chazmataz

It looks like a fun place by your videos. i've been wanting to come up there and go wheeling with you guys for awhile now and i would try and make it up there if it was on a sunday. But they won't let us take saturdays off this time of year unless you have a relative dieing or some kind of really good reason and fourwheeling isn't that good of a reason to them. no sense of humor i guess. i don't get out with fellow subaru much. i usually go with people that i've met that work at other store and they all have heavyduty rigs, i.e. yotas, sammies, jeeps, chevys(that are built and usually trailered) and what ever else ends up coming, the ones mentioned go on a regular basis.

hey dalton, I got a pair of gaskets from my local Carquest parts store. they where the right ones but then i found out that my insulator block was cracked around the water port, so i ordered one of those from the dealer but it took a couple of days to get them. they already come with gaskets glued to them too. ended up using silicone to glue around the cracks to get my car on the road, one of these days i will go back in and get it changed out anyway call the dealer or get you a counter jockey thats been doing it for years and knows what hes doing. all else fails make them yourself as has been mentioned before, done enough of that in my life that if i can still buy it i will, if i can't or time is a factor then i will make them. i have a set of gasket hole punches and they work pretty good but i learned with a very small ballpeen hammer and that works very well, which is what i prefer but not in all cases. chaz

Oh man that really sucks but a lease you got to pull out a wrangler first. i've gotten high centered before lots of times, i guess thats the advantage to the short wheelbase hatchs.

Got my offroader on the road again.......uh offroad again. Ok both and its working fine now, no more oil and water leaks. YEAH!!!! Been going up to Goat Mtn. just south of Estacada. Been surprising and showing up other rigs along the way. Anyway here are some vidoes and pictures from the last 3 weekends. Enjoy. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1602107452 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1601959586 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1601980353 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1601940057 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1601972423 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1601904335 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1602002446 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1601930249 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1601950955 http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/photos/data/500/IMG_1670.JPG http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/photos/data/500/IMG_1691.JPG http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/photos/data/500/IMG_1731.JPG http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/photos/data/500/IMG_1736.JPG http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/photos/data/500/IMG_1737.JPG http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/photos/data/500/IMG_1738.JPG http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/photos/data/500/IMG_1681.JPG http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/photos/data/500/IMG_1674.JPG http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/photos/data/500/medium/IMG_1705.JPG The last picture is the summit, me and my son waited for 1 1/2 hours for our group to come up andthey never made it. on the way down we waited for 2 Suzuki Samuri's and 1 Ford Bronco 2 to move. They we're trying to go up the lead sammi was putting chains on when we met up with them we move out of the way for them and they couldn't go any farther so they backed down to a wide spot so we could get around them. About 2 hours later they tried to follow us up another hill full of big rocks and ended up turning around halfway up and going back down.By the way he took off when he got down to the road i think he was ashamed to be out wheeled by a subie. But again there was alot of other people that we're surprised at hoe well a subaru can wheel.

well crap, to bad i didn't see this sooner just went last weekend. have been out for the last 3 weekends in a row with friends from work. i will let you know next time we go, we go to goat mtn. south of estacada.

my first set of 15" tires i ran was the buckshots, they had lots of traction but only got about 9 months out of them and they where never round like as if they we're out of balance.

Chasmataz, same size tires as me. Do yours rub on the framerail at full lock? yes they do, i took a hammer to the inside fender well where your feet are but it does hit the frame rail still.

after lifting mine i had it disconnected for a year and haft without any problems, finally took mine off a month agon when i did an engine swap. i think mine handles better with it offbut then i'm also running 235/75-15 tires on 6-5.5 chevy 8 spoke wheels.

since you live in spokane, wa. go to your local les schwab tire center and check out the wintertrax studded snow tires. i put a set of 185/80-13 on my 86 gl wagon w/dr trans before i went wheeling with some guys from work and worked really well. they are almost 25" tall tires which was alittle taller then stock which was what i was looking for to get extra ground clearance after i cranked up my struts. i have also used them on my 89 dl wagon and most recently on my 84 gl wagon with a lsd in it, lots of traction. the tread is pretty aggressive looking and work well in snow and mud, when spring hit i just removed the studs and run them like that they didn't seam to wear very fast either. chaz

sorry. pictures are back up. i deleted them out of my photos and it also took them out of the post. duh. what a dummy.

well, i haven't retired any so i probably shouldn't post on here but i'm going too. i still own my first subaru, an 86 GL wagon D/R 5spd, i bought it 12 years ago. totaled it in the first 4 months a friend of mine that does body work fixed it drove it about a year later i bought it back from him for haft the price i originally bought it for. 4 years ago i gave to the girl that was living with me at the time because she sold her beater wagon when we moved in together and drove the van i bought to carry us and our 5 kids combined around in, i only gave it to her because it was payed off and i still owed on the van. 6 months later we got back together and i got it back then we sold it to her exinlaws that she was still friends with. about a year later i bought it back from them. now i still own it and almost 2 years ago i lifted it and did a 6 lug conversion and 15" buckshots and welded the rearend but now it has 235/75-15 SXT MT. i will never get rid of it again. i had an 89 DL wagon S/R 5spd for a DD, 6 months after owning it i sold it to my dad. he still has it and drives it, i may be buying it back some as he wants to get a newer outback. then last january i bought an 84 Gl wagon D/R 4spd for $100 for a DD, did a hell of alot of work to it and spent alot of money to make it reliable. once thats was all fixed i cranked up the struts and torsion bars, put an lsd in the rear and put 14" blizzaks on it. so i haven't retired any but i have sold one and still have 2.

yep. thank heartless. i forgot to mention those things and thats what i look for and fix all day long on cars at work besides doing the alignments.

ok, sorry for being an *** earlier but i do hear i had a bad experience buying a $100 car that had been sitting for a year before i got it. i already knew of some problems going into it which wasn't to bad. first off i knew it needed battery, front hubs they we're striped with supposedly new axles. well it needed new hubs, axles, 1 steering knuckle, 1 brake caliper frame and both front wheel bearings. ok great get that all fixed start driving was going to be my dd and light trail use vehicle. next up right rear wheel bearing no problem get that fixed. go to do a tune up, belts and an oil change well two of the spark plug hole we're stripped and spit out the new plugs and i can't get the oil drain plug to loosen up. so had to heilcoil the plug holes because i didn't want to be pulling heads if i didn't have to and i just left the drain plug alone and added oil and changed the filter. ok so get this all fixed and it starts dieing periodically sometimes at a light fires back up no problem sometimes while driving comes back to life. eventaully this gets worse to were it starts leaving me stranded. ok well that ends up being a distributor replace that still having problem ends up being defective distributor ( went through 2 before getting a good one ) so get that all fixed. then it start running funny, find out its only running on 2 cylinders on the same side even though the other 2 are sparking just no power. found this out by grabing the exhaust header pipe barely warm verous the other side nice and hot. ends up being a vacuum leak at the intake manifold so then i go nuts new gaskets (intake and carberator), vacuum hoses, fuel lines and water hoses. also had to put in a new alternator and fuel pump somewhere in this time frame of problems. moral to this story is my $100 car i bought in the first part of january of this year ended up being a good dd by the end of febuary or first part of march not sure but it was a full 2 months of hell and frustration until then. i have no clue as to how much more money i have put into just to get it to that point, i'm afraid to add it all up but i'm sure its around $600-800 hell maybe more. but i can tell you this it has been a good running car all summer and has been on alot of offroading trips and a week long adventure trip in eastern oregon fully load with 2 kids and camping gear with no problems ( i did post a thread with pics about this too.) until the mudpit at WCSS8 now it needs a clutch, oh well we had fun burning it up and now i need to fix it it getting harder to drive it like that. so hang in there its only going to get better and by the time your done you will have a good car if frustration doesn't get the best of you. sorry for the long post but thought i should tell my story after ribbing you alittle. no hard feeling. btw, thought i should mention this is on my 84 GL wagon and i also have done some mods that have nothing to with getting it to be a good dd just a better offroader for the fun times.

here the pictures of the one that was for sale here in the portland area on craigslist earlier this year. this one and the one i posted earlier are the only 2 lifted justys i've seen.

here is the first picture i saw of a lifted one. i'll see if i can find the other one. they just don't say how they lifted them though. maybe someone on here might chime up that know how it was done or how they lifted theirs. btw, i like this one the best, looks mean as all get out and it looks like it would be fun to drive.

thats looking good zap. it almost makes me want to convert to a later model subie, maybe someday.

i haven't but there was a picture floating around of one. a couple of months ago, well last summer anyway, there was one on craigslist in the portland area that was for sale and they had some pictures posted up of it. i think the pics even showed up on here alittle while ago. well good luck, i know i have thought about getting one and putting atv tires on it for the sand.

i've been running blizzaks since may on my 84 gl wagon (its my daily driver), they are still looking good but i do have to rotate them every couple of months. iam running with my front struts and rear torsion cranked up. as far as handle they corner alot better on wet pavement then on dry ( they feel swishy, if thats even a word) but they are not showing any signs of odd wear at all. they work really well offroading to, seems to grip rocks well with all the siping they have and mud no traction problems at all. i will say this front wheel drive cars are hard on front tires they need to be rotated to even out wear and alignment are important to help combat tire wear also.

hey man its ok i just looked at them without any trouble nice pics. that was a fun run up to that lookout.

don't forget to check the parking brake cable too. i suspected my calipers after changing them after one set of pads fried up, when i went to replaced them i found that its my cables or the mechanism in the car thats at fault and not the calipers. btw mines an 86' GL wagon, incase you wanted to know.

yeah, i'm with GD on this too. if all your going to do is whine about it then sell it and leave us alone. otherwise, either fix it or pay someone to fix it then you'll have a good car. hell if i had the money i'd buy it from you and fix and have an awesome car. hey, i'll give you a 100 bucks for it and take it off your hands.

hey jeremiah, how are you doing? mines started whining about a month or so too and now within the last couple of weeks its dropping about 150 rpms when i push the clutch in at a stop light. but, i also need a clutch, i messed it up in the mudpit at wcss8 been slipping ever since and getting worse and now the to bearing. so anyway, yeah its your throwout bearing making the noise, i'd replace it before it totally goes.

awesome, i'll have to make it over that way next time. the area we went through from pine mtn. to fort rock was all atv and bike area but thats a little SE. cool i let you know next time we are headed that way and maybe you can show us around, ok. man, i wish i lived over that way i would be in heaven, i love the high desert. chaz

heck yeah, LSD makes a world of difference. where did you take the pictures at? that looks like a cool place and i love that area over there anyway.

I'm with Noah, i don't work at a ford dealership, i work on all sorts of models of cars but fords are one of ones thats guaranteed job security, they always need work. The guys i go wheeling with all have toyotas and jeeps sometimes we get a dodge or a ford. they are all amazed at what subarus can do and they don't make fun of my subaru in fact they usually urge me on. i can tell you this there are some people at browns campthat are surprised at what subarus can do to. for info: i have 15" mud terrain tires and a welded rearend that my jeep buddy welded for me, that in its self make all the world on a subaru. now if i can only get a limited slip in the front and better gears or like Noah an EJ22.