NoahDL88 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 :-\ I've got my "baby" the first subie i've ever owned sitting in the drive way. Its been sitting there for 2 years, with maybe 200 miles on it in that time. It needs some serious help, but i'm just not motivated to get at it. And i'm not quite ready to say goodbye. Just the short list: Radiator hoses need replacement, i used thick pipe when i swapped in the EJ, and i really need to swap in some thin wall copper tube so i get better water flow. Second radiator fan, she over heats when its warm out, which in the PNW is anything over 45 Its got some funkey cold start issue, pretty sure its the coolant temp sensor, but i'd honestly be shotgunning that one. Exhaust is a sweet MRT rally header shipped from Australia, but its for a 2.5 so its a bit, umm, big for the EJ-22 in there. and it hangs down real low so i got to get the stock exhaust back on, or maybe something more custom. Skid plate, skidplate, skidplate, that EJ pan hangs down something scary, nuff said. The heat control doesnt work, 6 years ago i swapped dash boards and never finished hooking everything up together. Ahh, here's an easy one, the wipers are shot, all 3 of em. My horn randomly comes on, and there is a battery drain, which sucks, if i let it sit for more than a week its dead (which happens more often then not, i've been on the motorbike the last 3 years) Five lug was not the best choice for a lifted rig. gotta get back to its roots and go 4 lug again. This is just off the top of my head, i'm sure there is more that has to be done. :-\ Motivate me please !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7point62fmj Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 You will feel better once it warms up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yo'J Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 (edited) Why was 5lug not the best choice for a lifted rig? It sounds to me like your out of beer, (time off with the guys) or the honey do list is getting you down! (This is the way it is for me) Remember the good old days of being on vacation when all you really wanted to work under your car on the latest problem that occurred or the newest cool thing you got? (I know the cold is not as nice as it seemed to have been back then, when we look back on it even yesterday.) With this economy I keep getting forced vacations but they just get harder to accept. It seems to me you could have it all done in a couple of weekends maybe minus the 5 to 4 lug re-conversion. So a lady friend is having car trouble. She takes her older Jimmy 4x to two shops after her boyfriend gives it a tune up, cap wires plugs rotor, with the complaint it doesn't drive right and blows blue smoke. One shop says they cant figure it out, doesn't want to try. The next shop says the firing order is wrong (stirring a complaint from behind) $50 bucks later, they don't take the blue tape said boyfriend put on them with the numbers in sharpie, same order. Fight ensued. I get called. I show up. I'm no mechanic. Its carburated, I can tell that much. So I stick my head under the hood and find the pcv and the egr. The egr is attached to a hose going to the base of the carb from passenger side head. I pull it and the thing is solid rust, carbon and yellowish crud, it only rattles dirt out onto the ground. Its right in front, on top, first thing you see. Next I try to push the pcv to see if its clogged and sure enough its free to move but I dont think the engine can force it with that much pressure if I have to force it so hard. So I look into the carb and find the line from the head on the drivers side is spewing blackend oil into the carb, just under the little plastic cover. So they got the lines cleaned and new egr and pcv and all is good right? Still on the first hundred miles or so but with out the excess block pressure it isn't blowing smoke and drives fine. Remember this is supposed to motivate you. So lets think about just having the money to pay a shop to fix your car for you, on a whim. .... Do you want the first shop or the second? Edited January 29, 2009 by Yo'J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edrach Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 I'm a procrastinator. The bigger the job, the more I rationalize that I don't have the time to complete it all in a day or a weekend, so I don't start. The key to motivation is to start. You've pretty much sorted the job into smaller pieces, so decide which one is easiest (the wipers, I'll bet) and do it in the evening or next weekend. Then pick the next item on your reduced list and set aside some time to do it. Just keep jabbing away at each item on the list. If you had done one portion of the job every weekend that was free of other duties, then you would have completed this "chore" 1-1/2 years ago. This is what works for me; maybe it will work for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4x4_Welder Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 If you seriously want four lugs back, let me know. I'd like to go five lug on the new turbowagon, it has rear disks and everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88RxTuner Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Here's motivation... The more time you put into it before you need it, the more it's worth when you DO need it... I had my (I know, I know...) Suzuki Samurai up on jackstands for over a year before I finally finished the suspension and drivetrain... When I finished, I took it out for a test drive, and guess what??? 2 days after I had it, my damned Oldsmobubble broke down and I had nothing to drive except my Zuk... And BECAUSE I pushed it, and put so much time and effort into it, I have never had a problem with it since... All because I put the time into it when I had the time to invest... A project is just that, a project. Something you put your soul into to make it the best you are able...and if you treat it fairly, it will return the favor. 88RxTuner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoahDL88 Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 If you seriously want four lugs back, let me know. I'd like to go five lug on the new turbowagon, it has rear disks and everything. I am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboobaroo Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Noah, best way to get motivated is have a couple people over and kinda dive into a couple small problems and fix those small problems. Once you get a couple issues resolved, then your motivation starts to come back to get more done. Trust me, I lost most of my motivation awhile ago on getting my EJ swap done but now that I've gotten almost all te parts to finish it AND the funds are becoming more and more to help support the finish of it, I have motivation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loyale 2.7 Turbo Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 ...The key to motivation is to start. You've pretty much sorted the job into smaller pieces ... I Agree! ... ...Oldsmobubble ... Ha Ha! ... I`ve Never Heard That Before! ... ... It`s So Funny! Well... Think about that Subie as a Friend, Your First Subie! ... is Like a Friend who Needs your Help and as Long as you put effort on Fixin` it, you`ll feel Proud of Owning & Driving your First Subie, in Better Conditions than it was First and Knowin` that it is Possible because you Did it! Another Great Motivation Could be to invite some of your USMB Friends to Spend a Weekend at your Home; so Together you can make a "Fixing-a-Subie Party" you Know... While Spend most of the Time Fixin your Subie Together, all of you can Enjoy a Great Weekend, plenty of Stories, Food, Great Conversation, etc... and then you can Have a Great Remembrance of that Weekend... ... Don`t Forget to Post Pics of your Subie as Long as you Can, Showin` the Progress!!! Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSubaruJunkie Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 I have the same problem Noah. I realized that I just have to get off my rump roast and stop making excuses. There's only one way something you want done will get accomplished, you gotta just do it. Like Ed said, start small. Just get out there and start turning a wrench on something simple. Slowly you will remember how much joy you get out of working on your Subaru. Once you are done with one project, you will be more motivated to move onto the next. Before you know it, a couple weeks have gone by and you are packing the car, getting it ready for its next wheelin' trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbchux Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 definitely start small, take little bites off it. you're still ahead of me. going on 2.5 years that I've owned my 4Runner.....and I've never driven it beyond the end of the alley. how's that for motivation in other news. an EJ22 with an EA82 radiator will not overheat that easily. a second fan is a band-aid. maybe your piping is the cause...maybe it's something else. the fan on my wagon doesn't get used almost ever. regardless of temperature (even in the summer), as long as I'm moving more than ~30mph, it stays cool. period. I say cross that one off your list, at least until you've put a new tstat in there and fixed the radiator hoses. neither project is very big or hard. that'd be a good place to start. and not having it overheat is a good motivation to drive it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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