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OOOOooooooooh, thaaats what those are for. I have seen them on different cars over the years, BMWs are what come to mind first, but I've never known anyone with a car that had one and I never encountered a stranger with one and remembered to ask about it.

I fought with this same issue not too long ago. I spent about 2 hours whacking, twisting, and cussing to no avail. Pulled the whole shootin' match off (caliper and bracket) and put it in a vice, added some penetrating oil and 15 minutes later drove it out with a rod of metal of similar diameter, took a couple minutes.

You've probably already thought of it, but try autotrader.com and cars.com When I was shopping around, seemed like the dealers posted there a bunch. Good luck, I really hope this works out for you and yours.

Man, sorry to hear about the wreck, but glad that your family seems to have come out of it OK. Hope the kid has insurance. If he does, take the money and run. Likely they'll want to total it anyway. It's not like those cars are rare, if you hassle the insurance company with all the receipts of stuff recently purchased for the car, they'll take that into account and maybe get you enough to get one with all that stuff already done:banana: Good Luck!!

I just measured my '96 OBW and your options are either to put a sheet above the cargo cover and back seats (with them up) or diagonally with the seats down. But with the diagonal option you could only get one maybe two sheets in at a time. A '98 is the same body style as mine, not sure if the 2000's + have more room between the wheel well/towers, but I doubt it would be enough.

I tried this for my '96 OBW and was told they are no longer in print but I could buy one from the publisher they use. If you're interested I'll dig up the info and send it to you.

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eeewwwee, I hope you brush your tongue after doing that:-p

Holy crap that is awesome!!!!

:clap: There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. -Antonin Artaud I'm not for or against. But I have no problem with people trying to find out. It's one thing to caution them about possibly wasting their money, it's another to call them a fool for taking a chance.

How are these subarus dead? Seems to me they just look like they got into a bar fight. Change the windows and hit the road! On the serious side, bummer to those private owners who are out some bucks. I'm assuming dealers have insurance for such things. If it were time for a new car, I'd be trying to get me a hail damaged OBW on the cheap...

Right you are, and my backlights are out so I plan on doing this, but I'm currently working 12 hour days with a 3 hour there-and-back commute and will have this schedule for the rest of the year at least, and what free time I've got for auto repairs will will go to a clutch job that takes priority so if I can squirt some stuff in there and loosen things up for awhile I'm happy to take that route.

Yeah, I've always been curious to experience a real pair. I figured there must be a working example out there or they wouldn't be as prevalent as they are.

Excellent, thanks for the tip, I'll squirt some in when I get home. I've actually got some here at work, but with my luck I'd get pulled over and have to breath into a thingy. Thanks! Will-

'96 OBW 182k My recirculate button sticks. I never use it but every few weeks the wife borrows my car and she does use it. After she's pressed it, I depress it, but it takes usually 2-3 days before it will pop back out. I want to shoot some kind of lube in there to free it up, but I don't know what's back there. Is it an electrical switch or a mechanical one that activates a vacuum motor? I thought of maybe dry graphite powder, anyone have a similar experience they were able to work out? Thanks! Will-

Yeah, both my wife and I are "bi-coastal" we can't seem to stay on one side of the country for more then a few years before we miss the other side. It's a real problem....

Sure can, when I was a kid we were coming over grizzly peak from the tunnel and the fog was so thick on top coming down the other side that my pop had to slow to a crawl with his door open and watch the line so he wouldn't drive off the road. ah yes, I remember them roads well. I am ashamed to say I was one of the obnoxious A**holes flying around on my motorcycle. But I was on a '71 cb500 blasting by squids on their sports bikes too afraid of the pavement and tried not to hassle the cars too much. Now that I'm all grown up I feel a bit differently...

Axel - Funny, the super foggy area I mentioned growing up in my post are the hills by the Laurence Hall of Science.

'96 OBW, stock headlights. I'd say on a scale of 1-10, my headlights are about a 5. I've got good night vision and I've checked the alignment too, but I still feel the need to use the brights more then on any car I've owned and I use them more then I do in our civic or our truck. I should ad that the plastic housing is not faded. The fog lights are worthless, as all fog lights are IMO. I grew up in a super, super foggy area and I never felt they made a bit of difference aside from making the first 12 feet in front of my car really, really bright. I understand the theory that when driving in fog you want the lights coming from lower on the car so as to light the road under the fog so it won't be so blinding, and if the the fog lights could be on with the headlights off that may work, but adding them to the low beams doesn't light up a useful area. I suppose it enables you to clearly see what it is you're about to run over, but it doesn't give you enough time to do anything about it. I may try switching to a brighter halogen, but one of my dislikes are lights of weird colors, and lights that are brighter then they need to be blinding everyone on the road but youself . Generally I hold to the thought that if your lights aren't lighting enough of the road (assuming proper aim) then you're driving too fast. There seems to be this compulsion to banish the darkness of night that I don't understand. I live in farm country outside DC and the community got together and demanded streetlights. They got some, but only one every couple of miles and they are so friggin bright that when I'm coming up on them at 4:30am going to work I can't see what's in the road on the other side, my headlights are completely washed out in the extraterrestrial, orange glow. I really don't see what help a spattering of street lights every few miles is supposed to provide.... OK rant is over...

quickest way would be to drive a mile according to the odometer at 60 MPH and see if it takes a minute. Even if you're speedo is off by a bit (which they all are) it should be obvious if it's reading kilometers 'cause it will only take a little over half a minute.

He's probably talking about subies with a cable clutch which have a different clutch fork then the hydro setup. But easy to test. try pulling on the fork in the opposite direction the cable would pulling while the engineis running in N, eh?

Looks great! I look forward to reading the write up. How does the angle of the drive shafts look, are the u-joints taking to much now? Neat idea for lengthening the trailing arms. Good work! Will-

Hmm... that's a good reality check. This car is my DD and I don't want it in pieces while I hunt down parts so I am willing to go a bit extra to do it right, but at the same time I agree that $100+ is a bit much (especially on my budget, yikes!) for something that may or may not be necessary. I suppose what I will do is purchase the kit and a regular TO bearing, then when I get in there, I'll check out the quill/shaft and see how it looks and depending on what I see, I'll return whatever I don't use. The website says "notorious grooving of the quill". I'm not sure if they are referring to helical wear along the travel of the TO bearing or a groove getting worn where the TO bearing spends most of its time. Either way I expect it to be pretty obvious. If I don't see anything after 179k miles, I wouldn't expect anything new to appear unless I changed my driving style. I do know my clutch chatters if I'm not careful with my engagement, but whether it's this shaft or the Flywheel, I can't say.

Yeah, I was considering trying this stuff out. My tranny shifts pretty well, and I think it shifts as well as it did when I got the car at 120K, but I feel like there is a bit of a crunch going into 2nd and 3rd that has always been there but is maybe is starting to get more pronounced. I recently changed it with 80w90 with no change for better or worse. I was going to get this stuff but none of the local auto places stock it even though redline's website says they do (autozone and advanced auto) so guess I'll get it online. FSR - I can't remember how much I put in, but I know that I bought 5 quarts figuring it wouldn't be more then that and when I drained it, I decided that it looked like about 4 quarts, so I added just under 4 quarts and did the "add 'n check" thing until it was full. I gotta give major props to Subie for having a dipstick instead of the stupid hole on the side. just get one of those extendo-funnels when you get your gear oil and no mess!