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Changing 4x4 front wheel drive to rear wheel drive only

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A small, skinny one.  Unless your car started life with an automatic, the trans tunnel will be pretty narrow.

U could keep the 4wd tranny and just take out the front drive cv axles and put it in 4wd and now you have 2wd to the rear. I had that happen, I busted an axle and I thought the tranny was out, put it in 4wd and got home. Went to the tranny shop thinking the tranny was garbage and it was only a broken cv axle. It would save you a bunch of time and money. 

Disclaimer, you will have to disassemble a pair of front axles to convert to rwd. You have to put the hub end of the axles back in.

Does anyone know what type of rear wheel drive manual transmission will fit a 1984 Subaru DL 4x4 wagon

 

Need more information.

 

 

There's nothing that's a direct, bolt-in.

 

 

There are probably hundreds of options with enough fabrication......

Install a 4WD trans

Disassemble front axles and leave outer CV joints in hubs

keep it in 4WD.

You now have RWD.

 

 

best to research and see whats been done before. I seem to recall there's an EA82 car out there that's RWD.

Subaru has never offered a RWD vehicle in the use - not at least in an EA/ER and newer mainstream vehicle. 

Install a 4WD trans

Disassemble front axles and leave outer CV joints in hubs

keep it in 4WD.

You now have RWD.

 

 

Subaru has never offered a RWD vehicle in the use - not at least in an EA/ER and newer mainstream vehicle. 

 

Correct. This was a custom job. I'll see if I can find it.

>Subaru has never offered a RWD vehicle in the use - not at least in an EA/ER and newer mainstream vehicle

 

*cough* BRZ.

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