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told ya it was a broken axle.

Hood scoop and vents - IMO gold would look tacky; I'd stick to the OEM green for sure. On the bumper I think black would look better than gold for the style of bumper you're building where it doesn't really blend into the stock lines or imitate the OEM shape. /$.02 Fuel tank skid looking mighty fine! Might be worth your time to slap some POR-15 on those rusty brake cable and heat shield brackets.

Ha! i was right! Sort of, lol had no idea about the end being broken off tho.. but your first pic just did not look quite right to me. Excellent catch on that end piece being broken off. The green cup on the old axle is definitely a Subaru OE axle - not sure what you put back on it, but I hope it does not give you any problems.

RE: New transmission? Sorry. I apparently misread your sentence quoted above. I thought it said you were glad the failure didn't grenade your new transmission.

Good eyes and brain to match the axles up. But wait, did you just have work done ..... Thanks for posting back and the pics too. Good luck.

I've stated a few times that I haven't touched the OEM drive shafts before, and I've never hinted that I've had tranny work done before because there simply hasn't. I agree it's an odd failure, but it has nothing to do with previous assumed work that had never happened. This driveshaft is stamped "Made in Japan", it's OEM Subaru. On a brighter note, I topped up the diff with some throw-away Mobil gearbox oil and put a few miles on it. With the new axle, everything worked fine. I'll drain and replace the diff and tranny fluid after a few light miles. I would have drained the diff fluid entirely, but Subaru decided to use an absurdly big star bolt for the diff drain plug, so now I'm awaiting the arrival of yet another custom tool so I can do an otherwise routine maintenance item.

Glad you found it and got the parts out. Change the fluid as previously recommended.

WOW! Never seen anything like that.

The new axles arrived just now, but they look different than the OEM one. Specifically, the clip goes near the end of the shaft. There's a groove cut in the splines for the clip. Mine didn't look like that. And I thought the end of the old stub axle didn't exactly look like it was machined to normal Subi standards. Turns out the end of the stub axle snapped off clean at the clip groove. I put a magnet into the diff and extracted the shaft end. This is the weirdest thing I've seen so far on this car.