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Lifts. If you are mechanically inclined, go for it and make your own. If you don't have the means to create one, or the time, buy a byb kit. One person can have it installed in a weekend first try, two in a day. I also lost a lift block once, due to me not retightening it enough. But, I've installed 11 of them, 7 on my own soobs, and that's the only one I know of falling out. (I found it on the trail btw) Toybuilder. . . Patrick is a busy man, kids and a full time job, always been bad at answering his emails. Posts grabbing his attention here on the board tend to work.

NO welding, but cutting yes. The roll bars come apart, you can take the diagonal peices from the hoop. The bolt may require cutting , then a little wresling with it will get it to come apart. Take 2 inches off of each of the diagonal bars, put it pback together, and pow. It will fit like it belongs. The cool thing is, it will be low enough to fit a canopy over it.

Would love to see my hatch in action. Anybody?

Yep, RallyX Sunday. . . Ken will be down there too. . . Sven?

Just tested it ou the subarubicon thread. Works great.

If you put a couple of cuts in the fold, you can coax it into bending over and becoming flat.

Soobme I remember I promised so to you, but I thought you had scored some. Caps no, but lugs yes since I did say I would. Email me your snail mail again and a prompt so I don't forget. You can get me back for the shipping. I'll tell you after I ship them, OK? Zap

GD. The thinner wheel is a good thing. It allows for a really good bead, and therefore allows you to deflate your wheels more with less worry of broken beads. Your point about the price and availability is a good one. However, I can get pugs any time I need. I'm pals with a pug guy. I also found a local shop that does pugs and who's owner has no problem selling wheels to whoever would hand him cash for them. He's happy to get them off his shelves. Hassey. Still waiting for dirty pics of your brat. . .

Yeah Todd, I thought you were gonna stop by. . .

I did. It is. A buddy gave me the sticker, I scanned it before I put it on my hatch. As for the pms, I don't get it. If people have my email, they can email me. I guess I'm still in the stone age. Mostly, when I wanna contact a board member, I just call them. Ask Mick. . .

Would recommend the XT6 clutch. Ken will swear by them I think after not being able to kill his at the Rubicon. Smoked it a couple of times too.

Christ! I'll never have them all! They need to quit coming out with new ones, I'm still trying to track down all the old ones. hehe Where'd you find the white impreza? Want one.

The easiest way to describe my theory. . . I can draw it out, but will try to write it. Has nothing to do with handling, but with turning radius. Important stuff sometimes out in the woods. Draw a piece-of-pie shaped triangle. If you start at the inner part of the pie with a line across the triangle, it will be a shorter length than if you draw the line across the pie farther out. . . The signifigance being the same as a tire without or with off set. The off-set tire will have to travel a bigger radius lock to lock. The outside edge of the tire sticks out more, therefore traveling farther, needing more space. My experience being that I seem to have to beat the floor panel a lot more to clear the tire with a rim with off set. The Oz rims on my hatch made me notice that. They have a 2 inch offset or so, and even though I used little 26 inch tires this time, I had to do a lot of banging to keep them from rubbing at lock, on 2 wheels. Kinda remember needing extra pounding for the 15 inch pugs steels with their off set compared to 14 inch pugs steels with no real offset. **I guess a piece of string tied to a stick or something could be used to demonstrate what I'm trying to show too.

I'm talking about with the 3 or 4 inch lift on a loyale style wagon. Scott, with your bigger lift and extensive fender and wheel well mods also help quite a bit. Without these, the tires would rub way sooner when turning. Get what I'm saying? On another note, if the pug steels seem too ugly, you can throw soob hub caps on them. Painting them can sharpen them up too. http://community.webshots.com/photo/37919799/60788563yXAxQr (friggin ultimate gallery or whatever only gives me box with the red x when I tried to post a photo. . . )

Pugs are not too narrow. A 27/10.50/15 goes right on them. How much wider of a tire would you need? I've run Pugs on all of my lifted soobs except the hatch I have now. Don't see anything silly about that. Rims that stick out 3 inches on either side will interfere with your steering ability, especially if you have relly big tires. Only the 15 inch pug alloys need the special lug nuts I believe. Either way, pug lugnuts are pretty easy to come by. Easy Rick untill you've had more experience as a lifted soob owner. Let your experience dictate how you form your opinions, and not what you read. The lift kit should not mess with your camber and your tire wear. Adjusting your struts up would cause that. With or without a lift. And lastly, my opinion about needing to change your struts and shocks while doing your lift. . . Change them when they are bad, not just cuz they are convenient.

There will be 3 or so cars leaving Saturday afternoon. I think we'll all be splitting up once we get to PDX.

That's a sign that either the ball joints are bad, or the steering rack. GIve each side a good wiggle, should show you which side is the bad one, and just what is the problem.

It will have a roll bar in it for the good times at Hillsboro. It's been raised 3 inches, but hte offset of the wheels is a couple of inches on either side, plus the width of the bigger tires. These are much smaller tires than before too. I'm even putting the sway bar back in for the weekend.

Am hoping for lots of rain. Let it rain all night Saturday and all the way till about 7 a.m. Sunday. Want an excuse to bring the hatch.

I thought I recoginzed that as Gary's old car. I've raced against it in RallyX. The first time I ever saw it, I was at one of the club rallys at S h i t e p o k e,(stupid cuss word hating board edits ****epoke so we won't see the word s h i t) and it whipped around the corner way too side ways and crashed into the stump me and Sean were standing on. lol He backed up and went on with the rally. Gary moved up to an impeza now.

Shoot me an email Brett. chairotsu@earthlink.net I tried logging on to the byb board, but when I did, it said bob-the-brat doesn't exist. . . Eric

CRAP! There are so many who deserve something like this. Why the Hell does it have to happen to such a great guy? I'll smoke one for you my friend and pass it to you in spirit. rip buddy. EZ

I wonder how much the rotary weighs in comparison with an ej22? That's always been one of the rotary's claims to fame, its small size.

Tex said he'd be East of the mountains this weekend. Probably not near his computer.

I take it you were over at John's. . . What'd you think?