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I like the base model.....would the fan relay be manually switchable?

yep, thanks for the clarification! mikie, I like the sound of that, however, a) I doubt they're available for an EA series tranny and b)does it still have the manual lock option?

yea, all EJ AWD have viscous center LSD. but it's not locking. We want both

don't worry about being a killjoy. like I said, I haven't seen the innards of either tranny, so I wanted to know just what you told me. thanks man!! hopefully you are thinking of something else

so I was talking to one of the local subaru gurus.....one of the few that's ever had more than just a loyale in his liftime. He's had a number of XT's and an RX, and a bunch more. anyway, he started a project, and got into EJ series cars before he ever got terribly far, and never finished. but he thinks it could be done. he's got an RX tranny, torn apart, and a Mazda 323 ciscous center diff with mechanical lock that he thinks could very easily be mounted in the RX box so that even with the lock off, the center isn't open.... well, since he has no use for this project anymore, and has offered to give it to me, and, naturally, I said YES. but haven't met up with him to get it just yet. anyone have any ideas on this? maybe looked into it, or seen both trannies apart and can comment on it? I have never seen the guts of either tranny, so I'm going only by my basic understanding of how they work, and what he told me.

I have to disagree with dustyriders reman'd argument....I've had reman'd axles fail so quickly offroad, that I wouldn't feel safe on them every again. I'd want to have at least 2 front and 2 rear spare reman'd axles to feel confident that I could make it home! I think they're too weak. the stock ones are plenty weak. the big problems with diff stubs come when you're running a welded spool, where you have lots of torque on one side, at normal axle angles. running an open diff, or even LSD greatly reduces that risk (it also does reduce your capability, but for my uses anyway, it works better).

I think he/they means the earlier EA82s (my '85 wagon had it) with a switch on the dash to unlock/lock just the tailgate. when I parted out said '85 wagon, I took the switch, and I can tell you this, the wiring is different, there is no harness in the dash that'll work with the switch. but I bet you could tap into it and wire it through a switch...

I've seen many people with cone filters up on the roof. just make sure to extend the hose back away from the windsheild a bit and put a sheild over the top/front to help prevent rain problems.

ressurected for these pics of the custom 1/4" stainless steel skidplate that 95lwrx built for the PoopenVagon and another pic of the tube bumpers that MorganM and Archemetis built for it:

That's Subaru_Styles'......you can see his wagon in the background

I think he meant water coming from a deep puddle, stream etc. not out of the engine....lol

the engine in my blue '88 wagon seized in January....haven't figured out the culprit, but it was leaking oil, had been overheated a number of times, a PCV hose was off, and a number of other things. I took the passenger side head off last weekend, and the cylindars looked great! just a little carbon, but nothing serious, so whatever went wrong, it happened on the other side...or the middle

I like where you're going with this.....but I have no idea how you would do it. And, as QMan has said, the axles really are the shear pins in our case. they are the weak link. if you're putting too much force on the system, they will break before the diff does etc. And if you're careful with your driving style, and have the car setup well, you won't even break them all that much.

make sure your frame isn't twisted. my '85 had similar exterior damage from a tree incident while wheeling, but the reason the fender buckled, was the shape of the entire car had changed slightly, it never did track straight after that :-\

hmmm...well, I know they shut down their online store awhile ago. maybe the stickers went with it that's where I got mine. you could pm McBrat. I bet he could make you one

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I assume it's the same on EA81s as EA82s.... the linkage between the 4WD and the reduction gear is actually on the outside of the tranny....circled in pink here (sorry, I reused an old pic, so ignore the red circle): it has an adjustment nut on it, and I've thought about disconnecting it, and welding a second lever onto it, so they activate independantly.

yea, it'll be easy while you're doing that DR swap yes

yes you can make it out of aluminum no you won't notice the weight difference.

:confused: I never had anything like that?? even with my seized ujoints!! and about the accuracy of the bolt holes. it's virtually impossible to get an accurate dimension for an old car like this, the geometry just isn't going to be the exact same from car to car.....I too had to ream out the holes a bit, but nothing substantial, I don't hold it against them one bit. and the BYB kit just isn't as weak as it looks. it's vulnerable, but not that bad.

the alloy wheels made me look closer.... and it has the little rubber things in front of the rear wheels

I just noticed....it's a turbo!

The 4.44's came stock in some newer subarus, I beleive mostly autos....but I'm not sure. if you have 2, mounting them will be no different than mounting the 3.90 diffs in a tcased rig. the case is virtually the same.

When you use a divorced Tcase, you don't use the stock front diff. you add one underneath it. Because of this, you can VERY easily use a stock subaru 4.44 r180 in the front. you could even use an LSD one. we did the math, IIRC 4.44 final drive ratio would turn 30s with stock gearing. also, you can use the measily lo range in the tranny with the tcase's RWD hi range, which could probably turn 35s with stock gearing...

no, the beast is not swapped onto a truck frame. those are there to mount the tcase, as the unibody cannot take the torque in it's stock form I forgot about rooinater! He's tcased too IIRC in fact, I attached a pic of the only subaru I can think of with a custom lift over 6" that isn't tcased! It was for sale here a while ago, and I heard it ended up in MN, but I don't know anything else.