June 17, 200421 yr I'm going to be stripping my GL down soon. I want to save the drive train, but I was wondering what other parts to save. It's a 1986 3-door manual GL, carbed. I'm going to try to drop the engine, transmission and front suspension at the same time by undoing the tops of the struts and the crossbars underneath. I want to save the drive train, but I was wondering what other parts to save. Hopefully other people have prior experience with "d*mn, I should have saved that"
June 17, 200421 yr Last one we did, the car was left with only body, glass, doors and dashpad.. everything else went on the shelves.
June 17, 200421 yr Your doing it the easy way! Brace the motor and tranny and pull the body off the motor, struts, wheels...! I did it in 20 minutes. Kept the running gear in one piece. When you pull your driveline plug the tranny so it won't leak all over.... Good Luck! Glenn 82 SubaruHummer 01 Forester
June 18, 200421 yr If that thing is blue, I want the front grille peice please! Personally...id save anything and everything that could possibly be used to replace parts on the 91....that means everything but the coupe specific stuff.
June 18, 200421 yr save everything , i have done 3 all that was left ,was the frame and glass , put the bolts on pretty loose for the struts and put it onto a trailer ,push it off at a junkyard ,then jack it up and remove the hole strut brake stuff ,and drive off
June 18, 200421 yr Author will the windshield fit in my 91 wagon? Its fairly new, it got replaced about 6 months before the car was retired. I'm going to cut the body up with a sawzall and bring the pieces to the junkyard that way.
June 19, 200421 yr Author I spent the afternoon disasembling. I got the hood, quarterpanels, all front lights, windshield wiper motor, interior out of the back, washer containers, bumpers, and front underpan off. The car looks much meaner without all the front end sheetmetal. If i sawzalled off the body where the bumper attaches through in the front, There would be a straight shot for any obstacles to the front wheels. This might be an idea for the offroaders out there. New fenders could be made for over the top out of bent sheet metal. Now that would be cool :cool:
June 19, 200421 yr keep all the little nuts and bolts and screws, stock subaru bits are invaluable if you work on a lot of them. keep small stuff like the heater resistor packs, ol' jim cant get enough of those! i like to keep the rear cargo carpets for hauling dirty stuff, or as replacements for dirty ones
July 1, 200421 yr Author Fuel pump is out, rear diff, struts, crossbar, and axels came out as a unit. Coolent and oil drained. Gas drained (ol' chisel in the tank trick) Radiator removed. wiring harneses unplugged up to the firewall. Nothing came easy, thank god for impact drivers and 3 foot breaker bars. Tomorrow the engine/tranny drops out. If I get good at this, I'll do it to my neighbors junker and take the 2.2 for my loyale and keep my legacy in one piece.
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