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hehehe....that could be, but I'm telling you it wasn't so effortless in my '85 carbbed EA82 wagon.....but I did it a few times anyway

psssst.....I've got better clearance in my 4" (high clearance) lifted, with 28" tires than my buddies 6.5" lifted, with 35" tires YJ....he's got me owned in almost every other category though

my local off-road club uses http://www.myfreebulletinboard.com and are quite happy with the program, I also host a board for my family to communicate with. it's a nice system, and as the name implies, it's free! check out the north shore wheelers board here: http://myfreebulletinboard.com/f2/?mforum=northshorewheel

I've always been under the impression that the push-button trannies were weaker in the rearend than the dual ranges......although now that I think about it, I don't know why but just the fact that you say his wagon was upgraded to the hilt, probably means he was pushing more ponies through there than it was designed to hold. plus the abuse of getting the wheels to spin for burnouts and drifting (although I've done it too....hehehe), plus however many miles where on the tranny.... oh...I know what I was thinking, the full-times with the pushbutton center lock is probably not as setup for pushing all of the power out the rear output, all of the time....

fair enough....I still think it's alot harder than you make it sound especially considering how long subarubrat's been running tcased and NOT had the rear output strip out, I know he's had problems with other gears, but not the same as these. not to mention how many others of us have run in RWD.

unless you've got some attachment to your existing tranny....I'd get the EJ tranny too. I, personally, would want the diff lock/lo range (RX) of an EA tranny, mated to an EJ motor....but the EJ trannies are very nice too. I hear that EA82t axles will fit the legacy tranny stubs. you may want to grab the rear diff too, have to be sure you've got a matching ratio EA82 loyale......water pumps are EASY!

keep in mind that james is not in town. this is a different guy that appears to be less familiar with how we do things here....

I, too, wouldn't lose faith so quickly....case #1, obvious abuse....had it coming case #2....hard to say, but 'showed up some jeeps' makes me suspect abuse case #3....Adam's got an H6....definately more than it's designed for I've driven mine in RWD quite a bit, even with the larger tires, in fact, I will probably do it next summer for daily driving my car on the hills here in duluth, so I can use lo range and save my clutch some

looks sweet.....but I doubt there's much subaru left

RX has 3.7

hooorah for the resurected thread!

hehe. yea, I did, I just got your message, and am leaving soon to come home...I'll call you on the way!

I beleive an early '90's turbo legacy could have a 3.9 VLSD

Hey...I recognize most of those cars...hehe and who's that crazy kid with the White-boy 'fro workin on his car in the snow?? what a nut hehe.......nice pic!

IMHO the EJ tranny needs a lo range more than real locking center.... btw...austin's got a 5-speed too

this is as close to an all encompassing write-up that I've seen: http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showpost.php?p=387144&postcount=3 personally...I wouldn't try to do it in 3 days, especially if you've got zero back-up. there's alot to be done, especially in the wiring, and there's alot that can go wrong.

I beleive it's neither....direct gear driven

I was watching the WCSS6 DVD of austin's and you can hear suberdave's snorkle makes a ton of noise (it's a turbo....btw), and it sounds really neat!

sorry...but that's a little off....for example, there's a trail I've been down a couple times here, that's an ATV trail, with swamp on either side, and big gnolls. my right rear tire get's about 3-4 FEET off the ground, and I'm still going up hill, there is no way you could get over it with an open rear end, period. maybe with some JATO packs you could just jump it, but a welded rear would make it a cakewalk.

I'm running with them all off...no problems yet (almost 10k miles)

that is just NOT TRUE.... maybe it's because I ran with the rear suspension adjusted up quite a bit for awhile, but my downflex is not effected. and the forward rake doesn't effect anything, there's plenty of room to trim the fender there if you'd like, and the tire can't get any closer, so you don't need as much clearance there as you would for an ozified lift...it's just not a problem and like singletrack said, the 'camber' issue, isn't any better or worse on an AA lifted car vs. any other lifted car, beleive it or not, it's virtually stock, just looks a ton worse with big tires on it. as a matter of fact, the camber on MorganM's old 3" BYB lifted wagon on 29's was WAY worse than mine! EDIT: torxx...I just noticed that you said you're using a high clearance lift, but the front geometry is the same......what?....the high clearance 4" lift uses 4" strut extensions, and 3" engine tranny xmember blocks (or at least mine does)...also, do you have the adjustable extensions in the rear, or the 4" relocation plates on the top?

I'd say as long as the rust isn't structural, you're not snapping the strap (getting a run at it), and you're not trying to drag out a Tahoe....the stock hooks are fine. I use them when I pull my loyale parts car out of the woods (on it, I've got a D-Ring on my rear bumper)

when I got my 13" all-seasons on my '85 at discount tire, I paid a few bucks per tire to get them siped....made a world of difference! they get great traction in many conditions (didn't take it on the rocks much....but other than that), and have lasted quite long! big thumbs up here!!

can't get the bolt in the stub out? I got this idea from McBrat, it's a hand impact tool, you hit it on the end with a hammer, and it puts a little torque on the bolt, that way it's harder to round off the bolt head, I found one in the JCWhitney catalog, it was cheap ($$), but it was cheap (POS), I'll see if I can find it on their website so you can get an idea.