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I use American Collector Car Insurance for my Spitfire and its $80/yr.

My engine has new gaskets, new dist cap, rotor and wires, 90K and an automatic. The timing was so retarded (however set at 8deg) that it ran like it was on 3 cylinders. Advancing to beyond the 20deg mark made it run very smooth. Valve timing is dead-on. I tried going back a tooth on the distributor, but it still ran lousy when timed by the book. I gave up asking why and just drive it. In the right lane.

Just for fun, my 10 year old and I decided to time the zero-60 acceleration on the 85 GL. The results: 35.4 sec ! Advancing the timing dropped it to a blistering 23.9 sec. If all the freeway on-ramps are downhill, I should have no problem. For comparison my Daily Driver 98 Forester w/ auto is 11.7 seconds. No Buggati Veyron but it at least is not a road hazard.

The governor itself however is not available from Subaru, even though they do list the part. I got one from Craigslist. Check out the CL from various Subaru haunts (Denver, Washington State, Portland, OR, Vermont). Look for folks parting out one with an AT (probably because it won't shift out of 1st). Mine wouldn't work, but it wasn't apple cored. Clean it and de-burr as per the instructions on here (crocus cloth - get some) and you may be back in business. But get a spare governor nonetheless. Oh, and you don't need to get under the car. You can at it from the top on the RH side of the trans under the domed cover. If you can loosen 3 10mm bolts, you can change a governor.

No, I haven't done anything with the carb, but I bought the car not running so I don't know how it used to start. I'll check the spring.

EA82 Carb that starts hard cold, but easy when warm. Any guidelines for setting the auto choke position?

I get a steamy ride with fogged windows when I select hot on the temp selector, but it goes away when cold is selected. No embarrasing wetness though around the floor area. Of course it is Arizona, so you only select heat 2 days out of each year.

Is there a photo tutorial of how to remove the heater core?

I remember seeing a recommended spark plug for an 85 EA82 carb, but when I go search, nada. So what is the conventional wisdom on plugs?

85 GL Wagon ("Jill" as my daughter call her). All 4 seat belts seem to not lockup when pulled. Is there something electrical I should look at or are they all purely mechanical. They do lock up if jerked very very abruptly, but other belts I've seen lock with alot less effort. I don't want her to "bump her crown" on the steering wheel if she gets into an accident.

My 98 Forester has bee developing multiple personality disorder in the transmission. It seems to want to downshift/upshift at very odd points usually in the 25-45 MPH range. No codes. Any ideas? Does it have a filter?

I figured out how to roll the cargo cover on my E82 Wagon so that it works again. I now know all 3 other ways to roll it so that it doesn't work. Pretty clever, those Fuji boys!

I had similar symptoms with my 98 Forester (different motor, I know). It ended up being valve related. It started throwing EGR codes. Stray exhaust could cause the computer to call for a leaner mixture, I suppose.

Yeah, everything post-1966 has to pass. Lots of cars in the Mens Mall just because of bad emissions components. I have a 1973 GMC Motorhome with a 455 and a Quadrajet and it has to pass every year (unlike cars and trucks who go every other year).

Peugeot used to provide a big plastic cover with "gills" in it to place over the grill for just this purpose on their old 504's. Standard equipment, I think.

I took it for a drive and it shifted fine.

I took my first drive in my fully functioning* Subaru GL this morning. Since I really didn't do much besides disassemble and reassemble, I have to credit prayer for this ride. I have full auto transmission capability, working gauges, working heating and ventilation controls and working cruise control. Yahoo!!, and Thank You for all the comments, suggestions and instructions. * Now by fully functioning, I don't mean perfect. The radio is out and the heater core has a pinhole leak that provides a nice glycol schvits as I go down the road. But (and this is critical) I go down the road!

That's next. Is that a "dealer's better" part, or is the Autozone variety OK?

So you'd have to have power locks for that to be active, right?

I have been told that Webers can be problematic to get through emissions, which is a consideration here.

Would soaking the governor in something that would make it slick be worth it? I can't tell that there are any burrs by moving it, but the valve sure doesn't do it's job when called upon to get the tranny to shift from 2nd to 3rd.

I see that there are spots for AT trans temp, lift gate and a few others I can't decipher, but if they are supposed to be blank, I'll leave them.

yellow w/ green stripe, brown, white, red, and black. The Haynes manual doesn't help much for a 85. I'll try and post a picture tomorrow.

1985 EA82 wagon. The under dash harness seems to hold the female ends of the plugs. The corresponding male end of the plug is nowhere to be found on the dash side. The wiper is on the RH side of the steering wheel. I suppose some features were options that share the same harness.

No, the manual shows an annunciator light below the cluster that holds a gauge.