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free wagon
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:32 pm
by cockroach
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:36 pm
by cockroach
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:41 pm
by TOONGA
nice score what are your plans
Lift kit? etc
TOONGA
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:19 pm
by AlpineRaven
Welcome... nice gift for free! what are your plans for it?
Cheers
AP
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:17 pm
by El_Freddo
Yeah wicked score! Hope its not like the free dog we were given - it was the most expensive dog we've ever had, mainly through chewing stuff and pound fees when he got out by jumping the fence...
I'll be keen to see what you end up doing with the beast!
Cheers
Bennie
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:47 am
by cockroach
well it is starting to cost me a little, just small stuff that goes wrong. like carby rebuild, spark plugs and leads, dizzy cap and rotor button, new front driveshafts with CV joints, battery and the rear CV joints just got rebuilt yesterday. now its sounding like the rear wheel bearings are about to fall apart.
but i was out at the wreckers a few weeks ago and managed to pick up another subaru wagon for $250. i only got it cause it has a dual range box in it, but its only a 4speed. does this sound right?
i have the box out of it and im going to rebuild it, can anyone tell me what normally wears out in these boxes? i never got to drive it so im not sure how good the gearbox will be.
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:18 am
by TOONGA
yes thats right the box is 4 speed dual range as I understand it the 5 speed box was introduced in the "L series"
the biggest problem these boxes have are the syncro and the seals have you thought about putting a 5 speed from an "L" into your wagon
look here for info
showthread.php?t=11821&highlight=gearbox+swap
TOONGA
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:43 pm
by cockroach
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:13 pm
by little_red_L
careful you dont break something in RWD... the rear drivetrain isn't designed for 100% power. but if all else fails post some burnout pics! :P
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:45 pm
by AlpineRaven
looking good there.
Cheers
AP
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 2:01 am
by cockroach
well my front/rear wheel bearings showed up today, so tomorrow should be a fun day of pressing out bearings and seals to put new ones in... yay
was thinking about pulling the single range gearbox out of my car to put in the D/R box, does the D/R box have a good low ratio for sand driving? also wondering why my car only has single range (5/1984) and the other car i got is older (2/1984) but it has D/R. is it just a simple case of my car having the gearbox swapped out due to a failure of the original box or was D/R an option back then?
will try and get a movie uploaded of my car on the pad the other night, it was raining (i haven't seen rain in a looong time) so i thought it would be a good time to slide around without too much tyre wear
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:02 pm
by wrxer
scared of spiders? i see the can of mortein there. are you at karratha or headland?
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:34 pm
by cockroach
there were a few redbacks hiding around the car, so we went a little bit wild with the bug spray. im in karratha, was hoping for that cyclone to come down the coast a bit more so we would get some rain. the only rain we really got was monday night and it lasted about 10min:(
her is a little movie of the wagon on the pad at night, there isnt really much to see cause its dark. but that was the only time it rained
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy8mCe0Z2JU
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:17 pm
by TOONGA
anymore news on the wagon
nice circle work by the way sounds like fun looks like a firefly
TOONGA
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:49 am
by cockroach
well the other day i started cleaning up the gearbox i got out of the wrecked car.
and got under my car to fix the shifter, i could move the gear stick around 150mm when it was in gear. it made fast shifting bloody hard lol
the idea was to tap a thread in the selector shaft and stick a bolt in there with a nut on top and a lot of loctite to keep it all there. but that idea went down hill fast when the thread chaser broke. i know i should use a tap, but i didnt have one with the right pitch thread.
i could not get my vise grips to get a good hold on it, so i had to drill it and eazy-out it. the best drill bits and eazy-outs i have ever used
and this is how it ended up looking
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:33 am
by cockroach
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:31 pm
by TOONGA
thats not bad at all but if you go mad and drive through a creek isn't it just going to shovel water into the engine?
yes I know that it is ultra dry up there at the moment but that can change in the blink of an eye
TOONGA
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:09 pm
by wrxer
poor mans ram air, i love it
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:59 pm
by cockroach
TOONGA wrote:thats not bad at all but if you go mad and drive through a creek isn't it just going to shovel water into the engine?
yes I know that it is ultra dry up there at the moment but that can change in the blink of an eye
TOONGA
yeah i thought about that, thats why im doing it to the air filter housing that was on the wrecked car. i still have my good one sitting under the work bench if i ever go and play in the water/mud. if it does rain while im out driving around and i have to go through a creek crossing, i can just turn the filter housing backwards and put the spare tyre in the back of the car and if the water is high enough to get in the rocker cover breathers i would have other things to worry about (like the car floating away lol). i really wanted to make a cowl induction by moving the spare tyre to the back, cutting oval shaped holes in the cowl area and running two x 3inch flexible hoses from the filter housing back to the cowl so i could suck in all the cool air from the bottom of the windscreen. but i dont wanna have my spare tyre floating around the back of my car. i have already had one occasion where the spare tyre ended up wedged between the front seats of my old VC commodore wagon after some off roading
. this is just an idea im playing with after seeing a heap of commonwhores with over the radiator air intakes.
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:14 am
by cockroach
Well, after 4+ years of driving this old girl around and clocking up more Km's of off road driving than most 4 wheel drives (including my own 4x4 hilux), I sold her today. Pretty sad to see it go, but the new owner has another one in his yard that he is going to use for parts, and he seemed happy to be buying it. So I know its going to someone that is going to have as much fun with it, as I did, and not someone that is going to trash it.
So that's the end of my chapter with this car
, but not the end of her story, hopefully she has a lot more life left in her and lives on for many more years to come