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[bheinen74]

Sold one Subaru

The other Subau received a test drive and another is coming to buy in the AM....
Bye bye Subaru people..

[TheLoyale]

Sold one Subaru

The other Subau received a test drive and another is coming to buy in the AM....
Bye bye Subaru people..

Oh yeah? Moving on from Subarus are we? Gonna have to unload your EA81 goodies on me when I buy the wheels

I removed the hood pins on the ski wagon today and installed a correct, working Hood latch with good handle. Hood closes like butter now.

[bheinen74]

Yes, in a day i will be down to one BRAT..... and a junk brat which is now on craigs for 575.

[Stubies Subie]

My nephew came over tonight with his entourage of able bodied teenagers and went to work on my car, and pretty much got most of it back together in short order.

I still need to paint the caliper and brake booster, will try to get that done next week, but here's what it looks like so far with freshly painted parts.



it's been really slow going, cause of a little bit lack of parts and funds, lack of ambition, sore back, old age ....thank god for nephews

now I can get back to work on this ....

Edited by Stubies Subie, 26 March 2012 - 02:48 AM.

[ManYaiK]

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Totalled my SVX on Friday:dead:

[BATLWGN]

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Totalled my SVX on Friday:dead:

Glad to see you are alive!

[kanurys]

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Totalled my SVX on Friday:dead:

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[tundrabrat]

Taking blocks to machine shop today... EA81 and EJ25.

[swineholocaust]

1980 DL
New front cv's, hubs, air filter, oil pan gasket, oil filter, valve cover gaskets, ripped entire interior out, need to finish welding hood brackets and some floor holes up, then she will be ready for bed liner on the floor. got a new hood. and just got done rebuilding the carb. oh and lifted her up.

[Suba_GL_87]

The outer spring appears to be inverted.

really, it's regular outer springs look even to me than this image.
im trust this guy who knowledge of West Coast of Subaru from Seattle WA.

[desertsubaru]

Doing what most people do to an EA82 at least once in its life. FREAKING HEAD GASKETS!!!!!!

Got r done today:banana: It runs 90% better.

[987687]

Cut rust out:


Welded new metal in:


The whole bottom of the rocker pretty much had to be cut out. Then had to fabricate new support thingies to strengthen it, and weld in new metal.
PITA. It's the last stretch of de-rusting my car though. Hopefully then it'll pass inspection and be roadworthy again

[TheLoyale]

Interesting, no more Pinch Weld! I might do the same as you when I get my Rockers.

[987687]

I didn't see any point in recreating the pinch weld. It doesn't surve any purpose, really. I mean, stock form there's the body that bends down, the rocker that bends down, and the bit of sheet metal in the middle that sandwiches. Obviously that makes it nice and stiff so you can jack the car there and it supports the whole weight of the car. And it's a nice rigid construction. But I always end up bending that damn thing over on the side and whatnot.

So here I welded a bit of metal from the rocker right to the bottom of the floorpan. In the middle I have 3/16" flat stock ever few inches going up and down to make it as rigid as stock. Without cutting it completely apart I couldn't reconstruct it like stock. It should do just fine.

[man on the moon]

I replaced the solenoid (I think that's what it is) that has two vacuum lines coming off it. The one that sits on the intake manifold. My gas mileage has improved significantly and this is only the first tank of gas!

[1 Lucky Texan]

Put new wiper blades all the way around on the wife's OBW. Trico exactfit on the fron, a cheap Anco on the back.

Put a Trico exactfit 14-b on the back of my WRX - looks awesome. Put refills in the 08 STI aero blades I run on the front. Kinda fiddly but much cheaper than the whole blade.

Got all the stuff ready for maintenance next month. We don't put a lot of miles on the cars so I do fluid changes and other related stuff in April and October.

[Idasho]

My ea81 spilled its guts.....

[subynut]

I'm not sure how this happened, but Sunday, both front outer CV boots failed within like, a mile of one another. Pulled them out and had them rebooted, and re-installed them. All set for Saturday's Tucson RallyCross II!

[tundrabrat]

My ea81 spilled its guts.....

Is that an '85+ block...

[Moosen]

I'm not sure how this happened, but Sunday, both front outer CV boots failed within like, a mile of one another. Pulled them out and had them rebooted, and re-installed them. All set for Saturday's Tucson RallyCross II!

Was that easy? I need to replace my passenger front cv axle soon and have it sitting in my room. want to get it done in like an hour?

[987687]

Axles are wicked easy. If everything isn't stuck it's less than an hour job.

[robm]

Count on 2 hours for axles, the first time. It gets easier with experience, some times!

[subynut]

Was that easy? I need to replace my passenger front cv axle soon and have it sitting in my room. want to get it done in like an hour?

The overall process of pulling out the axle and reinstalling it is really not complicated at all. Pull the knuckle out of the lower ball joint, pull the axle off the tranny, and pull the axle out of the knuckle. Installation is reverse. The hardest part is getting the axle out of the knuckle. Sometimes they can get really stuck and you sit there beating on it with a big 'ol fat hammer. The cone washer can also get stuck and be a pain to get loose too. So yes, stupid easy.

[987687]

If you haven't had it apart before, you'd probably be better off pulling the inner control arm bolt. The first time I had to get my ball joints apart took hours of beating, pounding, and abuse. Those suckers get stuck!

[Idasho]

Is that an '85+ block...

Yep.

Supposed to be '86

Why?