bheinen74

I find it hard to think shocks would do that. Have the toe checked when you reinstall stuff. As well as general alignment check

I have always kinda liked them, but had been told general maintenance parts are pricey, and used parts for anything are non existent, or if you find them too pricey to justify. My former boss in Denver had a nice Green one with gold trim and all the bells and whistles. Road very nice.

A bad belt in the tire can cause tires to wear like that as well.

Great to suggest a sticky, But even with this picture, people still cheap out. It does not much good to sticky it, it would be like a sticky on using only OEM plug wires, and only NGK plugs, an not using a K&N filter, and to only use OEM dohc ej25 headgaskets, use only OEM intake gaskets, the list is endless. People simply ignore the facts and go cheap. We see threads every day on this type of aftermakrket route and what the failures are and we tell them to go back to oem, and then they reply that they put in Champion plugs cause that is all the parts place had, and it is still missing. So..... sorry i had to bring this up it is important, but appears too many ignore the knowledge of the board.

Nice BRAT, have not seen too many in that color. Looks really good.

If it starts with ease and runs smooth right away, leave the carb as is. A good running stock carb is nice. If you have a good one, leave that part alone. Focus on sealing up the body holes, and whatever list you have accumulated.

how did it stand up to the heavy task of snow moving?

i kinda wish i would have bought that one. oh well. if you need spare parts let us know.

Too many people overlook easy stuff while in there, like slide off the pivot fork, clean, inspect for cracks and wear, and use proper lubricant/grease on it, and the pivot ball, reinstall. That stuff does wear if it is not getting cleaned up and greased regularly......

glad this thread popped up. I forgot I had removed my lift kit, so i just spent a few minutes removing the 6mm wrench i used as the cable bracket, and found the original bracket to put back on. Will test out later on my journey. yes, we usually use the hitachi craptachi throttle linkage and swap it to the weber.

yeah what is the fix? nobody has brought that up that I know of.

Good luck. looking at those detailed pics of the nasty rats nest of vac lines,now i am so glad i went with a Weber on my Brat. I still kept the rats nest of stuff its on a shelf. the stuff you are noticing different could it be one car had AC and the other no AC? maybe one is CA spec and the other not as well.

Nice BRAT in the Midwest. I think we are slowly acquiring some of the better BRATS in the Midwest, one by one.

As long as oil was changed at regular intervals and it never was let run low on oil, there is never a reason to need to split open the case of a early ej22 (up to about year 95). They are capable of a million miles on the bottom end if oil was changed n time. Never really hear of any problems at all from anyone on the ej22 concerning the rings, bearings, etc. That is why Subaru was able to accomplish the land speed enduarnace record of averaging over 140 mph for a stretch of 28 days straight, on 3 91 Legacy turbo cars. That engine is a tank. They pushed those 3 cars to 100km in less than 30 days, all while driving rates of 140mph average. http://www.hemmings.com/hsx/stories/2007/01/01/hmn_feature30.html

Please to Subaru, make a non interference motor again kinda like the ej22. end

check brake drag.

yep. when i had my 06 outback, I had a brake light bulb go out. Open gate, take out the 2 bolts, and then you have to twist out that plastic cover then you gan get you the housing bolts. It was NOT simple, not a good design at all. This was one more design thing fail that put me over the edge and was a easy call to not keep the car. For reference my 94 TW and all my other leg sedans, had easy covers to either flip up to get the to bulb holder, or a plastic cover that snapped out of place to get to the bulb holder. Whoever thought it was necessary to remove the whole housing is and obvious joke on society.

wofc watch out for critters.

sorry for your misfortune/mishap. This is why i refuse to go full coverage insurance on my BRAT or other older cars. The insurance companies simply CANNOT fix our cars anymore due to lack of parts. If parts are not around ,they cannot fix for less than a total out. That means a total on even small damage, and that will for sure ding the resale / title status for future.

do not know if that is correct, as people on bbslegacy central sometimes go replace the fronts on the turbo cars with axles from FWD car, cause the shafts are beefier on the fwd model, think splines all same.

what engine is this? first post does not say, could be ea71, ea81, ea82 ej22, ej25etc and it will let me know if fel pro is okay or not, cause on EJ25, no way is fel pro ok

got a nice thing for my BRAT in the back.

are you not using the only advice we can gice, OEM Subaru Head gaskets>\\I bet you are using the off the shelf of a discount store, which you can search, are junk junk junk

at least with a Nokian snow you can run the tire 5 years or so tii the tread is gone. On a blizzak, the tread is hard after 1,5 year and worse than an all season. That is why everyone sees blizzak for sale after so few of miles and years. They get junky after like 5k miles. Nokian, is good till the tread is gone.

no. srry. the front grille fenders and side markers are for a 82 but the bumper is not a 82. that is not a good description the front grille is a juke. It IS a GL, cause it has funtops. I can sell you a 76 US Brat or a 89 US BRAT if you want...lo