Dr. RX

Looks like Shaggy is getting a great looking interior.

Here is the situation, my 86 GL-10 Turbo 4WD sedan never seems to warm up. I know many of you turbo owners wish you had this problem. Last Spring, I took this engine out of my wife's wagon, and installed a rebuilt engine into her wagon. This engine ran great in the wagon, the sedan engine was getting old, so I got a short block from CCR and had a set of rebuilt heads, and since we were probably going to keep the wagon longer then the sedan, installed the rebuilt into the wagon. Anyway, back to the sedan engine. I noticed that this engine ran cooler then the one I pulled out, and over the Summer never gave it much thought. In the morning it would warm up to about 165 degrees then drop again, so I figured the thermostat was a 165 degree stat. Even on the hottest day, going up a long hill with the A/C on, it never got over 195 degrees. Now it is getting colder, this morning the temp all the way into work was around 28 degrees, the engine temp never got above 160 degrees, usually around 150 degrees. I had the second fan hooked up to run all the time, but Sunday I reconnected it to the thermoswitch on the radiator, so it will only turn on at a high temperature. Well, the engine acts the same, as if I did nothing. Since I get warm air through the heater, I know that the water is circulating. My guess is that the thermostat is stuck open. So here is my delima, do I get a 165 degree stat to replace the one that is in there, or get a 195 degree Subaru stat, or a 180 degree stat. I'd like the engine to heat up faster in the Winter, but like how cool it runs in the Summer and I don't want to change the thermostat every 6 months.

Yep, you could get a 3dr with all the bells and whistles of a RX except the D/R Fulltime 4WD 5 speed tranny. Although I have heard of there being 3drs with the RX tranny in them, but not beings a RX, that is, not having the correct VIN. I had an 86 3dr that had everything the 86 RX sedan had, plus it had the correct VIN, but no where on the car was there anything that said it was a RX accept the VIN.

You also need to make sure the whels are straight forward.

Dang, a double echo. :lol:

When you replace the pump and refill the tank, jack the car up off the front wheels, have the engine running and turn the steering wheel from lock to lock several times. This will circulate the fluid, and get all the air out of the system.

Snow is gone, back to rain now, you can't even tell it as snowing at all. Bummer!!!

Did you pull the rear cover to see if someone might have just switch the rear cover onto an open diff. That would be a crewl joke, but it could happen. If it is a real LSD, then it is worth pulling and getting the clutch pack rebuilt or replaced.

I woke up this morning expecting to look outside and see white everywhere, but it was raining. So I sit down to read the Sunday paper and watch the news. After about an hour, they switch back to a reporter who is covering the snow, and I turn to the window, about to make a comment about it not snowing here, and there it was, snow coming down, but not sticking. I too was betting that when I got on the board that Ken would have posted something about it snowing at his place, but I thought Rob would have been there too.

So I'm wondering, why didn't you just pull the axle went it first happened??? Just a pin holding it on, easy enough to get at.

No Fox, a 2WD to a 4WD is a conversion. A 4 bolt pattern to a 5 bolt pattern is a conversion. The turbo engine replacement for a SPI engine is borderline. Replacing an open diff with a LSD is a mod. Adding GL-10 interior stuff is a mod. But I would call replacing air struts with standard struts a conversion, because of all the stuff that has to be pulled that is no longer used. The bottom line is that you can call it what you want, but don't get upset if I call it something different.

Hey Fox, try to stay on track here, we were talking about the air suspension. And you're right, my replacing the 5speed push button with a 5 speed D/R would not be a conversion, it is a modification.

Says the body is rusty, if someone wants the engine and tranny, I'll take the suspension parts.

DUH Fox, we are talking about an XT here. The air suspension was standard equipment on all GL-10's (turbo or not), but then, there might have been a delete option. With all the different configurations that I have seen Subarus in, that shouldn't be that way, but appear to be stock from that factory that way, I wouldn't be surprized. By the way Fox, if you were to look at my 86 GL-10 Turbo Sedan, you wouldn't see any hint that it ever had air suspension, but it did, I removed it.

When you were over at Ed's house on Saturday, you said that you were waiting for a phone call from that guy and if you could swing it, you'd get it. Basically, you told me. So when you posted that you had something to show Zap, I put two and two together. Heck I even remember that you told me it wasn't really black but a very dark gray. Loose lips, sink ships!!

Yep, it is a simple bolt up, just make sure that you have everything, clutch type pedal assy, clutch cable, flywheel, clutch assy, clutch disc, throwout bearing, tranny, tranny mounts, manual tranny center console, and drive line (I bet I forgot something, but someone will catch it).

Well, that depends, is your tranny a Fulltime 4WD or a Push Button 4WD. If it is push button, then it doesn't have a center lock diff, infact there is no center diff at all. The push button just engages the gears that drive the rear wheels, just like the lever on the 'on-demand' 4WD trannys does. Lift the lever or push a button, it does the same thing, but no center diff. WJM, I checked the parts book, air suspension came on all 4WD turbos, both single range manual trannys and the autos, and the GL 4WD model in 1986. By the way, my 86 GL-10 Turbo Sedan with a D/R on-demand 4WD tranny does wonderful in the rain, I love to drive it in the rain, I have much better traction the 2WD in the rain, and boy does it corner.

Yea, that's what I was talking about, I forgot it isn't black, but a very dark grey. Yea, I like to surprize people every now and then, it keeps them on their toes.

SNOW????? We don't have no stinking snow!! In fact the sun is shinning outside. We may have gotten some snow in the mountain passes, but nothing down here around Puget Sound.

OK, now I'm confused (I know, it seems to happen a lot lately). You have an 88 XT 4WD MT, and you went for a drive, putting it into 4WD? Your car has air bags and a center locking diff? My confusion is that I thought that the center locking diff was only on the Fulltime 4WD tranny, in which case you wouldn't have to put it into 4WD, it would already be there. Also, I didn't know that Subaru installed air bags into any EA82 series car.

There is a tool that is used for pulling lifter out of an over head valve engine, it clamps itside the lifter, there is a small slide hammer with the tool, and you just tap the lifter out, I would imagine the same could be done with the Subaru wrist pin. I have such a tool, but haven't torn down a Subaru engine that far yet to find out if it does.

I had a guy interested in buying one of my EJ20 Turbos to do this same thing.

There is something about that link, I tried various methods to get something from the link and always got the same jpeg. Anyway, if you use a search engine, like Google.com, and type in G3X Justy, you will find several links. OK, I got one from an Italian site.

So, didn't you get this car for your mom?? Now you want to trade it for a car that she calls a 'tin can', and you expect her to be happy?? Why don't you talk with some of the techs at Carter, or maybe stop by Smart Services, I'm sure that they have more experience with these trannys that any of us old timers.

No problem, I just didn't understand where it was coming from. Too bad about the Outback, I hear it was a screamer.