Durania

I am glad I took a picture of this before I sold my BRAT. This should help you a little bit. Here is a shot from the factory service manual.

If you get them I hope you post pictures. I kicked myself for not getting them on my BRAT when I bought tires.

Makes me feel a little better.

You don't need to fool around if you have an alternator going out. It is cheaper just to replace in your driveway than to get 50 miles away from home and it break down on you. Then you have to pay for the tow home, then do your alternator change. They are not hard and I can change them on a Subaru in 5 minutes.

I got radio interference once because of an alternator going out. Any other weird electrical anomalies?

Headgaskets are my number 1 fear in my RS. I am at 98k and motor does not run hot, nor do I smell coolant. I will be going to the dealer in a couple days to pick up some parts and I am going to run some more of that coolant conditioner through it. I drive this car 80 miles a day and can't suffer to have down time. Its a peppy little motor and from what I have read, it is a lot better than the 98 DOHC EJ25 that the 98 RS's got.

I was always told to stick to the specs given on your VIN plate in the door jamb. How much you getting them for, $30 each?

I fit a love seat in mine. I used an 83 as a daily drive for two years. Will not do it again. I hated driving it in city traffic, 74 hp is really a turd. Don't get me wrong, these are fun and rare vehicles. They are great conversation pieces at gas stations. They are great in the spring time, open them t-tops and have a ball. Best advice I can give is not to get a DL BRAT.

On the EA81's I have owned, the dome light was turned on by the bulb housing. Just want to throw this out here, is your alternator in good operating condition? I had some weird stuff because of a bad alternator in my hatchback (wipers coming on when radio was turned on). I am also going to throw out on the table the possibility of a very bad gauge cluster, the 4pm and after thing is very weird.

You and me both.

Welcome aboard.

I have always wanted to get one together. The problem is that we are just so darn spread out. I am still waiting to find a car that I want, been searching and sitting on several grand since June.

Just throwing this out there. Did you plug the cooling fans back in?

ea82?

I sold the BRAT about a month ago. I don't miss her a dang bit.

I got it, thank you very much!

Forgot to add my email. Durania717 (at) hotmail (dot) com

Could someone please run a carfax report on this wagon that I am looking at? JF1GG29662G817177 I would really appreciate it.

Hopefully yours is 2WD. This is what autozone shows for your car: 30206M-Inner Bearing Timken-$19.99 30204M-Outer Bearing Timken-$11.99 3 years in a Schaeffler group warehouse was good for something.

Not relevant.

I seen this on Nasioc and about crapped my pants. http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1584577

Nice job. I am at 219,000 on my 91 4EAT.

I slept in the back of it with a Gem Top on it the night of my bachelor party. Put my head in the left hand corner next to the tail gate and propped feet in jump seats. Was one of the worst sleeps I ever had.

Did you flush the heater core as well?

It has been some time since I have posted anything substantial on here. All my time has been allocated into finding me a replacement daily driver for when the Brat sells. We got a new love seat so we had to haul the old one off. Did not want to borrow my uncle's gas guzzler so we took the camper off and put it in the BRAT. It was ratchet strapped into next week and did not move an inch. I was surprised the 25 year old tie down hooks held up to it. Enjoy.