left wall of the box would bend here under the pressure

Whole pedal box assy out:

I was saying PB, short for pedal box. So I apologise for confusing anyone. But yes if you push in your clutch pedal with your hand and you see it flexing or cracking the pedal box at all. That is your problem. I've found out that any play what so ever makes it nearly impossible to actuate the clutch. And as for getting down there yeah it's super tight and you have to take that "kick panel" (I just call it the under dash) and then if you end up taking the pedal box out I had to remove my gas pedal bc it wouldn't come over the steering with it on.

Started grinding at the worst part and although it did smooth it out idk if it's going to take those chunks off. What do you think? Are they too far gone? And how smooth does this area need to be?

I've an extra set of spoked GL wheels that I've been wanting to restore. Started grinding rust off but once I had tires removed the bead seat area seems to be far too gone.

It was infact the pedal box that was the CAUSE. A sidenote was the cables terrible quality. Basically just welded this plate on the wall that was cracked and bending. Strong as hell now.

Alright guys thank you, I have solved the issue. It was both the PB and the cable. The one thing I learned from this is BUY QUALITY PARTS. Man the difference between the oriellys cable and the genuine Subaru cable is insane. Can you guess who is who?

Cable works great. Very smooth. The pedal box is very bendy so I wonder if that's it. EDIT: Got new cable from dealership. The "new" one that I put on already has bent washers.. it was from oreillys. And taking the PB to my buddy's shop to have reinforced. We shall see if this fixes the issue.