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that part number googles and looks like what I'm looking for. But it's described as an exhaust flange which leads me to believe that it's for the manifold to pipe joint. so then what is the doughnut looking gasket for?

yep...nothing I find matches. 85 Brat. every parts search comes up the same...a simple doughnut looking gasket. Felpro 91443. Search on line, Autozone, Orielly, etc...all list and show a basic round gasket for the head to manifold. But what came off my engine and what is depicted in the Haynes manual is a gasket with a pair of bolt holes. Basically looks like a typical thermostat gasket. But no auto parts place matches this in their system. what gives? I see nor feel any recessed area on the head or manifold that would hold and retain a ring gasket that lacks bolt holes.

not sure at this point. I still need to get inspected and on the road. It will be a little while before I even contemplate trying to install it.

I have a roll bar I picked up recently...haven't messed with installing it yet but it looks to require drilling for all the mounts... I may not even use it.

I think front & rear are the same...it's that way on most, if not all driveshafts that I've encountered

it's a lot easier and cheaper to fix or replace a motor than to fix body damage or rust...

no clue how long...i bought it like that...

OK, is this that rod that sits in a bracket next to the clutch cable? I wondered what that was...it's just sitting there loose with no bushings. It seemed to have no function the way it is at the moment. It reminded me of the two rods on my jeep from the firewall that support the front grill. would just any old pair of rubber bushings or doughnuts and a couple of washers & nuts suffice? or is this a special bushing?

what's a pitch stopper?

the shift lever on my Brat jumps a lot, really jumps a lot when I let off the gas... obviously one of the mounts is bad or totally shot. Any idea which one is the typical culprit?

likely the brackets were eliminated from the 86...you will likely need to fabricate mounting points. there is a tab at the top and a mounting point neat the bottom of the front bed wall.

I bought a bunch of LED bulbs...only to find that they are polarity specific...If I install them "backwards" they don't light up...unlike incandecent bulbs. I didn't see and easy way to know which way it correct until I put the dash back in and try it...then taking it all apart again to try over... I just decided to stick with the old style bulbs...

is it a 1.6 or 1.8? I think the 1.8 have hyd valves. If it's a 1.6 then it probably needs the valves adjusted before making further diagnosis... but kinda hard to do that pre-purchase...if it's a 1.6 then haggle the price down a bit on the valve noise and hope all you gotta do is an adjustment...

can't help ya on the tires...im a newbie... but sweet rims...they came out real nice. you would never know they were old rims.

I've never heard anyone recommend these kinda fixes. I've been on old diesel mercedes boards, VW, Fiero, Volvo, Porsche, Jeep, Isuzu, you name it. No one has anything good to say about the head gasket snake oil stuff. It may work, but I think it would be temporary only. Maybe something to get you home. but I'd pull the head and do the head gasket leak right.

nice plow. is that a flame job or is your paint just peeling?

well I'm headed up to the camp for the weekend...I will see if my fence and cars are still there...lol

I looked yesterday and I can only see one of the green plugs (yellow & blue wires) I didn't see the other plug. Not sure if it's been cut off or just tucked away somewhere...I don't remember if I unplugged it either...I just disconnected everything that was in the way to get my inst panel out.

can you follow the wires? I'm still waiting on my Haynes to arrive but it should have wiring schematics

did they work before? if you have never seen them work I would look as the switch. either on the shifter or trans. I think that's where they usually are. Older cars often you will find them disconnected, say from a trans R&R and never reconnected.

I first unplugged the turn switch harness and mine still got way hot from too many amps and blew...one the inst panel was unplugged it stopped blowing out. With the turn switch re-connected everything work normal. no problems so far but have not put the inst panel back in... I should not that someone has replaced the ignition tumbler and that might be somehow connected with the problem...But I don't think I disconnected that harness yet, but could have bumped or moved it somehow and disturbed a "short" there??? but I don't think there is anything shared between the horn/hazard circuits and the ignition switch other than both harnesses are in the steering column

that's why I got a fence around my lot. I got a couple lots out in the country. On one I have a couple junk cars stashed, keeping them for the rare diesel engines. But they are junk otherwise and by having the property fenced, even if it's just a few strands of barbbed wire, tells people "this ain't your's"

where they visible from the road? If not then an "inside job". The county/city can grab "junk" cars for code violations and such but a window sticker would have been placed first and probably a letter too. I hope you reported it to the police the day they were taken. Have the VINs reported stolen. I think you have to have a title in hand before scrap yards and such will take them. Otherwise scrap metal thieves would be making out like bandits all the time.

pulled the inst panel and re-connected the turn switch...everything works and no blown fuse...I got a bad wire or something in the dash somewhere.

I got the same problem with my 85 Brat. I just got it so that's how it was. The horn/hazard fuse keeps blowing. If I install a new fuse I get some sparking as I install it and then the left turn indicator lights up. It just stays lit. If I pull the fuse it's pretty hot but not blown, but I didn't leave it in very long. If I try to use the hazards it blows right away. If I operate the turn lever it blows right away. I tried unplugging the turn lever harness and put the fuse back in but the left indicator light still comes on and fuse get real hot...so my problem is not in the turn lever. I've looked under the rear left but the wires seem fine. I also tried unplugging the front left turn wire harness up by the light and no change. I have now pulled the whole inst panel. If I put the fuse back in it no longer gets hot. Well the dash panel is disconnected so no power is going thru it. that's as far as I've gotten this weekend...