I've used these for poor access areas where you have little room to swing a screwdriver.
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Yes. You need a new boot or axle. If by luck the inner joint is green that’s OEM, replace the boot and keep that quality axle. All aftermarket Subaru axle brands are terrible.
you mean split CVJ boot? yeah, when that grease is slung onto hot exhaust, it stinks. If it happened very recently, you can grease and re-boot the joint.
OK, I didn't see those lower "gussets" at first but I like the idea. Should be plenty of room there since I'm not running a turbo. I really want to minimize the welding on this body as I think that's going to make it rust faster but will definitely take a look at mine and see what we can do. Also reminds me it might be a good idea to do a strut tower brace that attaches to the pitch stop mount. But maybe that's why the wiper arm on my black Outback keeps scraping the windshield when we beat on it?
Ouch! Around here it warmed up as predicted and has been hovering around 0C - and predicted to stay there for a while. But I've lived here too long to be fooled into thinking that it feels like an early spring...