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Ej swap into Brat, Clutch Cable, Which one?

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Hey guys, great info here, I love checking everything out. Keep up the great info.

 

So I have an 86 Brat with the 2.2T and I have a Sti 5 speed tranny. I put the Sti guts into an older, 98 outback case that still uses the cable clutch, as does the Brat. But I it isn't pulling the clutch far enough. I run out of pedal to floor in the Brat.

 

So my question is, Which cable would work??? Anybody have a ej tranny??? What cable works???

 

Thanks guys

Grain of salt....never done it with an EA81...but I had a couple thoughts I thought I'd share.

 

 

If the issue is about travel, changing the cable won't help, that just gives you more adjustment range. If you need more travel, you need to change the leverage on one end or the other.

 

 

I'm curious, a '98 [Legacy] Outback would be a hydraulic push-style case, easy enough to convert to cable, but requires moving the pivot ball and replacing the fork to change the leverage angle. Did you do that? Or was your donor an Outback Sport, in which case it would already have been cable?

 

 

I thought that EA82 and EJ forks were interchangeable, but looks like they are not the same part number, so I could be wrong. But, even so, EJ transmissions definitely work in EA82 bodies, and EA82 trannies are swapped into EA81s all the time.....I would think it *should* be in the adjustment range of the stock cable.

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Ok, maybe it was a sport then. All I did was drop the guts from one tranny to another, keeping everything together as one. I am at my end of adjustment on cable and from what I am seeing and you saying, it is looking like I need to modify the pedal or the cable. Any thoughts??

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Hey thanks for the advice. The ej bracket has an metal insert inside the stock bracket. Cut out the insert and it is the exact one on the ea's. Adjustment works great as well. Thx guys 

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