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oh yeah.... subaru's are cool, too.

DUDE! up in fin flon they have the burbot fishing derby every year. i've allways wanted to go. i'm the worlds greatest fisherman, yet when i've tried to catch burbot in NW ontario.....nothing. i've seen big rump roast burbot from flin flon though. don't you have the world record up your way? john

the late ones did.

i took apart e pre '80 ea71 and the valve rockers wer held on by long bolts. on a post 80 they were slipped over studs and were held on with nuts. subtle but different. i've also been told that a hydro lifter ea71 will have pushrods with different tips.

all ea81s are 1800s. ea71s are 1600. look for the stamp as mentioned above. older ea71 engines (pre '80) have the stamp towards the rear of the engine on the drivers side.

lyons represent!

the 2wd tortion bar assembly i have from a hatch seems the same where it bolts to the body. if not, you still wouldn't need to convert to 4wd, just swap tortion bar assemblies. the 2wd gas tank should be ok with out a diff, especially since it will be lifted. i still say it will work fine.

i don't see why you'ld have to be creative. you leave the mustache bar step out and you'ld have a couple paperweights

why not? is seems to me it would work, you'd just have a couple blocks left over. or were the sedans somehow different?

i converted a 1980 1800 auto 2wd auto hatch to 4wd, and i didn't think it was that bad, but it was time consuming. i have heard, however that it is more dificult to convert a manual to 4wd because the tranny and therefore the tunnel is skinnier and the 4wd tranny won't fit without banging or cutting the tunnel. i don't nesseccarrily believe that, though on the 1980 models i suspect that the bodies were all the same. also a 1600 4wd tranny is pretty skinny. so i say go for it, but get a donor 4wd car so you have all the parts right there, otherwise you'll be making lots of trips to the junkyard as this and that come up.

i have a set of 15" alloys i'm asking $125, have centercaps and lugs. i'm waiting to here back from a couple people, but lemme know if interested. by the way the last set of wheel i sold cost around $40 to ship.

i saw one in a junkyard. it was turbo 4wd. no lsd, but trim just like an rx. it was white (3dr coupe)

that would imply that the 2wd and 4wd (ea81) crankshafts have differant bolt patterns. this can't be. this does matter to me. i was planning on mounting a d/r 4 spd on a ea71. can anyone explane why it can't be done? edit: is it possible that the fatcase ea71 bellhouse would not allow the 4wd ea81 flywheel to clear? were there no 4wd std's after '84?

what is it that prevents you from using the later ea71 sidemounted starter bellhousing with the four wheel drive flywweel and clutch mounted to a 4spd d/r? i was under the impression that you could do this. will the flywheel not clear the bellhousing? i thought that bellhousing was the same as any other ea81 bellhousing, except with bolt holes to mate to the ea71 crankcase. so you should be able to use a 4speed or a 5 speed flywheel, clutch and tranny. what is it i'm wrong on?

thank you very much for the info. i don't suppose you could email me the truetype font you have to meatpile@earthlink.net ? i would much appreciate it and would return the favour! you would like what i send you.

what cars do you get them out of?

cooper weathermaster II. i love them.

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nope, it's not there. anyone?

if anyone going to the meet is interested, i have four 15" pug alloys with centercaps and lug nuts. i'd like $125, and if you would like them i could get them to the meet for you even though i probobly won't be there.

anyone know what font the outback badge is (not the 05 but the older ones)? more important, anyone have it (truetype) perchanse you could email it to meatpile@earthlink.net

the gutter mount towers are the 1A ones. you can use Qtowers which are for gutters or non gutters. they take clips specific to the car, not sure if the 1A ones do, too. controll towers mount to the factory racks. i have a set of i think 1A towers that would be ready to mount to a gen 3 car if you're interesed. i got them off a 91ish wagon at a junkyard, but you would need new "locks" as i broke them to get them off the car. actually they should still be usable, but not a theft deterent anymore.

the jets are interchangable. i don't know about that fitting sticking out the side.

i recently put a 3" ozified lift on a hatch and had the same problem. this hatch was originally 2wd, so the 4wd lever was not mounted stock. so i moved the 4wd lever (drilled new holes in the driveshaft hump) so that the lever took a higher road. then i could get it into reverse. it's harder in 4wd , espesially low. i really think fixing the shifter slop will fix the problem. there have been posts on the slop topic. search it out to fix it. before you do anything, i would take the one 16mm (i think) nut off the 4wd linkage under the console and separate the two parts of the lever. then you can play around with where the lever needs to be to let you shift into reverse. hope that helps.

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