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Radiator is yours if you want it, I have $80.00 into it, so if you'll meet that, it's yours. Let me know.

I got that ecu for ya if your interested. Send me your offer. Thanks

You guys are funny, I didn't really open the hood or anything. I'll probably go do that tomorrow, cause I need my crap out of there cause she's at the junkyard. I'll check it out. I just put a bunch of work into her to. What a shame. Yes she was totalled, I'm thinking it was a good idea to have the spare in it's place on the engine, cause I think that helped slow things down a bit. The battery looked good...maybe cause it's brand fricken new . But then again it was kinda hanging out the front of the car. I have a brand new radiator, never used still in the box if anyone needs one. I bought it cause mine was turning green, and there's nothing worse then not having a radiator when you need one. Faced with the dilemna of whether or not to pull my prize VW GTI VR6 out of moth balls is a hard decision. If I do...it will certainly have Haakapulita's (for the uninformed, Finnish snow/ice racing tires) and if I can find 'em...studs. I don't want this baby getting loose on me. And at 250 hp, it gets downright silly. I already miss her.

On my way home from work today, the roads where trecherious as can be, freezing rain, slush...you get the picture. I saw a car off the road about 50 yards ahead of me once I rounded the curve, and oncoming traffic, and that nasty 3" drop off the edge of the road. And as soon as I looked back up from that edge, my car slid off the road tossing me into a nasty shoulder, I tried to recover, but it was just too icy. I missed the first car by a fraction, and hit the second car head on. I'm alive, the women in the other car is alive. So things aren't so bad. But my soob is gone. And it allowed me to walk away unscratched. She was pinned in her Dodge Neon. She had air bags...I didn't. I've never had an accident before, and have always been able to correct for others poor driving by being evasive. Not today. I'm still in shock and not sure what I'm feeling, but I don't like it and I feel terrible about allowing my vehicle to get into such a situation. At least we're alive, and I could still pick my son up from daycare (in my wife's car). Please drive careful out there. Peace

Sounds like a real Scooby Doo mystery

Cool Thank you. I'm gonna work on it tonight.

After reading some threads about the "third eye" headlight on older soobs...I'm curious. What was that actually intended for? I've heard it was a passing light, and a fog/driving light. I think they're kinda cool and have a certain James Bondish thing going on. I wish mine had one.

Hello Fellow Soob People My blower motor is making a vibration and sounding bad. How hard is it to locate remove and go through this unit. I've had such wonderful luck rebuilding different things on my soob, and I think this unit needs my help. I beleive it's underneath the pass. side dash since thats where all the ruckus is coming from, and I haven't been able to tear into anything yet, just looking for some advice. Thanks

It is leaking from the stem area where it connects to the smaller rubber tube. When I removed the rubber tube, the piece disintagrated in my hands. I hate rust.

Well I went to the salvage yard and they just towed in an 89' wagon with F/I. I took my leaky pump with me to compare and they look identicle. So for $40.00 I took the chance and installed it. Car seems to run fine, what could happen if it isn't a "turbo" fuel pump? I'm thinking it could run lean, but wouldn't the ecu adjust for that and perhaps go into "limp" mode? The pump wasn't much better then the one I had, but I need to get home after work, so it will have to work. If anyone has a decent one laying around I'd be willing to buy it as long as it doesn't exceed the value of my car! Like the brand new one does. $225.00 x an 18 year old rusty soob= . My mechanic won't even touch my soob anymore. He says it's to far gone...I say " the seats don't even wiggle when I close and open the doors!" "She's still good for 50,000.

For some reason the parts store is having a hard time finding a fuel pump for the GL10. They list everything as "exc. turbo" which mine is a turbo. Any ideas if a non turbo will work. Or would kicking in the turbo throw the engine into a lean condition with a non- turbo fuel pump.

Hi everyone, I have been noticing a bad fuel smell in the GL10, so looking underneath her this morning I noticed gas pouring all over the place. It seems to be coming from the passenger side right in front of the rear wheel, kind of where the trailing arm(?) for the rear axle connects at the body. What is this? Fuel pump? I see an electric connector going to whatever is in there. And the gas is pouring out pretty bad, so it's a hazard. I don't know didly about the soobs, but I'm learning. Please help as soon as possible, Thank you.

Here's a weird thing that I did when my starter stopped working, and I was poor...ooops I still am, and I had more time and bicycle grease then money. Anyways I took my starter completely apart and cleaned it inside and out, put it back together with grease where it needed to be and boom, 20k miles later...still works every morning regardless of how cold it gets.

I've got a rumble in the truck, so I tried to wiggle either back wheel and sure enough the passenger side is loose as a goose. So do you guys think I should try torquing it, or does it for sure need a new bearing...and are the bearings really $80 a piece for the gl10? That's the cheapest I could find them in town. I should add she's never really been worked on wheel bearing wise and she's got 140 on the ticker. The repair man was just doing the brakes and he said she isn't really worth fixin cause she's so rusted out. I disagree, in fact I was pissed cause I told him to replace the wheel bearings if they appeared bad. Now I still have to tear the thing apart and I won't have time to do that til next year!!

As far as snow tires, I prefer the Nokian Haakapalita over the blizzak. The Nokians are a normal rubber compound unlike the Blizzak, so the Noki's wear better and last longer. Noki's also seem to get much better traction on ice, even though Blizzak has the micro cellular foam, I didn't find any advantages. Actually the Blizzak seemed to have less braking traction then the Noki as well. Noki's are made in Finland where they get a sh*t load of snow, kinda like where I live. In fact we had our first 12 inches of the fun stuff lastnight...Happy happy Joy joy. As far as the starter, I'm using the compustar 5100 or something like that. I didn't have the guy hook all the extra crap up like hood, and power locks etc. We just went the direct route so she will fire up and get warm. My 87 GL10 is my second car/ winter beater so all the fancy stuff wasn't needed. But it would impress the ladies if all that sh*t was wired. You can find wiring diagrams on the internet supporting the install for most cars, that's all my buddy does and he owns the shop! If it's something he's unfamiliar with he just searches the net for it. Good Luck and have fun in the snow...I will be!!!

I agree and that somebody will probably be me!

Yeah for sure. People really are lookin at me.

Well I think I made it obvious that the two bolts don't work for an extended duration of time since mine is not working. The one bolt is completely stripped and the other one is on it's way out. Thanks for the lead on the four bolt flanges. If I can find the flanges I'll helicoil it so all four bolts are utilized. I can't see people autocrossing and rallying thru the woods expecting their exhaust systems to stay on.

It makes sense to me to use all 4 bolts, and I cant imagine soob engineers thinking this is right and good. Anyone know where I could find some four bolt flanges?

I took my 87 GL10 into the muffler shop yesterday because she is getting loud. The muffler guy says "theres your problem one of the bolts fell out of the exhaust manifold". No problem because I found that bolt laying in my skidplate, well...the bolt hole is stripped out. Then I look closer and see four bolt holes, but only two are being used, so now I'm thinking what dumb a$$ did this manuever. The muffler guy tells me that all the old soobs are like this and when you strip out one set of bolt holes, then you pivot the flange and use the other holes. What the hell is this! That's got to be the dumbest thing I've heard. So does anyone make four hole flanges or do I have to find someone to make a pair for me? My car sounds like it's going to explode.

I have to tell you guys this story....I went in my local Carquest shop and asked for a 22mm open end /box end wrench. After the guy got done spitting his chew into a mountain dew bottle, he asked me what I was workin' on. I told him I was replacing the O2 sensor in my car...not mentioning what type of car it was. He told me that metric wrenches are extra cause noone uses them except those "Jap" cars and they are really hard to get. I mentoned to him that my buddies Chevy Silverado has a ton of metric bolts on it...and the guy told me word for word that I was full of sh*t and didn't know what I was talking about. At this point I left the store before I was forced to knock someone out, cause this guy is a complete tool. End result, I went to NAPA and now they take pretty good care of me.

Hi folks, I need to do my rear wheel bearings on the 87 gl10. Anyone have any advice for me? I have never done them on a soob, so I'm not sure about the axle nut size or torque. Many Thanks in advance

I've been having a problem losing fluid and poor braking as well, until I realized the rubber gasket has to be just perfect on the m.c. for it to seal correctly. it wasn't letting the system pressurize (if you will) and let fluid leak out. Just my two cents.

Thanks, I appreciate the pics. I'm thinking my linkage looks different then that for some reason, but I'll know better after I cliimb under again.

If someone has one, I need a picture of the shift linkage for my 87 gl10. The rubber stabilizing piece at the rear of the linkage (underneath the passenger compartment) is gone and I need to figure out how to make something too stabilize the shifter knob. It's flopping around makes me crazy. I have searched the world over trying to locate this piece and NOONE seems to have what I need, or even know what it's called! I even went to our brand new subaru dealer and they acted like if it doesn't say STI or WRX they don't deal with it. Real Bozo's. They thought it was funny that I'm even buying parts for my ol' soob. They recommended I trade her in on a new one.