WoodsWagon

It's moronic comments like this that lead to having threads like these come up: http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=67416

Rear cargo area light. The maplight will plug in, grab the harness that runs down the drivers side A pilar. The D/R will bolt in and should plug in too. The sensors have the same plugs, but sometimes the mini-harness on the tranny doesn't match. It's easy to swap your harness on. If your loyale doesn't have the plastic left foot rest, grab that off of the other car too. Rear door speakers if you don't have those, the wiring for those is already there.

Take a look at the first pic, the engine's in there under all that stuff.

Putting a "no smoking" sticker on the dash might be good for some laughs.

The bracket off of a legacy tranny bolts right up to the EA82 tranny. Use the legacy pitch stopper rod, and you're good. Another detail that tends to say the EJ tranny's really aren't that different.

You have to be carefull at stoplights on wet days. If you use more than half throttle in FWD, the front wheels will both break loose and the front of the car slides to the right. It's fun, but only if there isn't a car to your right at the stoplight. This is with 235/75R15 BFG All-terrain T/A's

I forgot the camera this morning. I'll have the car up on the lift friday, mind if you wait till then?

The rear has stub shafts that can be run without the rear axels and differential. You'll need to swap control arms though. Why not use the XT6? Lots more power than the XT. If ther's title issues with the XT6, the vin plates on your XT are only held on with rivits.

Front, rear or side?

I'll take some tomorrow on the lift at school.

The rear crossmember that holds the lower links and the diff is absolutely gone on my dad's 95 legacy wagon. We noticed when the bracket holding the muffler rusted off the crossmember, put extra stress on the exhaust pipe, and it fell down under the car. I can punch a screwdriver through it lots of places, and everwhere else an awl and hammer goes through distressingly easy. There's 1" square holes throught it. The rest of the car is rust free. Anyone else notice this happening to their car? It's going to be a PITA to replace this crossmember. We half-@ssed the exhaust back together and bolted a custom bracket to the rust to hold the muffler up.

Jack a pump out of any parts subaru you can find. Legacy's will work too. Someone should know what the real name for the "rubber sealing thingy" is. There's an O ring and a rubber cone seal dealy. If you replaced just that, it might fix it. The seal was leaking ATF out, but it's probably letting air in and making the pump moan.

Can you put the camera on the front bumper? That would be a motion sickness inducing shot.

Matter if it's lifted?

Ive seen the pump, the resavaur sits side-saddle on it, with a pipe that joins in the top with 2 10mm bolts. In my experience, all the subaru pumps are the same, just some of them have slightly different size mounting bolts. I put an EA82 pump on my EJ22, all I had to do was clearance the holes in the bracket a bit. Moosens: I'd swap the pully and resavaur over to the pump that was hanging out of the wagon we pulled the tranny out of, use a new rubber sealing thingy where the resavaur pipe bolts to the top of the pump.

Thank you for making a video without music. I like to hear the suspension bottoming and the engine howling on the hillclimbs! Looks like loads of fun.

"survey closed" If this was a survey asking if the Db levels alowed for offroad exhaust should be lowered, I woulda said yes. The three main reasons for trail closure are "Its noisy" "They wreck the trail" and "It smells". You may like the "freedom" to have a louder than hell woods rig, but by exercising that right, you're screwing up my privilege to ride in the woods on my well muffled ATV/ woods rig. Don't give people legitmate reasons to close riding areas. I support enforement of sound output regulation, be it a Harly, Honda Civic, or ATV. Being loud doesn't make friends.

The headgaskets were coated in some black stuff, I figured it was paint. They're probably stock then. What's the easiest way to recognize the new style gaskets? Can you still buy the old style ones on accident?

My car burns a litre per tank of gas, so one per oil change isn't bad at all. I'd drive it and just top it off every now and then.

I just tore apart a 1998 2.5L. Exhaust was blowing into the coolant. I took off the heads, and there wasn't an obvious breach in the headgaskets. I didn't see any cracks in the head either. The headgasket appears to be a 3layer, outer layers definiatly some sort of steel materiel. One of the outer layers was loose from the "fire ring" around the cyl, but that might have happened when I took the head off. What i'm wondering is if this gasket is origional or the "MLS" gasket.

He already replaced disty's and checked timing. Acording to his assistant, the injector is pumping fuel down the throttle body. I'd turn the engine over slowly with a ratchet on the crank and see if you get resistance from the comp stroke on each cylender.

Whoa! that's what we paid new for KYB GR2's. Used the outback struts on the brighton.

Taking the radiato out makes doing the water pump much easier. It isn't hard either, the only pain is the lower tranny cooler line, can be difficult to get the clamp off. Doing the timing belt and idler pullys while doing the pump makes sense. You have to take it all off to get to the pump, might as well do two jobs at the same time. Ignore the tranny leak, and just keep it filled up. Who cares if you leave a bit of red snow behind you? How much oil is the headgasket leaking? How much oil do you have to add on a regular basis? My plan of attack: Water pump and timing belt Rear wheel bearing Caliper replacement. Put a Wanted to buy add up and see if anyone has a caliper for cheap. Ignore the oil(s) leakage untill it gets really bad.

I'm in the Honda program at my local tech school, and I'm tearing apart an Oddesy motor right now. Pretty strong by the looks of it, but it's hauling a van behind it. I was tearing apart an EJ25 at home tonight, and looking at the cams. It's a DOHC, and man the profile on the lobes is steep. That's some good lift that subaru is running on the 2.5's.

More Zip ties? The computer will reset itself.