the sucker king

Are the shock inserts the same for the adjustable vs non adjustable (4wd vs. 2wd) struts?

neato. my sister went to school for a year in Oneonta

By the way- where in upstate are you? I grew up in New Lebanon, on the Mass border.

edit- Sorry i just read your last post about the manifold. Are you going to run 1 carb or fabricate individual manifolds? interested in what you do.

Do you have the intake? I have one that I will sell if I can't fit it on my car, I think it will not fit with the power steering pump. I will know soonish, drop me a line if interested.

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I still have the skid plate pictured in this thread : http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=130795 Also have a gen one ea71 engine, known good runner, Make an offer, local pick up only on the engine,

You live in Lyons? awesome.

thank you

I have done a dozen axels on old subarus, our outback looks like the same job as the old ones. BUT - There isn't enough room to get a hammer on a punch from the top, do you drop the exhaust and hit it from under?

Hmmm.... would love to know who was creeping around my driveway in a monster Subie. nobody knows of this car in CO? Huge gen 2 wagon, Gold or taN.

yes.

Thanks Shawn do you you know who has a gold or tan monster wagon (gen 2) around here? One pulled over in my driveway, didn't get a good look or talk to them though.

or you need to adjust your carb, and set the timing again, adjust the carb and set the timing again.

those are mine! were you in a lifted monster wagon by chance?

I am getting around 22 mpg using cheap gas on flat highway. 20 if a/c is on. I thought it would get better mileage.

what grade of metric bolt should be used for suspension parts or to secure lift blocks. Hi grades I commonly see are 8.8 and 10.9. Don't know if that suffices or if you need higher.

yeah you are right. That's a haul!

That mileage can't be right. Have fun! Never been there.

fat case ea71 ( from later years) ea81 and ea 82 will fit the same trasmissions but not the transmission in this guys car. this problem is simple enough- you have a blown ea71, get a new ea71. That is the ONLY simple answer.

No, putting in an ea81 or ea82 is far from straight forward. I wouldn't bother with an ea82, and a ea81 swap would entail a very rare crossmember swapped in and then the tranny mating issue. ea71 are not that hard to find, your location only has a town, what state are you in, maybe somebody on the board could help you find one. good luck.

82-87 brats, 80-89 hatchbacks (the ones with the pushrod engines), 80-84 everything else. The brat 1600 struts you mentioned in first post won't work, they are for gen 1. I have some monroe inserts new in box, I will look to see if I can grab a part # off of them. give me a day or 2.

That era car had different struts for 4wd versus 2wd. The difference is that the 4wd ones are adjustable via two nuts. also the top rubber mounts are mounted one way on the wagons, hatches and brats, and reversed on coupes and sedans (or something like that). So it's best to grab the struts from the same body style car with the same trans (4wd versus 2wd). But I can say from experience that anything from a gen 2 will fit on the car. You should definately grab two of the same though so you don't have alignment issues.

just reread your post, it sounds like you didn't rebuild the heads, so maybe my advice doesn't apply. I would still hook up the exhaust though.

Hi there, I wouldn't run a fresh rebuild without the exhaust hooked up. You need the back pressure to seat the valves. I was told I needed at least a y pipe to do this.