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Two tone makes it easy to find! Several folks that I've fixed front end hits for love there two tone Subarus.

.. and about a week ago I sprayed em with my 20 year spray can of Liquid Wrench, - which I discovered 3 days ago had lost all it's pressure probably cause I unknowingly banged the head on it, probably shutting the hood.. So I bought a new spray can of B'laster and sprayed and soaked it a few more days - no cigar So here's the specs of a very nice portable 3/8" torque wrench I just bought from Home Depot on sale for $140 with battery and charger Lightweight Design. Heavyweight Performance. Pair with MAX Output batteries for maximum power Industry’s most compact Powerful Brushless Motor delivers 250 ft./lbs. of breakaway torque 3 speeds + auto-tightening mode provides adjustable power and speed Auto-tightening auto-stops when fastening to prevent over tightening bolts Auto-tightening in reverse, delivers full breakaway torque, then stops when the bolt is loose Tri-Beam LED enhances visibility and provides even distribution of light Compatible with RIDGID’s AC13B04N Impact Wrench protective boot (sold separately) 100% Compatible: Works with all RIDGID 18V Batteries, Tools, and Chargers Lifetime Service Agreement with registration within 90 days Includes: R872071 18V SubCompact Brushless 4-Mode 3/8 in. Impact Wrench, R87002 2.0 Ah battery, charger, belt hook with screw, and tool bag RIDGID: Build for a Lifetime 18V SubCompact Brushless Cordless 3/8 in. Impact Wrench Kit with 2.0 Ah Battery, Charger, and Bag and it didn't seem to move any of em at full torque, even trying in both directions.. So I cleaned the oil + road dirt mix off the passenger side intake manifold area (to lessen the chance of a bon fire) and only M.A.P. torched it for about 3 minutes total cause I've never done it before and was getting smoke and embers and nervous and cold and it was now dark outside where I'm working on it and the crappy harbor freight "free head lamp" was turning off all on it's own way to much - even after messing with it a lot.... and "amazing to me " got the bolt loose closest to the windshield loose! BUT it didn't want to go "looser" and "tighter" back and forth ( CCW and CW ) only looser so went about 2 turns and going to give it chance to soak more over night. - and the head wasn't really very hot, maybe 110 F. Progress, not perfection ... One down, two to go Grrrr ,, I mean "patience..."

Got the main bulk of the wiring harness pulled out this afternoon - It's pretty freeing to be able to just yank stuff out without worrying about "will it go back in where it came from and look good." (after labelling connections, anyway) Still finalizing exactly what I'm going to keep vs what I'm going to abandon - but right now planning on transplanting most of the Impreza harness into the Brat body and adapting at the terminations where needed, especially since I'm not sure of the condition of the original wiring. I'm also even more heavily leaning toward retrofitting in the impreza HVAC unit and lower center console trims. Taking a good imaginative sit in the gutted cab of the Brat holding the trims and HVAC parts up to the available space has me nearly convinced this is possible, especially since I also plan on transplanting the trans tunnel from the Impreza where that console and handbrake mounts up. So far so good. Still a scary prospect of a project but even only at this point, I'm still learning a lot.