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For the EA82 bodies, the right and left ones are different -- because they have two angles on them for where they touch the engine and the engine side of the bell housing. However, the picture you showed of an EA81 mount looked like it did not have the two different angle flanges on it..... I was becoming all to familiar with EA82 mounts on Sunday, but it's been several months since I looked at an EA81 mount... so I can't remember for sure. Z

On the parking lights -- there is a little switch on top of the steering column that turns those off. On the blower only coming out the middle vents -- those are vacuum controlled doors -- if the vacuum line comes off inside the engine compartment, it won't switch out of the default position. There is a little white container up by the passenger bulkhead in the engine compartment, with vacuum lines going to it -- check that they are still going to it. If yes, then it might be somewhere else, but it's fairly easy to knock something off when working in the engine compartment, and you lose control of the blower direction... On the hesitation, I'm not sure if that's a tranny thing or an engine thing. If engine, you might need to clean the MAF, and also check the cap and rotor. Mine was hesitating a bit, and I checked the rotor, and it was quite burnt. Oops. Hadn't changed it since I bought it.

My two cents.... I've had well over 200k on several 5 speed dual range transmissions, and none of them ground or had other problems. They seem to be pretty durable. Can't say that for the 4 speed dual ranges... I've had several of them with around 200k, and grinding syncros, especially in 3rd gear, are common once they get older. Z

Forgot about that... if the timing belts are good, the rotor itself could just be loose...

Superrupair is not technically a dealer, but they carry subaru OEM parts. That's usually where I go. And Shortline subaru down in Aurora, and Mike Shaw subaru in Denver somewhere.

The interstates were parking lots this morning in Denver. I had no trouble getting down to Boulder from my house in the mountains -- only about 6 inches of fresh snow, kind of plowed on the main road, not on the side roads. A bit slick in places, but the Justy had no trouble at all. Luckily very few other cars on my commute, so I didn't have to play bumper cars with big SUVs with summer tires

Wow... we have six dealers within 50 miles. Of course, I live in the subaru capital of the US... (Boulder, Colorado)

Have you checked to make sure the distributor rotor is spinning when you crank it over -- sometimes the belts can still look okay from the side covers, but be stripped where they pass around the crankshaft drive gear. I've never seen an actual snapped timing belt... just ones missing teeth. Also... I once had the idler gear sieze, which shredded a timing belt that was otherwise pretty new. Z

It's the EA82 1.8 liter. You might... the automatic transmission will hamper it, but in the 4x4 wagons, I typically get around 29 to 31mph highway, and 26 to 28mpg around town. I'd expect a 2wd coupe to get a few points higher. Except for that 3AT....

Nope... because it's not the engine that moved, but the shaft on the distributor that you took out. You need to time it as if you were installing a new distributor -- set the engine at TDC for #1, then install the distributor with the rotor pointing the right direction. Z

My '89 wagon is back to 4 cylinders -- I installed the new engine today. :banana: After driving it around this morning, on 3 cylinders, and with the new engine in the back, it sure feels fast running on all 4. About 10 hours for the whole swap (including swapping the almost new timing belt from the old engine to the new one). I still have to do a little finish up stuff -- put the second belt on for the A/C, change the cap and rotor (Both engines had pretty burnt ones), and fix an exhaust stud. But, it's back up and running like it used to, and I was able to drive home from the workshop. And, I want to take apart the passenger head on the old engine and see what went wrong -- it acts like a burned exhaust valve on the front cylinder. I didn't replace the clutch.... Napa sold me the wrong one, and by the time I realized it, I had it all apart and couldn't drive to get the right one -- and they probably didn't have it anyway -- they had to order the wrong one for me. The old disc didn't look too worn, so hopefully it'll have some life left on it. I think it's got 120k on it which seems like alot.

Yeah, sounds like you need to look at the turn signal switch (does not require pulling the steering wheel to look at it, only to change it) -- could just be a loose wire on it (my first '82 wagon had that -- soldered it back on it worked till I got rid of it). It could also be the actual flasher unit, but those tend to fail or not, I think. Does the squeaking from the dash continue if you put it in nuetral and turn the engine off while at speed? It sounds like the cable that goes to the temperature door is not working -- somewhere in the heating system, that lever actually moves a door or valve (can't remember which on this one), but it's purely mechanical. Also... heat core could be clogged, so it's not producing any heat to begin with....

That's a nice hatch :banana:

Did he maybe say the the passenger side timing belt was gone maybe? That would cause it to run on only two cylinders, and it's not that uncommon. Z

Yeah, full synthetic 5W50 oil. And, it burns about a quart every 1000 miles or so (no leaks though...), so it actually goes through about 12 quarts over that 10,000 miles, not just 4... It runs alot nicer on the synthetic, especially on startup when it's cold which is the main reason I do it (on a 5 degree day, it'll only tick for four or five seconds upon starting, instead of a minute or more -- 240k on the motor). Seems to have a little more high end power too, but not sure if that's just a figment fo my imagination...

Yeah... maybe run some dri gas, and also perhaps change the fuel filters... could they have water in them somehow? The first thing I'd suggest was carbureator icing... except that I've never had that happen on a subaru. What it sounds like is awfully alot like my diesel truck does if I'm running B100 in temps around freezing -- wax buildup in the filter. But... gasoline doesn't do that normally. Bizarre.... The not starting for 10 minutes is odd... if it was ice buildup that bad, you should definitely be able to see it, I'd think. When it won't start, is it a spark or fuel issue? Or air, I guess. Will it fire up on ether? Have you popped the distributor cap and looked to see if there's moisture in there... I can't really figure out why it would get more moisture as it runs, but I suppose it's possible (I did powerwash an engine once, on a mitsi pickup, and it ran for about a mile after the carwash, then died - -the distributor was completely wet inside when I popped the cap, but it had fired right back up after washing it. Z

Not sure if the EA81 filter the same as the EA82... but I seem to remember about $6 to $8 last time I got one at the dealer. I stopped using those, and switched to the Mobil 1 fancy ones because I went to a 10,000 mile oil change interval.

Thanks for the clarification -- I've only owned dual range EA82's, so I wasn't sure....

True... but remember that in the 50's "made in Japan" meant it was junk to most people.... then they came and took over our car industry.... China is currently taking over alot of other industries and not always with crap (often, yes, but increasingly not as much).

You might want to check and/or replace all the vacuum hoses going to the 4wd shift mechanism -- sounds like they might be a bit old and leaky. Also... sounds like a bad check valve for the vaccuum accumulator (can you accumulate nothing?) It's a common problem on the EA82's to only blow out the middle vents instead of the defroster vents under low engine vacuum, and I think it's related to a bad check valve there.... I've never owned an EA82 with the pushbutton, but it sounds like this system might operate from the same vacuum resevoire. Z

The first ones look exactly the same as my Pugs... copy?

Most certainly not. Generally, these cars get more like 20 to 30mpg.... and it usually doesn't increase as you go faster on the highway. You mean mph I think.....

Wow... I don't feel so bad about having 4 then. Maybe I'll get some more

haha. I guess it doesn't have a driveshaft then Still could be transmission or motor mounts. On the vague shifter... I'm not sure if that has the same transmission as the '82 2wd 5 speed, but that one is very tight. I've had vague shifters on 4wd 4 speeds, but in general, subaru shifters are fairly good. So.. not sure if it's normal, or another sign of something wrong.

No accounting for tastes... My '85 GL wagon was crushed by someone who decided to drive a '90 Mustang that ran on about 6 out of the 8 cylinders (and the 5 speed had been reduced to a 3 speed.....). Okay.. I sold it to him, but still....