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Well I removed the rear bulb, and this didn’t change anything. Removed the headlight to get to the blinker on the front. I found the harness going to that bulb had become wrapped up and extremely stretched-Pinched on the hood prop rod. So I repaired that section of the harness and all is back to normal. Thanks

Hello all, just an update on this in case anybody wants to do this in the future. I completed the conversion, pretty straight forward really, the hardest part was cutting a hole on the nearside for the heater blower intake and spot welding on the rain deflection plate under the scuttle panel. Otherwise it was easy enough.

Thanks for the speedy replies Everyone. Good start of a thread regarding Old Gen Tow Bar issues and Optuons.This confirms this issue. Seems the tow bar option is a PITA. I would need to also do some front tow bar to Suby bumper / bracket fabricating while trying to maintain the stock bumper and skin appearance. What have you guys done? I have been on the fence regarding Tow bar VS Car Dolly. I have a Vstar 1100 that I would like to also travel with and would need to put a front deck across the front of the dolly. Storage of the dolly is the issue VS Tow bar. sparkyboy, the handle is from my Dad when I was 14yo.He had a 56 VW bug project in the backyard I decided I would help out on while he was at work. I forced some bolts into the 36 HP block..... and the rest is history ! He schooled me well afterwards. LOL Thanks All

if you're mechanically interested and not novelty driven, stick around and you'll see this forum is waaaaaay different than others and for it's faults has some massive upside. yes - if you're the more automotively social type and want to tinker and hard data doesn't matter as much as the parallel play - another forum would be a better fit. this forum is practical to a fault. it's the most practical and helpful, mechanically literate subaru specific forum by far. but that also means it doesn't really tolerate typical forum banter and diatribe. some of the people on here run highly successful Subaru businesses, are enormously well respected and I owe them about 142 lunches for all they've taught me over the years. i try to respect their time and hope that in some ways we are all making it easy for them to continue to contribute with high demands and in a situation where most of their subaru talk/engagement is making them money but this is not. a lot of people are used to other forums and 13 page mundane, mechanically/data/physically illiterate discussions or tossing around 8 bad ideas and hoping one of them is right....that's cool too, most people seem to like that, and any other subaru forum can do that. i would try to identify the 8% of the posters who know what they're talking about - and be careful taking anyone elses advice - check it/google it/etc. this forum isn't like that. I'm on those forums though recently have been distancing myself, because it gets old seeing responses that aren't helpful or flat out wrong. it's hard to help the original poster because three other posts are low grade ideas from uncle larry, the 1970's, or they're anecdotal 3 Subaru experience - yet they post and defend their posts without learning/data being the focus. this forum doesn't tolerate that at all. which has both bad and good sides to it.

And she runs flawless now!