battlecat

I PM'd you

Yep - the top of a tulip poplar fell on it. Funny that it didn't break the windows or windshield. The car is still fairly road-worthy. I've been driving it some (just to give it exercise). Car has about 170,000 miles on it.

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About 110 miles northeast of WS

It's in rough shape (dents, rust on body, needs a new instrument cluster, few other sundry things, but it runs, the drive train is intact, has decent tires, new radiator, etc.). Good parts car. I need to get rid of it within the next couple weeks. I'll let it go free to a good home. I'm in North Carolina. PM me if you're interested.

I need a rear wiper motor (with all mounting hardware - nuts, seals, etc), passenger side tail light lens, and a fully functioning instrument cluster - anybody have these?

AHA! That is entirely possible! I will check that out, thanks Caboobaroo!!

Thanks, Naru! I'll check the connections. I wonder how it occurred that BOTH guages began to malfunction at the same time?

My 1980 GL 4wd wagon has not been driven alot lately (had some brake problems) but yesterday I fixed the brakes and cranked her up and took out for a test run. Suddenly both the gas and temp guages began to malfunction (the needle rose slowly out the top of both guages. No other guages (oil pressure, speedometer, tachometer) appeared to be malfunctioning. I shut her down, restarted, same thing happened. I then disconnected the negative battery terminal, left if off a few seconds, then reconnected. No change. Disconnected negative terminal again, left it off overnight (believing that maybe I was resetting the CPU???). This time the temp guage rose normally, but the gas guage needle rose out the top as before. The only thing I can think is that I inadvertently let the battery go completely dead a few weeks ago when I left the hatch ajar and the dome light ran down the battery. Does anyone know what might be the problem here?

No, I prefer to whack my hand right at the joint where the thumb meets the wrist...not once but TWICE! (the hand holding the drift) Left a lovely purple bruise. The neighbors grand daughter learned some lovely new words that day....

Great tip! Thanks!

AHA! Thanks! I'll check that out, too!!!

I recently had a lot of trouble getting a beariing out and after a heck of a lot of pounding (finally getting the bearing out) I found that the bearing seat (journal) was way out of round! The mechanic who had installed the bearing previously had just pounded it in there anyway, which (I believe) led to early bearing failure.

Yeah, I do have the old EA71 and tranny. The welding didn't hold up too well (like you said, maybe I could find a "good" welder who could fabricate some reinforcements) and get a dealer cable (I find my nearest dealer tends to not have parts available...even on order...for my old subie...but he's too busy selling Acuras,Porsches,BMWs and Chevrolets, too ) Thanks...I will get the cable one way or another.....!

Thanks, GD! I'll look into that! So, I supposed I'll have no problem bolting the '84 or newer pedal assembly into my 1980??