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My dad had a spare ea81 that he gave to me in trade for long hours of yard work... it was worth it $930 later of professional engine surfacing, boring, new pistons, bearings, etc... made sure to rustoleum all my pulleys to keep them fresh : new clutch kit: engine going in: assembly: and all finished (minus exaust setup... that was a headache trying to find new bolts and nuts to incorporate the spacers for the emissions recycling thing...) I ended up just removing the whole emission recycler thing... just welded shut the holes on the back of the spacers. And I ended up just buying some all-thread from Tacoma Screw for hardware. More pictures to come of further progress!

I've had my Brat since May of this year... got it for $340 ^^^ pics of when I first got it home. It has dents, scratches, a mickey mouse driver's turn signal, spraypainted grill, but suprisingly very little rust. just a little surface stuff here and there, 350,xxx miles on the clock... and a big hole in the engine block from a thrown connecting rod:

Yea I know what you mean lol. I had to wire wheel the pan on my ea81 because the cork was all stuck in the little grooves. The block itself was cleaned and surfaced proffesionally so i didn't have to worry about that. As for head gaskets, you would want to put a coat of copper spray to both sides of the gaskets. Makes them nice and sticky.

Ouch... it didn't bend the oil sucker/feed pickup? Is the rtv mandatory??... I think I just put my cork seal on and bolted it down don't wanna have to redo that lol

Nah no worries, you're description of what to do is a lot more descriptive and will help a lot more than mine would

Haha beat me to it, Rugby.

The crossmember that the engine sits on will get in the way of the bolts on the rear of the oil pan. The engine mounts that connect to the crossmember will need to be undone, as well as the stabalizing mount that goes from the bell housing to the rear of the firewall. The engine will need to be jacked up a bit to get clearance to the bolts. Personally I have never changed the gasket while the engine was in the car... might be a headache.

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/265046_246283432055552_100000216909175_1213464_5539739_n.jpg cool, now that is a hotlink to the image on f.b, is there a way to make the f.b picture actually show up in the thread like a photobucket embed? i know you do something along the lines of: [image] blahblahblah [/image] some of my own stupid s**t is happening... the front end is shuddering on my brat when i am on the accelerator... the driver side cv boot is torn, could that be a part of it? nothing appears to be loose. Oh and its a gen 2, an '85... in case if there are any differences/specifics.

I know how to use the forum, I just never get on here. I've been more active on here the past few days than I have been since I signed onto USMB. Was just wondering if there were some shortcuts, since I basically have a build thread on facebook in the form of a photo album. I don't feel like uploading 100+ pictures to my photobucket account that I haven't used in 2 years... But I guess thats what I will do when I get time. Back on topic: One time I was helping a lady on the street that was overheating, she happened to have a '88 dl wagon. After that was all sorted out, I looked under the car to see that her exaust manifolds were constructed out of flexible 2" metal dryer hosing.

Thanks for the info. And yea, it would be awesome if this site had its own image hosting. I wonder why nobody thought of that before? The ratchet handle made me lol

Well... The PO of my brat didn't rebuild the engine correctly, so when i got it; it had a thrown connecting rod needless to say i had to get another engine to put in. All that is done with and it runs great Now its just dealing with other random cosmetic stuff that went wrong while this guy had it... dents, scratches, the rattle can silver painted grill, running light driverside bumper blinker replacement... the list goes on zzz Will be posting up a build thread soon. I just need to find a good image hosting site... Does facebook work for hosting images??

I saw you at the First Annual BigNW Subaru meet. Very nice Brat SwampBrat, welcome to the board. You will fit right in with us Brat lovers

Congratulations on the brat! I've had my brat since May, and I'm loving every second of it. Welcome to the board

I told you guys I would post pics when I could, so here goes: The first two are my new car I was talking about, and the others are the brat that I sold. I'll get a pic or two of my '88 in here sometime later. [ATTACH]8591[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]8592[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]8593[/ATTACH]

This reminds me of my dad's old ea81 that he sold a whild back. Same paint and everything, except his was an '82. Single headlights, chrome bumpers, third eye, you guys know the difference. Looking very clean

I would have fixed them, but I took the valves out to see how deep the crack went and the cracks go about an inch or so deep. Kinda close to a water port in the head. I worked out a deal with the guy I got the engine from. I told him the motor was useless to me, and he had a bunch of spare parts, so I traded him back the motor for a rear hatch, two rear doors, exaust system, and steering collumn/assembly.

I went to the pull a part, looking for heads. Tore apart four or five engines, all of which turned out to have overheated and cracked heads :-\ I looked around a little bit, and saw a '80 gl wagon sitting there. It still had the ea71 engine sitting in there, basically unmolested. Also it had the full grill (minus the third eye, of course someone snagged that) and headlight bezels. I really like the way the grill looks on the early 80's subes, so I snagged it and the headlight bezzels. Maybe if i get a period correct subaru for the grill i'll put it on there, but until then I have a subaru nestolgic wall ornament.

I can see your point, I don't think I'd let anybody do the same to me either.... As for the cracks, it depends on how deep they go, and how long you're willing to run the car and then have to pull it all back out again to replace once they crack the rest of the way. Welding them is an option, but it would cost around $250 per head to be done correctly.

I bought a new engine for my '86 Gl. I just wanted the heads, but the guy wanted to get rid of the whole engine. He wanted $125 for it all, so I didn't see any reason to not just take the whole thing. I get it home and start tearing it down to get to the heads, get the heads off, and i see cracks between the valves So I basically made a $125 mistake, but its a mistake I sure wont make again... next time I'm in the same situation I'm dissassembling it right then and there, before I pay. Anywho. I'm still looking for heads. My subi is an '86 stock carbed ea82 non turbo. I live in the Seattle, WA area. If anybody is trying to sell some good heads they should hit me up

This thread makes me wish I still had my old brat. It looked just like the OP's with 3rd eye, t-tops... it just didn't have the brush guard, or the "brat" decals.

Rislone (don't know if thats spelled right) will fix sticky lifters and quit the ticking.

Sweet, I'll just comment around on all the awesome stuff that people have done on this site Thanks for the welcome!

"You may post new threads You may post replies You may not post attachments You may edit your posts" Does anybody know how long it will be until i can post attatchments? At first i couldn't post threads or reply to them, but then i got the confirmation email etc etc... will i have to get another email or something?

Thanks for the welcome!

Hi i'm new to being a member of this forum, but have been following it as an outsider for a while now. I have a suber-project of my own going right now, and have drawn a lot of inspiring ideas from this website. My current project is a 1986 Subaru GL wagon. Its 5 speed manual with dual range 4wd. The engine is all tore down and I'm in the process of getting some new heads for it. I just bought the car about a month ago and i'm finally getting into it now. Before this car i had a '82 gl brat. I had it for a day and realized that it would be a lot more work than i was willing to do, so i sold it. It had the t-tops and 3rd eye and dual range 4wd, just like pretty much all the gl's. I was sad to see it go but i knew i was saving myself some headache. My first car, and the car i still have besides my new one, is an '88 gl wagon. This one is just a 3 speed auto with push button 4wd. I have quite a few engine tear downs under my belt, 1 ea81 teardown and rebuild, and about 4 or 5 ea82 teardown and rebuilds. My dad had an old ea81 wagon, and has had quite a few ea82 cars; hence the reason i have so much experience with these cars. I live, eat, breathe subaru. Once i figure this forum all out i'll be sure to post some pictures of all the cars. Happy to be a part of this community -Chad