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Harpua was able to save this from the old ezboard and baccaruda was able to find when I couldn't; thank you both. I'm reposting it here with just a minor change. If this isn't in the archives, it should be: Remove the cotter pin in the axle nut while the car is still on the ground and "break" the nut loose with the 36mm socket and a long breaker bar. Remove the wheel after jacking the car up (wheel chocks and jackstands are VERY important here). Knock out the pin on the DOJ with a drift-tool from the UNBEVELED hole and remove the pivot bolt from the lower arm. I don't remove the sway bar mount (never had to). Pull the DOJ away from the transmission; it should move freely now but won't quite come off. Tug on the wheel hub and pull on the DOJ and often it will pop off the stub axle. If not, loosen the nuts at the top of the strut tower a bit (don't take them off!) and/or pry the lower pivot arm away from its support with a crowbar or large screwdriver. This should allow you to get the DOJ off the stub axle. Now remove the castle nut, and both washers (tapping the hub smartly with a small hammer will help get the spring washer out). Now the trick is to get the spindle out of the hub. Either get a large gear puller (6 or 7 inch version) or a sledge hammer and a block of wood. You can push the spindle out with the gear puller or smack the spindle with the sledge (MAKE SURE THE BLOCK OF WOOD IS THERE to prevent damaging the threads--hard to get your core charge back if the threads are bunged). You might need to use your drift and a smaller sledge and pound the spindle out the last inch or so via the small hole in the end. Now carefully remove the axle from the car. Installation is the reverse of removal. Feed the spindle into the hub first; once you get the nut started on the spindle you can use two screwdrivers to pry the spindle out of the hub. I have a number of large washers that I use for spacers to help that along. In really difficult cases I remove the four bolts holding the outer portion of the hub and put the hub aside to give me more purchase on the end of the spindle. Once you have the spindle through the hub reinstall the washers and castle nut and tighten (not completely yet). Now re-install the DOJ (line up the splines first and note that the splines only line up one way--one hole has a tooth in the center and the other has a groove in the center). Tugging on the hub you should be able to slide the DOJ back onto the stub axle again. Line up the holes and knock the spring pin back into the BEVELLED hole. Put the pivot bolt back into the lower arm and install the nut and bring it in but DO NOT TIGHTEN yet. Minor change added here: The bolt on the lower arm should be tightened AFTER you drop the car back onto the ground to avoid twisting/damaging the bushing. Tighten the nuts at the top of the strut, replace the wheel and drop the car back on the ground and tighten the castle nut to 145 ft-lbs of torque (or more--more is better and won't hurt anything). Torque the wheel lugs to 75 ft-lbs replace the cotter pin in the castle nut and you're done. Retorque the lugnuts after 300 miles again and check the castle nut for tightness (yes they can loosen up--I'll explain the mystery of that some other time if you ask nicely). Start to finish takes less than 60 minutes unless you run into a snag. __________________

More enlightenment from Scott: Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:03:05 -0800 > From: "John McKean" <john@netgenracing.com> >Subject: Re: Digest Number 1396 > >If as you say SCCA is re-classifying the rules to better fit within the >structure of circuit rally than wouldn't be prudent for our region to >adopt the new rules at the start of the year. It seems to me that this >would eliminate confusion regarding the divisional competition. I have >already stated that I LIKE the new classifications. Most of us will >resist change when possible. And in this case the SCCA has enabled this >resistance by making the rule change optional at the regional level. > John, As some level that makes sense, on others it does not. It's not just Oregon Region or even one or two Regions.... the Country seems pretty split over the new structure. Even now, as the series has started, the classes are not even finalized. It is more a reality of running "with the Devil you know" in many organizer's minds. Here's the other hand... There are probably very few, perhaps no, people that would say that Solo has the appropriate amount of classes. There are even fewer people that believe that this is the direction that Rally Cross should take. Even in our own Region, we have made it a policy to keep as FEW classes as possible to engage in better competition and less "micro" management. I have to scoff when people say that Solo isn't where Rally Cross will go... We have already DOUBLED the amount of classes. And when you start to think about the folks that have an old beater just for Rally Crossing, that maybe they gutted, seated and caged, you begin to realize the disparity of tossing something into prepared just because it cosmetically fits. If you really boil down the structure, it creates a Money Cannon mentality. EXPENSIVE cars become competitive cars. "Fun" cars never will be. Ask yourself this... how would Stage Rally fair with 12 classes and the creation of rules that allow for virtually unlimited modifications in the more basic classes? These are all very real questions that are being asked and addressed currently. I'm sure that, in the end, we will have answers but as I started off saying... the season is under way. There are alot of folks that don't want to keep changing the classes and rules AS WE GO. IF it comes to that. Besides, it's alot easier (I use the term loosely) to expend the club competitors into 12 classes than restrict them once liberties are taken, back into 5. So to answer more in line with your point... yes it WOULD be, but at this point... it will be the start of 2006, not 2005. If... I say IF these new rules are even the ones we'll be using then. Believe it or not, there is still a chance that we'll go BACK to Club Rules. Wouldn't THAT be a pisser? LOL!!! And as for Circuit Rally... just about everyone is standing back waiting for everyone else to do one and then we'll see how it all functions. I mean... who's going to Circuit Rally a brand new Subaru STi? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Just in case... Circuit Rally is "combat racing" (note - different than Derby or Snake Racing).... six cars on the track at a time, battling for survival to the finish COOR style. SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!! Anyway, come and Rally Cross... have some fun... Worry about the Rules when they are "official" and we'll go from there. Scott -------

I-5 north to I-405N (also know as Mukilteo Expressway), exit onto 99N in about 3 miles. PAP is about 3 miles north on the west side of the highway (1/4 mile past Airport Rd. traffic light). If you're coming up, give a holler and maybe stop and rest on your way home.

Come by my place and I soak it with Yield.

9 to 5.

Fact of life; you might as well get used to it. Another board member found an LSD on an RX and told the guy he'd be back on the weekend with the cash ($100). When he got there it had been crushed. The idiot couldn't wait another 4 days to crush the car. He didn't have the smarts to pull the diff and put it on the shelf either. They don't run junkyards because they're geniuses. Only one smart JY owner I ever met...Stucker's on Staten Island in NY. First one to ever open a JY with only foreign cars; he had a sharp mind and memory like a steel trap.

So you're the one who got that tranny. Broke my heart since I had to wait for the weekend to pull it. Glad it went to someone worthwhile.

It would also help to use a little "never seeze" grease on the stub axles before sliding on the DOJ; it'll prevent rust in the future which will make it hard to remove the axle next time. Also, note the champered hole on the axle and make sure it matches the champered hole on the stub axle. If you install the DOJ 180 degrees out, the roll pin won't go in because the holes will not line up. Also, knock out the roll pin from the non-champered side; and re-install the pin (preferably a new one altho I've never used new without problems) only from the champered side. I think if you check the repair manual section there's a write up for doing the 4WD drive axles; same procedure works for the 2WD version. Good luck with the install.

Interesting, I'll have to remember that.

And more from Kristen Tabor: Bascially, it looks like the Non-rally street stock classes are for your regular sedans, coupes, wagons, whatever that aren't rally prepared. Rally Street prepped (2wd and AWD) sounds like Production and PGT. Rally Prepped 2wd and AWD sounds like G2, and a less-modified Open. Open AWD and 2wd Rally Mod sounds like G5 and Open. It's like they just changed the names, and added a step between PGT and Open. No biggie. Like John says, we'll still use our own classes regionally. No cause for panic in the masses. Kristen

An excellent clarification from Scott Kovalik: John is correct... ALL Regions have the ability to run their Rally Cross events as they see fit. Oregon Region SCCA, and several other regions in the NORPAC Division along with quite a few other Regions in Divisions around the US are running their events under the older Club Rally Rules classifications . The Divisional and National Classifications, are still being worked out and still are prone to change. They may not even be the end game when it comes to 2006. This is partially the reason we are allowed and encouraged to use our current system if we feel we need to. We, the Rally Cross Divisional Stewards, will continue to review the 2005 season and once again make revisions and determinations to the 2006 rule book. You all need to understand the long term thought process of what's happening in the SCCA concerning their Rally Program..... Circuit Rally. These rule changes we are seeing suggested are being created as a blue print or stepping stone structure for future Circuit Rally competitors as opposed to using the Club Rally Rules, which were designed to creating Stage Rally Competitors back when we HAD Stage Rally. Obviously, SCCA has no inherent interest in promoting folks outside of their own programs so we should not be surprised to see the rules structure turned inward like it is. That is NOT to say SCCA cares nothing for Rally or doesn't support Rally America, but the truth remains that they want and need to retain their members and grow their programs. This is natural and right for them to do. So don't worry too much... there is alot of YEAR left for us to continue to lead the SCCA in participation and success in the Rally Cross program. As for the the "one event" using the National Structure in the Rule Book... that will be the Divisional Championship to be held in (subject to change) Salem around October/September/November.. ish... That event will hold the New Classification Structure as required by the SCCA to be recognized. I will have a "handy dandy conversion chart" for those participating to figure out where they actually FIT into that structure keeping in mind that what you HAVEN'T seen is the current count of some 12 classes of Rally Cross cars (twice what we have now) and that you may be in G2 with us but some yet unknown class for Divisional Points. Our next Divisional Steward Call is the 28th of this Month and I hope to have more answers for you all then. Of course, we will be meeting Monthly all year long as well. So stay tuned... there's MUCH more to follow. Best, Scott Kovalik YOUR Oregon Region Rally Cross Director YOUR NORPAC Division Rally Cross Steward YOUR Ping-Pong Ball.

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This is correct on the tranny price; altho sometimes they try to charge another $25 for the "transfer case" on the end. It depends on who's checking you out at the register.

Should have been a 3.700 unless the previous owner modified it. There are no stock 3.900 LSDs.

It wasn't starkiller either.

Sorry, I'm as annoyed as the rest of you. I was looking for the rear disks which were also gone. I checked the rear, and the remains of the axles were just hanging there. I knew it had to have been a LSD to be gone so quickly. Judging from where the car was relative the end of the line, I knew it had to have gone into the yard on late Friday. Whoever it was didn't have the punch either since the DOJ's were missing from the axles. It must have had pretty decent wheels or tires since they were gone also. I had a Saturday morning appointment and didn't get to PAP until noon and everything was gone. Wasn't a wasted trip for me since I got some good axles from the red EA81 wagon.

Unless they are exceptionally busy, they have wheelbarrows available to lend so you can leave gumba home. They only ask for your car key as a deposit to insure you return the wheel barrow.

As you know by now, the Everett yard will be closing in 9 days. Land has been sold to Wal-Mart and the Ferrill's family plan to open another PAP in Smokey Point shortly. The story is that they are planning a few days of half price on everything somewhere near the end. I decided to take a last walk and inventory anything that might interest local USMB members (I know, I have no life....not quite true, but......) 50% OFF STARTING 2/21/2005 It's accurate as far as I know but the row markers near the end don't quite match what I saw so I might be a row off by the time I get to row 10. Each row number consists of a east lane and a west lane so you shouldn't be wasting time looking for the vehicle you're seeking. 1E '91 Legacy white LS, 193K, manual 2WD 1E '88 (not sure of year) Wagon, Black, 4WD, 5 speed d/r 2W '89 Justy GL FWD 3W '85 sedan--this one really is junk 4W '87 Sedan, automatic, white 6E '90 Loyale, grey, 176K, manual 6E '84 sedan, white, automatic 6E '90 Legacy, grey, automatic, 170K 8E '85 sedan 2WD, 5 speed, 175K 8E '85 wagon, white, 5 speed d/r, 218K 8W '89 Legacy wagon, red, 5 speed 9W '88 sedan white, automatic, 167K, 2WD 11E '87 automatic, 4WD, white, 187K 11E '81 sedan black 2WD, 5 speed, 230K 11W '90 Justy, red, 2WD, no motor or gearbox, 72K 13W '88 4WD wagon, grey, no gearbox 13W '88 wagon, 2WD, automatic, white

From John Elkin of ORG: "Before everyone starts SCCA bashing let me inform you all that these are classes for Divisional and National Rallycrosses, these in no way affect our regional ORG rallysprints. We will be keeping the same class system we always have. According to Scott Kovalik, we will be having one rallycross under these rules and I am sure we can find a home for every vehicle under these rules. The March event will run as usual, as will nearly every event this year." John Elkin, ORG Director

You might be right. It hadn't occurred to me; I knew I couldn't go RS4 and would have to move to RP4. Maybe have to run Open. Well that takes the decision making out of that choice. It's unfortunate since this will eliminate a lot of cars from competing since they just wouldn't be competitive in their "normal" class.

Got this version from XSNRG today; some additions and some deletions. http://www.scca-lol.org/rally/rallyx/05rallycross_classes.pdf

I finally came to the conclusion that I would be running in RP-A since the rally tires would put me there and the rear disks are likely not legal in RS-A. I'm glad I'm only there for fun since I'll enjoy it anyway. But if I were a serious competitor, I'd be pissed with only having 4 weeks to make a car legal for one of these classes. I feel for ORG since this is going to put a real monkey wrench into what they've done in the past and were planning to do this year. It will likely cost them some entries if for no other reason than some people would feel non-competitive in the class they'd be shuffled into.

I found it really difficult to differentiate between classes. From the sounds of the class structure, they "adapted" autocross classes to what they thought would be legitimate rallycross classes. As near as I can tell, I could be running against a stock WRX since there's no specific qualifier for engine displacement, horse power, etc. This might be a "real" structure in that it's driver skill and experience that really counts. It'll be interesting to see what ORG will define for classes before March 20th. Tech inspection should be a hoot also. I've always felt that SCCA national is "out of touch with the reality" of the rally sport and this seems to confirm my opinion. If I have to guess, ORG will run the class structure they set at their last rules discussion meeting with only slight modification to adhere to the SCCA guidelines.