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well looks like iv found a new second hand gearbox with low ks on it for $100 with clutch lol i love older cars so much , thing is iv never swaped one before but hay im willing to give it a shot , in my head it seems to work like this disconect the tailshaft from the gearbox drop it down , undo the ...

op here , managed to replace my diff this weekend and put in some subaru vortex front drive shafts wich aparentley wont snap ( will see about that ) but the downside is the gearbox seemed to cop a beating at the same time or after the diff let out and has decided it will only function in fwd and i s...

another question i have for you guys is what would be the quickest way to drop the diff center ? unbolt the tailshaft unmount the centre and pull it down and take out the shafts and reasemble . cheers guys im new to this irs stuff and mechanics in general (19yearold lol)

yeah sounds like the way to go but im pritty sure the later r160 diffs had a different drive shaft spline more teeth or something ... can anyone confirm?

ok iv done abit of research from what i can find it seams the r160 diff isnt so bad and can handle abit of torque and lsd was available in the 1985 l series , was this a vlsd or a proper clutch lsd ? will this bolt up to original axels? , r180 diffs fit but require mods to the axels as the input on ...

bluesteel wrote:its just an r160 diff

so you can make anything fit of that size, L series, wrx, rs, all the usual suspects

so are there anydirect swaps for a l series to get a lsd happening this is just my daily i dont want to spend time customizing stuff to fit

lsd from a l series ? i think this was a lsd or atleast welded

hi guys im new here and i just recentley picked up a 1990 sportswagon with a ea82t swap with a microtech mt4 ecu , some sort of bigger turbo runing 15psi , front drive shafts removed and after 2 days of owning this little fun beast i managed to smash the rear diff centre in high range but mild launc...