The AUSubaru.com.au Forums

Thanks guys.

Hi, haven't been on this forum since my son rolled the L-Series last year. I now have a new project. Can the EJ22 motor be swapped from an auto car to a manual car? All I want to do is swap motors over, anything I need to change or check on? Is it easier to drop the motor or lift it out? Thanks in a...

Thanks for all your thoughts people's, it's happily recieved. Just got home last night from Sydney and looked at my son's Subie this morning, it was towed and stuck under the carport the day of the accident. Sad sight indeed. Roof looks like an elephant sat in the middle of the roof above the two fr...

Suparoo wrote:Hey mate.

Where abouts on the Mid north coast are you.

I'm from Bowraville (near Nambucca Heads)

Down south of Port Macquarie from you.

My son and his little sister were involved in an accident in the Subie I've been working on on their way to school. He only just got his Ps last Monday. Yesterday morning a woman backed out of her driveway in her Falcon wagon, my son saw her and slowed and then had to swerve to the other side of the...

New seals solved the problem, the old piston seal had a fine raised seam worn around its centre perimeter. Both caliper's slides have been lubed and both working the same, that is bugger all caliper movement when brakes applied. So all is good. But.... I have been unable to attend to the rear brakes...

Wow what a shock it was to climb under the car to source the leak. It was absolutely black everywhere and having my son drive the car on 4klm of dirt road to our property nearly weekly for over a year the dirt and oil combination was enough to pave our driveway! Took the sump guard off to see that t...

bobbyjimmy wrote:Go to your local Subaru dealer and ask for these;
806945020 - O-Ring
15066AA000 - Gasket
806718090 - O-Ring

That's the "kit", should be around $30.

Good stuff, thanks for the prompt reply.

Hi, I thought I'd put my questions in here rather than the General Chat coz it's obvious this is where these questions go, doh! EA82 oil pump in an L-Series. I'm suspecting this is the problem of the heavy oil leaks I'm getting. Oil is everwhere from the CV line downwards and back to the gearbox. Oi...

Special tools are a requirement in everyones toolbox. Good to hear your collection is building up. Sorry, didnt realize you had a old Guzzi as well, now I understand your penchant for doing it yourself a bit better, if you took that into a shop you might never get it back! Kidding! I reread my repl...

Also, you can get away with using a pair of flat or duck billed pliers to wind the piston in our out, After realising that things were not going as smoothly as I hoped, piston was stubborn in moving into the bore, I referred to the book, and all was revealed. I'm hoping that with the use of the spr...

But the rears are not leaking as I just bled them and the rims etc. are dry. The rear right drum came off 2 months ago too when I fitted the rear bearing and it was dry, the front disk inner pad would have already been wearing by then. I'll have a look at it any way tomorrow. Thanks. The HHV also ha...

Whoops!!! It is for 2WD! The pages were stuck, and the 4WD is exactly over the page. I thought it sounded odd. And I thought only Playboy magazine pages got stuck together! "Honest I only read the Subie workshop manuals for the articles."... yeah right.;) ;) 4) Instal ring nut to housing by using a...

Sorted the front bearing noise, it wasn't that at all, I dissasembled the brakes only to find.... The left rotor's inboard pad was worn 0.5mm and the outboard pad was 13mm! The noise was the worn pad warning screechers going off and not the bearings! I replaced the front left CV a year or less ago s...

Per the 1988 Factory Service Manual for the L-Series, the following is the process required for rear bearings for 4WD vehicles. Thanks for the feedback GTlegs. Good straightforward instructions, just have to find a 2kg scale, I've got a fishing scale up to around 40kg I think but that's over the to...

steptoe wrote:grease?

Too much in the rear that it oozed out when tightened after a couple of days...no shortage there!:rolleyes:

I still reckon the rears were overtightened.

Sounds like your compression is up the sh*tecreek. I think you should do a compression test on all four cylinders - most mechanics can do this for chips (they just insert a compression gauge into a spark plug hole and run the engine). What is the accepted psi for a "good" EA82 motor? What is 1128kp...

hey mate and welcome ive had this problem with the shafts being too fat to slip through the bearings, there was microns in it though. Take the shaft back from where you bought it and get another brand. Thanks for the welcome. I got the GSP(?) brand in a blue box from suzukispares (eBay), same ones ...

It is my understanding that You cant over torque subaru bearings as no load is put onto the bearing when the nut is done up. But I have not owned a l series so am not sure. The torque value is debatable, I followed advice on this forum and USMB and went with the TTYF (Torque Till You Fart) method a...

Hi all, I'm a newbie to this forum and thought I'd introduce myself before I ask questions, apologies for the length of my first post too! I've got a 1989 L-Series Sportswagon, I've had it for 7 years and for the first 4 years it spent lots of time on sand as I'm a keen beach fisho. I fitted 14" sun...