What did you do to improve your soobie today

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Jan 26, 2013 11:06 pm

Got a stable mate

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B00sting · Post by **B00sting** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:46 pm

What have you being up to mate??

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:20 pm

You cant just post one teasing photo and expect us to be happy

More info please

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:38 pm

XT turbo eh?? Nice score!

Good condition? Right price? We need pics!

As for my Subie, on the old wagon I removed a few more parts including the radius rod/gearbox x-member mounting plates so I can clean the firewall easier. That CV grease and dirt is absolutely everywhere!

I might need to invest in a little sand blaster to make life alot easier when it comes to painting underneath.

And on the Brum I replaced the tacky red and fake carbon fiber plastic gear knob with the nice round grey sphere from the wagon. Was a job getting the plastic lump off; the collar covering the grub screws was super glued on, and the knob itself was completely filled with brown contact adhesive!

The threads were totally glued up, spent 15 minutes cleaning the thing up!

Post by **TOONGA** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:46 pm

steptoe wrote:Got a stable mate

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85 white FWD

TOONGA

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:02 pm

3/87 compliance plate date crystal mint greeny outside , spew brown inside, FWD 5 speed. Procrastinator in me says "rebuild it Jonno chuck in the 4WD stuff from the GLTA", other side says "its a parts hoarder for self". Don't go due to serious water intake. Was spotted by a mate, so no advertised, not much competition

Last rego sticker was 2001,

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:36 am

Fitted a Vortex driver seat into my L sedan, bolt up at front first no redrilling. At the back bracket there is a gap - of 70mm between bracket and mount hole for outer bolt, so a spacer bracket needs to be made up and a 10mm wedge to fit between rail and L floor drivers side.

The inner mounting holes similar so really need to make up a spacer bracket that bolts to original floors mounts and support seat rails to make it all safe, tidy and secure. The seat has not got height function in good order so slips down, down to floor level

Is all good though, the depression in the rear of the bucket seat gives more leg room for pigmys in the rear and I have more leg room in front.

The firmness of the seat and its sporty side supports give body a greater feed back of the car over the lounge chair style from the touring wagon, lower centre of gravity - corners better

Need to do LHS to match

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:27 pm

The rails don't swap over between the L's seat and the Vortex seats?

That would have been the first thing I looked into

Simply for simplicity of the mod.

Cheers

Bennie

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:30 pm

simply is the word not in Fuji's dictionary with this task. They are all nicely riveted. Just thanking my lucky stars the fronts line up all nice and that

Started thinking back to the two year long project to get '90Mazda626 seats in the Brumby, cutting out the guts, height adjuster, this and that - had the seats sitting over my bath for that long ! Pwor! What is that smell ? Seat burning from the stick welder

Not again

hainesy05 · Post by **hainesy05** » Tue Feb 05, 2013 7:11 am

tipped a bottle of nulon lifter tune into my 92 wagon. let it run for about 15mins(sounded like the little man with the hammer in there just swapped for something way bigger).
Took her out for a spin rattled for @ 20 kays, then silence.
Next mornin that prick with the hammer back for about 30 sec, then silence.
next morning dead cold, silence.
been 3 days now no noise, my lifters where terrible was about to do the whole oil pump and new lifter route. hoping like hell this keeps things quiet for a while

cheers hainesy

indy · Post by **indy** » Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:20 pm

Installed aftermarket (well my father in law pretty much did) keyless entry system to my outback gen3. Original keyless entry wasn't working, ended up wiring up one off ebay and works great!

Cliff R · Post by **Cliff R** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 7:49 pm

Installed a mobile phone holder from REPCO for $39.00 into the L series.
I have put the iPhone 4 into it but at the moment I cant get it to play via the stereo.
It is supposed to connect to the stereo so iTune music can be heard and when the phone rings the music cuts out and the unit is hand free.
At least it holds the phone so getting a fine wont happen.
Also put new spark plugs into the car cos the old ones have been in there for about 15 thousand ks

tambox · Post by **tambox** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 8:09 pm

To celebrate fitting the Viscous gearbox to my EFI ea82 L series, I cut out a reflective sticker, black in the daytime, silver at night.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 8:55 pm

Looks good Tambox!

tambox wrote:black in the daytime, silver at night.

Interesting - I didn't realise they could do that, pretty awesome!

Yesterday I confirmed that I really need to swap the front tyres and retire my stock of the Wild Conquerors

Sad times...

Cheers

Bennie

NachaLuva · Post by **NachaLuva** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:41 pm

tambox wrote:I cut out a reflective sticker, black in the daytime, silver at night.

Looks great...where did you get it from?

tambox · Post by **tambox** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 7:11 am

Downloaded the template from the internet (wonderfull source of stuff), then cut it out from some left-over sign vinyl.

Low budget home-made sticker.

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 2:08 pm

I lost the ability to select reverse in the Brum yesterday, and I didn't even think the shifter was that sloppy! So today I went about fixing this with some bushes I had spare. Got down there and noticed the nut and bolt mod was already done and done up bloody tight but the selector fork still flopped around more than I've ever seen. Unbolted the fork and removed it and OH MY GOD! Somebody had done the old cut the tube to clamp down better trick, but looks like they gouged it out with a chisel! No kidding the slot was about 3mm wide, wavy and uneven

I promptly dropped that in the bin and got the fork from the wagon, with a .5mm slit down one side only (which I'm not happy with either, but wasn't me who did it) And bolted that up...still bloody loose

If I took the bolt out and slid the tube all the way down, the tube was still incredibly loose on the selector shaft...this is not right at all it should be a snug fit IMO. Anyway I had no other choice but to re-assemble it as is and hope for the best. Luckily it tightened it up just enough to get reverse, but I'm still really unhappy with how loose it is. But because the selector fork tube is far too loose on the shaft, there is nothing I can do to get it any tighter...

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 6:20 pm

You could try welding it like the muppet did to the one in my Brumby, left a nice lump to slam the seal every backwards shift, causing it to leak soon after I bought it. Love the five speed L boxes

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:50 pm

Silverbullet wrote:Somebody had done the old cut the tube to clamp down better trick, but looks like they gouged it out with a chisel! No kidding the slot was about 3mm wide, wavy and uneven I promptly dropped that in the bin and got the fork from the wagon, with a .5mm slit down one side only (which I'm not happy with either, but wasn't me who did it) And bolted that up...still bloody loose

That slot is one of the main bits of the conversion that fixes the issue. The wider and longer the slot on both sides the easier it will clamp fully onto the selector shaft with the bolt.

Also drilling out the hole on the selector shaft to a larger one (not too big though! - and do the same with the tube!) with a larger bolt will also eliminate slop. Do the slot and bigger bolt trick is a sure fire way to get rid of this problem for some time. After that it's 5 speed time

Cheers

Bennie

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Wed Feb 13, 2013 7:26 am

Mine already had the bolted slot , the weld may have been an after repair - and that box was supposed to be a low km jap import just before I bought it in 98