Re: Warren¡¯s Conversion
I need those too. Dealer ? Or rock auto ? Or ?
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John A
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#84345
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Re: Warren¡¯s Conversion
Put an oil/water catch can inline between the PCV and the intake manifold. You'll be surprised at the crap even a cheap one fron Amazon will catch.
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Wayne Sitarz
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#84344
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Re: Warren¡¯s Conversion
Agreed! I bought a parts washer on sale at Harbor Freight and it has made life with this old Subie engine more tolerable. I clean small parts in a two-bucket parts washer that I made for under $10 --
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SubieVanagon
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#84343
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Re: Warren¡¯s Conversion
It¡¯s amazing how many worn, cracked, broken, incorrect things you can find to fix and improve when you just spend the time to clean them up!
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todd s
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#84342
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Re: Warren¡¯s Conversion
Then tighten the plates with the attached motor mounts to 25.8 ft. lbs.
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SubieVanagon
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#84341
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Re: Warren¡¯s Conversion
Somehow I lost the original motor mount bolts, so I had to go to the dealer for them. ?But even there they were about 80 cents each. ?Tighten the plates to the mounts at 31 ft lbs.
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SubieVanagon
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#84340
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Re: Warren¡¯s Conversion
I cleaned and reused the mounting plates. ?I got the motor mounts at O¡¯reilly Auto Parts for about $75 for the pair. ?OEM mounts are about $75 each! ?I generally like to stick with OEM when I can
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SubieVanagon
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#84339
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Re: Warren¡¯s Conversion
I need those too. Dealer ? Or rock auto ? Or ?
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John A
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#84338
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Re: Warren¡¯s Conversion
So I cleaned up the plates, bought new motor mounts, and installed them yesterday.
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SubieVanagon
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#84337
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This is what the motor mounts looked like. ?Great.
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SubieVanagon
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#84336
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I agree with you, John. ?Let¡¯s do this. ?Why not make it clean and fun? ?It won¡¯t run any better but it¡¯s a point of pride in my work.
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SubieVanagon
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#84335
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SubieVanagon
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#84334
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Re: Warren¡¯s Conversion
Of course, before I installed the intake manifold I had to install the RMW coolant crossover pipe. ?When I took the old one off one of the bolts twisted off and I had to use an easy-out and a tap to
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SubieVanagon
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#84333
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Re: Warren¡¯s Conversion
Photo ? I broke the plastic bits that hold that mess so I had to get a couple from the wrecker. Haven¡¯t cleaned mine up yet but yup they are gross. I have to rip the bundle apart anyway to move the
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John A
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#84332
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SubieVanagon
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#84331
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Love the chrome. I did my intake and bits and pieces including fuel rails and hard vacuum lines with steel-it grey paint. The stuff is amazing and addictive. Yours looks nice and clean. I don¡¯t
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John A
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#84330
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Re: Warren¡¯s Conversion
Then I got into that tangle of wires that live under the intake manifold. ?What a mess. ?They were dirty and grimy and sticky, etc. ?So I cleaned them and re-wrapped them and finally got them
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SubieVanagon
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#84329
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Re: Warren¡¯s Conversion
Having gained some confidence with the powder coating, I cleaned and sandblasted the fuel injector rails and guards. ?I coated the rails yellow and one guard chrome and one in bright yellow.
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SubieVanagon
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#84328
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So I received a powder coating kit (Eastwood) as a gift. My wife let me have our old toaster oven to use. Powder coating is incredibly easy. You clean or sandblast the parts to be coated, hook up the
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SubieVanagon
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#84327
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Subaru has used three oil separator plates over the years. First was plastic and I¡¯ve seen pics of them brittle or even melted. Then they used aluminum (which was on mine) but I¡¯ve not seen or
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SubieVanagon
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#84326
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