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...when you try to lift any part of the "body" you lift the engine/drive train as well, which gets you in trouble quickly. The motor mounts and trans mount are all tied to the unibody.... If you get too carried away, brake lines, shifting and steering components would all come into play. As you poi...

If you go this route, be sure to get a filtering mask. You sure as heck don’t want to inhale the dust from heavy metals and soot. Nasty, toxic stuff. Or, you know, you could just replace the cat and not dump all that crap into the atmosphere and recoup most of the cost by selling your used cat to a...

a lift kit like that would not work on the tercel. the lower suspension lateral link and sway bar mount on the frame, not the cross member. Also, you would have to lower the engine/trans to keep the cv axle angles small. that also means you would lose the ground clearance under the engine/trans are...

Glacier, WA? You guys must be loving life right now... I'm heading up to Alpental after work today, I-90 is finally open after being closed for most of the last three days.

...limit suspension lift to about an inch, or you will put too much angle on the CV joint and it will wear out and fail very quickly. It seems like nobody has taken the time to add lift blocks to the engine and transmission crossmembers. Adding lift blocks of the same dimensions as the front strut ...

My experience with snow and car covers is that in the really nasty conditions, the cover will freeze to the car, making it difficult and time consuming to both enter the vehicle, or to get the cover off without damaging it. Right now on my RXs I've got a blue tarp covering most of the hatch area, si...

I doubt any parts are interchangeable, but Mahindra claims they have agreements starting in the 1940's and as recently as 2009, to build these.

I think the Tercel4wd is probably the lightest 4x4 on the road right now. Lada Niva or the Subaru STD hatchback probably weight less, being two door hatchbacks. https://www.suvdrive.com/sites/default/files/public/Side%20view/side%20view%20Lada%20niva%204x4%202017.jpg http://dev.hatchheaven.com/wp-c...

It's been a bit of a hassle, but this storm has been totally manageable and is nowhere near a "snow-pocalypse." I guess us mountain folk have a different outlook on snowy weather, I'm sad that the rain will be moving in today...

I watched a video comparison of the Mahindra vs. a real Willies, and offroad, the Willys killed this thing. The Mahindra doesn't have the suspension flex the original does, and it's a heck of a lot heavier as well.

They're built under license, so they're not really clones or knockoffs at all.

Moog's quality has really taken a nose dive the last several years, I'm not as impressed as I used to be by their products. OEM or Dorman going forward for me.

Abletobecain wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 3:33 pm

Professor...you have to find and share that guys contact info...that sounds like the way to go!

I'll send him a message to get his contact information. Here's his thread: https://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/to ... nt-1395222

Looks like a blast! The only time I've been offroad in my Tercel was with a couple of coworkers in Snoqualmie Pass. One had a mostly stock Jeep XJ and the other a modified Land Cruiser. Both were pretty surprised that the bone stock Tercel on street tires was able to follow them around (on an admitt...

Are you only interested in cars local to you, or would you be willing to travel for the right Tercel?

I recently met a guy on one of the vintage Subaru forums who will re-key your locks or match lock sets, etc. I think he only wanted $30 and a week's turnaround or something. Sounds reasonable to me and I have a few cars who use two different keys...