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A word of advice. Since there is overlap with EA81 and EA82 body styles that year, when ordering or looking up parts search instead for a '87 BRAT. The running gear in the hatches and BRATS are mostly identical, and there will be no mixing up EA81 and 82 chassis, since there was no EA82 BRAT. Just my 2 bucks

Decided to go track down one for myself. Garage that is putting the clutch in my WRX let me take theirs home for a couple days. I’m busy scanning it with my phone. It will actually come out pretty good all things considering. Used to use this app for work and manuals there. Is anyone interested in a copy? It’s about 900 or so pages long and is going to be a monster .pdf i should have it mostly done tonight

Thanks for the follow up.. The problem was the Air Fuel Ratio sensor. Was a $141 part. Once we replace that its been running good. Mechanic said this sensor was an 'open loop' so the car would mix fuel at a correct default level when it was cold.. when the heat got hot, up above 600 degrees, it would rely on this sensor and that's when I would see it was malfunctioning. Imagine trying to take off in 3rd gear from a red light all the time. That's what the experience was like. This sensor fixed the problem Have a good one

gasket? aren't these on with RTV or similar?

See attached. get full fsm herehttp://jdmfsm.info/Auto/Japan/Subaru/ O.: cylinder head assembly.pdf

Yeah, clicking.... Transmissions don't click... axles click. Go to another shop if you need to. If they say it's the axle, go back to the first shop and have them take a test drive with you. Running it in the air may not reproduce the problem.

This seems to work sometimes and not others. I always use Subaru belts thigh. Install all pulleys including the toothed sprocket, except the lower passengers side pulley. Install the pulleys without fully tensioning the bolts so the pulleys have a little play. Install belt and try to push it onto the toothed pulley last. It won’t go on. Place a socket on each cam sprocket, while maintaining proper engagement and tension between the belt and cam sprocket teeth so it doesn’t slip, and gently turn each sprocket in the direction that provides Slack to the toothed pulley area (CCW for PS and CW for DS). Then get the belt to just barely engage over the teeth barely on and right and walk it back fully a millimeter at a time.

That's a 4WD GL hatch. Should be an EA81 1800 engine. Could be an EA71 fat-case swapped from a STD hatch but those are exceptionally rare so it's doubtful. Probably someone stuck a 1600 badge on it and it's really an 1800. GD

im still getting used to it, and it's been a few months...

This may not be the one you're thinking of, but there are lots of 1st and 2nd hen brochures here: http://a15ff11300g.sakura.ne.jp/catalogue/oversea/oversea.html