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Besides doing this every day for a living and that really making it lose the shine..... I think precisely because it has lost it's shine for me I'm going to give you the most prudent and cost effective advise. My goal is to get in and get out as quickly and effectively as possible while maximizing long term customer satisfaction, profit, and minimizing my labor and expenses. JDM engine. Period. I wouldn't even consider wasting a shop hour looking at a 295k engine. That's a door stop till the scrap truck rolls through. I suppose if you have a ton of time and are still on the "mechanic learning curve" and wish to use this as an educational tool........ NAW that's just silly. Keep it and tear it down for educational purposes after you JDM swap it and then POUR the contents of your workbench into the scrap truck after you are done taking it to pieces to find out what a nightmare you avoided. GD

It's not hard to pop those out when replacing a ball joint or even strut. So if anything like that was done recently, that's likely the answer. I don't think I've seen one pop out on their own. I would recommend replacing both the front differential gear oil (as it likely has some metal shavings from the slipping splines, and the spider gears likely got hot from spinning with only one axle connected), and ATF (as the transfer clutches got abused) after driving it like that.

Happy to meet you at the Laurelwood Public house if you need help. Just a couple hour flight out from Colorado. Great fish tacos and Workhorse IPA. I was just there last week.

has there been any kind of servicing of the axles recently? it may simply be that it was not pushed in far enough or, it could be worn/broken snap ring.. i had an axle on my 02 forester pop out a short time after servicing - made a horrible racket, but then it was also sitting cock-eyed - popped out while making a turn into a local store. Luckily I was not on the road when it happened.. a couple of people helped me get it into a parking space and I called the garage that did the work.. they came & got it and fixed it for free.

Yabut... Removing the cover should still be considered nontrivial since there's a good chance that at least one of those 65 front cover screws is stripped. If that's the case, you're at least going to be pulling the rad to give you enough room to work at getting it out, and more if it gives you a bad time.

As in EJ18? Same heads so I don’t see why not! Id take an EJ18 dizzy and shove it on an EJ22E without thinking twice about it if I were doing something like this setup. Cheers Bennie

I have no help, but there is a LR in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy that has no starter and no parking brake....leads to some interesting comedic moments.

Ok here’s a fight I’ll pay to watch. Rust vs Amsoil HD metal protectant. To me Vermont is the place to hold this event. Will accept NH or Maine as well.