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Seeing that there, isn't a bad thing. I had troubles with this sube, didn't think the unibody was going to make it - seemed "squishy", not a good sign for an old car body. After fixing some electrical, and other things, I think it has calmed down to sitting still. If it petrifies the right way and straight, I may see this car buzzing around for some time to come. I wonder how long the spiders live anyway....

the first pic is 10 days old. This is the spider today: The little bugger grew at least a half inch. If it gets any bigger, I'm gonna have to change the rear springs:eek:

My car has a tenant: I have done 100mph even, been down dusty bouncing roads, and rather lengthy trips down the highway... This 7 legged monster, overnight for the past week and a half (that I have noticed) sets up camp from underneath the bumper. I took the photo awhile back to see what kind it was, and it is out there now even bigger. Anyone know what it is about the sube that seems to be as still as nature by the next morning? Maybe the old sube is petrifying, slowing down like old bones, returning to nature. Content with its surroundings, even with the rumbling old engine.

I personally learned to use other than oem bearings and high temp grease. Very good and even quieter than original. My local advance auto dished out "federal mogul" brand. They even *look* steel unlike my ol subes original.I was surprised to see the quality of original packing and material of bearings by Subaru. Shamefully:mad: Even the hub/brakes stayed cooler after I redid them a bit different than oem.I have yet to mess around with the tire pressures going from cold weather to hot or vice versa. It is stable all the way to the tire

I bet on high rpm v8's that wouldn't be a bad idea. The aluminum boxer is actually quite pleasant. Just don't let the volts go low oin the alternator with a big ol battery.... some freaky stuff catches up over months/years and even then, the ol sube is repairable. Just needs patience matching the years it took to gain the weirdness, to go away. I think I can sum up my babble with "electrical infection". Like an old house with radon.

They are no doubt headed for nostalgic to see in professional places. Kinda like "columbo" and his old convertible. Depending on your area, you may have a good idea to keep it. "The deal lasts a long time" with the realtor in an old subaru- or other assuring mentality in sales that not all things are temporary and expensive. My previous thoughts are slightly odd, but I was somewhat of a salesman for awhile, and have friends that still are. They too are under the impression for bigger , newer, better, etc. at all times, if it means trading in something that is far from outdated.

Some rigs can be incredible. I have had them shake things in my car as they were behind me. I have been all over Maine and still do not understand the mentaility that goes with the demand for rigs as big as I have seen here. The straight pipes shaking houses, jake brakes ratttling objects within them. Ridiculous. One night on the highway doing 85 in my 2wd (it loves it ). I thought for sure there was a rig with the old two round headlights catching up to me in the mirror. I shrugged it off- I was doing 85. Within a minute after spotting the monster it was climbing on me fast and got real close - so close I could feel the engine and its brake- all at 85. I spotted in my left mirror some blue lights of a cop car, the reason he didn't just fly around me at the 100+ mph he was doing. After the cop car went by, I went for all it was worth to lose this monster..I finally did in the hills of the interstate. My wagon wouldn't have done it with the same engine. The 2wd proved some important defense that night I won't be forgetting anytime soon. I have posted this before on another subject. I frequent a local large truck stop here for my father's job is trucking and spotted the exact monster truck, mentioned it to my dad. It is a small world - I know who it was now, and the company it works for. If a bit more short tempered- I would have attacked him physically- and asked- "Did you get close enough to see the the baby seat? Tough Guy?" (even tho I don't have one)

I have spotted the spfi turbo out there..... it does indeed work. Venturi and pressure satisfying vacuum is complex , making pipes and other intake sources smaller than the norm.I even doubted getting any more performance out of it. They really tuned it in for the little ea82 very good. A bit of power non-extreme and 300k miles of durability. I hope to see it again tuned in for the displacement built. this video is not of a subaru, but does show the non-lagging supercharger in action on a small v8. The balanced boxer could be a real psycho with it

The subject isn't easy. I'd rather try typing on my keynoard made for little fingers (I am constantly hitting backspace button to fix two keys pressed at once errors.) I have literally inherited cars with decent mileage a regular mechanic would call "physics'd" - mileage decent, body decent. Strange stuff happening all the way to nuclear type stuff squeezing out to make for a strange day.There is something real weird sometimes. This Loyale is one of them. To finish the explanation of this loyale strangely- The fpu type electrical is floating, now I can target the dark threads that attacked the invisible perfect lightbulb they call the electrical system. On a carbed engine - oh no- the 2 dollar choke isn't rheostatical anymore. On this car and being all steel, it is in fact quite tricky with an ECU. I am certain it was an underpowered condition for a looong time that literally sucked in chemistry of the battery.All things recovered except for an occasional sticky tps (throttle position sensor). I knew I won it back after seeing that stuff squeezing out of the studs on my back left wheel (I have had to change that recently- it bent in the driveway overnight one night, not even able to go down the road above 50mph without it thumping the whole car - strangest encounter yet with that freaky invisible I knew darn well was happening). It just may have been a super radon I burped out of it.I had been knocked out already by something of that sort when I first got under this car on my first run, to hear the lower end noises and make a judgement.Very powerful and airless- and "it" didn't care if I was a living entity or not. I never gave up.... it payed off.

You are right about my wording, thorough education brings communication skills - and patience to listen to others without prejudice.. The clutch grounding prob was a rusty coil on an old simple DL system problemed indeed. As for the wheel spinning stuff off- I have come to a conclusion I am pretty sure you can understand. I have built pc's for several years now, so I will use the simple terms I know. 60 hertz is easy to disperse at any given volts, as long as it is 60 hertz- diff hertz can even fly through the same layer and maintain independence. Add computer with a fast clock- it is not so easy- it all stays in same system until it is time to give it a stop (ground) .The fast hertz can even fly though the air and keep going for some time (like a cell phone - that is an extreme example, the ecu hertz is of course is supposed to be easily maintainable). Pc's love the battery and fan as a killer of this (to this very day- since the beginning of pcs.) For just putting it to ground is not easy. My pc has proven year in and out for 9 now. Coincidentally my car does the same things as my pc at the same time every year- and I put two things together. The 60 hertz layer to ground is avoided by higher hertz and it *will* go out on its own- you are very correct to mention ground wires as a source of problem, but it isn't. Strangely enough it just happens to target my rear left wheel (unlike the carbed sube). Fast hertz will hit something moving before it likes cold steel not moving and it also likes channels of heat because the environment is fast. The volts may be long gone at this point- it is then the invisible to see and catch like an antennae. I hope this explanation was simple enough. I wonder if a small pc fan near ecu would get the "it" I am talking about. For now, however,it truly is cleaning my car up electrically, and could be my very thoughts as to why the same steel body with the same years on it as my carbed old one- is in much much better shape in the same body eating salty roads of Maine.The computer shakes it off like a dog after a dive in a pond micronically.I would love to know the hertz speed for the ECU- :-\ Could someone bridge this conversation? The newer cars have much more plastics around bottoms of them- I bet taking thier computers into consideration. We've got old steel classics with modern stuff (if ECU'd) and it does indeed do something different because of it - and it can be seen and revealed if you have a metal foot and been struck by lightning

I am sorry to have replied like I did to "GD". After reading the post it took a few moments and I became seriously offended. I survived an event that made my life unusual - all the way to personally superstitious about it. I am still in need to explain myself. Below is a link to an offensive photograph of my teeth, I will not post this photo to give a warning of its offense . It all happened without decay, but in a matter of seconds.There are deathrow electrocutions successful without the happenings to my body and mind - and I survived. That post brought frustrating tears to my eyes, as that very prejudice misdiagnosed my life Mr.GD, I will not just passively try to eat the offense given. I really do solve electrical anomolies to the point of unexplainable.I am lucky to be alive to do so. Even the photo has got me goosebumped superstitious as imageshack randomly changes the name to post it- there is now a suffix of "nu0" - I knew zero of what happened to me.Kinda spooky even by my own sane standards of life. http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/533/teethzappednu0.jpg

You're a real polite one. I guess Portland oregon is the world- never knowing to yourself it is only your small piece of it. I have got a stranger tale to tell you-- I used to work on several billion dollars worth of aircraft and gave a signature to fly if I said it was good. The physics I am referring to are so precise on these 50 year old airplanes, I sought out the same things in my car after getting "lifted" involuntarily though the air - no wires. Cars have it to a much lesser extent and at 12 volts, most often simply static. In real cold weather however, cars spark it off like lightning sometimes, unlike your portland-oregon-declared-the-world. Think before you speak- you just might get zapped invisibly and asked to explain to your "EE" friends all the way to pharmaceuticals leaving you so deranged you singing hippy dippy love songs with a boozer pluckin at his guitar on the street. There is a Portland here in Maine as well- oh my goodness- that makes more than your portland and extreme thorough knowledge to prejudice across the world.

I have several favorite old sube stories My 87 drove around without a rear driveshaft and a cup on the end of tranny to keep fluid in for awhile.... I looked up after tinkering with the radio at 65 mph in northern maine to a rather large deer with antlers milliseconds from a collision- I ducked down instinctively expecting to hear the glass shattering and things breaking- to only hear a thud- and the car ringing like a bassy church bell. I looked up and there was no deer and I couldn't even find it if I tried (I really launched it). Upon a parking lot with lights- there was zero damage and several deer hairs that stabbed through the plastic covering edge on bumper like straw through a telephone pole in a tornado. 4 years or so later when I gave the car away to junk- the hairs were still there after 20k more miles I put on the old beast.I was Very lucky. The craziest darn thing I saw (in any car going down the road) was two fat guys sitting on the front end of an ea81 wagon as it drove home barely scraping the wheel-less right rear hub on the tar on 3 wheels .Hazard lights on and harmless, a local officer stayed behind it for the half-a-mile journey.

yeah. hack the weak wagon into a hatch, then do an ej22 swap like that crazy canadian did to his justy (12 sec quarter mile )

Advice: Be sure trunk is open.. Get it to go to locked position with door shut, window open, key on. Shut key off after door shuts and locks it in locked position (up). go to trunk and unplug the computer box lookin thing under rear window in the center. It stops auto mode of this noisy quirky gadget. It is not an illegal maneuvre by any state inspection standard- it is just another gadget. Use the orange release button on the now locked harness buckle to use/not use as intended, the belt should wind up peacefully out of the way towards e brake handle. If not, because it has never been wound up like this, pull it in and out gently, until it works. I asked out loud at local inspection here, and as long as locked position is locked and I can use seatbelt, it is legal. I not only had to disable it for large amp usage, my height is exactly incorrect for part of its journey to locked position actually being a hazard. My aouto belt still works- I prefer it to be manual. I hope it goes to locked for you one last time to keep harness belt legal easily.

Even if it is a good mount front or rear- anyone could grab thier ea82 and shake the engine at least half of the distance of thier tiny 2.64 inch revolution (stroke)- all through motor mount slop. I don't need 50% cushion for the pushin ya know what I mean? The 2wd I would swear eats an entire revolution to take off fast all on good clutch- stopping in time for a perfect physics moment - and away the big 2.64 inch stroker goes!

It did indeed run on one brush for several years (from what I can gather). the lights were dim, and it blew radio fuses. It did get sprites above a certain rpm of decent juice, must have been zapping the gap to correct volts around 2k rpm- inconsistently. New alternator was excellent, except ecu and spfi stuff hesitated, burped, choked for quite some time and many full resets. That is not corrosion on the stud- that wheel was just painted inside and out off of the car a week previous. That is what I found , electrically related. I knew car has been self cleaning wires slowly but surely with new alternator flow- reminded me of my old pc that had a new power supply. Except you can monitor a pc.I am assuming when alt was bad, the cars demand sucked at the battery- and got this slight poison of alkali. I am lucky it didn;t target the system (the poison of battery) .scary subject - "can't see it- don't bother with it", seems to be majority trying to explain myself. That on the wheels is a good thing believe it or not, it doesn't want to stay and corrode the body, anywhere I can find as of yet. To ponder what I found- the battery cable is grounded. Where is the final resting place , but the air, on our rubber wheeled cars. It does seem fitting it found the wheel spinning next to the new muffler- it does like the exhaust heat and flows with it.

yes that is also a good thought... like an old ford inline 6 with that long bar hangin off the back of the tranny, because thier engines balance sucked lol. I have contemplated something similar- but being the engine is really balanced, the tranny mounts stiffened would be the easiest, beneficial. A friend increased stiffness there , unintentionally gaining exactly what I am after- Torque to the ground, if it means stiffening my neck in non-grandma type takeoff

That is a good one. Not around here... to have weather extremes, all known to mankind, including tornados- The boxer 4 is by far the most incredible drivetrain ever. I even pursued a diesel mercedes and learned for several months of maine winter this advice, "don't even bother with them in January". I am certain that had a record written from Arizona USA for 1 million miles and normal maintenance. That would be an interesting car mastered for winter though.Very dirty, but hey, they do have benefits like a rusty old sube whos got the million mile sube?!

Still contemplating a candidate... of course all balanced engines are perfect for the high miles with good manufacture, and aluminum in perfect place (block/heads or both)- for no rebuild. There is the six cylinder that has yet to see the legendary "no bullcrap" math in mass production.There was a 1956 dino that went f1 racing, truly a winner, and I did find this 120 v6 in aviation- like the balanced boxer 4. I really like the thought of 60 degrees more fire in every revolution than a four cylinder. Natural Aspiraton would be naturally very powerful- and all in the balance I seek. V Aircraft Engines' Bambardier V300T Someday? someplace... A manufacturer is Really gonna get thier head out of thier marketed butt and build a 120 v6 for the masses. (sorry 4.3L chevy owners- you will never change my personally gathered knowledge of 1500 vehicles and thier undersides serviced , as well as my own custom builds and learns over 17 years. If you showed me one with 3 million miles - I would still spit on this ridiculous engine. I am certain to be called a "rock head"- just like the realistic design of a long running engine, in my very realistic stubborn fact gathering.)

I'm not sure I understand the point here- oil is better than ever. Noisy lifters could be as simple as different oil than engine normally gets, not to be considered bad- just going through changes. my 10th year with an ea82 and like clockwork every year through the seasons- they change by making noise, then back to thousands and thousands of miles of normal. I am certain the heads and block of aluminum change density regardless of thermostat and operating temperature for the intense seasons I have. It is quite strangely clever . If machinery to stay the same perfectly- it would die young. The tighter the tolerances like subaru has approaching this ambivelance is as close as a majority of engines could get.Make noise, shake it off- you can count on it going quiet unless there is obvious failure.

My first encounter with that engine was seeing the underside when they just came out, at a quik lube (I was the "grease monkey" in the pit). I had to shout out the conditions of the underside for company liability records.Having no idea it had 16k miles and the owner was in the work bay -I yelled "minor oil pan leaks , and the rods are clackin'". The topside guy said "your kidding" . I said "nope. there is something wrong." The owner was in disbelief too. I heard him say " I knew that damn crankshaft was a dud." Upon digging in to this on my own- it is by far the craziest out-of-wack crank design *ever* made by gm to attempt balance of a 120 degree firing six cyl on a 90 degree block. I don't know where you are getting the high mileages for that are- but around here engines really do *have to* be very balanced, nothing goofy, to be sparkin up again after just one winter- the 4.3 was and is a vibrating dud.

Thanks.Up and Down movement even on 2wd is very good- it is the side to side torque thump of the boxer I am getting alot in this 2wd. If driveshaft engaged (4wd) there is quite a noticable stabilization- gyroscopic effect (just can't make it a sports car in turns). I have had both 2wd and 4wd models now. Just the driveshafts presence kept the little engine sitting there like a rock. Being a driver that targets torque (uhhm- unlike inline 4 cyl owners ), I broke my 87 dl driveshaft right at the tranny all on this little 90hp engine. It really does do something powerful. I hope to mimick it with stronger rear mounts made with home ingenuity out of original pieces on my 2wd. Just when you think the throttle is a sponge- slowly the coins in the tray start rattling, lights in the rear view mirror start shakin, and that 10 % grade at 2750 rpm is a breeze taken by a locomotive soundin EA82........

I never wanted to answer this question with too much "testosterone"... As a disabled veteran who crawled off to accept his own misdiagnosed death, I stood my ground and let the nerves pinch to my gritting teeth, which in turn exploded several years later .. from the hellbent habit to go to a store and get my own damn milk - if it meant a spark plug running off my finger climbing up through my metallic leg. I am much calmer than the aforementioned words...and now much healthier (AMEN) .. but hey... you asked .

hey- I met someone on lithium. Its not even funny to joke The car ran off my damn finger - of course making the cylinder skip. clutch pedal simply had no rubber on it, my foot bare. I bet a healthy person could do this with an old sube Heck, I've seen it happen in other cars and scenarios entirely... what discipline engineers must have: "who cares where 'it' climbs back out of" <- that is my honest impression of every freakin car known to mankind. I am wondering if I am kicking out an original problem over a year now. The alternator was half running on one brush when I first got car. I changed alternator to blow a fusible link - something got very stubborn and content on a bad alternator. Luckily everything keeps working for this year and a half now on new one.I looked things over and am assuming it really likes the new muffler, new flow, and spinning physics of old steel wheel.I bet once muffler gets dirty and rusts a bit, it is back to whatever engineers never really figured out anyway . I'm rather glad to see this dirty alkalinic stuff vacating