WoodsWagon

Side note on Moab. Fresh water, really good too, comes out of a pipe in the rock. The spring is on the road that you can turn right on just out of town heading towards arches natnl. Park. The road is before the bridge. Up that road futrther is a campground on a bend in the river. decent prices, no shower, but that's what the rivers for. In town, theres a 50's style diner with ice cream. good enough food, and hell of a lot fater than the brewery place, which is always packed. Nightlife includes waiting at the gas station and checking out the mean wheeling rigs that come through. There's a safeway or something like that for buying food and drinks... They have a seperate liquor section I believe. Oh, out in the southwest.. Who has the lifted subaru near the enterance road to Mesa Verde park? I caught a glance at it and was like wow, cool. We went on a southwest tour last summer, put 1000k on a rental blazer in a week and did some wheeling in BLM land near Moab. Just look for unmaintained roads and go, its fun in a rental. My mom was kinda skared by some of the dropoffs though. Lol. Memories.

You know all that plastic crap including the air box you pulled out? A fair bit of that is referred to as the intake silencer, and it "silences" the intake noise. Some people, including me, think intake noise sounds cool. Others, excluding me, think exhaust noise sounds cool. Whatever your preference, you modify the silencing system that pertains to that noise. You now have a car that sings to you in B. So B happy.

A previous thread dealt with the wind noise. Just squeeze the little triangle panels up where the mirror attaches together with the window rolled down, and the noise will go away.

less of a hump over the rear wheel and a smaller spoiler would make it look better in my opinion. Nice job remaking the car though.

Do the doors still close easily? that would be my daily test that everything is still good. When the door doesn't want to shut, junk it, don't drive it. Check the spots where the suspension joins the frame, just so bits of the car don't wander away when you're not looking.

The weak point in your car is the automatic transmission. Rust is often fixable. Take a wire brush to it, primer it on the inside, rivet metal to the outside, and bondo (fiberglass filler) it. It takes some time and patience, but the sooner you get to it, the smaller the rust holes will be. As a rule of thumb, the rust hole will be twice as big as it looked after you wire brush it. Good luck!

Hee he.. just wait till the wind hits you! it'll be like driving a VW bus in a windstorm.

Is this using the EA82 dual range tranny and adapter plate for an EJ? Way cool. This should increase the amount of legacy's and foresters in the woods.

sorry, probably shouldn't have said that. better remove it before it starts a flame war. hearing people way far away jamming a channel for no good reason so that my legal radio can't be heard localy just doesn't seem fair to me.

I hate the whip antenna I have, its a magnetic base and it keeps getting taken off by branches. I was wondering if the stock FM antenna would be remotely suitable for the CB. I have a spare one, and i could mount it on the passenger side A pillar, so the antennas would be symetrical, cool and retractable. The whip length is about the same on both of them, so I was thinking that the wavelength between the 2 frequencies might be close enough, but I don't know if the CB whip has a coil in the base or not. I can splice a new connector onto the end of the FM radio jack to fit my CB.

Dothe EA81's have radius rods in the front? if so, you might want to check the rubber that the ends mount into right at the front of the tranny crossmember. If they cracktoo much, they can cause funny handling. I heard of one in my neighbor hood that would change lanes on its own because the rubber was gone.

Another way to search for vacuum leaks is by wafting propane or butane with an unlit torch over the hoses and gasket locations. The propane will richen up the mix and the engine will perk up for a a moment. Not for the squeemish about fires though, but I've had good luck with it. DO NOT Use an OXY ACETALYNE TORCH FOR THIS.

Hey now... :-p they weren't up till 6, they were up till maby 2 or so, then slept before leaving. And I hope there were other people at the party, it would be just..wrong.. very wrong if there weren't.

Only 165 horse! pshaw! back in the old days we had to make do with 73 horse, then 87 then a whopping 90. 165 horse is more than enough, and getting 30 mpg is good too. The manual tranny swap will be a pain, if the car has abs, that will make it harder too. I'd just get used to the tranny, or sell the car once it reaches the value plataue (sp?). A reprogramed chip for the TCU might be availabe to make the shifting more positive. 4EAT stands for 4 speed Electronically Actuated Transmission, so the electronic actuation can be mucked with, making the valve bodies more oblsoete. Torque converters with higher stall speeds will improve launches and aceleration, but reduce milage. I belive the post starter is pining for the controll that a manual tranny once gave them and is not used to the sappy world of automatics. Manuals forever!

The problem with tapping into the cig' lighter is that the back is not well reinforced, the thinking being that the ligher coil is self limiting in how far it can go back. Lots of power adapiers can be pushed much further in, and this breaks the positive contact off the back. The wires are also dangling around the shifter, which can be awkward. My experience with subies is that most of the wiring harness for any option is there, just the option and its' wire back to the first connector is missing. Use the cig' lighter and just don't push in too hard.

fillit back up with oil and beat it till it blows, then swap in the new engine. Its always better to realy use up the old engine before going new.

If the manuals have one, it would be in the gauge cluster, right behind the spedo dial.

My cousin-once-removed bought my loyale new in 1992. Its the same design as the late eightys cars, just doesnt have dual range. She worked for the Audobon society, doing much the same stuff as you plan to. she never had any problems with the car, and trusted it to reliably take her the 6 hour trip to canada once a month. She bought a newer subaru when she moved away from the offroading side of work and gave the old one to me. Now, for deep woods expeditions, a tacoma would be much better. I like toyota pickups, especially the 80's ones for their simple design and rugged build. One of my neighbors has a late 90's one and the only part that has broken is the rear differential, but that hapens when you drive like he does. Aftermarket parts support is much greater for a toyota than for a subie. Older nissan 4x4's are rugged too, and the engines seem happy to run collant free. very mistifying.

Yeah, just strap a log on it.

She has never been in the "right mindset" She said that the car's suspension was higher just so that they could get away with lower gas milage. She should be danm thankful she survived, many haven't from falling asleep. Frickin new ageies. It sucks, cause that was a nice car wasted on the ungrateful.

I'm putting a used milemarker 6,000# winch on mine. My friend has a warn 12k# winch, and that thing doesn't slow down pulling anything out. Remember, the pull the winch has to put on goes way up when you're buried in mud.

Well, if its any consolation, my old carbed EA82 whooped my SPFI car any day. Someone did a writeup with pictures about mechanically actuating the secondaries on the hitachi carb.

Yeah, my old '86 3-door said it was a light truck. I'm thinking of swapping the hood to my 92 because light trucks are allowed 30 inches of bumper height while cars are only allowed 20".

In New hampshire, you can have a wooden bumper only if it is backed by a 1/4 of steel and the vehicle origionally didn't have impact absorbing bumpers. So that pretty much limits it to trucks.

Why not go with aftermarket engine management? It would take care of the fuel cut gremlin, get your air fuel mix where you want it, and get the reliabiltiy of the engine up a lot. The money invested in an aftermarket system would pay off in the times you wouldn't have to swap toasted engines out.