trying to help a buddy of mine out. he needs a front drivers side hub for a 1987 GL Hatchback. I think it's a GL...it's a hatchback, one of those little white jokers, two door, EA81 motor. when i go to look up hubs for this it shows stuff from 1981 as well...is that showing right, and am i punching in the right information? are all EA81 hubs interchangeable?

Sounds about right- The Hatch and Brat didn't get the EA82 upgrade, and stayed basically the same until 89.

thanks a bunch. i was able to give him a bunch of places that had a hub he couldn't find. one locally was wrong, another he had shipped was wrong...so thanks for helping make his life a bit easier tomorrow 4x4welder!!

So the Hatch & the RX co-existed? Interesting.

yeah i was completely baffled when he pulled into my driveway last year with his hatch. i forget exactly what year it is...but it might be an 88 or 89 if they made hatches that long. i was all confident about the fact i had taken apart a billion EA82's and ER27's...then popped the hood, ready to tell him all about it and saw that freak of nature EA81, i coudln't believe it! i never see EA81's around here, had no idea they made them that long, it was the first one i had ever touched, i'm going to end this runon sentence. so yeah, EA81's and XT6's coexisted too.

Yes, the EA81 hatch went til 89 in the US and the Brat went til 87.

I've looked at it and I can't see any difference from the EA81 hubs to the EA82 (they may look a little different, but the measurements are all the same)

The knuckle is the same too, it's just the brakes that are different I think.

In the future, have him look up parts for an 84. They will all be the same parts, however, in 1984 there wasn't the confusion of having two hatchbacks.

The ea81 and ea82 knuckles aren't the same. The brake caliper brackets mount different between the two. But if he doesn't have any luck locally I've got a blue million of ea81 front hubs laying around here.

The ea81 and ea82 knuckles aren't the same. The brake caliper brackets mount different between the two.

Ahh. good thing I never tried to use one then..

 

EDIT. Just thought I'd add that I found the EA82 knuckle also uses a different seal on the inner side. It's bigger and won't work with a EA81 drive shaft, either will a EA82 driveshaft work with the EA81 knuckle