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hey i am hoping someone on here will be able to point me in the right direction

i have a Ea82t in my car and i went to do a service, Repco supplyed the plugs,leads,rotor button etc. now the porblem i have is the rotor button, they supplyed me a short stemed pushon style where as mine is a long stem with a grubscrew holding it on. I went back and they have NO listing so i tryed every other supplier in town and the same thing. The only insight i had was when Repco rang a hardto find supplier they use in Brisbane that its from an import engine and the chances of getting is very slim!!!


so does anyone know where i might be able to find one? mines totaly useless so untill i can find where to get one my cars not going anywhere!!!! its raining a lot and riding the bikes starting to pi** me off!..


any help would be great.

oh i am located in Gladstone C-Qld

cheers..

steff....................

here is an idea,
your local autoparts store will have a catalogue from their aftermarket supplier (bosch for example) and in the catalogue are pictures of various rotor styles. You may be able to identify your rotor this way because the rotor may also be common to other Australian vehicles for example some nissans use a rotor as u described.
You have to bear in mind that these engines are old and spares are very hard to find so you might even have to get out the hammer and hacksaw and modify something to fit.
hope this is of some use!:-D

cheers mate but i have already done that. the only one that lookes even close is a nissan one and i don't think its useable but if no luck else where its the only slim option i have....


steff.................

does it look like this ?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/YEC-Dist ... 4cf4269437

from what you described this is the rotor

TOONGA

Or this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Beck-Arn ... 1450wt_936

Or this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/YEC-Dist ... 2664wt_941

can you swap whole dizzy over for later one???

littlewhiteute wrote:Or this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Beck-Arn ... 1450wt_936

Or this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/YEC-Dist ... 2664wt_941

it looks very much like the second one apart from the shaft that goes over the dissy is longer, i dont think that would amke any difference tho as long as the screw hole lines up..


steff........

bonzaman wrote:can you swap whole dizzy over for later one???

i've not long changed it over so that i have a 4 wire one so that my microtech was getting a full set of signals, the original one only had two wires coming from, it..



steff..........

Sounds like the same rotor as I have in my EFI EA82. Hope they are available as mines getting prety tired too.

I inquired at Subaru a couple of years ago and they had 3 different caps with screws in the cap, only they weren't in stock and thus had to be ordered. It was kinda pricey so i put it off. But they still should be available.

Battlewagon wrote:Sounds like the same rotor as I have in my EFI EA82. Hope they are available as mines getting prety tired too.

Yeah they'll be the same. I don't see why they wouldn't be available as I've found parts easy to come by once you've identified them correctly - that's the trick with these "black sheep" of the subaru family!

If that doesn't work, contact FROG on the forum, he's great at finding/sourcing parts when you need them. He helped me out BIG TIME last winter when I was far far away from my local parts joint located in Romsey - I was in Hotham...

All the best.

Cheers

Bennie

Dubcrazy wrote:i've not long changed it over so that i have a 4 wire one so that my microtech was getting a full set of signals, the original one only had two wires coming from, it..



steff..........

Sounds like you've changed from the older vacuum dizzy to the later optical unit.
If that's the case start using google for xt parts suppliers in the states or even ebay.com.
As someone else said although Subaru imported a few cars later in the 80s, they were so few and far between that most dealers/aftermarket suppliers don't know what you're talking about.

Try here:
http://motors.shop.ebay.com/Caps-Rotors ... 06.c0.m282

or

http://www.familycar.com/autoparts/suba ... rotor.html

it would help if you can tell us manufacturer and part numbers you got that are not the correct ones. I guess they are all imports but yours must be a recent import engine not new in car to Oz. My Bosch replacemnts do not have grub screw in rotor.
Thought I had my parts numbers handy, but no, not at present. Of all the dizzies I have tinkered with found the caps and rotors all looked the same between NA, 3 plug and 4 plug styles. Have read of this drama before so may be worth searching but don't think part numbers were added after joy announced of success

sammynb wrote:Sounds like you've changed from the older vacuum dizzy to the later optical unit.
If that's the case start using google for xt parts suppliers in the states or even ebay.com.
As someone else said although Subaru imported a few cars later in the 80s, they were so few and far between that most dealers/aftermarket suppliers don't know what you're talking about.

Try here:
http://motors.shop.ebay.com/Caps-Rotors ... 06.c0.m282

or

http://www.familycar.com/autoparts/suba ... rotor.html

yes it is the optical dissy i changed to and from that motors shop link(firstone) i belive the rotor i am chasing is on there part number 04262!! difficult to tell from the picture if its a screw on but its the right shape and it has the deep shaft cover which non of the ones i have come across here have had. fingers crossed i get a reply from the sleer quickly and it is the right one...


thank you everyone for your help...

steff.........

well it looks like a found one in australia!!!! my local subaru dealership tracked one down by linking to all the other dealerships! the only one( through subaru) in australia but the good part is i will now have a part number so that i can seek a spare from other suppliers much easier.

i should have it by tuesday so fingers crossed it is the right one..

thank you everyone who inputed ideas and info.


steff..................

Hey steff, can you , for follow up reasons list here the number on the side of your dizzy. My 3 plugger ecu dizzy is something like D4R84 and uses standardly available Bosch boxed bits beginning with HT for Hitachi. Is your dizzy Hitachi even , or Denso?