July 30, 200421 yr My Twagon is currently down. (Full Story later) So, once again, 78TurboBrat Has bailed my sorry rump roast out of a sticky situation by loaning me his 83 GL Brat. The catch : Bad tranny The fix : 2WD 3AT from an 88 Turbowagon. Result - FWD Brat..lol.. For anyone else that ever wants to do this conversion (although I can't imagine why) its pretty easy.. only real modification was to drilla couple new holes in the tranny Xmember Its a loud. old, rattly, UGLY, multicolored POS and my wife hates it and laughs at me every time I drive it.. I may just have to get myself one of these things:grin: PS, whoever it was that said Brats (EA81s in general) are easier to work on than My turbowagon is full of ****. That is all.
July 31, 200421 yr Careful, there Caleb, that is my POS. At least it runs and drives. not that i can say the same for your twagon. HAHAHAHA Which is sitting on my trailer now. Waiting to be towed somewhere. Maybe to the local PAP. Ford tranny is swapped, will be driving in about an hour.
July 31, 200421 yr It wouldnt make it out of the shop without leaking all the water everywhere, just drive it on the lawn and water the yard at the same time. LOL Truck runs and drives great. but needs some serious suspension work. Pulls extremely hard to the right.
July 31, 200421 yr Author It wouldnt make it out of the shop without leaking all the water everywhere, just drive it on the lawn and water the yard at the same time. LOL BTW... Festivities will commence around 1030 AM.. you gonna be there?
July 31, 200421 yr Festivities, hmmmmmmm its now currently 3:36AM and i just got back from delivering the Ford truck to her dad, so let me get some rest, and then i will finnish cleaning all the tranny fluid out of the back of the truck and then i will head on over there to help out for a little while with some of the big stuff, but i need to do that motor swap in the legacy. Which i think has you beat on your wagon, it poors out water faster than you can put it in all around the motor, heads and radiator. LOL but you are more than welcome to the truck when you need it. Just call and let me know when you are ready.
July 31, 200421 yr My Twagon is currently down. (Full Story later) PS, whoever it was that said Brats (EA81s in general) are easier to work on than My turbowagon is full of ****. That is all. Shoe leather is even easier to work on. Be thankful someone was kind enough to loan you a car.
August 4, 200421 yr Author Shoe leather is even easier to work on. Be thankful someone was kind enough to loan you a car. Selective quoting is even easier:rolleyes:
August 4, 200421 yr as i have never worked with leather before, i would probably choose to work with the leather than to do a transmission again on a ea81 brat. LOL Glad to see you back on the board Caleb, did you get your landline back up yet ? didnt have time to call you today.
August 4, 200421 yr Author Phone is up and running.. Been having some network problems though. Thankfully my neighbors don't believe in wireless security, so I have internet on one computer at least
August 4, 200421 yr Phone is up and running.. Been having some network problems though. Thankfully my neighbors don't believe in wireless security, so I have internet on one computer at least Now thats funny!
August 6, 200421 yr Ok more news on that 83 brat your driving, when you get done with it, its getting an ej22 4wd 5speed out of a car i just got today, totaled but runs and drives, sounds like a good canidate since i dont have to sell the brat now.
August 6, 200421 yr Ive got a WIFI setup here now and I dont secure it one bit. Frankly I am happy to share my comcast with the whole neighborhood! None of them have wifi though so its pretty secure!
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