ShawnW

The Forester turbo will be awesome. Hands down reliable, fun, the total package. Keep the old 79 and sell all the others. Then you have the opposite ends of the spectrum. The legacy will be like wearing the shoes you mow the yard in to work....they are still comfy and functional but compared to the Forester just a little "older" and not really classic or anything neat like that.

Install Optima Battery, roll up windows and be ready to crank your starter over to get yourself out.

Ill be on the curb waiting, pick me up!

You know how to reach me if you need something. Looks like youre passing about 2 hours north of me.

Sweet! Thats going to be fun to drive around. Get some truck tires for it (load range C tires) so you dont scare yourself to death taking corners. Vanagon.com has a nice tire section.

That'd look really cool. It already looks mean with studded snow tires on it. Damn you for putting these ideas in my head. (Surprisingly I hadnt even thought of doing that yet and I usually think along the same lines as you offroad junkies.)

All that with that little mower? You are impressive! Must have been a long reach down to the handlebars to mow with too.

Nope. LOL. That project (merging with the Subaru Vanagon forum) was a very much failed project because of their forums moderator being closed minded to the idea. Pretty close to pulling the forum from the list. Yep, dual range 4wd with a 5spd. Crawls like a hatch if my seat of the pants reaction is even close. Feels lower by 15% but again I can't tell--they are so different.

Today I decided to convert from my Subaru Powered VW Vanagon to an 88 Toyota Minivan. Its got a 2.2L engine that unfortunately is under the front seats but its a pushrod engine, the trans is a 5spd instead of a 4 and it really cruises along nicely, the A/C works awesome and it looks better than the Vanagon (IMO OF COURSE). Vanagon ad to follow in a few days.

I am in Bozeman on my way to Butte and will be returning to Denver for work on monday but if anybody wants to meet up here there in between let me know by calling me. Three zero three six four one seven nine four seven BRIAN? You still around? Thanks Shawn

Id just aquire another Brat that runs and drives and use the two parts cars to make it really good. Ditch the turbo and just build a Carb Brat, LOTS easier. When you part out the turbo dont forget the gas tank and fuel pump....they are rare and nice for conversions that people do to EFI their old GL's and Brats.

Totally broken in...around 3-5000 miles. SO Tempting to stamp TURBONE on the block.

Worth grabbing! Thats an Original dealer accessory item.

I havent heard from him in a long time either. He probably avoids me cuz I always ask him to be my techie ______.

Call as you need Andrew! I have lots of these guys' phone numbers as well.

Am I the only one that would kill Jeffast on the way to the show? Sorry Jeff but that much of you would annoy me past my breaking point. I would definately need Yeti, or another somewhat sane person to help buffer my pain.

Flippin sweet, I grew up in Iowa City. Love seeing the hawkeye avatar!

Use a set of Dykes. (channel lock wire cutters) Grab it flush to the crank and pull the cutters upward while grabbing the key. Damaged key kits available from www.s-wingstuff.com call them for details the kit isnt online.

Sorry but the trip TO the meet is as much fun as the meet itself. Your loss sweaty guys.

I really dont see any need to remove the axle ANY different on an EJ than an EA. With air tools of course I: -Remove wheel (19MM lug socket) -Remove axle roll pin with above craftsman punch or even Better Snap-on one (TONS LONGER and makes it easier). -Remove ball joint bolt with 14MM socket and pry it out of the bottom of the knuckle. -Remove Axle nut. You might have to unstake it with a drift punch but usually an 1/2" impact gun will re-round the nut naturally. (32MM socket EJ/36MM EA) -Pull inboard end of Axle out of Transmission -Pull Outboard out of knuckle. -Install new/reman axle to knuckle. -Install Axle nut, stake nut using a drift, punch, or similar but the punch that removes the pin wont work well, needs to be sharper or flatter. -Line up axle onto splines on transmission and make sure your punch will go thru the hole easily and that the caved hole on the axle and the caved hole on the trans stub are on the same side. Otherwise you are in for 20 minutes of cursing while you try to get the rollpin out of the axle and transmission. With axle loose on the trans pop the knuckle back onto the ball joint being coordinated enough to not have the axle fall off the transmission. -Install 14MM bolt into ball joint. -Install roll pin. A 1/4" 1' long extension works wonderfullly. Put the pin into the end of the extension that your socket wrench normally goes into and tap with the other end. When its almost all the way thru finish it off with your punch. On the side with the catalytic converter sometimes you have to get it from the top instead...extend with more extensions to suit if necessary but usually the 1/4" extension will sneak around the cat. -Install wheel and lug nuts tight. Lower car to ground, and torque lug nuts to 58-72 Ft pounds.

MT will leak with driveshaft out too just like AT.

Im planning on attending but gas being what it is, I would love to split it with a person or two that would be willing to ride along in my car. So if you want to go but dont have a reliable enough car, enough gas money to make the whole trip, etc, contact me. I have a roof basket on the top of the car so plenty of things, parts, gear can be brought along. Im planning on taking my 83 EJ22 conversion. Pretty comfortable in the front seat and if you are under 5'8 or so not so bad in the back seat. Car doesnt have A/C.

It works rather well. Just setup a meet on one and then link people over to the other forum to read about the meet. Make sure that the forum you post the meet on doesnt block guest viewing as thats kindof annoying for the people that arent registered on the forum you list the meet on. Here in Denver the dominating forum is AWDPirates.net. Its mostly go fast types but they never seem to mind the old schoolers from this forum showing up. We don't keep up with them very well on the mountain drives they do after the meets but oh well. Some of the people on their forum have aquired old Subies because of seeing ours and they do some pretty cool work on them.

Pretty easy to swap, the clip thru the firewall kindof sucks but other than that not bad. Not all the same but if you take yours with you to the parts store and compare it, it won't be too had to match up. AdvanceAuto has had the right ones for me before.

Be boggled by the fact that Subaru saved a few bucks by using plastic instead of metal on something that will leak and puke out oil all over your clutch. The new ones are stamped steel and chrome in appearance. The gen before that were aluminum. There are also a bunch of plastic ones on the 90-94's...they started using them AGAIN at one point! Definately sounds like you blew a headgasket.