I'm finishing up with the 5 lug conversion on 88 GL wagon, hit a snag. I've got a D/L tranny with the small axle stubs, & XT axles. In an old thread, ballitch said ya have to put the tranny end on the XT axle. Two different sizes, so is there a shaft out there with XT on one end & small splined CVJ on the other? Hopin. Thanks guys, S.

John from KY has you covered in your other thread - he mentioned the 1993 FWD impreza axles, that's what you want if you have XT6 or EJ front hubs.

Edited July 10, 200916 yr by grossgary

from what i have seen all Impreza axles have the same ends as the XT6 and you need axles with the smaller inner splines to fit the non turbo low range tranny ? then you will have to take the upper boot off and joint from a 1985-86 turbo 3speed auto tranny , and put it on a xt6 shaft and outer joint or Imp.

 

the 85-86 turbo 3speed auto axles have the smaller tranny splines but use the bigger cup joint as a RX or XT6 , basicly you will need to find a inner cup with small splines that fits your XT6 shaft .

 

and no i haven't seen a axle that fits the 5lug hub and fits the smaller tranny ends . but i could be wrong , stranger things have happened

From what I understand, only the early FWD Imprezas have the 23 spline axles, the AWD ones and all Legacys have the 25spline ones.

i just pulled a set of 1993 2wd Imp. axles from a EJ 1.8L automatic out and it had the 25spline unless the 5speeds are 23 ? but from what i know all EJ 5speed 2wd trannys have the same guts as a EA turbo 2WD and they use the 25spline axles ?

Odd- I know my 2wd Legacy donor has 25spline axles with a 5speed, but it's a much larger car with a bigger engine.

 

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The 93-94 Impreza 2wd manual has it's own axles. The 2wd auto has the same axles as any of the AWD ones.

Edited July 11, 200916 yr by 4x4_Welder

ya they did some odd stuff when they had the Loyale , Impreza, and legacys all in production ya never know what to order some days

yep, only 5MT FWD 1.8l '93-'94 imprezas have 23 spline axles. auto trans, legacy, AWD, all have 25s.

 

 

also, as discussed in gary's thread in the offroad section, while the outer end of the axle/hub will interchange with EJ/ER stuff. the inner wheel bearing seal is different. I found some seal part numbers that THEORETICALLY should work....