mstrofsinanju

I just replaced a Spindle Nut on mine. It was old and worn. Would tighten and hold till the car was rolling under side load. Then it would slip several threads to the cotter and allow the hub to wobble. Same symptoms, made an awful grinding noise with braking and turning. Under power it was fine. Showed a scrape on the rotor too.

That might be fun to drop by. May be I'll clear my calendar.

This is perfect. I too am counting pennies after the hollidays. How many kits do you have available? Or can you make them as required. I will be in touch shortly. My '83 Hi-Lo 4sp 4x4 GL needs a kit bad. Thank You:cool:

This is really cool of you guys to do for folks. I love these old wagons (to the point of obsession my wife says). I have a 84 GL EA81 I just put a webber on and it should be running well now, but I can't get the hood back on without a lift. Can I pay you guys for a set of the front lift blocks I need. I would love to switch to the 6 lug wheels. That is in the plans for the near future.

Ok ... It has been a while, but I finally nailed it. I have been in and out of town, working on this a little at a time for quite some time now. After extensive testing, wracking my brain, (and one $100.00 magnetic p/u) I have solved the problem. .... It came down to an intermittent connection within a connector block. The wire for the solenoid at the front drivers side of the carb was pulling out of the connector plug. It would vibrate until it broke contact and shut the fuel off. Then, after sitting for a bit, for some reason, the connection would re-establish itself and the car would restart as if nothing was wrong. I re-seated the spade terminal in the slide connector, verified the contact, and it works great. No dying unexpectedly. The Subie is back. Yea! Happy days.... Thank you all for the help with the brain storming ideas. It always helps to talk something out with others opinions added.

Great info all. Thank you for the input. Sometimes it is so helpful to bounce things of others just to make sure you haven’t missed or overlooked something simple. This has given me several avenues of attack to go on. This has been driving me crazy for a while now. I don't get a lot of time to work on it, its the second car you know. What with the price of gas and all, i miss having the Subie running. Plus its coming fishing season (added incentive). I had another 2x4 85 Subaru GL wagon a wile back and it did have a computer. I saw that under the drivers dash. So, I was not sure if may-be they put it on the other side in the 4x4. In reading up on it, I believe the 83’s are the first year of the computer for this model. Probably switched half year or did models shipped to certain places first, or something like that. Again, thank you for all your help. I will post again when I make some progress. This site rocks.. (< i love that smilie)

Hello all... New to the forum and what not, so be gentle. I have a 83 4x4 GL that only recently began to show a problem. It starts great when cold. Runs well, kicks down to slow idle with a tap of the accelerator and runs until it gets warm. As soon as it gets warm, and without touching the car (its just sitting there running), it suddenly dies as if the spark quits. I mean like you turned off the key. Then it will not start again until it cools of for a while. Then it starts and runs till it's warm and does the same thing again. Its got to be a computer problem... right. Ok I thought it was under the drivers side dash. Didn't see it there. May be pasengers side dash. Help plz..! Thanks