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Oil pump gasket kit is only $8 from the dealer, and takes 30 minutes if your being careful and cleaning things well as you go, so there's almost no reason not to. Give you a chance to inspect the pump mechanicals while your in there. GD

Most likely you need to buy new adjusters. They are often times welded beyond repair with brake dust and heat from the shoes. I've even removed them and used a vise and a pipe wrench - I have always failed to ressurect them after they are like that. Busted a couple off even. I don't even try now - I just find some that are working, or get new ones. GD

Or the engine was swapped out... I seem to recall clanteri doing that right moose? GD

Maybe new sending units are in order for a lot of us. They aren't real expensive.... GD

My Brat had the same symptoms - I think it was an exhaust leak. Changed the y-pipe and haven't heard it since. GD

No - I think you might get a little better low end torque, but you won't gain any HP from it to speak of. Opening up the exhuast, and the SPFI might get you close to 80 HP.... but a stock hydro lifter EA81 already has 80 HP. Your's is rated at 73. If you want more horses, you need to start with a hydro lifter engine, and build it up with a different cam, decked heads, and taller pistons. The 8.7:1 compression is just too low as it is. And yes - you need the ECU portion of the SPFI wireing harness. GD

Sounds like it has good oil pump seals. I've resealed engines with near 200k miles and got oil pressures like that. No big deal. The EA81's run high like that when the pumps are in top form. GD

A properly tuned EA81 is *nearly* impossible to overheat. If you have oil, OR coolant, you'll be fine regardless of what the guage reads. They are as much oil cooled as water cooled. Check your fan tho - sounds like the thermoswitch is either junk, or the connections are corroded. GD

(in my best cartman voice) "Ya shouldnta done that - he was just a boy - poor little feller" Anyone remeber redneck rampage? "Dat one blowed up REAL good!" GD

If your Brat has an 02, you should be able to wire that up fine. You do need the fuel pump because the SPFI runs at a MUCH higher pressure than a carb. I sugest mounting it in the engine bay, and supplying the SPFI pump using your stock pump. You do need the SPFI distributor because it has a crank angle sensor for the SPFI computor. You'll have to change the drive gear on the disty to the one off the EA81 disty, and cut one of the mounting tabs off the disty housing for it to fit on the EA81. Rguyver is the one person on the board that I know has done this - look him up and email him. GD

The 4th setting passes un-resisted power to the motor - looks like your switch may be bad. GD

Could be the control arm or bushings too. My wagon does this on one side, and I have come to find out that the bushing is worn because the control arm mount is slightly bent it looks like..... EA81, but your setup should be similar. On mine it's not really a knock, just a much louder transmission of noise when that side hits something going down the freeway - like those reflectors in the road. You can "hear" the passenger side a LOT more than the drivers side. Hard to say really. Front end noises are always a bitch to figure out. Could be ball joints too. The ball joints on my Brat make noise when I take off hard.... hell - could be almost anything - but those are a few ideas. GD

Yes - the low beam bulbs have two filiments. Check your fuses for one thing - there's a fuse for each side (right and left). If your bulbs all work when you turn on the brights, then you might have blown the low beam filiment on the outer bulbs.... but likely your blew the fuses for them if the fuse was the right size. GD

Bad temp sensor? Thinks the engine is warm and isn't enriching the mixture enough to start it..... Sort of like a malfunctioning choke on a carb. Well - that be my guess anyway. I'm not an FI expert by a long shot tho. GD

The EA82 Hitachi is a 28/32 on the manual trans cars (28/30 on the A/T). The EA81 is a 26/30.... so you gain about 2mm in bore size in both the primary and secondary. Also the EA82 carb manifold flows better, so there's some gain there as well. The linkage mod I was refering to is the one you already did - wireing the primary and secondary together for progressive linkage. I think that an EA82 Hitachi with the linkage mod should perform similarly to a DFV. Won't have the massive punch of the DGV, but it will be an improvement none the less. Cheap too. The EA82 manifold has to be modified a bit to fit, but it's mostly a bolt on. I'm not the one to ask what exactly needs modifying, as I haven't personally done that swap. GD

Yeah - it helped him "meet an end" - he bought another soob with profits GD

Man - I couldn't possibly fit all my (small) subaru parts in that tiny thing GD

HEY! My Brat is going "street" (I'm a city boy too...) Yeah - I hope to see it again on the trails up there. Keep it in the family ya know. GD

All Turbo Brat's had Power Steering. No regular Brat's had it. You can swap it in, but you need the entire PS assembly from an EA81 car including the engine cross-member.

Yeah - my mom says my cars are "junk", and wonders why I got rid of my Volvo 850 turbo. But at least she can't yell at me for my choices anymore.... and she does concede the point that my Brat gets a lot better mileage than that volvo ever got. Once she calms down, he should extoll it's virtues - such as cheap to repair and maintain, economical (well - better than a lot of things he could have picked), reasonably safe because of the added height, NOT fast (she should like that).... increddibly slow in fact. Don't talk about how "cool" it is, or how fun it will be off-road - that will only make it worse. Focus on the points she will understand as a parent, and try to get her to look past it's ugly exterior... He should have put sissy tires on it for the trip home.... Is that his only rig? Too bad if it is... never good to only have an off-roader. People with only one rig don't like to try and follow those of us with multiple. Comes down to us not really minding if we break stuff. I mean - I care, but it's not the end of the world if I do, as it's not my transportation to school and work. It's actually hard to find Subaru people to go off-roading with around here.... plenty of jeep people tho. GD

That's either a DCP-306-24 or a -26. Both have that style of vacuum choke pull-off. The 24 is a feedback version, and the 26 is the non-feedback. I've become quite intimate with the Hitachi's over the last few months. Rebuilt the one on my Brat about 5 times before I figure it out and got it right. Done my homework on this one! GD

I recall that the 86/87 5 speeds were the best - I think because of gearing changes, so you want one of those. Now - you can't use the turbo one without a lot more work because it has 25 spline front axle's.... thus you should use the 86 transmission. Choose whichever drive-line looks to be in the best shape from the ones availible. Same with the rear diff. Damn - wish you were a little closer. I would help you with the swap in exchange for that 85 D/R.... ah well. GD

Right - I believe I said that - my point was simply that you would have to do it. A Jet kit is an added expense along with the adaptor plate, and the frustration of having to rejet it. The ones from the smaller Ford carbs might be close. I know for a fact that the Jets from a 5200 off some 2.3L ford are the same as the jets supplied with the DGV for the EA81. However, since the venturi's are smaller in the DFV, it would run rich (makes sense - it's for a bigger engine), and thus needs smaller jets. But it's a good source of correct Jets if you need to rejet a DGV correctly for an EA81.... just an interesting coincidence. Still have to find a DGV for the information to be useful at all... which is painfully hard to do. None of the carb shops I've called even have any used ones for parts. They just are not that common being that they are not technically street legal. DOH! Hehe - you edited your post! I guess I'll leave this tho since it's good info anyway. GD

He sold the blue wagon - he's got an EA81 now. GD

Watch what you do with the DOJ cups - with that much crawl, if you weaken it with machine work, they will explode like a ripe mellon. I have an idea I've been toying with.... I'll PM you about it. GD