madmountainmonk

That's pretty cool. How does it sleep?

True dat. There's ton of stuff out that way...the whole Green Peter area is geat as well.

Cmiller, Shadyirishman (although he is between rigs right now...pretty decent price on ebay for that thing Shady, hope it helps toward the Baja!) and I are in the Corvallis area and have recently (just last Wednesday) been playing around near Mary's peak. PM me if you would like to join us on our next sortie. You don't have to bring a rig. I would really like to have someone in the car with me to bomb up a jeep trail again and scare the poo out of (my choice of insulated coveralls as wheeling atire proved itself yet again!). I was alone in my terror last Wednesday! Thank the gods for a good ebrake and the amazingly tight turning radius of a lifted loyale wagon!!! Reverse-climbing a 50% slope gives the term "pucker factor" a whole new meaning! This was my first real off-road trial since the build and I am Very Happy with my car! LSD's AND SIPED kUMHO'S ROCK!

Keep in mind that I'll have to pay someone to do major mechanical swaps like eng., tranny, anything besides brakes, most suspension work, etc. A lot of gals may be strong enough to do that stuff, but not me, unfortunately, because of medical reasons. Here's a simple plan for building an off road rig: Collect parts over time Buy beer and pizzas Invite folks from board over for a build weekend Celebrate newly built rig by burying it in delicious tasty mud:grin:

Here's my 88 GL10 Turbo wagon: DR 5spd, XT6 clutch, cone intake, mudrat downpipe, 2.5" exhaust, 4" Hi-rise lift, LSD, Pug steelies, siped Kumho MT's. The Mudrat downpipe and low restriction muffler give it a nice growl at spoolup. I also run a 92 Loyale wagon (SPFI) with a DR but it is not lifted yet (it will be getting a 4" lift and pug alloys with Cooper STT's this spring!), so I have not been able to fully compare their off-road performance. http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/photos/showphoto.php?photo=9706&sort=1&cat=500&page=1

My USAF buddies and I once mounted a spare B52 landing light (powered by gasoline generator) to a guy's pickup while we were stationed up at Farchild. We owned a stretch of highway 2 for a night. Everything had to pullover. We all had tans from playing around with it. We managed to get it back to base without hurting anyone or getting arrested...good times.

Mary's peak and its environs are looking good. I was up there last week...forgot my camera though!!! Anyone want to go up this week? I know this great open hillside where we can play high mark Aren't you OSU students done with finals?

Cool...hopefully this week I'll get my skid plate fitted and be able to cut loose a bit....

Yeah...I saw the line and I was thinking about checkin that out...but I hate lines...I've left countries because the lines were too damned long...and I pretty much just snowshoe nowadays... I decided to go up on Mary's peak that night and rally the backroads...

What up Dayn!!!?? Glad to see it all hung together on your trip home! You still like them Coopers, or you wanna trade 'em to me!!!??? I think you know...cuased we sure discussed it...that to beat that rust you'll need to apply the sticky stuff...before the paint... -B

As far as making your rig as dual purpose as practicable, you might consider finding an LSD rearend (it'll be a simple bolt on switch since yours is already a 3.7) and a set of 14" or 15" rims (peugeots or AA's) and some 26" or 27" tires and see what you can do with that. A lift would certainly look cool but you can do a lot without it if you learn to finesse your rig through various terrain. I wouldn't think that auto linkage would be that difficult to adapt to a lift...I would think it would just be a matter of carefully extending things...most likely less compliacted than D/R linkage... However, if your wife is enthusiastic about lifting a rig and off-roading, you should challenge her to learn to drive stick and go D/R...you will love it in the snow.

PM sent. :-)

For more control when reinstalling your tranny (to guard the inoput shaft) I'd recommend using some type of tranny jack ($60 Harbor Freight, can also be used for diffs and anything else that just a bit to awkwrad to control properly). Or you might improvise something with a small floor jack...helps alot. Good luck. I just reinsrtalled one Saturday.

Great thread everyone. The sentiment reminds me of a Band of Brothers episode... This also reminds me of my pre-monk days when I got back to Fairchild AFB in Spokane after a year up at Eielson AFB in Fairbanks and I bought a BRAND NEW (I had a pile of TDY $, travel pay) '92 Loyale wagon (the only new rig I have ever bought). Many of my fellow airmen were driving Mustangs and RX7's and Camaros, etc. and giving me crap about my "family wagon." But revenge is a dish best served cold and cold came in the form of good early winter snow dump. Our units dorms were behind a WSA (weapons storage area) and access to groceries and beer (on HWY 2) lay 8 miles down a slick 2 lane blacktop that had severe barrow ditches on either side. So one particularly nasty Saturday afternoon the sportscar crowd made multiple attempts to navigate the road in various vehicles. The 5.0L mustang guy hit the ditch and tore up some of his ground effects (which out of kindness I helped him fix later on), one of the Z28's swiped a concrete barrier, there were multiple tales of wild spin outs and other folks couldn't even get out of our parking lot! I remember distinctly...I was just pulling in to the parking lot from a trip into Airway Heights (the local strip town) with a 6 pack of Negro Modello and several bags of Taco Hell (jeez..I am surprised I lived through all that) and several of them saw me emerge form my Sub with my booty and took a break from shoveling, digging, pushing, cursing etc. their cars... their mouths agape. Suddenly I was barraged with requests to take them on a food and beer run...and yeah...I broke down and helped them out...but only because it was so much fun to drive through the snow with a bunch (cause my wagon would hlod 4 of 'em) of newly humbled ego-bruised schmucks! But of course I required each one to refer to my ride as "the Sport Wagon." Never got any more crap form that crowd. Shortly after that we got another good dump and we tied long strips of nylon webbing from cargo chutes onto the rear tow hooks of the wagon and I would pull guys down the icy roads on cafeteria trays requisitioned from our mess hall... Saw a few more Subs on our side of the base in the following years... Good times, good times.

I'd echo that. I bought an EA82 for a 92 Loyale wagon from CCR when I lived in Wyoming to replace an engine that lost a headon battle with an antelope and put over 110k on it with no troubles before I sold the car.