backwoodsboy

In regards to the gasket, I always shoot one side with some spray adhesive to make it stick to the new pump. Then youre not struggling with lining everything up and trying to get the pump on the block PLUS hold the gasket!

Its been a couple years since my last EJ swap, but there was a wire that would "choke" the engine for starting purposes while cranking.... Enrich the fuel mixture or whatever. I think that may be what were talking about up there ^^^^ ...anyway, I found that I needed to have that wire UN-hooked for warm or hot starts. The engine would flood itself with it hooked up. I disconnected it for the warm and hot starts and no more troubles! Toggle switch FTW

Ill just chime in here with some encouragement. I have personally welded up rust JUST LIKE THAT before... on Bucky the 92 Loyale. Its do-able. I still drive that wagon every day down bumpy back dirt roads on my way to work. Holdin strong. Do it.

...that depends. Can you be trusted?

Pauls been here so long his post counters rolled over!

I JUST checked stock on the oil pumps. THERE HERE! There are 11 in the country as of right now. PART # 15010AA120 90 bucks a pop retail.

Mmmm... good thread! When I built my brats hi-po EA81 I used an EA82 flywheel, and an xt6 pressure plate with a 4wd clutch disc. I did indeed source a T/O bearing from a nissan 720 pickup to go with the whole setup. Looking back, I probably couldve used the standard t/o bearing, but the nissan bearing was a larger overall diameter and engaged the press plate fingers *better* When I selected pistons for my EA81 last spring, I sourced both the EA71 and the EA82 SPFI. I measured from the piston pin to the top of the piston, and found that the EA82 SPFIs were taller than the EA71s as compared with stock EA81. My afterthought on this is: although the EA82s were taller, they are also dished on top. The EA71s are not. This leads me to agree with Ken that even though I built my motor with EA82 SPFI pistons the EA71s are the compression ratio winners.

Hey Matt... Can I camp at your house?

The 2010 2.5s actually take the same 15208AA12A filter... just the drainplug washer is smaller.

We see this almost every day at the shop. What works for us is the old NAPA part # 31884 split-flange kit. This hugs the rusted out flange behind the cat (which almost ALWAYS breaks) and with a new donut gasket... will cure the trouble almost 100% of the time.

Jess and I swapped the dashboard of her brat... but could only find a tan (uncracked) dash. *the interior is blue* so.... we painted it blue! With Krylon fusion. Worked for us!

Sweet ride! What tires are you running?

use the search function above... and search for EJ SWAP. Pop some popcorn and start reading, youll be there a while- LOTS of information to be had. Youll definitely need an entire EJ22 donor vehicle to do a swap though. Just to get you started. Also : Ive NEVER heard of motor mounts in any way causing wheel bearing failure.

Something Ive had good luck with is a plain old heat gun. If you have a steady hand... you can get the surface of the plastic just uniformly hot enough that it turns back to the "new" factory color.

*sigh* more importantly, lets get back to the discussion at hand please. GD is right. The bearings arent that bad to change. I myself have found that if you can score a swing arm with good bearingsat the j/y, that its sometimes easier to change the whole arm.

.... thats your opinion. That "dumb book" has helped more folks on this board than we both could count!

Ill chime in here... I also at this point have no idea what to bring, but I do believe were coming (Jess and I) Were NOT camping, but were coming.

Well.... The bad news is that its about 65 bucks! the really bad news is that I cant find one to sell you. :-\ Nothing even on the locator.

I want to be Scott when I grow up!

Nope... one of the OEM idlers has an orange ring. That IS a nice write up!

...I was NOT serious Paul! C'mon!

*sigh* I dont wanna make a big deal about it, but I believe that Darlingchip and I will be attending this year. It is the only time we get to see some of our good friends. After last year, we'd rather just pay for one car, and have a good time amongst ourselves. ... and NOT camp. :-\ Honestly, Id have just as much fun if we all met in the Autozone parking lot for the day. +1 on what Subaru360 said.

Those are 6-lug rims.... ... do the conversion. I dont see a problem here Brian.

Dont forget... a rust free car is not always a problem-free car. Many things may need to be replaced or freshened up at least on a different vehicle. Even IF youre swapping parts off the sedan, its a lot of time to do the work.

Hey! I was gonna post that! Happy newyear Connie!