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i actually thought of that too. and i hope so...but the car was smoking pretty bad as soon as i got it running. before the exhaust got hot.

yeah . the gas is about a year old. i guess i'll have to check compression and see what fluids dissappear when i drive a while.

hi everyone. i have a 92 loyale which has been sitting for about a year while i tried to find time and parts to do a rear disc swap. the good news is its finally done. bad news, it was hard to get it running and when it finally started there was lots of white smoke. (it ran fine and didn't smoke when i parked it last year) i first thought head gaskets, but i'm not so sure. i let it run for at least a 1/2 hour, no signs of overheating. it also drives fine. runs pretty smoothly. there's no oil in the coolant. and no coolant in the oil. is there anything else it might be? i haven't done a compression check yet and unfortunately i'm about 150 miles away from the car. {edit} i forgot to mention: it smokes more at higher rpms. like when you rev the engine. doesn't seem to smoke more under load. smokes at idle too-just not as much.

sorry to exhume this thread out of it's grave, but i dug it up on a search and i still have a proportioning valve question: i have a 92 4WD loyal wagon and i'm converting to rear discs (from some 4WD EA-82 sedan). Being a loyale, my car came with a proportioning valve, right? EA82's always have one? but do i need a different one (specifically for discs) or do i just leave it alone? if the car should have one (or a different one), then i'd want to put it in. if it already has the right one, problem solved. the reason i ask is because the car is at my parents house 200 miles away, so i'd like to get the valve first before i go over there. thanks for helping out.

the re-curved disty won't work for SPFI because the computer controlls the advance. but everything else you mentioned sounds good.

i guess some people see them as ''parts cars'' if they won't pass inspection. so sometimes you'll see cars listed as parts cars just because of a cracked windshield or something like that.

i leave the covers off. its way easier to replace and check them, as other people mentioned. and also, i think if its okay for the accesory belts to run open, it should be okay for the timing belts as well.

i've never tried this but it may help: you could probably just dump out the water as much as possible and then put a hairdryer where the bulb goes and run it for a couple of minutes to dry them out.

does anyone know if the rear and front rotors are interchangable on 4WD models? my car is at my parents house 120 miles away and i'm gathering parts to do this upgrade and i have some extra front rotors. thanks for helping.. (edit) oh yeah, i'm talking about an EA82 car--92 loyale 4WD wagon 5-speed.

i thought all loyales (90-94) had power windows.

what year and model is the car?

i once tried to get blank plates.:-\ i gave the form to the woman at dmv, and she said "you checked off that you want vanity plates but it doesn't say anything in the box. do you want vanity plates or no?" i said, "yeah i know, that's what i want." "they have to have at least one character" she said. so i said, "ahhhh, just give me regular ones then." and she did. that was about 12 years ago, but i still always get regular old plates. vanity plates have gotten pretty expensive in NY i think too.

i would spend all the money repairing rust and making sure it NEVER rusted out again. other than that its fine the way it is.

i have a 1990 volkswagen fox wagon. they were originally designed in Brazil for air-cooled vw boxer motors and i think the earlier ones had them. the ones we got in the US have a 1.8 inline 4 mounted longitudinally--i think its basically the same motor as golfs and jettas of the time. i was wondering if anyone knows of anyone who has put a subaru motor into one. i'm thinking ea-81 or 82, or an ej series...or anything really, because i'm just curious...i'm not ready to make that conversion yet because its running fine right now, just like my 92 loyale which i'm not willing to take apart because it isn't being consumed by rust.... yet.(i'm in NY so its inevitable really)

say, what if you have a set-up to run lines for an oil cooler but you don't have the oil cooler, but you do have a radiator already in the car for an automatic. (the car is a 5-speed loyale) could you run the oil through the tranny cooler and expect it to work? (since the manual tranny doesn't need a cooler and the tranny cooler is just sitting there all unused and everything)