Subaru_dude

Bucky: "I'll make it to 300,000 if it's the last thing I do!!!" Dumb American Automobile Driver: "Sure you will." Bucky 100,000 miles later: "What was that you said? My hearing is 100,000 miles off and I just now heard you." my sense of humor is very corny isn't it.

brace yourself for either A) triple Subaru accident or random plane crashes into random Subaru dealership. Awwww, damn it... I jinxed it. Now they'll BOTH happen.

WELCOME!!!!! great board, you will enjoy it very much. great quality info here. 79' brat? nice... it should be looking really good by the time you're done with it. enjoy the project.

i'm seriously thinking about doing an ej22 swap sometime in the summer. still looking for a wagon cuz i just got the check for my old one. i would really like to find out where it went and buy it from the jy, lots of new parts on that car. I probably need to do timing belts pretty soon, and it leaks front diff fluid fairly bad... about 1 quart every 2 1/2 weeks. stinks. marks it territory in modesty, oilpump needs a reseal. it's losing coolant as well... maybe those headgaskets are about to let go. I really hope not. gonna buy an ej22 and have it ready and standing by for when the headgaskets do decide to skeedadlle.

the only cars that i know has tighter turning radius than the ea82s are the 80's vw carbiolets, 31ft towing circle compared to ea82s 32ft towing circle, and I think the ea81s have a 31ft towing circle... but i'm not actually positive.

well then, i'll have to stop that, lol. i don't let it go too high when I'm gearing down, maybe only 3000rpm or so. never higher than that cuz it seems to me that going from a low rpm to a much higher rpm so quickly wouldn't allow time for the oil pump to get lubrication to the rings fast enough, resulting in some unecessary wear and tear. I just stay in a lower gear if I see the light changing ahead.

so, gearing down at stoplights and letting the engine slow the car down long hills saves me much gas, correct?

do fuel injected cars equipped with manual transmissions have a fuel pump cut off when you're moving above a certain speed above a certain rpm? i notice then if i'm rolling downhill in any gear above first and above 2000rpm, the engine has almost a hollow puur to it... but as soon as it hits 2000 and lower, it makes the same sound as iff i was not touching the gas at 4000rpm and then just barely touched it, it goes from hollow puur to "gurgle" exactly like when it goes from no gas above 2000 rpm to no gas below 2000rpm. it ALWAYS does this. So I know it's not a one-time freak thing. sorda "gurgles." the muffler isn't in that great a shape so the sound difference is alot more obvious.

pull the motor, timing belts, headgaskets, complete reseal, oil pump, water pump, all new hoses and belts, scrub, new clutch for the hell of it, buy some tools and you're off. We soob fanatics love backup cars.

if it's on photobucket, there will be 3 codes under the pics... I THINK anywayzz... and one of them, if you just copy and paste it, should be the pic. can't remember which one though... and if you get the wrong one just edit, erase the old one, past another. p.s. sweet pics.... i wish we had that type of terrain out here.

do you have any pics of the carb? i know i couldn't find anything in the diagrams on my carb either, but after asking somebody i work with... he showed me where the choke adjustment screw was. you had to come up from under the carb and it was attached to the throttle linkage it seems? screw was pointing down... but i can't say for sure. not without a pic anywayss.

Thank God. I can finally sleep.

199,000 about. and yeah, i'll probably bring it to a meet, haha.

I have some pugs, and I think with low profile tires it wouldn't rub so much... but with the way I drive they would rub. I was thinking about finding some nice hub-caps and customizing them like Bucky92 did... those hub-caps look good. maybe a red and black instead of white and black combo for my car.

gonna paint the wheels black and get the windows tinted. thought about xt struts in the front so it would ride lower... but it would look awesome with a lift.

look ma... no rust!!! and what's up with the trailer hitch?? lol.

I think bgd has a very unique way of commnicating, and it seems dareon understands him better than most of us here. Or it seems that way to me. Yes, noisy hla, or TOD... has been discussed several times before. and as GD said, it's been torn apart, hashed, etc etc..... they tick, you replace, they don't tick. that's about it. But bgd is still learning, he's only had 3 soobs... he's not that experienced. it could be something completely new to him... maybe his other 2 didn't make that noise. maybe seeing the 40 pages that "noisy hla" brought up reminded him that he didn't have that much time to scroll through each post looking for his answer. but anywayzz... we're all heroes here. he, as an individual, has contributed alot in the way of making ea82s more mechanically sound. the clamps on the front springs as mentioned in some of his earlier posts, actually do make a difference in the way the car handles/drives. that's something nobody else would have thought of... NOBODY. He, as an individual, has actually contributed more to the ea82 than alot of people here. so if we all can be nice so we don't chase eachother away that'd be cool. each and every person here has done alot for this site, let's not forget that anytime soon.

yes, you will need it. insurance companies suck. don't you think a 1987 subaru gl with very little rust, flawless paint, one fist sized dent, new shocks and struts, new headgaskets, complete reseal, new water/oil pump, complete tune-up, timing belts, new radiator, 2 new tires, junkyard rear diff, 2 junkyard wheels, NO LEAKS, new clutch, and 170,000 miles is worth $2000? okay, that's a bit much actually... but the nearest one to here in that condition is $2100. shouldn't they basically buy it for me?? i'm really sorry if i hijacked your thread... my point is, good luck with insurance. lol

yeah, check the 2 small hoses that run over the top of the block around the carb. I blew one of those out at 8k once. thought i blew the freakin engine, lol.

i'm noticeing what sounds almost like a knocking coming from the driver side of the engine. nothing from the passenter side, only from the driver side. I don't think it's the driver side belt coming loose, I've heard that before... it's a much fainter version and it doesn't seem to come from the front, more from the top. Put my hand on the cover and didn't feel anything... just a gentle and steady vibration of the engine. It's harder to hear from the inside of the car, but with the stereo off and the heater off it can be heard. and there's this strange... ticking coming from the back of the throttle body? increases with engine rpms. also faint but can be heard with nothing on inside the car. it's way faster paced than the tod. the engine has to be running to hear the ticking, so i don't think it's electrical. Just did a tune up... spark plugs, wires, disty cap, waiting for rotor button to get here. the performance of the car hasn't changed since the tune-up. dunno if that's an important piece of information or not, but there it is. lol

SWEET. you got it back, that's great to know that finally somebody regained posession of their stolen soob. sorry to hear that the stereo was gone though... hope it runs ok.

UH OH..... hmmm, yes, that could very well indeed be the culprit for rotted out wagons. btw, very nice job on the fender well.

the payload of a wagon is 900 pounds anyway right? how much does a shadow weigh? 3000?? stay on the shoulder. lol

I really haven't done a whole lot of towing... I have pulled a 6,000 pound truck up a fairly steep hill once, but as for that far of a distance with that much weight and only about 100 hp, I wouldn't do it. It may have 4 wheel discs... but my wag did too and even with it full of people and gear there was a noticeable difference in the way it stopped. I can't imagine what it'll feel like with a freakin car back there. I, personally, would say the car won't have enough power unless it has 4 lo, even then you're top speed will only be about 45-50. and you'll be suckin down some major gas.

you'd probably have to get fenders and stuff from a junkyard... or another soob (parts car). and it seems like I had a book that had aftermarket parts for old soobs. got it when I was working at a lube joint, but I have no idea where it is now. Probably terribly overpriced though.