Crossthread Ed Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I am a new 3 week old member and have gleaned the posts , all are excellent! I originally posted this on the Meet and Greet forum.. Oops. I am doing the short version here as I'm not sure how to C&P with my phone. 1987 ( Manufactured 4/87) GL Dual Range 1.8 Ea 82 Carburated 286K. Sitting 3 years with a rough prior life. My Vacuum Advance Unit is a electronic non optical Nippon Denso 22100AA370 and the diaphram has a hole . I can blow and suck air with no function air passes both ways. SOA no longer makes the dissy or the VA unit.It is not available aftermarket. To rebuild it is about $300.00 via Cardone. I read on this site that dissys can be changed out Hitachi to ND as long as the coil is branded the same. Local junk yards are out of ol Soobies. Seems that if a remanufacture should be able to do the VA unit by itself for a smaller cost? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihscout54 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 http://www.philbingroup.com/ Builders and re-manufactures of these sorts of things are beginning to disappear. Your not likely to find a "can" anywhere online without the distributor. The reman disty may be found for less online, but they will still run over 150 bux. Im not sure if the ea81 disty advance can will fit the ea82. Watch ebay for a used one and roll the dice. Use this advice at your own risk: The way you describe this car tells me its just a beater "run er till she dies" car. If you dont have to pass an emissions inspection, I would advance the timing till it misses at idle. Back it off the miss and drive it. Retard till the hot starts are not too difficult, and your not getting crazy ping. How much longer will the car last and how much is it worth? If it were mine Ide live without the advance till I found one at a junkyard. The ND and Hitachi units are swappable. The coil should be swapped with them, but in your case the ND coil has a little higher ohm values, so it wont hurt the Hitachi ign module.The Hitachi coil could hurt the ND module. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOONGA Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Ebay motors has a remanufactured distributor going by your part number - 22100AA370 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Distributor-Electronic-Cardone-31-851-Reman-fits-1987-Subaru-GL-1-8L-H4-/121582989256?hash=item1c4ee92fc8&vxp=mtr Ea81 advance is a little different to the Ea82 see here http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hitachi-Vacuum-Advance-Unit-Nissan-Datsun-Subaru-Honda-/331145629218?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_15&hash=item4d19d14e22&vxp=mtr TOONGA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossthread Ed Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 Good advice ihscout54 and thanks TONGA. This is my 5th wagon and my 2nd dual range in a 15 year span.I owned other cars during this period. I guess I lucked out on my previous soobies. I always paid around $600.00 for them did waterpumps,belts, axels, and my last obe started to have HG failure so i put ground pepper in the radiator ran it for a year then gave it to my neighbor when I left for Hawaii and he drive it that way until last year when it was stolen and totaled while he was out hunting!! WOW. Well during the last 3 years I worked in Hawaii got laid off and moved back to the Mainland to find that prices on CL and everywhere have gone up. So when I knocked on a neibors door asked about the Soobie DR he said 300 bux I jumped on it. He had no idea about any issues as it was his sons 1st car and has since moved away leaving it behind. I am now finding out that these ol Subie are a challenge to get parts for. I bought a recon Chev 350 lifetime complete dissy for my Motorhome 2 weeks back for $142.00.Today when I called the stealership found out SOA didn't make these anymore. I began to feel age... I was hopin and needing this Soobie as my daily driver as they have been the best cars I have ever owned. This one has put me thru the ringer . Pulled the motor cause I couldnt get the melted timing covers off to do the broken TB.Then Ifound antifreeze in the head exaust. Did the posted DIY heads resurface which worked beautiful, reground the valves, regasketed the motor. At start up she leaked some water, still is from somewhere but stops when warmed up, hoping it's a waterpump. Leaking lots of oil at the aircleaner searched this site for Blow By and followed the fixes PCV valve hoes clean out, oil plugged air filter removed it and ran it yesterday with no oil. Today oil again. Thinking this ol motor is shot? Gotta love them Blues... Peace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djellum Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Look up a local rebuilder. The vacuum cans are rebuildable. Anybody that can tune or rebuild distributors. Or call engine builders and ask them who to talk to. The race crowd does custom stuff all the time, theres somebody around that will do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossthread Ed Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Don't want to start a new thread but will if I get no reply here. Thanks all regarding my dissy. Did a cold throttle wide open ,no aircleaner compression test ... I got 140# on all 4 cylinders! I did have this apart did HG and the gaskets. I used the DIY method ie. Marble sink cutout used wd 40 and 220-320 wet dry sand paper. Worked great! Hand reground the valves. Is it a strange coincidence that all 4 cylinders are the same with no variances ? OR could it be my luck is up and I have a great lower end and block? Please let me know what normal is .. Mahalo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossthread Ed Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 Don't want to start a new thread but will if I get no reply here. Thanks all regarding my dissy. Did a cold throttle wide open ,no aircleaner compression test ... I got 140# on all 4 cylinders! I did have this apart did HG and the gaskets. I used the DIY method ie. Marble sink cutout used wd 40 and 220-320 wet dry sand paper. Worked great! Hand reground the valves. Is it a strange coincidence that all 4 cylinders are the same with no variances ? OR could it be my luck is up and I have a great lower end and block? Please let me know what normal is .. Mahalo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobiedubie Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 PARTING OUT SUBARU,S; 1979 THRU 2009 HAVE PART,S, FOR Legacy,s,Impreza,s Forester,s WRX,s Loyale,s. GL,s, DL,s SVX,s and Justy,s.Have lot,s good part,s engines, tran,s, wheel,s ,etc You can call ore-mail at 503-936-9579 or 503-985-7110 John Lemly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossthread Ed Posted June 24, 2015 Author Share Posted June 24, 2015 Thanks Scoobiedubie. Gave him a call and he is checking his inventory. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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