The Dude Abides

Welcome new iowa person. And hey i i hear youve got a nice strait hood. Do you want a bent white one. Oh and this thread is useless with out PICTURES.

amazing you need yet another subaru.

I have had 2 small pickups. A 92 isuzu and a 93 s 10. The s 10 was great but had the doggy 2.8, and the isuzu was great to but body ate itself out before the engine did. I would recomend a full size vehicle though. I just dont know if i could trust something smaller then what i was useing to haul it. But if i were to pick somehting to haul around a small trailer or a quad it would be a s-10 with the 4.3

were you going to put fender flares on the brat.

Well i can vouch for the obcession over subarus but a brat is hard to pass up. There kinda a rairty in good shape. You should be all over this one.

You want to give me those wheels you know you do.

So when are the stacks going in:grin:, i think u should run them right through the hood but thats just me.

Jesus man that looks like a prerunner. Someone should make t shirts.

LOL nice dennis

Well sure young to a guy whose got 2500 posts lol. I remember that day because i offered to help. Driveing snow, 50mph winds, -20degree temps. Ive done that to where i tried to see what my truck could do only resulting in me walking to a buddys house to help me get it out. Yes a live and learn situation for sure. But its over and now its nice weather so lets try again on the mud run brent. Ben

Correct me if im wrong gd but i thought they changed the body style version to gen 2 in 81 but kept the gen 1 drivetrain. Thats why it was so hard to find liftkits for them.

As usual bratman you hit it on the head. And ou812 i mean no disrespect to you as well, but just try to understand that not everyone on here is spielberg, and it cost him his knee, and a clutch to get that brat unstuck from where he had it so i would just give him alittle slack.

What is with you and no doors here lately man.

I run anco on my subaru and my wifes minivan. Kinda crap on both and ive had good luck with them. Im not sure of the brand but a friend of mine at work as a set of frameless wipers on his suburban. He swears buy them, saying he never has any streaks or problems with them breaking. There pricey though i believe.

Kinda young here to be spoutin off arent ya

To be blunt, No. Im sorry i picked up my 88 for 400 in perfect running condition. The AT is really going to kill you. They are prone to failure and they really wrap up the rpms when doing atleast 65 or so. You have certain issues that you coudl probally address here. Why are you wanting to get rid of it. If you address the oil issue you could definately get more but honestly i think with the problems you have and with the AT. Your lucky to get 700. But thats my opinion. Buy the way, pics help.

I have the idle surgeing as well. I havent checked the CTS can you clean this.

Who gets stuck listening to ACDC

LOL were glad he made it and again it sounds like hes just used to haveing more powerful cars. Sadly these are not, but he does have a nice rust free looking GL. Yes on inclines, large ones you need to downshift. But like others said on here he needs to bond with the car. Hell figure out all the quirks and whatnot. Have him get his own screenname and join the board. We can help him along the way. I like his wheel setup it looks like mine. Ben

I recomended the rear disk swap because it sounds like because of the steep inclines he faces daily hes useing the brakes alot. With the back brakes being drums and somewhat flawed and inferior. I suggested going with disc brake swap because he will have less wear and tear on his front brakes doing the job buy themselves when he has a good set of rear disc brakes to help along and disperse some of the work. I never feel the rear brakes on my loyale grab its always the front.

Ok just simple things, Pop off the line going to the fuel filter. Does the gas flow good, then pop off the line after the fuel filter is it still going good. Then spark, maybe his disty is on the fritz. If hes getting good spark from the sparkplugs then the disty should be good. Buy the way we need exact info on the car. Is he looseing any oil or coolant. When have the timeing belts changed (though i dont think thats the problem.) Others will chime in as well.

LOL if you want to do cheep for a truly rice sound take off the muffler and have them weld a pipe in its place. I have no muffler on mine and its a nice balance of good sound and not to loud. Some people on here put glasspacks or turbo mufflers but if you wanted to go cheep and uncomplicated just hack off the muffler and put a strait pipe in its place.

I find this kinda funny, being leary of replaceing a Japanese radiator with a chinese one. Anyways sounds like the only sucky thing about the car is the auto tranny. If you do some searches on here there poorly made and make the car really rap out in the rpms. Do a coolant system flush. Flush the heater core and all the engine, get that 18 year old coolant out of the thing. When you are doing this check for missing fins in your radiator. When its runnign do you have coolant leaking from the front of the motor as well. Oil leakes tend to be the valve cover gaskets but there are others. Its usually the valve covers first. (i find it odd i give this advice when my car pukes oil and coolant on a daily basis.) I dont know if i would bother giving the thing a tuneup. Ive got 200thousand on my distributor and its still running (kinda).

I find i recomend the rear discs to more people which just screws me in my effort to get a setup for myself:confused:

I understand what you want to do. If its what i think you waht. You want some cool looking rotors to show off to your friends, or something cool to brag about your car. I promise you you dont need it. Drilled rotors crack and slotted are unnecessary because you cant possibly build up that much heat. Make sure your calipers are taken care of and mastercylinder is top ed off. Keep your system blead and good on pressure, and swap to rear discs. Those things alone will help your car stop faster. Again im not makeing fun of you but trust me your going to impress them with your 4wd ability then anything else.