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and make sure you aren't trying to put it in upside down.... lol. thanks for the information guys..... i just found out a tranny mount is $91. jeez..... that's a bit much. think i'll stick to duct tape.

i don't think i have that valve..... i didn't see anything behind the steering pump... maybe it's only on fuel injected engines? I also can't find the darn idle adjust screw..... i looked for it in Haynes and found it in the book..... but i just can't find it. Any suggestions? what else could my high idle problem be? Thanks for any help.

my right front parking light won't come on and neither will my right front turn signal, which has a new bulb... and my rear "night lights" don't work either.... could the problem be what you guys are talking about?

I have no idea.... but I thought I'd respond so it'd be brought back up to the top of the board, lol. Jordan

you gotta problem with us Tennesseans boy? lol..... how do you smoke the tires in 4 hi? i can't even smoke mine in 1st gear... lol. I think that calls for a new fuel filter.... are they supposed to look dark brown?

does it run smoothly? if your timing belt was even a notch off, you'd definitely know it.

I just thought I'd respond cuz nobody else did.... lol but I don't really know anything about EA81, and not very much about EA82s for that matter. doesn't it make the car run cleaner? Jordan

thanks for telling me what it was.... i couldn't even get to sleep last night cuz i didn't have a darn clue what it was for or what it did... lol. I think i'll just leave it on, why toss it if it isn't doing any harm? Jordan

i took my spare tire out from under the hood and saw a small rubber thingy on the back of the engine..... i took it off and found a big rusty plate. What is this thing?

I picked up some NGK at nappa, gonna get an NGK disty cap too... and pick up the wires later because they had to order them. I also noticed the tube going from the cat to the intake hose of the carburetor was ripped. what exactly does that thing do? and where is my ASV? thanks for the help.... my baby should be back on the road in no time ;] Jordan

the wires they gave me weren't long enough, so i just put the old ones on..... i'm gonna have to buy some new ones today and see what happens.... maybe that's the problem... i'll keep you updated

My 87 gl seems to have quite a fast idle, 2000 rpm, at start up and will not even kick down. Even after the car is warmed up, it still idles at about 1500 rpm. and also... could anybody explain to me in great detail how the Hitachi carburetor operates and where are all the adjustment screws located and what do all the vacuum hoses going to the carburetor do? if the vacuum hose question is too much trouble to answer then you don't have to answer it.... lol. thanks for any replies. Jordan

Sounds right. but yeah, you can drive a long time with a torn boot. I drove about 15,000 on mine and even then it didn't make any noise.

ok..... changed plugs and wires, but i put the crappy autolite plugs in from autozone and a new disty cap too.... also cheapo. tomorrow i'm gonna go buy some quality parts and just keep those for spares. my question is.... since I put those plugs in.... i'm noticing a slight smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe... I'm thinking it's probably just because I have crappy plugs. it also seems to stumble at lower rpms more than it did before. maybe there's a vacuum leak in there somewhere from where he was moving stuff around under the hood?? and it still jerks alot when you give it alot of gas. engine mount? thanks for clearing this up for me guys.

a Weber will make your Subaru the ultimate machine. but I dunno, I don't even own one, nor can I afford one... lol.

I've spotted a white one around here.... it turns out it got sold to this guy Johnny who should know about this website cuz ever since my dad sold him his first one about 15 years ago..... that's all he'll drive. He's rebuilding the engine and replacing some suspension components.... it'll be a beauty someday

hmmm.... it seems that older Subarus have a really hard time passing smog. I honestly have no idea why the hell it's like that.... maybe they're not meant to? lol. What octane gas do you put in it? Good plugs and stuff? Disty timing alright? maybe i'm just stating the obvious.... i'm new to this stuff. don't be fooled by the number of posts.. lol.

Just got my car out of the shop, they fixed the heater hose, a broken engine mount, put an accelerator pump in, flushed the coolant system, and gave me the anti-backfire valve to put on the car. It needs new sparkplugs and sparkplug wires, rotor button, disty cap. They told me it's only running on 3 cylinders, and I believe them cuz it runs like absolute crap. I'm gonna put a new fuel pump in cuz I KNOW that's about to go out, and fuel filter as well. Why would I not be getting a fire out of the first cylinder? That's the one they said had no spark. They also said the disty needed replaced, but I didn't think distys ever really needed replaced... do I smell BS? lol. Thanks to anybody who can come up with any ideas on anything else I should try to take care of.

I know of just one brat here in Tenn.... an early 80's model... and an 82 DL 2 door in good coindition and nearly 300,000 miles.

alrighty... Thanks. just making sure I wasn't buying something that could screw up faster than usual.

should I get the OEM brake cyilinders or just go to Autozone and pick some up? and what parts on my car should I always get OEM for and which parts don't matter so much. Thanks

That's what I did. Works great.

That's depressing... if only they knew what they were destroying... what a cruel cruel world.

I think the EA82 is safe enough. I don't fear for my life everytime I get in it, but I do feel safer in it than in my sisters Honda. Her car sits so low that it seems like I'm starring straight at every suv's oil pan. It's a *************** to drive at night, lol. My dad's.. i think his 4th Subaru, a 1984 2 door hatch 2 wheel drive 4 speed... ended up skipping off the side of a semi and hitting a tree and flipping end over end twice. Johnny (the driver) was fine, pissed as hell though.. the car had 280,000 miles on it and ran like a top. But he could have been pretty seriously injured by the toolbox of wrenches he had in the back that flew through the front windshield.. but other than that the car held up alright. The reason he skipped off the side of the semi: he fell asleep, no cupholders for coffee.

I don't have enough mechanical experience, and he said the carb was fine I think.... I think I'll let him do it and just hassle him a little..... lol. He got his education from Subaru so I can pretty much say with confidence that the job will be done better than I could do it.