TheMeatWagon

Yeah I'll send a PM and if I don't hear back in a couple days I'll call.

To those of you waiting for them to open up a new sale, sorry I'm holding it up. It's been 6 months or so and I still have yet to hear back after my most recent email. I'm shooting a second one off now. I know they have my correct mailing address and I'm very pleased with the other stuff they've sent me, just waiting on some kind of resolution for this last wheel.

Still nothing, emailed them and all that. I'm going to try to give them a call tomorrow.

I still never got that wheel. I've emailed and gotten multiple emails back talking about shipping it out that day or the next. Now I got an email saying they had to special order another one. Still waiting on it, though.

Never got that wheel. Or is it in the mail...?

Just sent you an email from johnson.andrew.f@gmail.com.

Should I be worried that my wheel never came? My skid plate got here a few weeks ago but the wheel never did...

:headbang:Got to see it in person. I was so mad my GL didn't make it, headgasket finally gave out on the freeway around Federal Way, and I had to drive the rest of the way in the WRX. I would've been all over the trails.

Especially that last part. If you check your oil right after you turn off your car a bit of it is still not in the oil pan, it needs to rest a minute to drain back down. The car should be warm and on a level surface, but not just turned off warm.

Leh woooooot. I ended up taking the axle to my buddies and we used an air chisel to get the stub off. Threw it back in the subie and went to the pit. 4wd makes a biiig difference. Yesterday I got so stuck in this little pit, today I crawled through it like nothing. Thanks for the help.

Fortunately mine is off the car. It's the side from the hub that's stuck in there. The stub is out of the hub but it won't come off the end of the axle :S. I'll try heating it in a few.

Yeah that axle was totally screwed. I can't get the damn stub off this other axle. I might just have to go get another, they're pretty fused.

Time for that to come off . I'm going to go knock it off of there and throw the old one on and see what happens. Thanks again!

Woot, Gloyale wins again. So I jack up the rear and in 2wd the driveshaft spins freely. In 4wd it's locked up tight. So 4wd and the tranny are fine. HOWEVER, in 2wd when I spin that driveshaft, my passenger side axle stands still. The stub is definately spinning but everything passed the cv is standing still. On the drivers side everything spins together. I'm using an axle out of a loyale on the passenger side, were they shorter? It looks like it's taking a lot more out of it to stretch that far and the boot as slid up the axle about an inch and a half. Oh well I've got the original axle that was on here before I swapped all that crap out so that should still be good. The only problem with it is that I took it completely out of the hub instead of off the stub on the back of the hub so now the stub is stuck in it even when I take out the pin :S. Oh well I'll figure it out. Thanks a bunch Gloyale and everyone else, you've been a huge help.

The selector for low definitley moves and I have my low gears for sure. I'm at work now but tomorrow morning when I get off I'll try jacking up one side. Besides the actually tranny itself being shot, what else internal could be messed up? Something stripped somewhere besides the tranny? The problem I had that I recently fixed was the hub on the back rear was completely stripped out where the axle usually mates up to it. I replaced everything back there and verefied that it was hooked up and that spinning the wheel once again actually spun the axle. If I had stripped it again could that be causing this problem? My thought is that because it's an open diff, if it has nothing to grip in there it's spinning like crazy making the other side stand still. If I jack up all 4 tires and put it in 2wd the drive shaft from the tranny to rear diff shouldn't spin right? If it does than does that mean my tranny is okay but it's something past that?

This forum doesn't move that fast so I hope I don't get shunned for double posting this. I have another thread on this but it's full of information that has nothing to do with my current problem which I don't want someone offering to help to have to dig through. I'll sum it up all in one new post. I picked up an 86 GL wagon with d/r 5spd. The selector for 4 hi and 4 lo has nice feedback and clicks in like it should. The low gearing works great. My problem is that neither 4 high or 4 low is actually 4wd, it's just spinning the fronts. My drive shaft and both rear axles are in place and spinning a wheel spins the axle so both axles are definately hooked to both the diff and the wheel itself. When driving down the street my friend behind me can see both rear axles and the driveshaft spinning, they aren't bound up. What should I try next to rule out possible points of failure?

Well ************. I just got it back together and went wheeling and the rear wheels aren't moving at alllll. Just the fronts are spinning. The low gearing definately works but the rear just doesn't go. The driveshaft and axles are definately there but for some reason the wheels aren't getting power. What should I look for next?

Check out the similar threads at the bottom. Here's a good one: http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=9559.

I did the same thing. Those bearings were 100 bucks ordered from Schucks. Plus they're pressed and a real pain in the arss. I went to the PAP yard and bought all of it together including a spare axle for offroading for 35 bucks. If you do go to a PAP yard just make sure you try to jiggle it around and spin it a few times to make sure the bearing is in good shape without any play or anything like that. Way better deal in my opinion, plus you can almost always find some good deals on other little parts you might need .

If you guys go through with it I'd take a skid plate and 1 single 15" wheel in black. Also a front bumper if you guys decide to make them. This is for an 86 GL ea82.

I went to the Lynnwood PAP yard today and went to that same red Loyale I pulled that drum off of last time and went to the right side this time. I made sure to bring a tire iron this go around so I could get at everything. I forgot my hammer but used my break bar as a hammer to pound out the axle roll pin (holy crap they're easy to get out when they aren't broken and I'm using the right sized punch). Then I tried to disconnect the brake line where I had on my other one and stripped the crap out of those soft little nuts. I just cut it off a little below that. Then I took off the other 5 bolts holding the whole thing together and it all fell right off. I went to another Subaru they had there and pulled the brake line and put it all together. I was able to find a nice shiney battery tie down too . (I broke my other using it as a roll pin punch per some USMB thread /sadface) Tried to remount the new arm today and the bump stop disc thing on the arm made it impossible to remount the new hardware with my lift. That disc pushes against my strut so nothing will line up right. When I get off work in the morning I'll grind that down and hopefully that will be my last post for this thread. I'll need to bleed my brakes and I want to do my plugs and fuel filter and then it's off to test my 4wd and make sure my low is working. Beautiful weather for working on cars up here the last few days .

Beauty, that's what I was hoping. For some reason I couldn't get it all to line up so I was afraid, but I think it was just that rubbing bump stop.

Sorry I don't have pics yet. The rear end has been jacked up and the rear right suspension has been totally taken off since I got it. Waiting to drop it back down and power wash some of the green algae looking crap off the paint, then I'll snap a few pictures .

I didn't want to buy a new wheel bearing and replace my old one on the rear right wheel so I went to the junk yard and pulled the whole setup from a Loyale. I'm not sure what year Loyale it was but it was 4wd. The other day I pulled just the drum off of the same car because mine was stripped and it fit okay, so I know the axles are the right spline count and all that. My question is will the rest of it fit. By the whole setup I mean I took the lower strut bolt out, the axle from the diff side, and the arm that has the brake lines attached to it running up right by the fuel filter. Will this work? They look about the same, the axle boots look a little different but they're the same size as far as I can tell. The one thing I found out I definately am going to have to do is grind down the bump stop on the arm because with my lift it rubs on the strut making it impossible to remount. Should the axles and everything else line up after I grind that? Oh and my GL is an 86 with d/r 5spd. TIA

Wow that was one screwed up roll pin. I finally went and got a real punch and smacked it for awhile and the thing just kept going inside the pin and getting stuck. Finally I got it to seat right and whacked it and the punch went all the way through. I pulled it out and shined the flash light in the hole and nothing was in there. I looked all around on the ground and saw no pin. I pulled the axle off the stub and about 8 pieces of shattered pin as well as a broken off drill bit tip fell out. Looks like the previous owner was trying to get it off also. It's off now and ready for the new arm and hub tomorrow.