ShawnW

1st snowy USMB trip of 07 thread.

You can take the shifter mechanism off with the three little bolts and the big nut and swap em. You will have to align the shifter lever on the mechanism with the casing when you swap them but that is pretty easy. Place in Neutral position, put a punch thru the hole and align it and then tighten the little bolts when its lined up right. (This will make sense when you are looking at the trans).

I dont think you have to have the axles modified but are the splines on the rx the same as an EJ? The radiator will work provided you have the metal tanks you can have it modified to point in the right directions and with the right diameter piping. (the ej's use .25" bigger ID hoses and the thermostat inlet is straight on instead of pointing up to the water pump like the ea82T. Dont know anybody selling front cuts except maybe AllStar Imports. If I was doing a Ej20 swap I would spend the money for a standalone wiring setup and use the block only.

Not onto anything as of now. I am confident that I have all the pieces figured out I just left it sitting for so long that I have grown tired of working on it...especially by myself. Schedules weren't lining up very well in the beginning. The other thing is my plates a little full...and MY priorities are to get my wagon on the road and our Outback sold....but if somebody shows interest in helping, looking at what I have, etc they are welcome to PM me and setup an afternoon or day on the weekend to come over and look at what is done so far thats going to bump it up in priority by tons.

When you figure out what trans and hubs you are running on the car get a hold of Marshall (MWE Axles) and he will help alot. Ive been talking to him about what options are available for length, inner, outer, etc lately and it looks very doable provided people can send a few cores his way.

Id pull the whole engine and leave the compressor on. Disconnect the lines if the refrigerant has leaked out already instead of unbolting it from the engine in the car. You could drop the crossmembers and all the underbody stuff enough to just lift the body off the engine and transmission...junk the body and start looking for a donor body to reinstall it to. You have definately bent the valves in the engine...Id guess 8-10 of them. A leak down test once the engine is out of the car would be best to determine engine condition.

That much driving might make me not want to drive or work on a car.

The new Subaru oil filters are made in Japan and are not available in aftermarket. Next best thing is a Napa Gold (expensive though) after that a Purolator one from Advance Auto Parts.

The one for sale in the marketplace.....friend of mines car looks just Carfreak85's black one...slightly different decals and 4" of snow sitting on top of it right now LOL.

Im home and I had a lot of fun. Thanks to Jeffast, Yetidon and Teresa for coming out. It was snowing in Golden when we left Sonic and we found lots of places in the hills where it wasn't snowing which I found funny but there was plenty already up there. My favorite picture of the day has the hatch and the plus one outback on 3 wheels. There'll be another time this year for sure. You coming next time? On the way back down from Nederland we found more snow: Hopefully Yeti will post more pics.

If the shortblock has been out the VIN won't match the block where they stamp a VIN number on it. If the engine is an EJ25 DOHC chances are real good its had head gaskets replaced.

Technically the ea81 and all the pushrod engines are interference its just next to impossible to have anything collide internally.

Trans is much easier if you have a lift.

Thank you Mike!

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Yep you need the rear diff. Im really glad I went with the 5spd but you'd have to have a driveshaft built or mount the 2 piece carrier bearing type ea82 diff to do that. Depends on how long you plan to keep the car. If you dont go with the RX trans and just get a regular 3.7 single range 4wd or 3.9 dual range 5 speed I think the trans will fit in the tunnel better. Cost ya about 300 bucks more to do the 5spd if my math is right.

You need everything related to the shifters and you should make some reference marks on the turbowagon that correspond to the donor car so you know where to drill holes for the shifter mounting holes. Need: Clutch, pressure plate, flywheel, clutch cable, shift fork, throwout bearing, flywheel bolts. Be sure to use the 83 and up 4 spd dual range with the larger clutch and don't plan on romping on it if you want any life out of your tranny or the clutch. The starter is interchangable. Your Auto trans bellhousing will work as is but I think you need a bracket or something off the manual trans bellhousing on the top to make it proper. Look at both cars and youll understand. You need the pedal assembly with all 3 pedals and the bolts that go into the firewall. You should skip the hill holder and put a clutch return spring on instead. The $ spent making brackets, buying the hill holder, and buying/making brake lines would be much better spent on the rear disc brake swap. Look at the yards for an 84 DL wagon 2/4wd, these were cheaper models and had no hill holder and have the spring I am talking about. The speedo cable is required your AT one is too short. Get a couple of rubber caps off a radiator at the junkyard for the tranny cooler lines to make for a cleaner install. You will have to enlarge the hole around the shifter in the trans tunnel. Short length of rubber hose and golf tee (or similar) to plug off vac line that runs down to the Vac Modulator on the side of the tranny. The front swaybar might not clear the trans so grab the swaybar and all the brackets including the radius rod brackets. Shifter trim dual range lever and the mount on the tunnel for it, maybe even the radio console if yours isnt the small console that stops before the shifter (I think your turbo wagon should have the smal one mine does). You have to jumper the wire on the neutral safety switch (on the tranny shifter plug its a 4 prong connector) so the starter will crank. You will lose cruise control because the switches on the brake and gas pedal dont swap over so give up on it while you are at it. The driveshaft will work as is. The front axles work as is. The downpipe off the turbo will no longer bolt to the side of the trans IIRC. Dont let this turbowagon turn into one like mine (never ending upgrades project). Started 3AT, then 4spd dual, then RX FT4wd difflock trans...used engine, rebuilt ea81T, now EJ22...BYB 3" lift kit, yanked went 4" full frame lift kit,....still have yet to plate+drive this car more than up the block. Either way at least you are starting out with one that runs. 10-15 years ago there was a guy that could do this swap in 4 hours actual time and got paid about 25 shop time. Take your time and I think you could do it in a weekend if you got some good plywood and a nice day. Remember he had 2 lifts, a full shop, and a donor car RIGHT next to the Turbo car.

Try one from MWE axles he works next door to me and doesnt build junk. Ive watched him build the axles and they are amazing, all bearings sized to the cups, painted rally blue, etc. I have a cone washer I will toss in the box with your reman for you when he ships you one just tell Marshall to remind me. His site (call him with the # on his site): www.ccrengines.com/mwe Please let him know you don't have a core (assuming parts store takes your return) as he does have to charge a small fee to get one so that the next perosn to need an axle won't be SOL. (hes a small 1 man outfit)

It just started snowing so getting a gauge on how bad (good) it would be might be hard right now but heres my favorite places to go....and we can do both and allow people to break off and go back toward home at the end of option one which might work nicely. Leg 1 takes you on a short but typically snowy drive that should be passable in virtually any 4wd/AWD Subaru including legacy/XT6, etc, assuming the driver has some snow experience and decent winter tires and sense. From Golden we head up 93 briefly to Golden Gate Canyon. West up the canyon to Robins Hill Road (Robinson Hill Road on some maps) and make a Left (southish). A very small town at the crest of RobinsHill road points up into the mountains and might be numbered still as #69 RD. (hehehe--sorry). This is a narrow rural road that isnt well maintained, has lots of little challenges but isnt difficult. Very scenic considering distance from civilization. At the end of RD 69 is Smith Hill Road (#7). Id go Right (North) and head back to Highway 46 (golden gate canyon road again);this is real close to the south end of Golden Gate Canyon State Park. At this intersection those that need to go back home would have a good option to make a Right and head back to Golden/Denver. If people want to keep playing they can continue for leg 2 which basically is a side road trip up to Nederland where I would go up RD 128 to Caribou past Cardinal and the old Mine area. Every time I go up there this year there is more snow than the last time but the tracks up are improving. This road is tretcherous at times and will require lots of 1st gear creeping on the decent from Caribou so you dont lose control and slide.....well lets not go there. Safety first...I saw a Large ford expedition that was completely totalled up there from going too fast last time I was up there. And he was lucky total the vehicle it could have been the cliff instead.

You still have my #? tres o tres sixer four uno seven niner four sevener. So far: Adam (hatch) Me (hatch) Jeff: Not that Sonic. Its truly in Golden Slightly north of Taj Mahal (courthouse) on the street with all the roundabouts.

No worries John we are leavin the trees out of this. Are you going to come along!?!?!

Hey Matt its Shawn from Soccer, nice score on the brat!

I think I have a couple more used ones if you want to try them. PM to setup a meeting or maybe come to the snow thing this weekend and I could bring them along?

Lotus Esprit, Toyota MR2, Landcruiser FJ has 2 plus 2 suicide doors.... Those'd be my picks right now if I can't have a Subaru. We got an 03 Baja a month ago or so and I love it but I wish it had 2 doors and a longer bed instead (LIKE HEY SUBARU MAKE A REAL BRAT AGAIN!>!>!>!)

I think if you plug the green connectors in and drive it around it will test everything and dump codes for anything out of spec.