Road Trip

IBratmanI

IBratmanI

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So, Thursday and Friday my wife and I along with a bunch of friends, went to Northern Maine. We traveled about 3 1/2 hours north from our place to a little town called Jackman. We camped out in tents and got very wet!! We had some very impressive thunder storms, some of the biggest I've seen in a long time. Unfortunately we all got very wet and so did our bedding and clothes.

There was some good points though! I was the only one with a Subaru, and I took my 89 GL. I did a little off roading but not a lot, and unfortunately I didn't get any pics of that. We did a fair amount of fishing and caught a lot of Brook Trout and I caught a couple Salmon as well, all on a fly rod. We also saw a few Moose. Here are some pics!!

This is one of the campsite, with some friends. It was nice to have help watching our daughter!!

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We did a lot of driving in very remote areas, so I decided I better bring a gas can

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This one is at a boat landing on Moosehead Lake

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This one is at a rest area look out on route 201, very nice view!! You can see the fishing gear strapped to the racks
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Over all the trip was good, but we did head home a little early do to being wet, and having my 13 month old daughter with us. We put over 500 miles on, and the car did very good!! I would love to have an EJ22 for the hills, but the EA81 did just fine most of the time. The only problems were a blown headlight bulb, and I have to replace a front hub.

 
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sounds amazing, minus the wetness. I wish Gabe was a camper!
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I don't see the pictures, I imagine you're working on getting them in here?

 
Hmmm, no pics? I see them, I'll try to work it out. Yeah I like camping, but it would have been a lot more fun if it was dry!!

 
Glad you enjoyed your trip to Jackman excluding the weather. We were up there once about 20 years ago and weren`t quit sure were we were so I asked some locals. They only replied back in French. Later I found out that was typical even though they knew English. Hope things are a little friendlier up their now.

 
Cool. I recently went camping with my leggy. 4 of us and all our crap shoved in the trunk, on laps in back seat, and probably 1000lbs of crap tied to my home made roof rack...

ej22 did pretty damn well
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On a side note... Silas (sockmonkey) is selling an ej22 for $200. Exact same as the one in my car, no EGR
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Yeah people up there are very friendly now, I have made many trips up that way. so we usually go to the same places every year. But the Canadian border is quite close!

Yeah we were very packed!!! I didn't want to put too much on the rack because I knew that any wind resistance with 85 hp would really hurt!! I would love to have an EJ22 but I would really have to have a whole parts car, for the harness, motor, and all the other stuff you need but you don't know you need until you're too far to turn back. But that is a good deal!!

 
jackman is nice. That sube in that area is something normal.
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I found an ea81 hatchback jacked up along that route a few years ago (I got photos somewhere). quite a hunting buggy with 30 something inch tread on it.

I travelled one end of maine to the other and many places inbetween, to canadian borders and back in the old school subes. the only thing it needed is what you have on yours, the larger tread. I did finally get some, the dirt road rumbles are normal with 15 inch. I have yet to have any trouble at all with power and hills. Of course, me and real boxer engines stump a lot of "lack of knowledged" (that is a nice way of saying something else).

I sincerely would not go it alone in an EJ subaru, comparing solid states, economy, and toughness of old sube integrity compared to today...not to mentuon full diff locks, four low, and a limitless carb with no computer. I do have photos of several adventures, some leaving me on cliff egdes and on the other side of holes that weren't likely to be crossed...all by myself. these challenges and I never get old, just me outgrowing it. Does the sedan have dual range? I see you mentioned ea81, those cars came with an ea82...another different helm of boxer. There is quite a few simple things to do to get rid of stereotypes in the power conversation...with no money at all...that larger tread deserves it.

love to see threads like this.
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Yes it has dual range. It used to be a 2wd auto but now it's 4WD with dual range. I replaced the junk EA82 motor with the EA81. They are much more reliable and have literally nothing that can go wrong with them, no timing belts etc. But there is really very little you can do to any of the older motors to get any power out of them. I have seen a couple that have shaved heads, and a couple with hot cams, but the most your gonna get is a little over 100 hp, which with 26" plus tires, you're still gonna want more....a lot more!! I would love to have the reliability of the EJ22. They are a bulletproof motor, with a very smart computer that I have never seen fail. They also get very good gas mileage!! The only weak points on them is the timing belt, but at least there is only one instead of two on the EA82. I know of a place that used to have a bunch of old Subys in Jackman, but they are and have been long gone for many years now....unfortunately.

 
+1 for ej22 gas mileage! I usually get 30+, right around 33. Even when I loaded up for my camping trip I averaged 26 or so.

Timing belt though... My water pump seized and broke my timing belt leaving me in northern Maine... stranded. Bullet proof? yes, slapped on new parts and it was running as good as ever.

In my dreams I have an eg33 swapped in though...

 
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+1 for ej22 gas mileage! I usually get 30+, right around 33. Even when I loaded up for my camping trip I averaged 26 or so.Timing belt though... My water pump seized and broke my timing belt leaving me in northern Maine... stranded. Bullet proof? yes, slapped on new parts and it was running as good as ever.

In my dreams I have an eg33 swapped in though...
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Yeah, that's one of the weaknesses of a motor with a timing belt, the water pump can seize and causes the timing belt to break, it can seize on my EA81 too, but it only breaks the acc. belt.

 
Other than I didn't see a Hilton or Hyatt near where U were parked it looked like a great time....
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yeah amen. camping to me is staying in a campground wer eu can put up a tent and have your own space but u can drive up to the campsite entrance and use restrooms showers etc

 
a lot fo my massachuesetts friends love the jackman area and go there every winter to ride thier sleds... please no one tell them I have a multi car garage or the sleds will end up here year round...

 
I was just up there. We bomber around all the backroads my friends leggy all day. Then the second day we drove from greenville over to millinocket. The roads are so much fun, we put a couple ford rangers that were following us to shame. Were you up there saturday? I saw a car with a gas can put on the back like that, but it was going the other way, didnt get a good look.

 
So, Thursday and Friday my wife and I along with a bunch of friends, went to Northern Maine. We traveled about 3 1/2 hours north from our place to a little town called Jackman.
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LOLZ Jackman is not northern maine
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Well it is certainly more north than where we are!! I know what northern Maine is, I have spent lots of time every where from Moosehead to the Allagash. I love it up there, and will hopefully someday have a camp up there.

GClark, We headed home on Saturday and took 201 all the way to Fairfield from Jackman, so you might have seen me:iam:

 
point taken rugged.... can we call it Northern(ish) Maine?

& to think... I actually considered moving as far north as Caribou at one point and looked at a house with an indoor pool in the barn.

 
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