WoodsWagon

Reason my dad bought another subaru? He was getting too old and his back too weak to be shoveling out cars when they're stuck. First he ran mercedes, late 60's models, then he ran diesel pugeot's. when those wore out, he bought a 86 gl with dual range 4wd. It handled like no other car he had driven, and never got stuck. He spun it a couple times on ice, but tires can be blamed for that. The fact he no longer had to worry about being stuck or not getting to his destination in snow or mud season converted him. That led him to his 1995 legacy AWD, which has preformed flawlessly. The US postal service used right hand drive subarus for rural delivery vehicles for many years. Postal cars are always being put in the ditch so they can reach the boxes, no matter what the weather. What other car can be put in a muddy ditch hundreds of times a day without being stuck? Focus on superiority in deep snow and muddy roads. Handleing is nice and natural but many cars have come into the same range since the 80's. Suggestion for advert: Family w/ young kids piles into Legacy. Head out on road trip through snow covered roads. Last road a mix of mud and slush. Pull up at generic Grandma's house w/ illuminated christmas tree highly visible in window. Voice over: Subaru: so you never have to worry about getting to the occasions that count. Or something like that. Make sure french/english signs are prominent on ad's in quebec. That will give better local connectivity to the advert.

How much torque can EA82 halfshafts take before they break unreasonably often? I'm doing an EJ22 swap over the winter, so that will put more stress on them. The car has 30" mud tires on it, so the tires will put up a fight before they break loose. I'm considering putting a supercharger on the EJ22 once it is broken in, but will that be too much power? Is there such a thing? I have to replace halfshafts fairly often now, but will it be a monthly afair with that much power? Probably round 150 Wheel horse.

Heh, mines the exact oposite. On accel, everything works right, when coasting or decell, lights flicker and dim, coolant gauge goes wacky, the whole deal. I think it's a ground. When the engine shifts in its mounts, the ground works, then doesn't work.

Don't know if this has been round before but: http://www.capa.com.au/pics/news_ls1nationals07.jpg Not sure whether it's subaru running gear.

well, it is a mixed bag. While it was in the process of being built, I got a lot of snickers and jabs. Now that it has raged the streets and gotten demolished on the trails, people have much more respect. One kid asked me if he "could drive it, just round the parking lot, please?" So i let him and he was happy aferward, saying "now I can say I drove a lifted soob" Don't see many people asking to drive lifted chevy's now do ya. And now it's crippled and I'm hitchhiking round, sometimes I get the "you're the driver of that lifted wagon, aint'cha?" So it is toatally known in the neighborhood.

1:3 Thats one running and 3 dead! My legacy parter has no motor, my touring wagon has a blown headgasket. My loyale has a bent rod and blown headgaskets. My dad's Legacy is the only one going reliably. Mabe it's because he doesn't beat on it?

Even though your tires are new, I would rotate them. It's easy to do in your driveway, and while you have the car jacked up, you can give a feel to all the componants and see if the brakes are draging on any wheel. A collapsing leading rod bushing will cause a pull, and the rubber tends to be cracked up by this age. A bent leading rod or twisted controll arm could also be part of the problem. But put the front wheels on the back and cross the back wheels over to the front and see if it still pulls, just to be sure it isn't the tires.

SELL ITto me!, Then go out and buy a used kia with the money. I'm sure you'll be much happier.

Whats the logo going to be? A pile of rust? :-p Sorry. I couldn't resist. Northeast vintage subaru just seems like an oxymoron to me. I can't keep my friggin 92 from rusting off the road. My loyale isn't old enough to be cool yet. Hey, only 5 more years to go.

Wear your seatbelt. The lap one as well as the auto one. I don't bother with a helmet, mostly because someone my size (6'4") doesn't have enough head room to fit one. If I wore one, it would cause severe neck injuries. But if you're shorter, wear like a motorcycle helmet. It would suck to have thousands of dollars of medical work done because of a stunt in a $500 car.

Could you have shorted out the coil when you filled up the coolant? There's a black plastic shield around the coil, you may want to take it off to make sure that all the water is out. Check for spark, and make sure you didn't fill up the black plastic box of fusible links up with water.

I don't think the low range is as low as the EA82 trannys, but it is an improvement. It is also a bolt in using origional clutch. How much are you going to be getting them for?

Thank you. Tearing the old engine apart would be purely to satisfy curiosity. Blowing one of these engines takes some doing, so when one does, everyone wants to know what happened. Deffinately make sure everything is good with the engine management so you don't wreck the new engine. It could have run that one cyl. lean and destroyed the last engine, which could recur and destroy your new engine. Yeah, having a salvage title does kinda wreck the book value. But if you plan on keeping this car till its junkyard bait, it doesn't matter.

With the turbo engine, you will have to come up with a good aftermarket or custom clutch to hold the power on the EA82 flywheel.

#1 Buy a new high end car. that will get rid of the squeaks and rattles (for a bit) #2 Sell the subaru to someone here. #3 You got raped by the repair shop. Being a future mechanic, I have an eye for the shoddy work that goes on. I've seen plenty of full time mechanics at shops who know less about how the systems actually work on a car than I do, which is pathetic. You ran across a shop of A1 arseholes. Might you also consider that the drain plug on the radiator is right up in the zone where the clowns would have been working on the timing belts? While prying and whacking on the engine of the POS japcrap car, they could have easily sheared that off. Any mechanic worth their salt checks the fitment off the parts before they put them on, which these guys obviously didn't with the water pump. #4 And speaking of that water pump, you seem to refer to the car as a legacy. Legacy's were not made in 1986. It is a EA82 GL. you got shafted, plain and simple, by the repair shop. You are one of thousans of people shafted daily by incompetent mechanics. Some of these people blame the car for being a money pit, others blame the mechanics for being theifs. Some just figure that's the way it goes and get on with life, not to return to the same shop. By the way, most shops charge the customer twice what they paid for parts. it's a way of skimming more cream off the customer. So yes, bringing your own parts to a shop of clowns will piss them off. You just took away one of their ways of screwing you. Taking a weekend and doing the work yourself would have made for a happier you.

Not too bad milage wise, low and mid 20's, but the acceleration is pretty bad. Mine has 30" mud king radials on it, and judging by the amount of noise they make, their an ineficient tire. I could hold 75 on the highway, with up and down hills, and 97 was possible on a long down hill. I averaged 80mph for a 160mile stretch of road. Pretty much, if the rpms dropped below 2k rpms, i had to downshift. 4th gear was a regular occurance on the uphills.

I believe he's asking whether he can take all the turbo stuff, manifolds and whatnot, and swap it onto his EA82. First check if the turbo is water cooled, or an oil cooled one. the water cooled ones were installed as a recallish thingy and are better. It should have 4 hoses going to it instead of 2. The SPFI is a high compression moter, 9.5:1 I believe? This doesn't work well with turbos, and tends to cause detonation. But at low boost levels with premium gas, it should work. My advise? Take the snorkle off the airbox, its a pipe with lots of bends inside the quarter panel, and drive it like you stole it. If you're a convert from big displacement engines, you may need to learn to rev the c*ap out of it. You shouldn't drop below 2,000rpm's when shifting into the next gear.

Might have to chastize those who have not donated and buy more servers.

For New hampshire, it is done by bumper height. Unfortunately, my wagon is registered as a passenger vehicle, so I'm only allowed 20" to the bottom of my bumper. Pickups are alowed 30" So every time I get it inspected, I have to put the low pro 13" rim wheels I have on it and load up the smugglers hatch and the spare tire well with steel to drop my bumpers low enough. Technically, if i pissed a cop off, I could get cited for excessive height, tires that stick out beyond the fenders, the scratch in the windshield, lack of mudflaps, sharp edges on the quarter panels I cut, and noise violation. The bumpers I'm planning on making are ilegal too, because they replace energy absorbing ones. Pickups are allowed anything more that a 1/4" steel plate. The reason for all the regs is so that cars bumpers will be at the smae height in a crash. But with the number of suv/ trucks that are on the road now, it's only fair that the cars should be allowed to be as high as the trucks so we have a chance. With my car in it's illegal state, My bumper would hit most suv's just a bit above their bumpers. Fair game I say. Seeing as in a T bone incident, most suvs are nailing cars at the top of their doors.

Hey look! It has rocker panels! wow. arizona weather is so nice to the bodies.

It may help. It's biggest benifit is stoping the pan from getting punctured. My oil pan crumpled, instead of being torn open like it should have because that plate was between it and the ground I was hitting. I think it should still deflect minor hits without a problem

A quick short term answer, while not eco-friendly, is to spray on used motor oil to the underside. Next time you do an oil change, put some in a squirt can and spray down any rusty areas or any exposed metal. Just don't do it when anyone is watching.

Go with an aluminum V8, say out of a porsche 928S? hemi heads and all aluminum. I have a car you could buy 3k takes it, the fuel pump crapped out, but it runs f'n great if you pour gas down the throat.

I think any welding, which would have to be from the inside, would smoke the paint off. I'ts a stamped steel channelish thing that supports the roof and rigidizes it. So between it and the sheetmetal roof, there's not much thermal mass. A flexible epoxy deal might work well, thanks for the idea.

So when is it coming up to NH to be admired?