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just needed an adjustment, thanks doods

Jerry's 5-speed swap was the single best improvement I've made to my subaru yet. Just sayin. Oh so worth the time and money, nothing else gives you so much performance gain for so little money and work

Hey guys, this may be a bit premature, as I will be fiddling with the adjustment tomorrow, but I sent a decent working EA82 tranny into my shop to be taken apart, cleaned, and reassembled with fresh synchros. But now that it's back in the car, I am having trouble engaging low range. When I pull the lever up for low range, I have to hold the lever tight against it's stop to keep it from popping out of low and grinding an awful noise. My mechanic thinks that the adjustment doesn't need to be messed with since all the measurements should still be the same from before the trans job. I'm going to fiddle with the adjuster for low range tomorrow, but what do you guys think? Suddenly stripped low range on a previously good working EA82? Reassembly somehow got fudged? Mechanic just doesn't know soobs, and is overlooking the obvious?

There's guy on here by the name of Jerry who builds conversion kits for EA81s to convert for use with an EA82 trans

I'll keep an eye peeled at the impound yards, and while I'm out driving my tow truck

what a retarded website. Asks you a 'random question' of what the name of a popular offroad vehicle made in Japan is for anything you try to do including register. I type in Subaru, and subaru, and 4Runner, and 4runner, and Toyota, and Brat, and etc. etc. etc. and its all wrong wrong wrong.

count me in, I still need to adjust the backlash on my lsd, but I should be ready to go for some light wheelin come January. and it probably wont be snowy, too low of elevation.

in case, you never figured this one out, I had a really similar problem on my 84 Hatch. It was the transmission mounts. They were cleaved in half! I couldnt tell till I levered against the transaxle and noticed how much it moved!

I did the Weber conversion on my ea81 Hatch. The Hitachi worked ok, but it was paltry in the power dept. Frankly, I got my Weber brand new in a kit off Ebay, but you can also just get the adapter plate and source up a weber 32/36 dgev from another car. They came on all sorts of vehicles, mostly 80's cars and trucks. Bear in mind that when buying used, you might have to do a rebuild. But yeah, Weber was a quick easy install, make sure you read the article is the USRM, that's what I used to install my weber, and it went perfectly. Oh, and get the universal throttle cable mount kit for that weber carb. It's a pain to rig up your own throttle cable mount.

All I got to say about Loyales, and EA82's and EJ's in general, is two words. Timing Belts. Beware!

I too am building a hatch. basically going for what yours looks like now, except I was thinking 4" lift. altho... the twin carbs look ba-a-a-ad. so, which carbs did you go with? and is that a custom manifold or did you make an adaptor?

I love this forum, this post is over a year old but still helps me! In case anybody wants to know the control arm bushings for an EA81 are available by Beck-Arnley part no. 101-3547. I have a clunk in the front end of my hatch too, that I cant seem to pinpoint. I've done the engine mounts, tie rods (inner and outer), balljoints, wheel bearings, and am about to do the control arm bushings. It's relieving to see someone else had this malady!

I have a hatch that will be used mostly for offroad but with onroad ventures. and I appreciate knowing both how to adjust my ride height on the fly (something I cant yet do on my Bug) and that doing so will cause premature wear and therefore $$$. So yeah! thanks to all parties, this should be a sticky!