Rooinater

shocks aren't just shocks in the case of coilover shock vs shock. the EA82 coilovers are designed as the suspension and shock in one. the EA81 is a torsion bar and shock combo. if you put a plain shock in a vehicle equiped with coilovers whether factory or not it will not sit the same unless the coilover is doing nothing because there is another perfectly functioning suspension system. take my vehicle for example, it's an EA81 with EA82 coilovers, if i take the coilovers off the whole a$$ end sags down and does not sit level. the coilovers hold up the vehicle. so as long as it's not a case where there is swapped in coilovers that ARE supporting vehicle weight it's perfectly fine to just throw on rancho shocks.

if you have EA82 struts installed on your EA81, take them off, see how much the suspension sags. if it's only a little, torque the torsion bars (disconnect the arm from the torsion bar and adjust the torsion bar one spline on the assembly) fight to get the parts back together and it should level out and you can use the shocks. otherwise if the EA81 suspension is shot, replace the torsion bars if you want to use ea81 suspension. also look under the back seat, remove the body plug in the center, look down, there is an adjustment bolt to adjust the torsion suspension. pull the torsion bars out and torque them only if you need that little extra from the suspension.

if it is an EA81 as in your avatar, the only springs are in the torsion tube, and they use a regular shock. if it's an EA82 the springs are in a coil over. therefore if you have an EA81 you can put the shocks on no problem other than fabbing mounts. you still can with the EA82 as a second shock, which is worthless.

here is a little more accurate weather for walker... 3"-7" friday night alone... http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=48.377176295268015&lon=-122.16728210449219&site=sew&smap=1&marine=0&unit=0&lg=en

my 10.5 inch tires with the offset in the redrilled 6lug rims stick out about 3-4" out of the fenders, depending where you measure.

they don't make a 29x8.5 tsl/sx, only tsl's. the tsl/sx tires come in a 29x10.5. tsl/sx's are a heavy duty tire with belted bias ply construction and sidewall tread vs tsl's which only have bias ply construction.

light run?? what trails are you planning on running? the power lines and logging roads? reiter normally gets snow during the winter, it doesn't stay as long as the upper parts of the cascades but they get a decent amount of snow towards the index wall and plenty of wet snow. it won't be 4 feet deep, only 6 inches to a foot.

well since it says they are 29's, i'm pretty sure they are 29's. rob has 29" tsl/sx tires and they look wider and just as big as my 31's because of all the tread down the sidewall.

you just need to be driving a lifted subaru conversation piece. it brings out all the old school subaru enthusists.

you are not the only brat in arizona. there are several. i used to live in arizona for awhile and i saw several and met a few people with them. There's a few in the general phoenix peoria area and i saw one or 2 in yuma. my avatar is from when i was stationed in yuma, arizona, a little over a year ago. but i was smart and moved back to where it actually snows some years... in general there are very little for old school subaru sightings in az.

nice pics!

well if i can come i know it fairly well, i've been riding there and wheeling there for almost 14 yrs. a lot has changed, but the general trails are the same. there is just a lot more bypasses and everything has erroded away.

if the weber is jetted right you'll love it!

put me down as a maybe. what trails are you guys planning on running? hobbit (tree trail), lower power lines, upper power lines, the wall, sac-up, v-notch??

... saturday i'll be in puyallup with my uncle, those plans have been made since the begining of november. if not we can always try another weekend, which would give me more time to find someone to weld a diff and figure out where i'll be doing a tranny swap.

anyone up for welding a diff? my last college final for the year is wednesday. i'll try to get enough work done to the car, but would like to switch out my rear diff which has a chip in the ring gear and i might just have to wing the tranny. i have no where to do a swap of the tranny at my house. i have the other 4.11 rear diff and a spare tranny. i just need the diff welded, and i'll see if my step dad is done with his truck so i can steal the driveway for a day.

well, i have a seriously limited rear suspension, so no over extended shafts here. i'm not heavy on the pedal, i prefer to crawl along and use minimal go pedal, which is one of the many reasons i'm not a mudding fan. i've never broke the stub or cv by hitting it on a rock. It usually breaks when the shafts get bound up, add extra torque via gearing and a worked up 1.8L and a very small touch of gas or when it goes from no traction to instant traction and shears the stub. it's generally the stub, hence why i carry 4 - 6 spares on every trail run. I believe all the pavement runs to and from the trail on rwd and a lincoln locker is causing a lot of the stress on the rear cv's and stub axles, which is why i'll be starting to pull cv shafts again when i start back to wheeling her.

maybe when I get the new diff welded i'll have to swap in some ea82 cups....

ping! those subaru diffs and axles are going to need to go... 55:1 to 60:1 is enough torque to shear the stub shafts and cv cups. how many inches is the rear driveline????

if it's at a slow rate of speed and a low center of gravity (stock to mild lift) i'd say between 40* and 50* pushing it. i've set her on her side from anything between those #'s, at that point all kinds of stuff come into play and you just have to go with your gut on when too far is too far or your vehicle is on it's side or rolling down a hill. go to an rv shop and get an inclinometer and mount it in your dash, or get one of those fancy ones with the jeep on them. the only thing keeping this from tipping is the rock under the right door. the suspension was starting to unload. due to the sandy conditions the front tire wasn't stable, if i could of drove further forward, and the rock wasn't there i would have been over.

slipped to a maybe, i need to swap out the tranny, which between that and the amt of work completed prevented me from getting to go to evans this last weekend.

Dec 13th i'll be at the puyallup gun show with my uncle. So if i have everything with the car together i'd be able to make a run on the 14th.

great vids. ok scott i'm not so worried about my tires up there anymore, especially after seeing all the open diffs run... some reason i remember walker being a lot muckier 7 to 10 years ago. if all goes well at the HP tree run on dec 6th and the evans creek run thanksgiving weekend i'll be up for a trail run on dec 14th if you guys are game.

not trying to get you to stop the build but hint ideas. trailers are always nice. actually within about an hour from you is naches, rim rock and the eastern side of manashtash. manashtash ridge has some of the best trails in washington, and the most extreme rock crawling in wa, other than the outlet mall trail at reiter. not to mention the few local rock crawling areas in richland.

...... i'll be gentle... you have an offset pumpkin up front, but are using an optionless non-offset t-case that's made for an ifs front end. you will have some really bad angles on those drivelines and are setting it up for parts failure. if you run 40" tires on some half ton chevy axles and get them bound up with a powerful engine... ping there goes the ujoint and it will take the shaft out. 20" of lift? are you stoned or do like to be top heavy? cheesy and pointless to use the subaru shocks and 4 link the axle........ just go pick up some $40 jeep or toyota coil springs and set it up for that. just as an fyi when you get your ticket for 20" of lift and a full width track..., for RCW 46.37.517, 46.40.010, 46.37.500, WAC 204-90-040 make sure you read and semi follow them, or just trailer it if you are actually going to take it anywhere. at least be close or make it look like you are making a real good effort. but it is slightly hard to hide the fact that the cars bumper is over 22"... otherwise, nice project.