MilesFox

well, as long as you gave room to get to it. suppose you can pull the tranny. when i put a lift in trashwagon 4, converting the ea81t to a 5 spd, i left the motor in the car, pulled the auto, and installed the 5spd. it this was my first MT, and it went right in and against the motor before i ever knew of pilot bearings and alignment tools!

dont over torque when using gaskets, as it will squeeze the gasket out as the pan smooshes it apart!. if using silicone, put some on the pan, start the bolts a couple of turns, and let it set up for a good hour or so before tightening them up. dont tighten them too much, they will twist off. use a 1/4 drive ratchet for the right torque "feel"

give the e-brake a pull at speed(to stop normally, not lock them up!) see if the noise is still there. the parking brake connects to the front calipers, and activates the pistons the same as the hydraulics do. i would say from my experience the pads arw worn down enough to grind, but havent been that way long enough to tear up the rotor. my rear disc brake on one side just started to grind out of the blue, although its due for pads. but it doesnt show any damage on the rotor as of yet. if you change your pads right away, you can spare the rotors. remember, on a subaru, the front pistons have to be turned clockwise to push them in, because of the parking brake mechanism if ya got rear discs, a c-clamp or some big channel locks will do the trick to push them in normally.

the ea71 and ea81 bvellhousings interchange the same, so if a ea81 wont work, neither will ea71

on my trip out west, i noticed there were more older ea81 soobs running around than newer ones where i come from. going through montana, you either saw a van, suv, truck or soob. if it was a car that was not a soob, it was most likely a Buick. bit for any other car that was not a soob, there was at least one or 2 more soobs to make up for it. a green ea82 wagon passed us in montana. we saw it stopped at a river pull-over, the driver plating a guitar in idaho. then it passed us again in washington, the guy pointed at us in disbelief, us being in a trashwagon, of course!

one way to do a clutch without the alignment tool is this: remove the starter, so now you have a big hole to work through. install the new clutch disc and the pressure plate. thread in the PP bolts just enought to keep the clutch disc from flopping around, but you can still slide ithe disc around by hand. now put the motor against the tranny. there will be enough "give" for the clutch to find its way onto the splines as the shaft finds the pilot hole. now tighten all the PP bolts up through that big ol hole where the starter was. now put on the starter and give her a whirl! i have done all my clutches this way, except one for a friend who's kit came with the center tool.

crack it open and find out. at least you will be able to answer it the next time the subject comes up!

i would recommend pulling the motor, it comes out just the same as any other soob motor, all the turbo and extras stay on the motor. you will undo the bellhousing bolts, the throttle cable, heater hoses, mpfi wiring harness unplugs from body, and a ground wire by the water pipe. the unbolt the downpipe from the turbo, as it will stay connected to the tranny, and the motor will pull away from it as it comes out. i have found it a lot easier to pull the motor rather than the trans, because to pull the trans, its the same amount of unbolting, plus removing the starter, axles, driveshaft, leaking gear oil, being under the car.... if you got a hoist then use it! i pulled a turbo xt motor to swap from a bad 4wd auto to a 2wd auto, even if removin/swapping the trans, its easier if you pull the motor first.

i wopuld suggest pulling the motor(if you have a hoist. its a lot easier than messing with the axles and shifter.... snd with the motor out, do othger service too. you will have to remove the flywheel/flexplate from the motor. the old seal can be picked out with a screwdriver if you are careful, although there are several ways described by the board.. when installing the new one, tap around it so it seats evenly, and is fluxh with the back of the motor. you dont want to drive it in too far and bottom it out, as it will cover the oil passage. no sense spending 500 bucks over a 7.00 part! save the 500 for a lift and such!!!

i had turbo cams in a spfi motor with a carb. had good low end with open ports, pulled a 2 axle trailer with a dead soob, but was a dog turd with an exhaust pipe!

nope, just the turbo axle, that's all, but the hub will be the same, splines, pads, rotor, caliper... the only thing different about the axle is the end that fits on the tranny

all you ever get around here is blue ea82's with blue interior. jim has a knack for finding them, especially gl-10 turbos with 2wd autos! i had 2 blue wagons, a friend has a blue sedan, and all 3 white soobs, and the one silver one, all had blue interior! grey is rare, and i have only seen one brown. was there a red interior?

would the doj interchange, or maby the whole bearing race, the little circlip that hoolds it on? you could swap to ea82 lower control arms, but you wil have to salvage the mount from an ea82 crossmember. as described by rguyver, and applied to trashwagon. the ball joint holes will be a different size, but i used the whole ea82 strut, with the ea81 strut cap modified to fit. if the axle diameter is the same, try swappong doj and see what happens.

it would be a good application for another "Roof Of Boom in a wagon with a sunroof(recessed ceiling!)

sounds like an intake gasket is leaking. did you know you can re-use a new gasket if you used silicone on it? you can double them up, too. that is how i got my ea81 carb/intake on a spfi ea82

soob just designed the driveline, probably based off something already suzuki. justy's re suzukies. just like old dodge minivans had mitsubishis under the hood, and thre geo prism is a toyota, and the chevy/geo spectrum in an isizu i-mark, and the geo tracker is a suzuki sidekick, and the geo storm is some sort of suzuki known as a pontiac elsewhere one of them odd breeds

you should have that fuse that disables the 4wd, its under the hod on the passenger firewall. put a fuse in therer for front wheel driv. check that out first!

swap axles, or just the inner axle DOJ, change rear diff, too

yo. this board is the most comprehensive collection of subaru epertise for all makes models, and service and repair! you wont find a better place in all of the internet! its cool to know a few board members. otherwise you are the only one you know that knows aboiut subaur! the board keeps growing every day, and the members getting closer, too

i am going to run 5w30 in mine, buing a turbo.

so where did thsi dude come form, anyway?:-\

cram them all up in joh'e driveway. that way she shinks you sold ther, but you got them stashed out for themoment!

yo, i didnt get your private message, because my "inbox was full" i cleared it, who ever thought getting ahold of me would be a pain in the:moon:

how did you do that one, jim?

hey, you said cutting the water pipe, but one from an ea82 will fit right with the manifold. sorry to mention that earlier.