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MilesFox

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  1. tighten it up and see if that cures the matter. if not, then consider the wheel bearing. make sure all the washers are there, there is a cone washer first, then a flat washer. if these are missing there is the cause of your problem if you indeend do have to replace the wheel bearing, there is a special socket required to access the inner bearing the rear bearing on the outside is cone shaped, and the torque of the nut is what holds it all together. so a loose nut will let it wobble a bit. if its tight it should not wobble
  2. yo i got your email and phone number. over here in columbus there is a turbo motor with a blown head gasket we are using the heads and the top end, but the bottom end may be extra i will hollar at john about it, and aside from a head gasket set that would fix you right up.
  3. danny put legacy struts and knuckles on the 93 ipmreza, the axles are too big. so does this mean the 2wd 5spd impreza is a 23 sline axle? does thismean xxt6 5-lugs with dual range trannies? does this mean cheap ej conversion?
  4. my car doesnt even have one, 88 spfi sedan.
  5. yeah try pulling on it for the same effect. i used a deep socket have you tried that? sounds likethe treads are gone. what if you can pop a screwdriver under the nut as you turn it?
  6. sounds like the ecu temp sensor is out of whack. a new one is 17 bucks if you cant fnd it look up a nissan 240 sx, the brown sensor will work its located behind the intake under the turbo cleaning the contacts may help as well
  7. take a look at the tranny mounds. does the shifter move around when it jerks?
  8. yo if you need a motor i can find one for you, there are a few carb blocks you could build on for a little more compression. how far is bristol from fort wayne? i will be coming back from columbus with parts. hollar hollar
  9. yeah good deal, i swapped a disty gear for an spfi mock up. on mine i turned the spfi gear upside down and tack welded it, as the pin didnt line. bit i guess you can swap the gear between the 2 distys if i was you i wouldn't pass it up. have fun
  10. the play in the axle stub rotationally is the play in the differential gears of the front driveline. any play up and down, side to side would be the bearing that centers the axle stub. if this followed from the last soob with the tranny it very wel may be the tranny if its tired or old. if you have had no reliability issues then go ahead and keep driving. as far as noise is concerned what about a thicker gear oil?
  11. pat is a good guy, i met him as he made his cross country cartel. very noble of him to cover the damages. now what about clocks that work but dont keep time after a week, such as being an hour off?
  12. the rough idle may be from corrosion of the electrical terminals. does the ecs light come on? you can pull a code from the ecu and that will tell you something a lot of times a bad connection will throw a code, and wiggling/unplu/re-plugging, or cleaning of the trminals will fix the problem check out he ecu temp sensor, its the one with the green plug and 2 wires on the thermostat body also you may want to consider doing the timing belts. not that that is the problem, but an unexpected broken timing belt is about the only thing that will leave you stranded. the belts should be replaced avery 60 thousand miles. ask the previous owner when the timing belt was last serviced if you do the timing belts and you have it apart that far you may as well do all the seals if youwant to do the belts only first, you can leave all theplastic covers off, and that will make any future service less work
  13. once you get the 17mm nut off it will com out. you may have tp oush down on themotor as you turn the nut, it may have abad thread not leyying it come off. the motor itself it s tight fit, you have to turn it at hte right angle to get it out of the hatch.
  14. jack the car up by the tube frame so the tire is off the gorund take off the tire and locate the bottom of the strut. take out the bolt so the lower control arm swings away and no weight on the strut when youpuy it back together, bolt the top first then the bottom
  15. a 3 dcoor is a rare beast. i would haggle down what you can but dont pass it up, if you want a 3-door! to put an ea81 you would have to modify a distributor to use spfi. you can run a carb ea81. you would have to swap out to the carb fuel pump, and wire it to the coil or IGN. connect the disty to the coil terminals. leave all the spfi stuff hooked up on the car itself, like the coil, and leave the intake plugs hang and tuck them away. if you took it upon yourself to fix the head gasket on the ea82, you could later put it in and have spfi. running with open timing belts makes service easier by the time you fix the engine off the car you will know how to fix it ever again
  16. good deal. hey that 12mm i meant 14mm, but im sure you found it anyway:) yeah thats what i hate working on subarus after some jack-stick had it. glad that worked out for you
  17. it will be located near the thermostat housing on an spfi, trace the vacuum to the carcoal canister, the rohtehr one is the egr solenod on carbs and turbos will be pretty much the same part
  18. locate the thermo swithc on the radiator. if you take a jumper and short the car end of the terminal it shold kick the fan on. if the fan comes on, this circiot is working properly. you can take the hot side of the terminal and runit to a switch, and the other side of the switch to ground. anotehr way to do it would get a speaker wire, that is a wire with 2 wires run together, connect one end to the swithc, and the other end to both terminals on the plug, and if you can get the wires and the plug to fit on the thermo switch that would be good. this way tou can toggle the fan on, and if you forget about the fan the thermoswitch will turn it on. this would be a manual override for the stock circuit
  19. teh clutch cablemay need tightening. the cable should be just snug enough to take the slack out of the throw out fork, and any additional turns to set the pedal height. turnng the clutch cable a few turns will do. but you want to check it every couple turns as a little bit of thread makes a lot of adjustment you will need a 10 and a 12mm wrench. turn the 10 nut to unlock it and adjust the 12mm nut. if the cable spins put a vise grop in the metal end of the sheath the throttle cable under the air cleaner there are a 12mm nut on either side of the mont. loosen one side and turn the other side to adjust it
  20. if yo want to try the idea cut up a pop can and put it in the intake. and if you decide it doesnt work you could throw it out and not feel like a jack for spending money
  21. the 85 xt and 871/2 xt have mpfi non turbo. the 87 is spider. but they are the same as turbo head minus the oil passage for the turbo, and the drainback tube but their dual portness matches the same as mpfi turbo, and an mpfi turbo car will run a non tirbo with the same intake and no turbo, use a mpfi na boot to connect the throttle to the maf like an spfi the mpfi block is like a tubo but has spfi pistons. it has the turbos case breather on the back the cams formpfi would probably bwe different, so an spfi block, mpfi non turbo heads and spfi cams tirh turbo intake would be a feasable build
  22. if you cut the axle you cant get the touter end apart. the races in the outer end need to be broken to get all that out if you chop it short and dont get it apart you will have a little stub flying around and may cause balance problems or fly apart, then you would be stuck with having to take it out anyway to get it apart if you want to do it in right away go drive in sonme mud and sand, a ripped boot will ride all day, but once you get mud in there it wont last a week
  23. http://www.warpthree.com/milesfox/88sedan http://www.warpthree.com/milesfox/87gl10 http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?p=264814&highlight=silver+fox#post264814 the car in this post is the same as 88sedan
  24. gearing is most important with towng, a subaru will tow quite nicely, pulling other soobs or trailers the ea82 coilovers are a bit taller, the top has 2 bolts like the shock but they are wider apart. you would have to fabricare a mount of some sort on the top. by having coilovers you will have a double suspension, as the suspension tube ont he hatch is torsion bar and ea82's are coilover. this way it would accomodate the weight of the tongue on the trailer, and the car will ride much more stable in tow un tow the car will ride stiff in the back, not so much bumpy but as in cornering

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