Scott in Bellingham

we will be staying at the Inn at Pacific City Monday night Aug 22 , its just up the road from Sandlake Scott

3 days away who wants to go? where would you like to go? lets plan this thingScott

Nice Job, Blue and chrome look good together, love that front Bumper.

looking into the auto trans, maybe take a set of those planatary gears , and adapt it some how, anyone been inside one got any pictures , hopefully get one this week to rip into

got any spots up there in bc close to border? I am just across the line 45 min

where is this rieter pit got a map

where would you suggest? would be nice not to drive to far

Ok its one week away who is interested ? scott

in need of knowing whats inside a automatic transaxle , what the parts look like, whats the gear ratios and options , got any pictures?, any experiance on how it all goes together and works thanks Scott

I hope to prove this mindset wrong Scott

2 gears will revearse dirrection, would require 3, if it could be done compact would be ideal

this is good stuff, do you know what the sammi tcase ratios are?

with chain & sprockets if one is 4 " dia another 8" thats 6+ " between shafts also on the bottom need a set of bearings which end up tucked under the rear of engine, with the vehicle raised 8-9 " that would leave the engine in the stock height , and allow clearance for 31" tires, remember this is all brainstorming nothing set yet Scott

heres a mock up looks like about a 9" raise, and about 2-2 1/2"move engine forward

Ok after looking inside the transaxle (see picture) looks like major work to get a low enough gear that leads me to the chain and sprocket reduction at the motor, now heres another question, is the Subaru flywheel evenly balanced all around, so if I took it off the motor added a sprocket on the crankshaft then ran that down to a shaft that contains another sprocket, bearings and the stock flywheel ,would it run balanced? ,this would also leave the motor in the stock location up high and only drop the transaxle, I know some flywheels are not center balanced is this one?

thank you and I agree with you ,its my family wagon, you know for getting groceries and such, Haaaa Haaaa, my mind is onto my next project, something thats: light, tons or clearance ,good size tires and good low low gears

yeh like Ted said , OK with 27" tires I dont use 5TH gear anymore , lets say between the engine and trans we reduce it , ok what kind of reduction ratio would you need so I could again use 5th gear and still go say 70 tops in 5th with 31"s?, thats all you would need , even if top road speed was 60 it would be plenty for a wheeler

its alot easier to work on the car once its lifted makes changing the baby in the back more ergonomic ( less stooping ) and yes helps us tall guys from banging our head on the rear hatch

OK now I want to Awesome offroad machine based on the EA82 , here are some of the details I would like #1.... run 31" tires , #2 ....keep stock diffs 3.9 ratio , #2.5. have a lower then stock (all stock, even small 13" tires) 1st gear #3 ....have lots of ground clearance , #4 ....remove all the weight I can ( do not add a ton with extra ........transfercase, diff and framework)( remove all doors, rear hatch, ........rear seats,trim off front) #5 ....and still drive at normal speeds on the road, heres my question . how to go about this without Mortgaging my house,and making it to difficult to do, it would be Cool to keep all the stock drive( engine, transaxle, diff ,axles), if there was someway to get a extra low gear out of that transaxle, maybe cut a hole in the side where the HI-Lo gears are and add another set that works through them, maybe drop the transaxle and not the engine and run a chain and sprocket between the 2 , or even gears,and if so what kind of a reduction ratio are we talking about whats your ideas? Scott

I saw this spectical on my way home , this guy was actually trying to pull a small pickup out of the ditch the guy told me he had 1/2 cord of wood in the car, as I left this car also was leaking water out the front

with my wore 215/75-15 tires (close to 27") when my speedo reads 50 the car is going 60 in a 88 GL wagon Scott

this will work, it will reduce your gear ratio by 3.9 or whatever the diff is, would be great for going slow offroad, or you would need some very large diameter tires, Scott