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i sold the 82 brat last night to some guys from georgia who do brats. i got 850.00 for it. i fugred that's not too terrible considering i had about 1000 in it. took a small loss. just glad i found it a new home with someone who will really care about it. i just don't bring in enough money to have finished the brat and would have been impossible to turn a profit. now i can really focus on my f250. should make several thousand on it and now that the brats gone i think i'll have it finished by tax season. the subie will be missed.

deskunked the rat funk in the 82 brat. used hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and dish soap. success!!

i've been dealing with rat nests far worse than anything anyone on this forum has described. i've done alot of research and tried many methods. from bleach to vinegar. nothing would work. i invested hours of elbow grease trying to deskunk this 82 brat and the 91 f250 that i bought that were both infested by the same mouse/rat colony. finally i tried something that worked. my mother showed me a recipe that consisted of hydrogen peroxide, a tiny bit of dish soap, and baking soda. i mixed all of this ingredients together in my pump sprayer. i used about 8 liters of hydrogen peroxide and a whole box of baking soda and probably 2 cups of dish soap all together. in 2 seperate spraying sessions. i soaked the seats the door panels the floor pan everything. i let it dry and then pressure washed it all out. i had nests in the rocker panels, underneath the seats and the floor pans mainly. the funk smell is gone. i have the car seats drying in the sun right now. if you don't want to risk stains than i wouldn't try this. my interior is garbage so i could care less what gets stained. this formula worked great! i highly reccomend. the f250 is next. got to pull the dash out of that one.

he messaged me. he fabricated them with templates. i was thinking aftermarket floorpans were used from another car or cut out from another car or something

? i'm going to update this thread with pics of my floor pan to show yal what i'm dealing with. by the latest i'll have them up this weekend. if there's better options please share. or i can just go get some scrap and try to tackle i may have missed a detail where he said where he got the patches but i just don't see it

rewired my gas tank. all the wires were severed. found some other severed wires. can't figure out what the heck they go to. wheres a wiring diagram? and now finally i can say everything electrically functions for some reason went to the junk yard to look at seats. lots of options. turned my subaru brat frown upside down. pulled some escort seats and verified info in the 90s seats. saw some other viable options. i can make just about anyting work easily if i can just bring these rusted tracks back to life - got them soaking i pulled out my passenger seat and found another pile of mouse turds and other nastiness. now i'm thinking instead of getting new seats i'm going to get the pump sprayer and just hose down the seats with bleach and vinegar and hose down the floor pan and test the funk smell after drying out the interior and the seats over the next month. spray repeat. spray repeat. i don't care if any of this stuff gets discolored. everything is already ruined and that's what justdashes in ca is for and vynil dye. sprayed every bolt i could see on the seats and in the floor pan with pbr. bolt soaking time while i ponder removed my t tops. hosed down the rubber with ballistol. broke one of the plastic latches. we need to band together and get a 3-d printer and make some of this crap. seriously. a friend of mine inspected my t-tops and rubber and says they are in fantastic shape. neither of us can figure out where my t-top leak is. either weather stripping, screw holes, or the t top itself like the rubber edging of the t top. going to do the water test with a hose if it will ever stop pouring rain. went to the exhaust shop. got a quote for 375$. went to the windshield shop. got a quote for 180$. bummed out about this t-top thing. my TA was a easier fix and the hurst tops were wayyyyyyyy worse shape.

going to the junkyard tomorrow to try to track down some mitsubishi eclipse seats or some ford escort seats. ive built custom seat brackets before so i can do that as a last resort going to pull apart the t-tops for the first time in god knows how long and see what's going on. got some glycerin and access to all kinds of plastic stuff for screws. going to wire up the fuel tank and connect these other loose wires. i had the car up for sale and noone was a serious buyer. everyone around here who buys cars for less than 1k would rather steal than pay. 1) what about a hood? any car hoods interchange with mine? or fenders? 2) anyone chopped out wheel wells and a truck bed from like a 72 f100 and put them in a brat? since theres no way i'll run into a brat with a good trunk pan down here for the rest of my life. the truck bed patch panels for the floor that you can buy for older fords sure look close to the pattern in the brat... 3) suggestions on the floor pan for the cab? just fabricate my own or does someone make something that works for these? 4) door mirrors that work?

i just got my 1982 subaru brat on the road. i put a air filter, a fuel filter, a fuel pump, a passnger cv axle, brand new tires, a new battery and battery terminal ends, pulled the oil pan and did a rediculous plug repair so far on this car. after these things the car starts right up and runs like a champ and shifts like a champ. i have still have some major concerns. just to let you know where i'm coming from, i'm a big v8 classic guy until this car. i got a 72 f100, a 1991 f250. just sold my 79 monte carlo. i've owned a 69 catalina with a 455, 77 trans am t top 400/4spd, 78 monte carlo, 65 buick electra 225 with 425 nailhead, 73 grand am with 400/400, 79 cadillac sedan deville, just to name a few. this subaru is the most rusty car i have ever owned. i'm dealing with holes in the floor pan, the truck bed is completely rotted out, someone put this car on stands incorrectly and caved in the mounting points, and also the former owner abused animals and used this vehicle as a dog pen. dogs pissed all over the seats and then a rat infestation followed. so theres a funk smell. and yet this is the best running car i've ever owned. the shifter is incredibly solid and the engine runs amazing! no pings, no predet, no loseness in the trans, i'm speechless. every single electrical item on this rust bucket works perfectly. i'm actually tempted to keep this thing even though i have it for sale right now. so to my concerns: is it worth it for me to keep this car? 1) i can keep putting money in it but if i continue to at this point i'll never get my investment back. this car has 190k miles probably. if i continue to take care of the drivetrain will this car actually keep going? 2) to get the funk smell out i'm going to try to find some bucket seats. any reccomendations on buckets at the junkyard that are a easy swap? my bucket seats are fubar due to the funk 3) my t-tops leak. is there anything i can do about this? i'm ase and ppg certified amongst other things so i'm competent in repairs but i don't see any kits for weather stripping or have been able to find a documented process on how to make these things leak proof. if i keep this car then my priorities for now are i've got to put buckets in it that aren't funked with the funk, put a windshield in it because the windshield is shattered, put exhaust on it because the holes in the exhaust are pumping in the cab and i have to drive with the window down so i don't pass out, and rust proof whats left of the floor pan while the buckets are being replaced, and get the funk smell out, and finally fix these t-tops which look like they are in great shape but leak thanks for all of your help so far. helped me get that cv axle finished. been a while since i posted. had to rebuild the 460 and the 360 and do some other car stuff on the other 2 that were keeping me busy so i had the brat on the back burner until this week.

the kyosan is not a direct fit. i'm fairly sure that there is a fuel pump out there that fits the wiring harness but ive lost my patience and i went on ahead and installed the kyosan

is the beck arnley model 152-0568 fuel pump a direct replacement? or the mr gasket 42S?

also does a adapter exist to make the kyosan work without chopping up the wires?

are you saying you sell the kyosan for that price or you sell the oem pump? i have the kyosan as of now. i would rather have the oem but i can't find that thing. i didn't even know what it looked like until you showed me. electrical connection is different yes

someone please post a picture of a actual 1982 subaru brat fuel pump. i have bought 2 now and neither are quite right. please someone help. i'm trying to do a original build here. want to avoid the aftermarket crap

ok i just realized the carter was not oem style. i just bought a oem style pump. cost me $90 usd. trying to return the carter to hopefully get about $20 refund after restocking. i don't know how the heck my subaru was running. i'm thinking that the gas cap doesn't have a air tight seal and that this along with a functioning fuel sending unit was just enough to get the engine to start and idle for a short time.

can someone please post a picture of what a factory 82 subaru brat electric fuel pump is supposed to look like? and can someone please post a picture of what the fuel pump looks like installed? i've never owned a foreign car like this and i don't know what it's supposed to look like. i crawled underneath my vehicle to begin removal and there isn't a fuel pump anywhere to be found!!! so i bought the car with no fuel pump...