karinvail

There are adjusting nuts on my linkage under the hood on the right side of the trans right before where the linkage goes into the trans..... I would think tightening that adjustment would shorten the linkage and therefor allow the shifter to be shifted down further? Do not all linkage's have that adjustment?

In the US you have to be 21 or older to drink/buy alcohol. At least it's not like Canada though (19 is legal drinking age there) where even beer is sold only in the liquor store!

this is an interesting thread. So, what grounds were 'stock'? I am thinking that the only ground I have is the one from battery to starter/transaxle and one small one from body to engine.......

So, those are EA81 center caps then? Ugh, I am sure I said I was looking for ones for an EA82

Center cap front and back: wheel centers (rear first, then front)

The person I got them from said they weren't necessary with these? Maybe I should post a picture......

I bought some center caps from a member of the board, and they won't work for my car. I spent an hour cleaning them up because they had black overspray on them, and then took them out to put on the car and they won't work on the back rims with the drum brakes I could make them work for the front rims if I bend the tabs out, but what's the point if you can't put on all 4? What a waste of money :-\ Anybody need some stainless center caps? All shined up and nowhere to go.......

so, what is the 'job' of the resinator in the exhaust? (ie: what does it do?)

Wow - sounds like you got quite creative with the switches! I have mine hooked up to a switch, but I plan to hook the original one back 'original' with the thermoswitch and have a second fan in there on the manual switch as a back-up.

I just noticed that my heater fan is pulling my battery power down below 12v (between 10-11). Nothing else electrical pulls the power down - I can have the wipers, lights, stereo all going and it still be at 12v, but as soon as I turn on the heater fan, it drops instantly. Should the heater fan pull that much juice? My last Soob's (DL's) have not had the battery guage, so I don't know what's ''normal'' and what's not on all these guages yet.....

ugh! And I thougth I was the only one! My current Soob has a VERY noisy roof - closing the doors or the back hatch too hard and the sound *resonates* inside - it's almost deafening! I've never had another Soob that did this, so I assumed it was the roof supports aren't supporting well enough

I agree - there could easily be something else going on. My car doesn't even HAVE a cat (so I know it's not clogged!) and it loses power going uphill. All the Soob's I've ever had have been gutless going uphill though...... except for the Turbo FI sedan I had that was my first Soob - man, I miss that turbo!

I would do that by running a jump wire from my battery straight to the horn?

my 86 GL wagon has a horn that works very weakly, but only if you find the right 'spot' on the steering wheel. If you find the right spot, it's just a weak little wimper of a noise (more like a whine, LOL). Would this mean my horns are dead too? Or contacts in the steering wheel itself more likely?

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/80s/wheels2/wheels.html

go to an auto paint store and get some 'rust converter' (not the spray on junk). It's a paint on liquid that stops rust and changes it from rust colored to black (it's a chemical reaction, and it goes through different colors as it dries). Hubby and I used this on the tracks of his snowcat and it worked FANTASTIC!

WOW! Those were really rusty! You are very ambitious to tackle those! What color are you coing to paint the middle? Great job so far!!!! (It was me that posted about painting my wagon wheels - black in the middle and aluminum silver around the edges).

using the lower octane fuel will cause the fuel mileage to suffer...... I personally always use super in my rigs......

yes, I use SOS pads (steel wool with cleanser in it) all the time on chrome, but these are stainless steel (wish they were chrome though!)

I got some stainless center caps for my wagon wheels, and they need some major cleaning - they have spray paint overspray on them. Can I use an SOS pad or is that going to leave them all scratchy looking?

I was just curious if the different type Soob engines had different oil capacities? Seems like my last Soob with the EA81 took less oil in an ooil change than the EA82?

Sounds like the CV joint on one of the front axles - the boots on the axle get torn and the CV joints lose their grease and then wear out quickly. The clicking is the worn out CV joint. It doesn't have to be dealt with immediately, but you should have it replaced as soon as you can. A remanufactured axle is about $100 if you want to put it in yourself or have a friend that can do it. I had LesSchwab do my last few and it cost about $175 out the door for them to replace the axle (and they have a 1 year guarantee on them too which my last Soob used twice! )

Darn, and I was just in Mt.Vernon yesterday too - would love to have gotten a deal like that! Farrell's in Mt.Vernon has a decent selection of parts cars. As for the gross interior, mine was disgusting when I got it too - I removed the whole interior except the dash (seats, trim, door panels, carpet, seatbelts) and vaccuumed, washed, scrubbed, bleached, you name it. Came out pretty good for how gross it was. I did end up making seat covers for the bottom parts of the front seats that some stains didn't come out, so I had to cover them (I *hate* the seat covers from stores that never fit right!) My car has 288,000 miles - replaced the engine from a car that had 220,000 miles on it. '86 GL wagon 4x4 carbed EA82 (engine came from an '85 GL Wagon 4x4 carbed EA82).

maybe it needs adjusted? I have been told that the proper adjustment is when there is a dime size space in the spring at the end of the HH cable.

We ended up pluggin them with sheet metal made into the shape of a small exhaust gasket (without the hole in the middle, LOL). I would LOVE LOVE LOVE fuel injection in my car - I would have NO clue how to go about it though - seems like it would be just easier to sell this one and buy one that already had fuel injection, LOL.