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You are the men. Ummm that sounds wierd. Individually: you da man. Anyhow, thanks for the excellent sources. I looked at all these sites an am leaning towards the RAAMaudio stuff. I like the closed cell foam for the floorboard and the self adhesive stuff for inside the hardtop. The carpet should just lay on top of a couple layers of spray adhesive'd Ensolite, and I can stick a roll of the RAAMat BXT to the inside of the fiberglass hardtop to help keep that toasty and quiet. Hell, if I get Sirius satellite radio in there I might start driving the thing to work more often. When I get this installed I'll try to post some pix (even though it is in a jeep ). thanks again James B

Yeah, as much as I like to talk about alternative uses for cat . . . I would really like to find that sticky floorboard insulation. I'm pretty sure there was a writeup with pictures of this in a gen 2. - James B

Naw, then I would feel obligated to eat them. Cat skin is the traditional material for drums on banjos. Supposed to be real tough and thin.

how yawl doing, Seeing as how I sold the lifted wagon, I haven't posted in a while. Good to see lots of activity still going on. Anyway . . . A couple of years ago somebody posted about some self adhesive floorboard insulation. I looked all over internet and this site, and couldn't find where to get it. Does anybod remember this, or know where to get something to put under the carpet on my current 4x4? It's loud and my feet get cold when gets around zero. thanks James B

Here is a link to the first part of the write-up: http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=26281 Let me know if you have any questions about it. - James B

Here is a link that shows what to adjust for various patterns on the gear faces: http://www.drivetrain.com/ringpinioninstal.html But like Shawn said, he can adjust it himself if he is that concerned. - James B

Wasn't exactally clear, but did you swap the ring and pinion, or the LSD clutch pack thing and gear stubs? I just swapped the LSD cartridge and axle stubs on mine, and made sure to use the same number of shims as came from the factory on each side to keep the factory settings preserved. (Was it the shims from the donor or the other way around?) I marked the gears with spray paint to see how the gear faces were meshing, and it looked OK to me. My big horespower co-workers thought this was risky DIY job, but unless this is going into a 500hp full time rear wheel drive, I don't think the backlash introduced by the manufacturing variances is that big of a deal. If you have had this in a running vehicle, and there aren't pieces of metal in the lube, it is likely ok. Mine worked fine. - James B

Cuz I already had big tires and they wouldn't fit otherwise. (I tried) - James B

Mine quit doing that after the second charge.

Yeah, I agree with getting a car alarm. I have an alarm and a failsafe ignition lockout on my truck. The wagon stays in the garage or under the deck most of the time, and where I live now I don't really worry that much about it anyway. If you wanna check out city to city crime statistics (like vehicle thefts per 100,000 population) search on 'uniform crime report', it has some interesting info. - James B

So I know this is getting a bit off topic, and this is also somewhat politically sensitive, but with due respect to the attitude of others I gotta speak out. I moved from the fairly crime prone Southeast, to a comparitively crime free Colorado, and noticed a big difference in attitudes about firearms between places. I'll just say from personal experience that after you get your house broken into while you are sleeping - twice, you learn to understand the difference between paranoia and protection. - James B

After driving for a day, I went home and put the rest of my original can of R134a, and a 2oz oil charge/2oz refrigerant in. To get the can empty I actually drove around the neighborhood with the can hooked up, and this seemed to work quite well. A also opened and closed the refrigerant can several times while I was charging, trying to let it get warmed back up between charges. I didn't hear the expansion valve hissing as much after I added some oil, and the A/C output while sitting idle seemed better. It felt colder on the way to work today, than it did yesterday. - James B

I haven't torn down the motor yet, I needed to fix the A/C on my daily driver truck. The donor car was wrecked with about 200,000 miles on the odometer, but the fluids looked good so it was likely maintained. Hopefully the teardown can start tonite. I am leaning towards a re-ring kit from the autoparts store, and borrowing a ridge reamer and cylinder hone. I dunno about the heads yet, I'll look and see when I get in there. Maybe re-mans, maybe try to rebuild it at home and pay for the machine work I can't do myself. That $1200 kit from Ram engines sounds very nice. But this would go over what I want to spend, and not leave anything left over to get new hoses, wires, and exhaust parts. This is my first try at this, so for me it is more a learning experience than a necessity. My main problem is I want a nice engine, but don't want to pay for it. - James B

I just (yesterday) replaced a hose, drier, and expansion valve on my truck and used one of those $15 air-compressor attached vacuum pumps from Harbor Freight to draw a vacuum, then charged the system with R134a. It took two tries to get the system completely charged back, but only took one can of coolant. One book I have suggests jumpering the thermostat that turns the compressor on and off, to keep it running continous while you recharge coolant - but I didn't try this. From what I gather, it takes some time for the system to get stable when doing a reharge, and the compressor has to be running for this to happen. You might try driving it around the block to get plenty of air to your condenser coil so the compressor runs longer, then hooking up the can and adding more charge. I put the coolant can in some water to help it keep from freezing up. This was my first try at this, but I am making cold air again. There might be some other way to get more coolant in there, but my high side/low side pressures are right, and I am cool so I'm not that worried about it. It might be possible to add more coolant when the temeprature is lower, I might try then. - James B

Is there a 'one stop shopping' sort of rebuild kit for my EA82T? I'm looking for something with pistons and maybe bearings, but haven't seen any single kit that has everything I want. Here are the sites I have check out so far: http://ramengines.com/_wsn/page3.html (exactally what I want, but it looks like EA81 only) https://www.rockauto.com/dbphp/mak,SUBARU (can't tell what comes with what kits) https://www.1stsubaruparts.com/partscat.html (can sorta tell what comes with kits) Can anybody point me in the right direction? - James B