WoodsWagon

Passed it's salvage inspection, retitled, and plated in our name. My mom got to drive it around a bunch today. Her main way of car buying is through a test drive. She said that, yes, if she was testing this car out, she would pay 3k for it, which is what we have into it. It has a couple of rough spots, but on the whole, it's a good car.

I torched the input shaft off of a tranny. and it fits perfect as an alignment tool.

The seats have manual raise and lower:brow: The bun warmers are electric though. Tweeter upgrade makes a big differnce, I did it to my mom's outback. Took them out of a stripped outback, they took the seats, the radio, all the exterior lights, but left the tweeters.

The car is being shipped to the crusher tomorrow, should I just pull the seats and put them on Layaway?

If the brain is insulated from the exterior of the crainum by a large and spacious air layer, would the percieved heat provided by a vehicle vary based on mood?

Or lock the doors at night so the local kids dont steam it up overnignt:lol:

Well, the cars back together and holding it's fluids. I should have used a different short block, this one's gonna have to come out again and I get to bite the 100bucks for new headgaskets to swap these heads onto the next block. The car should be going in for salvage inspection on tuesday, be regestered and legal in our name by wednesday. Redo the engine job late january, only a shortblock swap. I f'd my self on this one. Should have used a different short block. Hindsight is always 20-20. Other than that the car is wicked nice, Fast too. The ABS is fun too, first car I've been able to play around with hammering on the brakes and having the ABS do it's thing.

I got another crossmember from the J/Y, $10. My dad sandblasted and painted it up, industrial orange. Only thing is it had the differential bushings burned out of it. Anyone know where to find replacements for those?

This slap is pretty bad. Sounds like a diesel when it's running. Does yours trip the knock sensor?

ATF is supposed to be red/pink, not brown like what drained out. The pan holds about 5.5 qts, I put in 6 and it's a bit overfilled. I'm not too concerned, I'm going to drain and refill again when the fluid from the TC and cooler mix in with the fresh stuff. AWD is working better too.

bvd73's talking on a higher level than us plebes, so he must know what he's talking about. A car equipped with AC has the evaporator core between the blower and the heater, so there's a bit more air flow restriction. The non-AC cars have a straight duct from the blower to the heater core. The doors in the duct system also have a spongy foam layer on them to seal them when they are shut. If mice have chewed this layer off, they won't seal as well, and you will get a bit of flow out all of the ducts, in stead of lots of flow out of the selected duct. The recirc mod sounds like a good one.

5 month update. It's slipping if I don't let off fast and hard romping on it in second. I'm also using Low range at uphill stops, otherwise it slipps bad. It seems that any heat makes it slip much easier. So... Review= POS. Now, to find the warranty papers. *edit* in the interest of fair review, I am running 235/75r15 tires on it w/ and EJ22. There was also a brakestand period in there, where RWD and front E-brake were involved. 2 incidences where the tires didn't break free when the clutch was let out, enough so that I could smell the clutch after. But really, it should take more than that to finish a clutch in 5 months.

WOoooo Back from the dead! I have to say, on a lifted EA82, converting to disks in the rear made a real difference, I can lock up my 30" tires all round with a hard stomp, on dry pavement. The EA82's came with a proportioning valve, and it seems to work well with the disks as with the drums. The back doesn't lock unless the front is too. For a car without any P-valve, put one in. It's stupid not to.

Swap the whole engine, the older legacy is lighter, so it'll be a bit better on petrol, if you can stay off the accelerator. And hey, it's only 200cc larger displacement, right?

Nice. Thanks guys, I knew that there'd be some Vw knowledge kicking around. It's a complete tube frame sandrail. Fiberglass seat, VW twin tube style torsion bar front end welded on, and a Vw tranny and swingarms in the back. Looks like a stillborn project, no fuel tank, and there's no shifter, just a hydraulic looking valve thingy? Mabe they were trying to do something fancy with the semi-auto tranny. What do the shift linkages look like? Might have to do some mods to the floorpan to fit them in.

Put a snorkel on before you suck water with that car. It only takes on good hydrolock to ruin a good day wheeling.

Heck, with the recovery team he had and the winch on the front, they could have dragged anything to the top. Big Whup. BTW, I love the short wheel base defenders. I always spend extra time drooling over them while i'm in scotland and wales. Got to cruise around in a LWB one in scotland many years ago. It had the spare on the hood and everthing. Lots of torque too. Hauled a huge trailer full of fresh cut wood out of the woods and home on the roads. Disco's are POS in my opinion. One of the kids at my school had one, and it was being worked on more than it was driven, and he never even wheeled it.

Working on it;)

Slowly but surely upgrading the Brighton to a real legacy. It's got Outback struts, a tachometer out of an L, a cigarette lighter out of another legacy, and soon a maplight from an outback, and 15" subaru alloys, which I got 4 w/center caps for $50. I'm working on the leather seats, I could get a set for $100, with Outback embroidered on them... With the height ajust and whatnot.... But mabe that's a bit too classy for the car.

What's leaking is your wristpin removal cover plate. Unscrew the two screws, there's either an O-ring under there, or you just RTV it, I can't remember. That plastic cover plate is also a problem leaker. The cast aluminum plate seems to hold a seal much better than the plastic one.

High speed under load is the highest demand for fuel. If your fuel filter is badly clogged, or if your pump is dying, the fuel rail pressure would drop off, the flow through the injectors would reduce for the same pulse width, and the engine would run lean, leading to detonation. Replace the filter, it's easy, and a 90k might as well, and see if it helps.

Sounds like it would be fun for powershifting, but I don't have the torque converter or the hydraulic pump,soo will the manual bolt right in?

I think the RHD legacy has coil on plug units, which are near impossible to come by in this country. I don't need them, but someone else might.

WHen I replaced my brake pads this summer, I broke off one of the anti rattle tabls. It mad a little click each time I braked, but I didn't care. The click morphed into a clunk a week ago, and then into a horrendous grinding and soft breaks on wednesday. One of the caliper bracket bolts had been working it's way out, and it fell out, letting the caliper swing into the wheel. It's amazing the things we ignore when we think we know what they are.

She was fine untill the EMT's showed up. 15mph with no skidmarks is a lot less force than 50mph. I'm not judging based on her complaining about being hurt. I'm judging by it seems a lot less likely that she really did get hurt. C'mon, everyone's heard the advise "If you get rear ended, claim you have neck pain because that gives your lawer a leg to stand on later." My glasses didn't even come off, and I was in the lighter vehicle=faster decel.