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Ran down the hill into Sandy for some stuff today. They still got a little snow. And I still have the chains on as there are some bad icy spots on the roads. And the last hill to the house is still bad. Rather just leave 'em on and have a bit more of the claws up front.

Nice.

I'd proly hold off as well. One neat thing I did notice though when hitting a fender for some touch up a few weeks ago. Cheap flat black will dry almost glossy when it's like 30 degrees out. And very slowly. (but I knew that)

Every pic that gets posted makes me want this done to my GL more and more. :slobber: Damn good job.

I've seen other cars with it done like that. See no problem with it as long as the new chosen signal is bright enough. And it would make a nice smooth install. If ya go for we need some pics!

Mine did the same. several times. but this was before the cold. every time I just unplugged the pump connector under the car at the pump. and plugged it back in. Fixed. (for awhile) It was just real dirty in the plug. I finally had the chance to clean it out some squish the contacts that go on the outside. squeezed a bunch of Dielectric grease in there. And no problems since. I have went and bought a heavy duty plug to replace it once things get warmer. One thing I noticed is the fuel pump used to be "thunk thunk thunk..." (I have no carpet or back seat so I can hear it pumping back there, diaphragm pump) Now with the cold its' "THUNK! THUNK! THUNK!..." Way louder and sharper sounding. === My Soob seems to be fine. Heat works good. Scoobyclimbs gave me his block heater cord for his 84 hatch cause he figured I'd need it more being up where I'm at. But it won't fit my 83 wagon (the plug is slightly different). Bet he wishes he had it now. Have to get that back to him. Keeping the Jeep, Kenworth, and F-250 all plugged in though. (all diesel) We're having lots of cold here. Where we are at we get 40 mph winds all night. End of a valley, up on a ridge, at the other end is Mt. Hood about 15 miles away, the wind comes up and just pounds us. The furnace has not shut off once in about a week and it's still cold in the house. A bunch of pipes broke on the pond. (koi) Never had a problem with that in the four years it's been in. About 30 seconds outside here and the fingers are totally numb. With gloves on. Snow can be fun but this is just too damn cold. And NOAA says we have at least another week of it here and it's not even gotten as cold as it gonna get yet. :-\

Bummer. I'm sure if things get better they will be back one day. Question is how many years will it take. :-\

Pretty sure the last bit to the top would have been a no go without them. There was some clawing. It got steep and proly over a foot deep on the trail. But my main reason was for the icy spots and such. And so the welded diff would not have so much opinion on my direction changes. and coming down the road from was way nasty by the time I headed out. Real glad I had them then.

Good times.

So I hadn't heard form anyone. And then thinking of what the weather was like and the crappy roads I figured it best if everyone just wheeled in thier own neck of the woods. So I headed out to Goat to see what the snow was like. See how far I could make it but not push it too hard. It was enough to stop all the truggies and frickin' monster trucks I saw up there from getting to the top. But not the Soob! I went up to the top once when I got there and had to break trail. (there were some tracks but they were covered over by almost a foot in some places, so proly from yesterday) Then I played around lower for awhile. Decided to go back up one more time as I had seen a ton of crawlers and such (it was packed up there today) heading up that way and figured I'd show up to make them go "WTF?!" To my suprise there was alot of tracks that followed mine up. But all showed signs of stuck and recovery and turning around just after the gate. So I was the only one that made it up there today. And I even threw my 13's back on so I could use the chains if needed. (I did have them on for piece of mind, it was icy in spots and seeing lots of rigs lose it made them the right choice) Later after dark I ended up running across Mike and crew. And we watched idiots come sliding, spinning, careening, ditching, ect. on an icy corner from the safety of a side road. A few pics from the top. The snow was not so deep up top due to it being so dry and windy. (Goat's about 4,200 ft give or take) * Scoobyclimbs: I got your message. The roads around here sucked. Proly best to not be driving all over today. The trip to Goat was crazier than the trip up it. Next sunday is an R/C crawler board trip up Lolo. Not much wheeling though gonna be just to go run scalers in the snow.

I didn't either. Other than Lead Acid I thought most batteries would suffer from memeoy effect if not fully discharged before charging. (we'll not fully, down to about 1.1v per cell) But it is really only the old Ni-Cads that have that problem. Most of the newer types don't realy like full cycling on a regular basis. I used to race R/C's competativly and had lots of $$$$$$$$ batteries. Was very interested in keeping them top notch. Now I still am with my planes and R/C crawler but the new stuff is not as finicky. Check out that site I linked to. Lots of info. Can get into the charts and graphs. But that's ok. I get all geeked out on this stuff.

Looks like some fun.

The Wiki pretty much has it. But like edrach said not a whole lot of info there. Things like boats have deep cycles for things like when you go out on the lake. "park" the boat out in the middle partyin' with the stereo going for hours on end. The deep cycle will still start it and you wil not have done too much harm to the battery charging it back up. One thing car batteries (lead acid) do not like is "deep cycling". Which is when you drain it down a bunch and charge it up, repeat, repeat, repeat....... ect. (The Li-Ion batteries in you cell phone don't like that either. They prefer a half drain then charge, with about once every 30 cycles going all the way down to re-sync up the phone's battery meter, but thats a different thread/forum altogether) It ruins them. (the plates get all crudded up and they don't work right) Thats why a new battery that has sat dead for awhile, turns to junk. Deep cycles resist being killed by multiple deep discharges. So. A deep cycle is good for when you run stuff with the engine off for long periods of time. But like the Wiki said it can lack a little punch for cold starts and such. But in our little 4 bangers that may not be as big of a deal. (depending on where you live, and how the winters are) For more battery info (on almost all types): http://www.batteryuniversity.com/index.htm

Aww man. Hope ya feel better soon.

I thought I had seen a thread on it on here somewhere. It's what gave me the idea. And after putting in a clutch and looking at how easy it would be once you get a second handle. It's stuck with me as one of the off-road Soob must haves. I just gotta snag a second handle as well. Kind makes me wanna set up some rears as well (isn't it the 240sx rear brakes people use for rear handbrake?) and set those up the same. (but dang, 4 handbrake handles?!?!.... analog traction control haha!) Then I can dump the welded diff. Hmm... rears maybe hydro, with just a couple smaller vertical levers right next to reach other for easy quick one hand on both operation....... * I have a tractor with turn brakes and a locker. Sometimes I experiment with just using the turnbrakes in a "locker situation". Works good once you get the hang of it.

I like that setup. Nice job. While you on the roll you should do the twin handbrake so you can control them seperately. Soob style front locker.

I should have explained it a little more. I meant if you took the spring off the EA82 coil over. Then you are left with just a shock. Ya know if you took a stock EA81 and EA82 completely apart in the back. Out of each car you would get 2 shocks, and 2 springs. Different designs but doing the same thing. One of those "it's the same, but different" situations. I was meaning if he and one or the other. Not both setups. As I knew that it's pretty comon for peeps to fit EA82 shocks and springs on EA81's.

I might be. I ran up Goat last night to see whats up and ... there was no snow. A little at 3,000ft but none at the top. Planning on hitting up behind the RV park? I've not been that way in awhile. Post up a time/place to meet and I'll keep ya updated if I can make it.

Right here: http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=83980 The newest "Rancho thread". Seems to be the way to go. I have an 83 GL as well. (not lifted though) The fact it has torsion bars instead of traditional springs should not affect the shock you use. (though at the same time it does as the EA82 and EA81 are different, but still just shocks, ones just a coil over) And there's alot of different brands, designs, ect. But (someone correct me if I'm wrong) shocks are shocks. Other than some "exotic" types they pretty much all function the same. The Ranchos are gonna do the same thing as the factory ones. Proly just do it better.

Actually it's not a droop problem. He has to unbolt the shocks and have an assistant stand on the suspension arm to get it down low enough to remove an axle. :-\ He needs bigger bumpstops not limiting straps. (Or just raise the diff some) When he breaks them it's under full compression. The diff is hanging too low and when it squats down it overextends the axles. Plus he could hit the diff on flat ground if the suspension is compressed. It's actually where he was told to put it but it breaks an axle every time out. I break none and we're hitting the same stuff. My diff is about 1 1/2" higher than the axles, welded. But under stress of climbs (when they break) when the suspension is compressing it levels out my axles, rather than extend them. I've been wheeling the same axles almost every weekend since spring on a welded diff and never take them out. Thing is in that pic. The extended wheel proly has an axle that is only slightly angled down from straight across. And under those conditions you could have it taking the axle close to it's extended limit (still don't want the axle to be the limiting strap). There's no drive stress on it and little if any traction. So it won't break. When your getting on it on a hill climb or any other time the suspension is compressed and pushing the tire hard into the ground is when the axle needs to be level. That's when it get's stressed. BTW. I saw the pics of your wagon in the rollcall. Nice. Need a front bumper though.

My 83 GL wagon took about 8 cans of the $0.99 rustolium. (by the case at HD) I still have 3 cases of flat black around here. I bought a ton as I had seen an Impreza that they used 22 cans and I planned on needing more. The Fiancee's Nova is next. (Got the shop all cleaned out for it) Advice: Don't paint it on a hot day out in the sun. The paint was boiling as it was drying on my roof and though the rest of the car has smoothed out it still looks like 80 grit up there. I knew better but picked a 100 degree day in the front yard anyway. Ah well, it's a wheeler.

hehe a few pics of the aftermath. As slippery as it was sometimes a bump in the wrong spot was just how the hill was gonna throw ya. Now IU have some "frame" repair to do before the next outing. Which will proly be the SORE 4x4 Hangover run on the first up at Wildcat. I wanted to get out every weekend but I really need to work on it. (I almost never work on it,... it never breaks..... until now) Gotta replace the fuel pump plug too. has started dying on me. Reach under it, unplug the pump and plug it back in, fires right up. Anyway on the the fun stuff. Found that sometimes you take home more than you thought. There was a bigger piece sticking out, but I tried to pull it out at the time and it broke off. Not leaking! These are common. I'd share a pic of each one under the Soob, but I dont' think the gig SD card in my camera is enough. Some have even take away leg room. This one is new though. Kinda bent the front subframe. I know right where it happened too. Going on after SC broke his axle and was winched up to a turnaround spot so he could go back down and meet us at the other end of the trail. I continued on and made one poor line choice. Made it through but got wood in my tire (it was a climb through some big roots and stumps with most the dirt inbetween washed out) and a "frame" rail that needs pulling out and beefing up. Gonna add some plate steel once it's pulled out. (That little bulge is not supposed to be there, and was not there before I went) Good times.

The rocky part was fun, second time I've been down that one. A little on the bumpy side but to me the more technical the better. Kinda slick today though. Yeah I seem to be lucky. Been wheeling the crap out of mine with no broken axles. Put the welded diff in at the beginning of summer, don't even take them out on the street. But Scoobyclimbs has broken almost one every trip. He'll get it sorted out though.

Got back a little while ago. Got a few pics. Really have to get a new camera. Good day other than another broken axle on SC's hatch, FireBreak 5 is to blame for that. Gotta raise that diff some more. Still overextending on climbs when it squats down. Was nice and sloppy out. Going down an section of Archers. (I think it's part of the "rocky uphill" section) One of the SORE4x4 guys going up the upper section of Hogsback. All of us going into Hogsback. SC doing a climb after his axle broke. Group shot. Not a ton showed but 4 was actually a good number for some of the tighter trails when coming across oncoming rigs. Grainy blown up shot of my bumper. Simple but effective. Rammed a tree on Hogsback with it and only damage was the square piece missing from the tree.

Looks like a fun place to just go nuts. So ya gotta get youself some hood pins. And do it again! Faster!