Numbchux

^Buddy of mine.... he just wanted me to make sure you guys know he's out of town for the week, but is still 100% in on the group buy.

I hear the GCK EA81 axles are BEEFY, but I have EA82's so in my experience, by the time you spend enough money, to have enough extra lifetime warranty reman'd crap axles, you might as well have had some custom ones made! I wouldn't feel comfortable wheeling on reman'd axles unless I had at least 4 spares just to make sure I could limp it home. I've had horrible luck with remanufactured axles (had one last me about 18 hours once...), and great luck with junkyard axles, for a fraction of the price.

yep, we had a donor car sitting in the driveway...but we still did it all at once. you need to tear the dash down to the firewall, which means disconnecting the Lines to the heater core, and A/C lines. and both front fenders. The fuse box under the hood will need to be dissasembled, including removing all the relays (It's a tight fit through the hole in the inner fender), but save 'em. The fuse box under the dash won't fit out the hole, so the entire under-hood harness will need to be threaded into the interior. when we did it, we left only unplugged what we had to, left all relays on the harness (eve headlights ones, etc.). just to make things a bit easier. and it seems to have helped at this stage

front axles are easy, FWD impreza's use a 23-spline inner DOJ cup, just like EA82 N/As. and the axles are the same as the legacy ones (or at least Gen 1 legacies....I can't say about later ones). the trick is driveshaft, as the EJ one won't go into the back of the tranny...and the EA one uses a different center carrier bracket. a custom shaft will probably need to be used. and then there's the crossmember....and linkage. I haven't looked at that yet....

AHA, I think you're right! that would explain the misunderstanding! thank you

ok, thanks. that's what I was thinking, but my dad kept saying that we're going to need to pulll the dash as we were pulling the wiring out of the legacy donor car....

just the motor, it'll be mated to an RX tranny.....but I don't know how it would make a difference

you guys that did it....did you pull the dash out of the EA car during the install? or can it be done reasonably just from the driver side with the gauges and stuff removed...

don't think there's going to be a DVD this year, but I'll plan on it for next, just not enough footage or time this year (mostly because the only good footage I have, is Austins, and I don't actually have it....). BUT, I just hit the $400 mark today, anyone here want to contribute?! if I win anything in the raffle, I'll offer it up to you people first (but it'll probably be for jeeps...)

yes, the center diff can be welded. there's a local guy running hi L wagon with RWD right now. yes, it would bind horribly on the street....don't do it yes, FWD impreza axles fit right onto EA part-time 4WD Dual Range trannies and into your hubs (correct me if I"m wrong here, is there a difference between legacy and imp hubs?, otherwise you could probably swap the 23-spline inner cups onto your legacy axles)

tried airing them down?? it doesn't sound like it would help, but it certainly does!! the rocks up here are very sharp (our ORV park is an old Iron Ore mine), and it's amazing what letting 15-20 psi of pressure out of your tires will do!

that's just one reason to remove the mechanical fan, and turn the electric one off before going into any water that deep!! case in point! he was not moving very fast either. in fact, if he had been going any slower, he might not have drifted to the other side.....

well, since this has turned into a PS vs. non-PS discussion.....I'll throw my experience in there: MorganM removed the PS from his wagon (when it was his anyway), but didn't swap the racks. it's quite hard to get it to turn, I can do it, but not unless I"m moving a little bit.

sweet, thanks man

how much of the main harness/ECU is effected by the tranny setup? my donor car is a FWD 4EAT....will that make things drastically more difficult?

I haven't measured the black one, but my blue wagon's rear bumper is 24"+ off the ground sorry, yes, we are talking about washington. I just thought I'd throw out the rules in MN for camparison....but I think I just made it more confusing

yea, I figured I could just drill and tap the holes, but I don't remember how it went on there, so I'm not sure where to put them....but it doesn't look like there's a place there. ugh, I hope that '88 t-wagon is still at the yard!

no attempt at all, they finished it, and IMHO it looks awesome! http://www.htautos.co.uk/8.html

so....I pulled an XT6 rear sway bar at the junkyard a couple months ago, and I have no idea how it was mounted. anyone have pics? anyone put a sway bar on a car that didn't come with one? this is going in my '92 loyale wagon, with '85 GL wagon trailing arms......

technically passenger vehicles and station wagons are 20" in MN. but 4WD and multi-purpose vehicles are 25"....so I haven't had trouble yet

yep, there's a local guy with a huge toyota P/U with removable lower bumper tubes, and removable fender flairs. that way he can drive the rig from the campground to the park without getting hassled (he does anyway, but he can't get ticketed....)

yep, as previously stated in this very thread, that's where this set came from, but the key is to get it to fit in an EA82 D/R box and still have the gears mesh properly.

uh..... http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=58465

I don't know about WA...but in MN, running from the police in an ORV is an automatic felony, and the vehicle used can be surrendered. so the idea that 'they have to catch me first' is really a bad one!

I don't have any MTs.....but I've got 29" ATs, on both rigs, both with power steering racks, but one with the pump removed. Both have held up just fine both on the rocks of former iron ore mines in Northern MN, and the soft, swampy muck of my buddies backyard. what do you mean the R&P didn't like it too much? I've never heard of anyone having any problems.....