75skunkaroo

Ya know what's funny? I still haven't done anything with the A-bar yet! 🤣 Paul, hope you're doing good, and a late Happy Birthday! Now, back out into the dark to try and get the stuck door open on the gold wagon so I can try and get the clutch pedal unstuck..... 🙄 Mike

well, after about 32 times of taking the engine in and out, it turns out that the pilot bearing was causing the binding. got everything back in, now i'm "fighting" the dizzy install, just cant seem to get it lined up right. pulled the valve cover checked TDC, lined up the marks on the dist shaft, just getting a bunch of backfiring now. oh well, -mike

So Alice (75 4x4) has been spitting out freeze plugs again and I decided to put in the Jdm engine out of the lifted 80 wagon. Holy crap are the different looking! The old engine has water passage bolted to the top of it, the jdm just has a hump in the middle; the engine and tranny wont quite tighten flush together(right where the alignment studs are{old engine had 'em, new one dont}); and it's really tight to turn over with a ratchet on the crank bolt. Has anyone done a jdm swap? Is there really that much difference between them? I'm kinda stumped at this point, just started drivin her again and now this....:-\ Thanks in advance -mike

here's 3 of 4 of my gen 1's. 79 brat 75 4x4 wagon 74 dl sedan, silver 79 4x4 wagon not in pic http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/album.php?albumid=171&pictureid=1557

so does anyone have any info on this thing? the only site i found looked like it was in german. -mike

not quite that easy, but yeah. you should just sell me your brat for the last $20 i have :cool: -mike

stage 2 has a totally different profile. i tried using one from my 79 on my 75, didn't fit. i had better luck with the gianormous seal off my 75 chevy truck. -mike

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Beauty! -mike

i love your car. heres my shiny clean orange '74 -mike

hey paul if you do end up setting those engines aside, strap one to my a-bar and let me know how much $ you need to ship. maybe a couple of stripe kits too??:cool: -mike

deves 1877 s std around $67 -mike

probably more so than the cops in grants pass, they kicked me out of the classic car cruise after a lap and a half. it was fun to freak out the people with the big money resto rods:grin: -mike

i just went over to g.i. joes and got some gabriel red ryders that had the right ends. got home and pulled the plastic thingy that keeps 'em compressed and holy crap they were long, worked really good tho. wer'nt too expensive either -mike