Txakura

Wow! Thank all of you for the suggestions, excellent places to start.

this is perfect for a problem I have too, thanks for the pics and write ups!

I get a lot of dust, I mean A LOT creeping into the interior - not necessarily through the dash vents. Should I look at the rear hatch seal? Can that entire lift be adjusted a little tighter down? What about these funky body vents on the quarter panel, should I try metal taping them off from the inside? Open to ideas, it's one thing to go play and make dust, it's another to get saturated by it on the way there - or going to the grocery store.

ditto maybe when he went into the office to use the pc he was checking his bank account... overdrawn? yep, you need a new engine

as long as you check them from time to time, I'm sure they'd be fine that way I have a question, whats the dif between the ea81 grommets, and the BECK/ARNLEY Part # 0396369 ea82 grommet that Rock has? diameter? the shoulder? I actually looked for grommets for 81-87 Brat and 80-84 DL/GL yadda yadda '...Leone' on Rock and on Beck's site

LMAO , I got enough cats around here, I don't need to encourage them seriously how's it do on pitting and scale? will it flake the big pieces away and how well does it get into the crannies? slight OT - I was thinking this would make a nice aux tank to help settle out condensation in my air lines - set a little air pig off the compressor, plug my work line into that - just a big water trap and a little 'buffer' for the main tank

and it smells nice too!

hope you find them, weird thing to have no seperate listing for

I'd really like to HEAR that, if you ever get the chance - find a way to post some good audio for us, eh? Great sounding project, post us some eye candy from time to time.

wow!

(excellent idea)

Seriously, I think you do know a lot. The part of the definition I liked was 'dismisses the opinions, comments, or suggestions of others' because even though I stated I had an event that forever changed my oil pressure, you quoted the damn owner's manual and blew me off. I see "A testament to Subaru Ruggedness". I do not see 'A testament to EA81 Ruggedness' nor do I see the "Ultimate EA81 Message Board" I'll buy the first beer, you go snag some chips and we'll sit in the corner.

know-it-all [noh-it-awl] –noun 1. a person who acts as though he or she knows everything and who dismisses the opinions, comments, or suggestions of others. No kidding high speed? I still had oil pressure? I thought my car had been touched by an angel and it was running on miracle power. The point, Herr Augenscheinlich, is that excessive pressure caused a partial o-ring failure and forever changed that car's oil pressure at an idle. It dropped by over 20 psi and barely read anything at an idle after it went to 85+ psi on a very cold winter morning and fell to zero. I replaced the sending unit and found it had 'some' pressure indicated, but it had forever changed. The further point was that it remained operational with over 220,000 miles on it, and continued to serve me without failure until I could do something about it. Beyond that, and what the owners manual says on page 43, this car has been in my family since 1994, and I'm pretty damn sure I can tell when something in it changes from the way it normally operates. So thank you Captain Obvious, for pointing to the owner's manual, and telling me that I am wrong about my own car - in public. No kidding I still had some kind of oil pressure? They don't run for months on good wishes?

No WAY! that's hilarious, so, maybe whatever change was made, wasn't incorporated into the engine I just popped in... that cracks me up I can use this for the power of evil, RH smoke screen ON !

that would be wild! it was a long downhill right hand bend too... now, we have a severe grade nearby, (The Lewiston Idaho grade) THAT I can see, if you roll down that in 5th you'll be under compression for a good 10 minutes to get to the bottom even a good, reasonably tight engine will let out some smoke when you get back on the gas at the bottom - you've been loading up all the way down this was kind of weird, the cruise was on, but it wasn't on the throttle because of the hill - it was coasting I dunno, maybe there was just a lot more cleaning up to do than I thought...

it cleared up on it's own, file this one under 'WTF was that all about' Baccaruda's random crud theory vindicated? I have had a lot of engines over the years, I've never seen one lay down a smoke screen like that and then get magically all better by themselves... I mean that was one sick cloud that burped out all at once -for no apparent reason. I'm hoping this isn't one of those things that will show itself when something horribly breaks... you know, one of those after the fact 'gee I guess that explains why' deals

No, no. Oil pressure is optional. I blew the seals on my pump one morning at -3 in December... after that the oil pressure would drop to NOTHING showing on the gauge at an idle (showed about 20-25 when the engine was first started, but once it warmed up it would plummet to nothing 'indicated') January, February and March I probably ran 65 miles per day, April was 120+ miles per, May I was down to 65+ miles, finally in June I got it cut down to under 44 per day. 7 DAYS A WEEK that car started and ran with a weak oil pump. All told, I'd say I drove the car 7,500 miles AFTER I popped the oil pump seals. Other than one lifter that sounded like it wanted to free itself from the engine, I ran that engine until last month when I finally pulled it out and swapped it. and the water pump had just started to drip a little little bit too... Arguably I had some kind of pressure at highway speeds... but every time I pushed in the clutch, or idled at a light enjoying my lifter song I got to feel the gut twinge of anxiety looking at the gauge wondering when some really bad stuff was going to happen and how far from home I'd be - but it never came

you're killing me Good point, I'll double check the hose routing against the manual just to be sure I didn't overlook something weird from the engine's PO _ I rinsed all the tubing with solvent to clean it out, but that doesn't mean it was connected right to begin with

weird the oil and coolant are clean and full there is no evidence of any oil going down the throttle body from the PCV - still nice and clean the compression surprised me, it's an (ab)used engine, I was expecting a lot worse #1 170 psi #3 166 " #2 158 " #4 162 " just barely under 10% from worst to best - certainly nothing that would indicate a ring or valve problem hmmm, valve stem seals or Baccaruda's random bit of crud theory... B's idea has some merit, the original air cleaner was clogged really badly when I pulled the engine, and the pcv had to have been getting really pulled on hard to try and make up for it... there was a lot of crap in the pcv - I thought I'd wait and see how it ran before I got too excited, give it a chance to burn some junk out hmmmpph I'll drive it a bit and see what happens

yeah I'm going to pull the plugs and check the compression while I'm checking it all out it was a pretty serious cloud* (like the way it hangs in the vacuum behind the car) and it was smoking at an idle when I pulled in, a little blip on the throttle made pretty blue clouds in the breeze *it looked like the time I blew the oil seals on a Mazda rotary, or more recently, when a turbo fails

after it, and I, cool down - I'll nose around and see what there is to see - it was still running great - it was almost like some kind of seal cut loose but the PSI was up where it has been... hmm

well that ran great for about 2 weeks all I can do is laugh... rolling home on cruise I was coming down an incline and -woooof - massive cloud of oil smoke out the exhaust disengaged cruise and rolled into my car port on the edge of town at an idle oil pressure is up where it belongs, no noises under the hood, but something just let go and it's smoky-the-pig maybe I can get my other block back from the junkyard, all it needed was a water pump, idler bearing, belts and an oil pump re-seal

I'm kind of leaning towards just buying the $99 item and the bag o' soda... I figure it's A) likely to work without a lot of screwing around won't rocket through my neighbors house when my home made threaded adapters tear out C) won't make 'cool' shrapnel holes in my shed D) won't kill me

Good to see you use Fram filters...

Where is the WCSS event held, I'd like to field my car...