Subaru 91 L series Sports Wagon

Jaydenb456 · Post by **Jaydenb456** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:00 pm

I have a 91 l series Sports wagon, 295,000 K's and still going strong, .....ish.
I'm needing to do a clutch replacement but while im saving for the parts i need to find out if anyone knows the details for it. The main question im having is that i have heard that the whole engine needs to be removed to access the clutch, does anyone know if this is true?

stork955 · Post by **stork955** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:22 am

G'day, you can do it that way or remove the box instead. Either way has its advantages and disadvantages. I prefer to pull the motor, its a good chance to fix some of those niggly oil leaks at the same time. It's wise to get the flywheel machined while it's apart.

cheers,

Stork

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 8:30 am

yeah, it is a personal choice as to whether you like to lift an engine out from above, or get it on stands or a hoist and struggle with a heavy as the engine 4WD box above you, with the usual dirt and crap falling in your eyes, ears, hair, clothing etc

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sat Jun 08, 2013 10:01 pm

While you're there leave the EA82 on the bench and "just" drop in an EJ

Cheers

Bennie

NachaLuva · Post by **NachaLuva** » Sat Jun 08, 2013 11:50 pm

Maybe give the transmission tunnel a bit of a steam clean 1st?

I know some clutch setups need to have the engine removed, such as east-west front wheel drives. But I cant see why you'd pull an engine on a standard engine-in-front-of-gearbox design. There's so much more to do. IMO much easier to drop the gearbox. Just unbolt the front of the driveshaft, unbolt the bellhousing & slide it back on a trolley jack. This also makes it easy to re-attach the box...slide it forward on the trolley jack, adjusting the height/angle as you go.

Either way, you may need to rotate the engine as you do to align the splines on the input shaft, you can do this with a screw driver on the flywheel teeth.