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So I just now got underneath the car and took off the exhaust shield thingy which allowed me to see that there was a really clean area (from a flow of oil moving over it) right in the middle of the block and head. So I guess that means it's a headgasket? And, since I've never changed one before, please tell me - do valves and springs and crap fall out when you unbolt a head or do they stay put?

If it will start and run well, I may be interested in buying it from you. Depends on what it will take to fix mine.

1. With CCR no longer building EA71s, where do you get a rebuilt one? 2. To swap an EA81 into a Gen-1 Brat requires new engine crossmember, transaxle and _____? 3. Anyone relatively local have an extra EA71 or EA81?

When I stop, oil drips from the right side pipe right under the engine, and smoke billows out from under the hood. I lost an entire quart today already. What the heck is going on? EA71

I didn't even mean to load that up

My heater works, then it doesn't. Fuses are good. The fan doesn't make any awful noises or anything, could it be going out anyway? The dash lights and fuel/temp gauges also work sometimes. I can tap the dash a little bit sometimes and then they'll turn on..... I've looked inside there before and all the light bulbs were good and connected. Is this a problem with any of you gen-1 owners?

Ha ha, oh yeah. Only Oregon does that? You have salex tax:-p

Ha ha, oh yeah. Is Oregon the only one? oh yeah well you still have to pay sales tax!

Is apparently very important. A few nights ago, I took my 87 wagon down to Roseville CA. Even though it was snowing and the heater was full blast (when it worked) the temp gauge continued to climb. When it would get to the red I would stop for a while and then take off again. It started getting real bad, because I had forgotten to replace the coolant filler cap and coolant was gushing out of that. I made a few 1/2 mile runs and cool down til I got to a rest stop and refilled the radiator (took almost a gallon) and MacGuyver'd up a new cap with a latex glove, a different cap and a zip tie. That kept her nice and cool for a while until I got to another pass, the gauge started to rise again and I was needing to use more throttle than I should have to go up the hill. Then I heard a loud pop from the hood, I immediately lost power (just like the time my Loyale's radiator hose burst) and steam was going everywhere so I stopped. Now there was chocolate pudding (oil/water mix) on the oil filler cap and spurting out of the EGR in the air cleaner assembly. Great, a blown headgasket in BFE. I filled the rad again, when it got near full, water would pour out of what looked like the CENTER of the engine. WTF!? (see below for more on that) I gently drove up the hill and stopped at the nearest gas station to rewater the car and my plastic bag for water. Then I found the culprit - the heater hose! the dang thing had burst and whenever I filled the radiator, very hot water would gush out of a gaping hole in it. That must have been why my heater started blowing cold air. I tried to block it off with tight zip ties and vice grips, but it was still leaking. At midnight in the middle of nowhere with no money, my only option was to keep going. Just a few miles later I was going through Anderson at maybe 50mph, everything was going alright until again I lost all power, but this time it was accompanied by bad noises. Can't recall exactly what they sounded like, but anyone could tell you they were bad. Like metal on metal bad. Under the hood there was spilled oil and water everywhere and now the car wouldn't even start. I knew she was dead so this is where I left her. What I learned: 1. Always, always, always carry water, no matter what, at least 2 gallons. 2. Always carry spare heater hoses. When one of those goes, it's just as bad as a radiator hose. 3. Overheating will break a timing belt. 4. The EA82 is not as willing to drive in the red as I thought. I really like the EA82, I think it's neat. But I also really hate it's tendency to break timing belt(s) at very inconvienent times. Both times it's happened to me the belts were new. What I want to know: Can you air cool a watercooled engine? Seriously. I'm not suggesting foregoing the original cooling system at all, I'd throw in a VW 1600 if I wanted to do that. I mean, would you get any significant cooling factor if you very carefully made some aluminum cooling fins and welded them to the heads and other parts of the engine? You know, to help keep the engine alive in water-less situations? Couldn't hurt could it? Maybe add an air dam under the engine to force air up and over the fins. And somewhat related, I know it's already been gone over in detail, but I'm gonna ask anyway. EA81 engine into EA82 body with 5 speed dual range: how hard?

Although I do not currently own a Jeep, I may buy one in the future. When I was 18 I bought a 1968 Wagoneer. That thing was soo nice. I think the steering wheel and a couple knobs were plastic. Everything else was metal. 200 something HP 327 Vigilante V8 (not Chevy) and 335 pounds of torque were more than enough to spin all 4 tires in dirt. It was more like a Subaru really in that it was more civilized and less off-road oriented than other Jeeps, having low ground clearance too. I sold it because I didn't offroad (at the time) enough to justify the 8 or so mpg it got. Miss that wagon ::sniff::

Many modern diesels, even the 6.7 Cummins are very very quiet, you can hardly tell they're a diesel from a distance. I wouldn't be surprised if a few gas station owners paid to replace a few engines in the near future when their customers don't tell them "Fill with Diesel"

Hold mother of god that's a rad exhaust! You're pretty much the inventor of this setup, right? Dang that's just cool beyond words.

I know I was thinking about that spare engine you have the whole time! I just got back in town a few hours ago, my cousin drove me up here. She had good studless tires and everything, I wanted to pull them off but I figured some jerk hole would have found a way to fine me for that. When we drove by that onramp tonight I didn't see the car. So, hopefully in a little bit someone will buy her at an impound auction and get her back on the road. The car really was too good too be scrapped. It was hard leaving it on the side of the road, but I could not possibly do anything else.

Long story short I lost water, then a headgasket, then a timing belt and then oil last night and had no choice but to leave my car right between the SOUTH onramp and I-5, SOUTHBOUND in Anderson California, just south of the factory outlets. If it hasn't been towed yet, it will be soon. If you can pick up the car, you can have it, no charge whatsoever. I have keys with me and a title at home. Mark 541-778-9928 oh yeah, dual range and goo dbody

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http://break.com/index/sweet-subaru-with-snow-tracks.html YES!!!!!!!!!!!! So, is this one of us?

I did obtain one of those Mitsubishi star things from Matt, he told me it was a fuel pump from a Gen 1. The star confused me but I guess that is original equiptment? Basicalliy I ran a wire to a 15A fuse, then a switch to the original fuel pump. I never knew where the disabler thing was.

anyone want this car for $300?

Oh yeah! Got her running today. Turns out the original fuel pump was fine. I bypassed the "kill your car at random time module" and threw some gas in there and off she went!

They are quite prominent in offroad videos from Australia, I wasn't sure if they were availible here though.

How common are dual range sedans in the US? I have never personally seen one, but I think it would be sweet to have a lifted sedan.

So for a few days now I've been trying to figure out where I heard that Paul Hogan had died. For the last 5 months or so, I have thought he was dead. Anyway, that's how I came across this thread. Figured I'd try to clear up a few things too. von Wikipedia: In 1902 Léon Levavasseur took out a patent on a V8 engine which he called Antoinette after the young daughter of his financial backer, and from 1904 installed the engine in a number of speedboats and aircraft which were also called "Antoinette", as was the company that built them. In 1909 one of these aircraft tried but failed to cross the English Channel.[1] The idea of the V8 engine became popular in France and was used in a number of V8 aircraft engines introduced by Renault, and Buchet among others. Rolls Royce built a 3,535 cm3 V8 car from 1905 to 1906, but only 3 copies were made. After designing a number of aircraft V8s, De Dion-Bouton introduced a 7,773 cm3 automobile V8 in 1910 and displayed it in New York in 1912. However, the first mass-production automobile V8 was introduced in 1914 by Cadillac, which produced 13,000 of the 5,429 cm3 L-head engines in the first year." And as for the Nissan l series engine: "The design is often incorrectly attributed to Mercedes-Benz. In 1966 Prince Motor Company merged with Nissan. At the time of the merger, they were licensed to produce copies of the four and six-cylinder engines. Prince Motor Company later refined the design such that it no longer needed licensing. The engine still resembles a Mercedes in many ways, particularly the valve train." BTW, I knew these 2 things already, just had to look up the exact wording! :-p

I overfilled the oil in my 92 Loyale which somehow caused a timing belt to break. I couldn't afford to fix it, so I rode my bike to work for the next month, which just happened to be the rainiest month in history.

Looks like different models and years came with lots of different setups. Ja I should have mentioned that this is my 1987 EA82 Hitachi carbed wagon, which I don't believe has been mechanically modified at all. Where is the "fuel pump relay"?