7point62fmj Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Ok pictures are to come but for now I would like to know if I can use a 81 hatch's wheel berring houseing(you know the thing that the strut and the tire rod connect to) on a 87 brat? Need less to say the strut punched down through the top of the houseing and now wrest right in front of the passangers drive shaft. Also if any one knows where I can get one new that would help too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88HatchMonster Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Ok pictures are to come but for now I would like to know if I can use a 81 hatch's wheel berring houseing(you know the thing that the strut and the tire rod connect to) on a 87 brat? It'a called a spindle, and yes they are interchangeable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7point62fmj Posted January 29, 2007 Author Share Posted January 29, 2007 is it a axle spindle or is spindle just ok. I always called it a berring houseing becasue it housed the wheel berrings here is a better pic of where the strut whent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbone Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Also known as a hub. Any EA81 hub will work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbrat Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Ok pictures are to come but for now I would like to know if I can use a 81 hatch's wheel berring houseing(you know the thing that the strut and the tire rod connect to) on a 87 brat?Need less to say the strut punched down through the top of the houseing and now wrest right in front of the passangers drive shaft. Also if any one knows where I can get one new that would help too. what were you doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daeron Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 what were you doing? he Jumped It. that picture there, illustrating the area and the damage done.. thats priceless.. just a snap outta the HTKYSA, with a big red arrow drawn on it courtesy of paintbrush. I love it!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldDiggerRoo Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 How'd you get it to come down with that much force on the front sus.? I jumped my first one sevral times thruout it's life and it always nosed in hard with more than 5 feet of air; all it left me with was folded flat tow hooks and a sore neck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phizinza Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 It'a called a spindle, I think I've heard them referred to as an "upright" and as a "steering nuckle". The hub is the part that has the spline in it for the driveshaft/axle/halfshaft/(thinga.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baccaruda Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 has anyone ever broken that part in that way before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7point62fmj Posted January 30, 2007 Author Share Posted January 30, 2007 I will have pics soon. I slid off a gravel road at about 40mph and skipped/jumped a deep and wide arrigation revine..I relize about 50 yds out I was not slowing down I tried to make the turn but chickened out and hit it stragiht on. Good for me be cause if I hit it side ways I might be dead or at least the brat would be dead.. Live and learn.:-\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7point62fmj Posted January 30, 2007 Author Share Posted January 30, 2007 lucky for me one of my freinds spoted a 81 hatch at a junk yard. The funny thing is when I was talking to my wife about it she said too bad you just can not tow the hatch home to strip it. Then she made me PROMISE that when I start working on it I can not use any thing that is not a tool to work on it.. IE like using her spatula to apply bondo.. she was realy strict about it:mad: she said I could buy what ever tools I needed but no..NO kitchen utensils..ever..E..V.E.R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monstaru Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 yeah, my ol'lady use to get pretty pissedd about "tools" until she realized that she could just go buy better utensils and let me have the ************ty ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baccaruda Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 yeah, so I want to powdercoat my 4-spoke alloys... I'm moving out of this apartment in a couple of months, thinking about using the oven one last time for such before I go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheaT_BeeR_MaN Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 u could powder coat it but i dont recomend it with out an exaust. i powder coated for a couple years at northwest industrial coatings. it has very bad fumes since all powder coating is plastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7point62fmj Posted September 17, 2007 Author Share Posted September 17, 2007 Well.. better late then never.. My freind just found out how to get the pics of my brat off his phone soo here you go. The bad news is other then all the other crap busted on it like I thought it would be the motor now ticks and I think I pushed the strut houseing up a few inches.. so I think I will try to hunt down another old subaru and use this brat for parts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Subaru_dude Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 I got stuck on an unmantained road in Missouri Valley Iowa once... you shoulda seen the look on the farmer's face when he saw TN tags. "You're from TN and your stuck in the middle of a field in Iowa? In a station wagon? Son... what are you doing out here?" hahaha... man, what a road trip that was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phizinza Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 Fully SIC negative camber you have m8!!!1!oneone Say that with a voice of a Ricer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subaruguru Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 Ouch!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobcob Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 Fully SIC negative camber you have m8!!!1!oneoneSay that with a voice of a Ricer. Moite aww Moite, thats almost as sick as my uncle guido's Commodore Moite! (goes down a bit better in a Guido Hatsis voice I reckon) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RavenTBK Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 Sweet! Las time I pimp slapped my Brat like that I broke the strut top hat and the top of the strut backed down from its mount and ended up in the wheel well. Memories... Just gotta get time and money to get that damn Weber tuned for the 9.5:1 CCR motor I've got under the bonnet... I miss my Brat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calebz Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 You know there ARE better way to lower a car, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7point62fmj Posted September 18, 2007 Author Share Posted September 18, 2007 This car saved my life thank god for the built bumper in the front. I was going down a gravel road that was iced over and I could not loose speed fast enough when I came to a corner so I had a choice. Try to gun it once I got the nose around the corner or go straight on. I had about 30yds left to make my choice. I knew that if I guned it and still hit the ditch side ways I was dead so I went straight.. and the wrest was history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbrat Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 quite the shame on a 60k brat too!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry DeMoss Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 quite the shame on a 60k brat too!!! Ya that is what I thought too! :-\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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