July 4, 201114 yr Well, you can't save them all (And really, would you want to?) I pay more attention to the Subarus I have, then ones I could try and save and ultimately fail cause they are to rotted to bother with.
July 4, 201114 yr I'llbet that is the one rx that had been on the craigslist for 1200. so you can make offers, no one wants to sell, and then ultimately, it ends up in the junkyard. what a waste. KEEP THE SOOBS YOU GOT It's possible. I think there were 2 of them around here, and the one on craigslist was rusty and had really crappy tinted windows. I believe that's why I didn't care to make much of an offer because it was rusted out pretty bad. If it had been the car at the junk yard things would have been different. I try to keep the cars I have, or at least fix and sell or use them for parts. I just can't stand having this many vehicles taking up space sometimes, and I'm really not supposed to be doing this in town whatsoever. Nobody is complaining yet though:lol: Well, you can't save them all (And really, would you want to?) I pay more attention to the Subarus I have, then ones I could try and save and ultimately fail cause they are to rotted to bother with. I can't pass up buying a car for scrap value or under scrap value especially if I could for any reason use parts from it or possibly fix it, so basically I would buy any Subaru that fits that criteria. I'd like to pay attention to the cars I have, but I keep getting overwhelmed with having too much stuff.
July 4, 201114 yr aw, what a waste of what appears to be a decent RX. wonder why it was sitting all by itself? somebody looking up more info on it maybe??? No, you cant save them all, but there are some that are worth the extra effort to try to save, and a true RX is one of them (unless it is so rusted out that it just wouldnt feasible) ...but I keep getting overwhelmed with having too much stuff. boy, do i know THAT feeling!
July 4, 201114 yr I'm really not supposed to be doing this in town whatsoever. Nobody is complaining yet though:lol: I'd like to pay attention to the cars I have, but I keep getting overwhelmed with having too much stuff. Don't wait until they start complaining!! By then it's too late! Got a Buddy going thru He** over this I totally agree w/ the "too much stuff"-- I have the same issue, a bunch of vehicles that I love, and none of them get the proper attention. I couldn't bear to part w/any of them. Well.... maybe a basket case 70 Chevy P/U... any takers???
July 7, 201114 yr Well.... maybe a basket case 70 Chevy P/U... any takers??? um...in the words of the sticker on the back window of my truck.... "Bite Me Chevy Boy!" (girl!) :lol:
July 10, 201114 yr um...in the words of the sticker on the back window of my truck.... "Bite Me Chevy Boy!" (girl!) :lol: Yeah,Yeah- There is one thing that's better about your Ford, It's put together! :lol:
July 10, 201114 yr Yeah,Yeah- There is one thing that's better about your Ford, It's put together! :lol: hehehe, yup, it is put together, and it runs, and would probably out haul that bowtie any/every day of the week and not break a sweat.... She may not be fast, but she IS a worker.
July 10, 201114 yr Don't be hatin' on the old Chevys now, We drove a $900 '79 Blazer all the way to Nebraska as is with original tires lol. One thing I will say, out of all the GM trucks we had, Non of them blew oil. 350s and 305s FTW. Like they used to do back in the day, Take a GM heart and stick it in a Ford body, you had a winning combo, Ford used seemless Beds which didn't rust as easy, and the 350, well, was a 350!
July 11, 201114 yr Like they used to do back in the day, Take a GM heart and stick it in a Ford body, you had a winning combo, Ford used seemless Beds which didn't rust as easy, and the 350, well, was a 350! Blasphemy!!! altho, i know it is done quite regularly - it isnt so much that the chevy 350 is a "better" motor - just that parts are easier to get and aftermarket is more plentiful...unless you have a 302, 351W or 351C that is....
July 11, 201114 yr Agreed 100%. I would swap an EZ36 Turbo in place of a 383 or what ever GM has to offer Hehe!!
July 28, 201114 yr Hello again Alliance. I am back up to 6 Subarus on my lot and have a question I'd like help with. One of the 4 97 Outbacks has the TQ removed from the trans, I see the clip inside which doesn't let me slip the TQ back on all the way. Upon reading a little, I see that I should try to remove the large hollow shaft and install it in the TQ before putting everything back together. Is this correct or is there a better way of doing this? Does the clip really need to be there? OBW #1 has been sitting with no motor for quite awhile OBW #2 has a motor issue that I haven't even looked at yet OBW #3 runs and drives but beat up body, awd doesnt function, recent timing and HG's with 240,000 OBW #4 purchased last night, 199,000 and blown head gasket First thought was to put the motor from #3 into #4, scrap 3 and sell 4 as a good car. Now I'm thinking put motor from #3 into #1, scrap 3 and sell 1 as a good car and fix HG on #4. Only problem with 3 is the TQ is off and I need to get it on. Then all I have to do is -Complete reseal, timing, fix stripped heads, install new brakes on 89 GL -Install brakes, maybe timing kit and reseal, replace broken lights and maybe body work on 95 Legacy -Find a motor to install in car #2 because it is super clean I'm sure I'll be back with a few more questions, I've actually been thinking of paying you all to come up here and bang out 4-5 good cars! Not sure I could do that but it would be pretty damn cool to move all of these!
July 28, 201114 yr Author Do head gaskets, it's worth it(if the bottom end is not overcooked. 3 out of 4 cars can be viable with only junking one of them, or have a 4th complete car with all the worst parts, with the best parts on the other 3. Doing the head gasket means that you do not have to sacrifice a whole car for just a motor. Put your best motor into the one you can sell for the most, and do the head gaskets on the one bad engine, and save it for the next car, pr put it in the one you will keep for yourself.
July 28, 201114 yr That's what I'm hoping for, to sell 3 decent cars. The best car has only 150,000 on it, while the motors I have are 240,000 and 200,000, so I figured I would wait to find something with lower mileage for that car. For today though I really need to know about the torque converter clip, I plan on installing the 240,000 motor into one of the cars but the TQ isn't installed on the trans. I'm going to go work on it in a little bit here and might be able to figure it out but it would be nice to know exactly what to do. Thanks!
July 28, 201114 yr Author Pull the shaft thingee out of the trans and install it to the torque converter, and then reinstall. make sure it seats all the way. it should fall in 3 timese to seat, as well as fit over the circlip. it is generally best to leave the torque converter on the trans when pulling the motor, consider doing the seal there, since they can leak.
July 28, 201114 yr I used "mnwolftrack" 's technique that johneggleston posted here http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=81925&highlight=torque+clip Installing the conver was very easy, it took me about 4 times and it went all the way in. Hook finger under nub on trans, slide it on and rotate, then rotate other direction, if it's not going pull out slightly and try again. Awesome. I should have replaced the seal but I was all about getting the TC on the trans today and now that it's on I don't really want to remove it again:eek: I was lucky unbolting the exhaust, every stud came out clean and I just ordered new studs and exhaust gaskets from Subaru. Going to take a week for the parts which will let me examine the rest of the car and order whatever it needs. Since I never drove this car I am crossing my fingers on everything else being in good shape, trans, axles....everything!
July 30, 201114 yr Two days ago I started installing the motor. It has been a little too warm here for me to be comfortable doing anything, and I was having a hell of a time lining the bottom studs up to the trans. I even logged on to usmb later that night to try to read some tips on how to do this (although I have installed quite a few motors and none had ever gone this rough). Tried again yesterday and immediately removed the motor mounts because I figured they were getting in the way (I had never had to do this before) but thought it would slide right in. Nothing changed, it was still fighting me. I was making up new swear words, throwing and kicking things, soaked with sweat..... With both studs started I could get one to slide in but the other would pop out, and vice versa. Any pushing, tugging, slamming the crane around wouldn't do anything. I even one time had the engine lined up exact perfectly with the trans and it wouldn't go. I took one more break to cool down, and went back at it. I thought all the slamming around maybe the bolts had created a lip inside the transmission which wasn't allowing them to slide all the way in. I grabbed a bolt and stuck it clean through one hole, tried the other hole but the bolt didn't go in all the way. My first thought was wtf, and then I looked down and saw the stud from the previous motor had unthreaded from the motor and was sitting against the CV shaft. Disgust, hate, anger quickly turned into pure joy. I guess that's what I get for trying to work on a car that I haven't touched for 6 months! All it needs now is coolant, and to steal some brake parts off of the parts wagon and it should have a new lease on life!
April 19, 201213 yr What took so long? Used to love reading this thread, then.............. nothing!?!? Hopefully it'll get some traction and be fun to follow....... again! Cheers:drunk:
April 19, 201213 yr We mainly have a thread on DI which has well over 7,000 posts, this one gets forgotten about and such, and then there was drama ect. Now its back! Viola!
April 19, 201213 yr yeah, if i were you i would pay more attention to the DI thread, there's no sense in posting something in more than one spot. plus, if we treated this thread like the DI thread, it'll probably get shut down.
April 19, 201213 yr Suppose I could post some photos from the Last Don Miller event. I wasn't able to take as many pictures as I should have.
April 19, 201213 yr Author I think it was the last time i dove mine. Don miller was the last time i drove it before swapping, and the last time i drove it for the 2nd don miller after the swap. It still has the same gas in the tank. I drove it once for jimmy johns. By the end of may i will be getting her out again. As far as subaru alliance goes, i have been following the sewi nasioc's facebook. at least to see if anything will be happening.
April 19, 201213 yr i been following that too since you added me.. seems like alot of "new tires tuesday! ************ yeah!" and "new rims coming.. ************ yeah!" hopefully more than that happens.
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