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Working on getting cruise control set up. Swapped over the stalk from my red Impreza to the green one. Not too bad but I wasn't getting continuity/switching at the base of the steering column. Turns out the rotary coupling for the steering wheel on the green car was broken. We took it apart since it was already broken. Not a design we were expecting to see. Guessing someone put it together a turn or two off center. I swapped in the one from the red Impreza which was a bit of a project. Hopefully it's on center. The wire plugs for the airbag are different (red Impreza is a 96, green is a 98) but most of that has been removed already. Hooked it back up and the horn works and we seem to have continuity at the base of the column now. B replaced the washer pump on the green Impreza, it was leaking at the bottom of the body. The best replacement I had was the one in the black Outback. B swapped some city boy tires on the black Outback. Then he swapped the less worn mud tires that had been on it on my green Impreza. We rolled the rear fenders for a little more tire clearance at full bump. B also hammered a few flanges behind the tire for clearance. Articulation picture below, probably not as far as it can stretch. Three wheels still on the ground. Trigger warning slammo, rear ABS cables laying on the floor never to be reinstalled. It was a good thing we did that because we learned a couple of things. One, the parking brake cables were pulling tight on suspension compression. Rerouted them and we seem to have enough slack now. Two, the wheel weights were hitting the strut brackets. We don't normally run them at max negative camber and the old wheels apparently didn't have weights on the inner beads. Ground those down and repainted them. We also did a little PID tuning on the cams and looked over cruise control wiring. Some updates in the EZ36 swap thread.