Txakura

I safety wired mine with .032*, the pigtails out of the way - the clips are cheesy to begin with (*.032" stainless steel safety wire)

this is slightly related to some grief I'm having right now before you go through hoops, didn't look at your winter location but... cut up a garden hose and clamp it to both sides of the core and flush the crap out of it and see if that helps I think that is worth a try and beats the hell out of working under the dash

^^^ exactly without knowing a darn thing about the brat, see if power is at the fan, pull the resistor block it's odd that all three of them would have broken at once, but they are pretty fragile when they get old

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I used one of those kits and it worked well. ($.02)

coolant leak (pretending it isn't the head gasket)

hope it turns out ok, or at least repairable - sux man, I feel ya' :-\

I hope your car is okay, this thread has given me a lot of good (beginner) advice and the motivation to at least TRY to do something about my rust. Hope your situation turns out okay.

LMAO (at the comment, not your situation) you probably shorted the diodes when you jump started the car

well maybe you can get an anullment?

what if there is just no pavement in your town? am I 'off roading' to get to the post office? I kid, we have some pavement... Main Street is paved... I do about 40 miles of gravel a day though, hence the deer strike on my non soob

that sux... 2nd the motion on 'pricks'

yes, I have 8 new winter tires socked away, 4 Blizzaks (205 70-15), and 4 Hankook (195 65-15) studded curiously, I posted this in OT, not 'off road' - thats the road I use to get to the grocery store - so I don't put my self in the same league as some of the accomplished off-roaders here, ya' know I don't consider muddy dirt roads and gravel roads to be the same as making your own trail, and finding the limits of your suspension articulation I just liked the pic, and the way the mud framed the 'RS' badge but 'off road' it is

ahh yes, the mud season is upon us, soon to be replaced by frozen mud, ice and snow

take the right rear 'strut' off, it's pretty easy to do - just jack it up and pull the tire out of your way, two strut bolts up top, one on the bottom although it may look fine, I bet if you push down on it when you have it out; it has little resistance to being compressed or extending, it doesn't take a ton of force, but if it moves fairly easily then its toast it could be bent, dented or punctured, have blown seals etc - at any rate it won't take but a few minutes to check this out and rule it out or in of course, if the bottom half falls on the ground while the top is still attached, thats a good clue too * * we won't talk about that

I agree with bheinen, I had a non-soob that seemed to have a hammock for a rear suspension... found one shock was doing all the work for both, made it 'teeter' it's butt in the corners - very weird to describe check your right rear strut, you may be pivoting off the left side because the right isn't doing its job

yes, thanks - that was it, despite my confusion over the alphabet great post with the charts, reminds me of an aircraft structural repair manual (SRM) or maintenance manual (MM)

I have tapped OS, drilled a bolt, tapped that, screwed it in, cut it off flush with the head, and run my exhaust bolt into that - essentially made my own 'time cert', a threaded steel sleeve for the galled holes in the aluminum. I did it all by hand, (air tools) but no drill press or lathe. It's held up fine and I've had my exhaust off twice since then without having and problems of my insert backing out, or the threads weakening. Not a super hard thing to do, but labor intensive. .02

lol

think mine is worth about $200...

ah. thought someone had made some kind of interior vent or something else that was functional rock on (btw exhaust link is broken)

can you post a close up of the roof scoop? very cool car, appreciate the pics and the race story and comments to go with them

screw the car battery go for 220... I'm sorry man, I had my kitchen door bashed in in Everett... I feel ya' you might keep an eye out - some crooks, especially kids, are actually dumb enough to come back after I got ripped off I caught the little prick under my neighbors dashboard and rode him like a sled down a flight of concrete stairs! he had come back to rip off my neighbors car stereo THE NEXT DAY in addition to the 45 casings, how about some nice big (empty) boxes in the drive, like you have replaced all your stuff already... you know, nice big welder box etc... bait no entrapment and no, I wasn't charged for the bloody mess I made out of the idiot

the two door is an odd duck, our cold snap that I mentioned ( 9 degrees here sat oct 10, 13 sun oct 11, 19 mon oct 12) had me so busy with frozen pipes and other maintenance headaches (heaters that wouldnt light, baseboards that failed) I missed your post $35 is about $115 to $145 less than what people are asking, I could have paid as much as $100 for shipping and still been slightly ahead I called some folks on that list that was posted, some of them had the listing but no door in stock, most didn't want to deal with packaging and shipping from east coast to west... my boss found one in Idaho buy calling his favorite junkyard, we are going to go get it Friday afternoon with a work truck and make a day out of it I really appreciate your looking out for me as well as the good folks that sent PM's and emails saying that they had looked (while hunting subaru parts) but didnt find anything

that's still an option I'd like to check into - getting leather seat, wonder if they made those with heaters? our little 13 degree cold snap (set record lows for three days) showed me that some aux heat would be good