WoodsWagon

I found an electric wok at a yard sale for cheap. You know, one of those cooking bowl thingys. It has an adjustable heat setting and a lid, so I put all my tools in there, adjust the heat just right and have heated tools. I've ruined the teflon coating on the wok, but its never going to be used for cooking anymore. The one thing I hate most about working in the cold is tools freezing to your hand. I heat up the arosol cans in the wok too, helps get them spraying again. Best winter tool I bought.

Nice. Keep the pictures and writeups coming!

#1 If a shop finds something else wrong with a car while doing requested maintenence, they should call the owner for the go ahead before doing the maintenence. The shop you took it to either didn't do this, and you should talk to the local chamber of commerce, or you were a stupid sucker and gave the go ahead for all this unnnececary work. #2 Doing the other seals and the belts while you're in there makes sense. Replacing the whole oil pump doesn't. Just the "micky mouse" gasket needs replacing. If you had used the SEARCH function, you would have seen 100 frickin posts on this. Don't blame us for not doing research. I even know this and I haven't even replaced the gasket. #3 Your power steering pump probably failed because they overtightened the belt. This puts too much stress on the bearings, leading to failure. Probably the shops fault and an easy mistake to make. #4 Spending $1200 on a car this old isn't worth it most of the time. Anyone with any economic sense would realize that before aproving that much work. Ever heard of a mechanic giving a quote before doing work? #5 As shown by your last post, you are not a nice person. You come across as an arrogant prick who tries to blame their personal screw ups on other people. Please do not return here. We don't need your kind.

Rweddy is right. I ran the test i set up with my dad's car (don't tell him!) The front wheel will spin without much effort on the part of the engine. Damn. well, I guess I'll be sticking to good ole' 4wd for offroading. AWD does do pretty good though, I have to admit.

The gas in my tank seems to be bewitched to disapear faster than anything can consume it. It is a 92 loyale wagon. Now, the car does only like 1mi trips each start, but it only does like 14 trips a week, mabe 20. I can pour 5 gallons in and the car runs out by the end of the week. It isn't dripping, It isn't smelling, there are no wet spots on the underside of the car, and it isn't belching black smoke while its running. I can't for the life of me figure out where its all going. Its like i can see the friggin needle drop as I drive the thing.

welcome to the club. My loyale has that same dead pedal feel. Mine's a manual, but I know the symptom. You can be moving along, fairly slow, rpm's round 1.5k, floor the car, and it just increases intake noise. The car slowly picks up speed, till about 2.5-3k when the power comes on. It friggin sucks, cause the car will bogg and stall rather than spinning its tires when backing and filling in deep snow. I'm solving my problem with an EJ22, but I am curious about the real cause.

I replaced the left side halfshaft on my dad's 95 legacy with a reman one. The one that was on it looked origional. The outboard CV was donefor, it has 1/8 of slop in it. Turning the shaft at all without the wheel turning is not good. The hardest part was removing the old axel nut. I screwed up the camber when removing the spindle from the strut, but I set it kinda where it used to be. How bad is it to have one side set different from the other? I know it will cause funny tire wear, but will it affect drivability? It's going in for an alignment next week sometime, but will be driven in the meantime.

My 92 legacy, which has basically the same drivetrain as any new manual subi, has proven to be very tough. I drive the thing like I stole it, all the time, and it keeps on running. I took down a 6" wide, 2' tall stump withe the car, got it jammed between the rear floorpan and the gastank, gunned it and drove it right off. No problems at all. It can out-hillclimb a Suzuki samuri in a sandpit, rockbash and mud with the best of them. I give the car no mercy, and it has proved to be worth every penny of the $75 I paid. I think the frameless windows are a good thing. I have never shattered one of my windows closing the door, which I do by the window, and I have closed my fingers in it. You can feel it, but it doesn't hurt. I think it's an advantage in a crash, there's less to jam the door from opening after an accident. I hit a tree sideways in my loyale, and the lack of a frame saved the window. The big squishy gasket allows the window to move outside of its normal position without shattering. The window has cocked as much as a 1/2" at one corner, but it still didn't break.

Thats if you want to factory turbo it. I think backyard turboing is a much easier, but less preformace route. Welding up exhaust pipe to fit your needs is actually pretty easy. Plates of steel, a cutting torch, grinder and drill press are all the ingredients necesarry for making the bolt up surfaces for the exhaust. For oil, just tap off of the oil pressure sendor fitting, put a plumbing T in and run tubing with flare ends. use a hose to pipe the return oil back to the oil pan, with a fitting JB welded into the pan. Coolant(which I didn't have to deal with on the turbo I was putting in a non subi) I assume you could rerout the heater hoses. PVC pipe and hoseclamps to the origional rubber works for the intake. make sure to plug any PCV holes in the origional air ducts. The wastegate should manage itsself, and, if your lucky, the oil seals on the turbo wont blow, like they did on mine. rig it and rage it.

whats the problem with loosing traction? that was the point of a bigger engine wasn't it? How come you can't install the front halfshafts? then you can lay lots of rubber. I secons the vids request (in quicktime if possible)

Is the car a manual? Is the friend trustworthy? Were there nice AWD burnouts round town? Just a thought

its an edsel. what an ugly piece of rump roast, the flat back.. the freaky ridge over the back wheel that incorperates the taillight.... the lack of rear quarter visibility due to that weird panel coming off og the D pillar... the headlights no where neer where they belong. It looks like a beamer suv that got stomped on. what were they thinking? Are they trying to go retro with the Edsel styling? they dooo know that edsel went under, right?

What happened this time?

Don't rule out the legacy's for mild off-roading. The extra power makes up for the low range in some ways. I took my legacy on some fairly gnarly trails and took it mudding, and I was suprised at how well it held up. fair bit of body damage, but that may have been driver error. The legacy's have less ground clearance I think, so rough trails will lead to more of that.

That wheel looks like the one off my 86 3-door, except that one looks like it has cruise control buttons. I swapped my wheel onto my 92 loyale, and it works fine. Horn works too. The wheel is a bit thinner than the one that came on the car, and has the radius bars in a more out of the way place. The wheel is more flexible, so hitting bumps with your hand at 12 o'clock will make the wheel flex forward a bit.

Ha, thats not near rolling it! i park my car on a rock at my garadge to do that. Makes people make coments about lack of flex. I guess thats why locking the rear is popular, then you can lift a wheel and keep going. very sharp looking wagon

I know just the clunk. I have smaller tires on the front of my loyale, and when I disengage the 4wd, it often takes some clutch and gas work to get it to disengage and then WHAM, you can feel the whole car kick. There is a lot of force that gets bound up in the drivetrain. Check inflation and tire sizes, that should be the culprit.

If you have subaru stock..sell they're doomed with designs like that.

Hey it may just sound like another conspiracy theory crock, but i chose to believe in conspiracies that have good evidence behind them. There isn't any problem with all this surveylance, its just protecting us from all those bad people out to harm us, and we'll never be affected by it cause we're good law abiding people. wana say what you think about a government official? you better belive your driving records will be fully revealed. you didn't come to a full stop at that sign this morning, accordin to your car! pay up. that'll teach you to question me. Powers will always be abused, so the less you give to people in government, the less abuse you'll get.

yo, you don't need a body kit, you need STICKERS cover all body damage with them, man yull be stylin then

Not to be a backseat mudder.. but I believe in what i call "gunt"ing it going through a mudhole. Its kinda a mix between "punch" and "gun" it. refering to the throttle. Advice often shouted by the passenger, me, while my friend timidly drives through mudholes or snow hills. Many expletives accompany the advise. just floor it when in slipery stuff, and use momentum to your advantage.

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nice project, please update your website fotos when you have the chance, they're eagerly awaited.

http://www.newstreet.it/case/articolo_IdM_SUBARU_Id_317.html looks like a mini forrester. Last line in article has something about GM?

Ditto for Ranger83's remark on uneducated salesmen. Subaru of Milford, NH, had a salesman last time I went there whou didn't know jack sht about the cars he was selling. He even admited that he was 2 mo's from a ford dealership. Kinda sad that subaru dealerships would be hiring ford castoff salesguy's. He seemed desperate for a sale, and wasted all the enthusiasm I had built up in the customer by not bothering to give reasons to buy the car, just that this is the car you want. Why do I want it? ah, susch and such review said so and so. Who cares? Their service department is clueless too. My aunt had a problem with her 98 impreza sport. The brake idiot light kept coming on, so she would take it to the dealer. They would check everything, call it fixed and charge her for the service. A week later, the light would come back on. She repeated the process three times befor coming to me. The brakes were rock solid, no leaks, but the light was being tripped by low fluid. checked the booster vaccum line...wet. Seems the last seal on the master cyllllinder leaks. I told her not to worry, just keep pouring fluid in. Told her the kind of fluid, where and how much, and she now does the same service the dealer was for a few bucks. I told her to have the master cylinder replaced when she gets the chance. sad that a 16yr old can out diagnose a trained subaru technition in a parking lot. for free too. The new subarus just keep getting uglier too. I think the brand is doomed.