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some one along time ago in a bar far far away drew up some blue prints on a napkin there are still pictures of the napkin floating around on this site we call it the napkin lift just simple lift with 2" blocks that mount to the top of the struts and angled at the right angle to corect camber and some angled.steel for the rear or hunt down some rare 2wd rear struts

just measure the old lines or the nipples the old fual line goes on too

me too ! ive got along way to go

it is awsome for sure 9 months a year lol anyway i made alittle progress i hacked the front end off and mocked up the suspention at full compresion anyway pics of it mocked in to full compression

from the original post it seems the only thing done to the car that would cause it to over heat is the wrong timming the crank and the cam and the dizzy have to be timed together if its off it wont run right and will over heat right away if the cam and the crank are off you can still time the cam to the dizzy and it will run but vary hot just like if your a tooth off on the timing belt its eazy to get wrong cause the dizzy moves as its installed so when you set it you have to account for that movement if not your a tooth out

if they have duel range trannys those are worth something to someone 200-300 im guessing if there in good condition

uh huh car first ha ha ha uh uh huh uh huh

the dizzy could be off and its firering on a exhaust stroke

theres a rubber mount on the shifter plate its kinda like a motor mount and more than likely it failed it keeps the shifter conected to the body to help line everything up when that breaks the entire shifter plate and all moves around and makes it hard to get in to gear i mounted mine with a bolt through the rubber and.left it just a hair.loose and has held up just fine you can also adjust the.shifter by loosening the bolts on the shifter plate and move it around till you find the sweet.spot but most likely that rub er peice has.come unglued this is commin with big lifts on the square bodied roos

were heading in to extreme temps for a.few months if i was smart i would sleep all day and.go outside and.work after dark lol but im not so progress will be slow over the summer

ya i love it out here neerest neighbor is a mile away ive only got 5 acers but there 188000 acers of national off highway vehicle park right accross the street to play in if i need more space lol

i used the cheap ones off of ebay

even cheap silicone boots are 100x better than rubber boots i did all 4 for $100 the boots outlasted the axles and the axles lasted alot longer

so order 26mm x 32mm bushing drill the center out and grind in your flatspotz its not science its fabrication 26mm=1" lots of 1 inch bushings on ebay im seeing alot of 14mm holes you can sleave the bolt with steel pipe if you feel you need to

you could probably get a 10 pack on ebay for $3 if you use the tape mesure to get your specs and there better than the stock ones by a long shot

we do agree subarus are awsome and completly disagree of 70s and older cars maybe cause i grew up in those cars when they were new and own several myself and live in a area were old cars are normal one of my first jobs in the auto world was for master rebuilders we sold remaunfactured parts to pepboys i spent months doing nothing but rebuilding axles so you can bet if theres a way to reuse a axle ill figure it out i had 3 parts loyales and pulled all the og axles i could find from the junkyards before the loyals dryed up and i have distroyed every axle ive put on the car factory or aftermarket i also redo every axle i put on the car there not wering out they have good boots and good greese and ive done more than a few in my day on a stock loyale under normal conditions i could see getting some good miles on the new axles but if your having issues with axles already and are looking for something stronger there arent any good options anymore and we are lucky to have what we do with the parts being discontinued or cheap copys its getting harder to keep these rigs on the road a sure sign of a throw away car they werent saposed to last this long

i towed a 3k construction trailer all over the city streets of san fransico for years with my bus and a camping trailer though out the sierras 10000 ft is a short haul in my book sometimes in the snow and with manual breaks it dose have a automatic trans so that helps alot when towing

again the vw beetle for one exsample and just to exspand on this point they still race stock bugs in the baja 1000 they even races at king of the hammers this year have there own score class 1100 and then there tha baja bug a hole nother world also have there multiple score classes to race in so a 60s era bug has already outlasted your subarus while racing there entire life

my loyale is bigger and gets wheeled alot harder and has way more torque than yours doses thats why i blow axles so often and i wish they lasted a year usualy only 1 or 2 trips one of the reasons i dont use that rig much anymore and am building a new one

the answer is yes but for some reason you think your special your ignorance on carbarators and suspention is understandable but that dosent mean your right in anyway carbs run good and suspention wasent invented in the 80s your just ignorant there and thats ok too sure we have refined things a bit but some of us still enjoy ruffing it some ie no cup holders apples to apple the only other 4wd unibody stationwagons i can think of would be the amc eagle wagon awd 30" tires stock and the other would be jeep cherokee 30" tires stock and awd with no low range when they first came out both would outdo our subarus in stock form in almost every condition so those would be your apples how do you like them do you need a spoon full of suger to swallow that its a big bite but there it is honda made one too a civic wagon with awd vw made the golf awd more of a hatch than a wagon though but did have a wagon model too audi made one too back in the 80s but that was based off of the vw so it only kinda counts toyota had a awd wagon too the honda audi and toyotas were more car like though and werent marketed the same as the jeep or eagle or the subaru not trying to take away from subarus in anyway just saying there in the middle of the feild and other rigs outhere do just as much if not more its a real shame subaru went the more car like route but thats what snowflakes want these days and there in the buisness of making money so thats how it goes snowflake "we need more cup holders " engineere "were can we fit more cupholders" thats about it

] you asked how im distroying axles so i told you you asked what old car was built to last i gave several exsample the driving your talking about is normal driving nothing special but you think it is and thats ok something else i dident mention is im in california the land of old cars there all over the road so its comin to see people comuting and working in and from old clasics just cause you dont know how to work on them dosent mean they cant be tuned by someone who dose know they can be vary efficent and dont need alot of tinkering the lack of sensors and fuel injection is alot of the draw to older cars theres less to fail and if maintained right last for ever

my lifted imp has 290k on the clock it still has 3 of the 4 factory original cv axles but thats a differnt rig the ea82m 2 door panel wagon with 5" lift and 30s is a diferent animal if your geting 250k on a set of loyale axles more power to ya but theres no way your wheeling it or atleast not like i do and im positive your ea82 dosent have neer the power mine did the original motor sucks compared to the ea82m i realy enjoy cars from the 60s and 70s and those old rigs were built to last ive never seen any new car use 1/2 gallon of gas in 50 miles at almost 100 mph the whole way the or a car that got 60+ mpg and was a blast to drive like my baja bug and theres nothing like driving a scout its like riding a harley just a completely unique exsperiance also driving a vw bus just unique vehicle to drive and besides my old 70s rigs have already outlasted yours and my subarus and i can still get parts for all of them unlike the loyale check out some of my build threads you have to go back maybe 10 years though to find all of them but my loyale has a large build thread it has axle carnage pics some off road pics also im starting a new off road subaru build well restarting a old build in the off road section if your interested whats a ea82m you ask the m is for mongral its the high compresion version the block is about a half inch shorter overall and has to have manifold adaptors to fit the intake manifold mine has a heavily modified intake manifold also feading the ported and polished heads dumping in to a worked over factory exhaust manifold and custom cat back exhaust its a shame the lower end took a dump after only 20k though i love my old loyale but im moving on to bigger stronger rigs not that im giving up on the old girl not yet anyway i might rebuild the ea82m but shaving the block is a pain in the back seat and it dose ok with the og motor i guess its just hard to go back after having all that grunt

ya to bad we cant get originals anymore ive cracked cages split open cups sheared shafts and striped the splines or some combo of all the above on all my originals i had 3 set of og axles at one time now i cant even build 1 good one from the peices left over so i reboot and regreese cheap parts store axles finding originals to rebuild is pretty hard these days let alone finding a good one or new one

oh and i have a freind that daily drives a 56 buick station wagon its his only rig outside of his work truck theres no reason you cant drive old cars everyday and still work them like they were new you just need to know what each end of the wench is for and your good

well i have a 71 bug highly mass produced and built to last its been pulled out of the weeds 3 times now and daily driven after each time it was awakened from its slumber to bad the convertable top disintigrated though or i might still be driven it lol most older american cars were built to last but most people these days cant seem to find the cup holders so they cant drive them my contractor budy uses his 65 chevy stepside as a dailydriver work truck for over 25 years the old japanes cars were built pretty solid too my 69 toyota corona was a fliping tank to bad they dident get there motors dialed in yet though but it was one plush rig personaly i have my own stash of old 70s vehicles i would have no problem driving any of them once pulled out of storage cleaned up and the minor issues from no use abuse fixed like breaklines and rubber hoses and what not the 73 campmobile has already had this done to it twice since ive had it and needs it again lol bug needs the clutch fixed but were to find the clutch for a auto stick lol and i still need to finish the diesel swap on the scout some one put a race built motor in it before i got.it and although that motor was hot as hay it dident last too long i had a 63 mecury the model that ford build the mustang from it had one of those 260 v8s and that damb thing would get up 100 mpg if you could.get it going fast enuff for long enuff that car loved hyway speeds but no cupholders lol ill tell you what if i wasent getting my subarus for free i would buy pre 1975 cars only they are so much better than any of this new junk coming out these days