MR_Loyale

I made my own tool. A piece of flat iron and two bolts.

There is a rubber ring covering the screws. You need to remove that ring. It just lifts off.

What type of distributor do you have? If it is a crank angle type (slotted wheel with optical pickup), you can remove the dust shield by undoing the two screws and clean the dust out with MAF cleaner.

I SHOULD be putting all my shiny SUBARU parts together right now. I ordered new head bolts but my only other ride, the #$#!!!@#@%%$%%$$#@#@!@$#$ DODGE, decided all its smart alecky computers would stop talking to each other. Now I got no speedo, no tach, no fuel gauge, no temp, no oil press gauge, no charge indicator, no turn signal. The odometer reads "NO BUS". Do you think that you can just hit the horn button and a switch closes to honk the horn? Noooo sireee. In fancy pants land, we got to have a computer in that horn sending a signal over a PCI (not the same PCI desktop pc's use) bus to another computer at the fuse box which will then switch on your horn. Same thing with headlights and turn signals. The fuse box isn't just fuses, nope. It is an "Integrated Power Module" (IPM). It's got to have a computer. And if the fuse box goes bad, that'll be $600 please. Hell for that kind of money, I could hire a midget to sit under the hood turning stuff off and on by voice command! Oh and this 2002 Dodge only has 40K miles on it. Yeah I am the original sucker er owner. Soo Thursday I am off to the junk yard to spelunk through the junk for my Dodge.

If you ever do that again, set up a video camera. That would make a great video. That is how they build the cars at the factory.

I will be doing them separate. The timing just worked out that way because of all the things i am doing. The transmission is in and I am just getting the engine together. Would like to do it together one day though so I can have tried it.

Got up to C&D Engine Shop in Kirkland and picked up the passenger side head. I didn't drive over from Bremerton but rather got a lift from a friend at work who then dropped me and the head off in Seattle to walk to the ferry. I am probably the only person ever to backpack an EA82 head around the streets of Seattle. Tomorrow I will go to the dealer to get the main seals front and back and the cam tower O-Rings. Slowly but surely it is coming together.

Got two cam towers and one head back from the machine shop. The other head is getting a helicoil for the exhaust bolt hole.

What is the transmission? AWD Manual, FWD Manual (TM70F)? The number will be on the transmission side of the bell housing where the trans meets the engine. If it is a manual, it should be TM something.

Shiny transmission awaiting installation back into car. The waiting transmission tunnel Tranmission is in. Now everything just needs to be hooked back up.

I think Subaru never intended to go farther with the BRZ, thus the "Z" for "Zenith".

Perhaps you got the wrong size pressure plate and/or clutch for your setup. That's my guess.

Prepping the two halves of the transmission to come together, I decided to leave a 20th anniversary message inside with my stamping kit for whoever opens this up again (not me I hope). A transmission Easter egg of sorts. That is the speedo gear on the right. No I am not going crazy. I've already arrived.

Got the input shaft bearing and seal for my transmission. Grant - this IS going back in next week!

Wiggle jiggle curse and swear.

I feel like a slacker.

Mine slipped in 2006 when the clutch was going bad. Either they didn't replace the clutch as they said or they did replace it either with a used junk yard part with no meat or perhaps they did replace it but so long ago it hasn't got any meat left. If they replaced it 5 years ago and said they "replaced it" then technically they didn't lie,I guess. Maybe they forgot to mention the burnouts and abuse they gave it after they replaced it. In my experience the beginning of slipping is more related to rpm rather than speed. On mine it would happen if I went above 60mph aggressively accelerating. When you take off in first gear you aren't going 3000 rpm like you would be in higher gears. Replace the clutch or learn to drive like a little old lady.

Someone needs an intervention.

I sent my EA82 HLA's out to Mizpah Precision Manufacturing to be reconditioned and they got them on Monday. By Thursday they put them in the mail and I got them back today. They are amazing. http://www.mizpahprecision.com/

When it is done I will do a writeup. Right now I am still getting parts. Will get the bearing tomorrow. It is a TM70F Fwd only.

Bearing and seal replacement

Boy they sure do put lots o parts in them thar transmissions: Yeah Grant, it isn't going back in the car this week. LOL.

Oh definitely. Getting a bit nervous that this will all be ready in time.

Welcome to the club.

Working on the block. Got the driver side done. BEFORE AFTER