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Hello Peeps!

 

I'm a newbie thank you! My name is Tony and I bought a storage unit for $480 in an auction that had a great surprise! Low and behold in the back of the unit hiding behind a bunch of furniture was this well preserved 1984 Subaru BRAT GL. All stock no rust. Came with the original topper and jump seats in the back. On the passenger seat there is was a custom 4" body lift kit by a company called SJR. There were 2 boxes of brand new Rancho RS5000 shocks I suspected would be for the rear. On the dash was an envelope with insurance papers and a title signed by the seller. Now how cool is that? So I joined your club and I'm gonna need help on this rebuild for sure. To those who will answer my topic post, Thank you!!! I will ghost this site as much as possible so I won't open a topic thats been covered a dozen times

 

Thanx again!

 

Tony

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That's almost word for word the April fools joke I made a few years ago on craigslist.  Except we were cleaning out Grampa's storage and found it. No lift, but had a jackman bumper and topper and strange seats in the back. (jump seats are a term known by Subaru folks ya know)   I offered it up for the cost of the storage, 300 bucks.

 

 

Pics or no posty.

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Background logistics...

 

The auction was from a transportation company contracted at the Denver International Airport. How it works is this specific company that transports large containers basically have the same problems as any other delivery service or storage service. People somehow ends up losing a container, or leaving storage containers without a pickup or has paper problems that end up having the containers residing on company property for nearly a year's time. Companies will sell unclaimed containers in live auction style sales. I bought one full of amish furniture, boxes of rare books and a subaru BRAT!!!!! Title and all.....Woop! Woop!

 

Inspection under the hood showed new parts barely used (alternator, starter, belts and hoses. Plugs looked new and the lines too. One tie rod seems sparkly new. Tires are new too! Okay so I test drove it hard upon arrival ('bout five days ago) It's manual steering.....uggg! More alarming is there is a hitch in the forth gear. Seems to randomly pop out of gear into neutral. Don't like that. Everything else seems fine.

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Thanx guys!

 

So, I researched Subarus with the mysterious 4th gear popout. I discovered that this is an issue with many Subaru models. Imprezas, Legacy, Foresters, Outbacks and WRX. Apparently, the problem can get so bad that it causes the other gears to start popping out of gear as well. Doesn't seem like a fix has been discovered. Any suggestions that doesn't have me opening the tranny?

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Sadly, I can't reach to see those Photos: the Links says Error 404.

 

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Edit: added the image that displays on all those links above

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