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I had a 3.7 single range 4spd gearbox ( in Oz ). It's quite possible this car originally had dual range hence had the hi/lo lights on the dash and has since had a new gearbox put in which is only single range. that could explain the confusion of the lights.

on my 4" ea81 wagon The bashplate itself is a piece of thick ally plate. The front bolts to the same place as the stock bash plate with the help of a piece of hollow square and a length of flat on the top. It bends under the sump and exhaust: Again it uses a piece of hollow square steel to bolt to the stock bashplate location seen on the far left of the next pic, and then bolts up to the crossmember after the Y pipe. The plate is actually covering the exhaust here, the photo just makes it look like it's not.

Cut one of your stub axles short to just after the holes for the pins. This allows you enough room to remove a rear CV without lifting the car. You still need to lift that side of the car to put it in to get the holes lined up. I can remove one in about 5 minutes, and put one in in about 10-15mins. offroading in 3wd is fine, as long as you don't go too hard. It's almost as capable as an open diff ( unless you lift the wheel with the CV still in ). Although it can try and pull the rear end to one side.

I just did a mod to my washer jets today. I added extra tube ( aquarium air pump tube ) and piped it under the grill out the same hole as the wipers, along the wiper arm ( cable tied down ). I then cable tied the end to the wiper and used a 90 deg squirter from a home irrigation kit ( ~ 25c each ) and aimed it so it sprayed the windscreen vertically. This makes it move with the wipers washing the windscreen a few millimetres ahead of the wiper. works a treat!

Something I've been toying with the idea of, mount a second handbrake lever next to the original and have one for each front wheel, if you put a wheel in the air reef up it's handbrake and the power should go to the grounded wheel as it's suddenly the easier wheel to turn. Jam it down again as soon as you're back on the ground.

Try reversing in a straight line, get up a bit of momentum, put the clutch in and bash down hard on the lever.

Nothing teaches you to pick a line quite like driving a subaru!

That worked a treat! thanks guys is all out.

Cool. that sounds doable. The carpet is long gone

Hmmmm, really? I'll give it another go in the morning, but I couldn't work out how to do it just now .. but then I have had a few drinkies

I'm removing the rear seat from my ea81 wagon. The actual seat was easy to do, just a few bolts but the back doesn't have any obvious way of removing. It has a thick pin on either side that seems to go into the body to allow it to pivot. I can't see how to retract or remove these pins other than firing up the angle grinder which for obvious reasons I am reluctant to do. Anyone know how to do it ?

Once you've straightened it you may wanna chop the right hand side down ( hangs down the furtherest ) so it doesn't catch on rocks. I bent mine the other week and it was re-inforced ... the extra low bit was where it hit the rock.

Here's my entries ... these were all taken last weekend @ Sundown National Park ( Stanthorpe Australia ).

unless you plan on some decent power improvements ( read er27 or ej20t) , the benefits of any tyre bigger than 27" will be outwayed by the power reduction.

anything higher than 2" body lift requires an engineers certificate!

Use the stock fuel pump to feed a surge tank, then an EFI pump on the other side of the surge tank. That's what I have on my EA81-T brat/brumby.

hehe! I bet it looked something like this : 2" lifted Brat with about 3/4 ton of sand in the back

I painted my floor with black tar based sound deadener/rust preventer in a really thick coat. this covered the wires as well. I then just threw down a few cheap car matts. works great

I cut and welded a new piece onto mine for the 4" lift and have been running it for nearly 12 months with no noticeable issues in the change of geometry.

The advantage of having 7-8" of lift for onroad only is what ?

An Ozified/BYB lift shouldn't affect your axle geometry.... Mine certainly doesn't!

My ea81 wagon used to do that with the 2" liftkit, I eventually learned the trick to getting it into reverse altho it did pop out if reversing more than a couple of metres. Strangely when I put the 4" lift the problem went away ... so I would say that you have no option but to lift it another 2"

I'll be visiting L.A. for the week starting 10th July for work ( from Australia ). I'll be staying in the Westwood area. Anyone on here in L.A ? any tips on where to go and what to see ? I'll be @ work 9-5 most days so time is limited.

lol lol rofl lol. the aussie have heard about a possible issue with one of their liftkits and discuss improving it. rofl lol lol rofl.

There's a guy on AUSubaru that's done the conversion and is in the middle of getting engineering approved for legal road use here in Aus. AUSubaru Thread Photos on Webshots