TaylorTTR
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Hey one eye, I saw your lifted thread. I have a 2000 subaru legacy manual wagon and I was interested in attempting to use your home made lift kit idea. I was wondering if there is anything else that I need to adapt to to minimize damage and keep everything functioning. Are there any camber adjustments that need to be made? I noticed you said drive axles will be stressed, have you ever had an axle failure because of this, if so how long did it last.
Any advice you can give me would be great, I can understand how the blocks themselves are installed, but I am interested in finding out if there is anything else I should look out for. Thanks!
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Hey Markus, I saw your lifted thread. I have a 2000 subaru legacy manual wagon. I was wondering if you had to make any other changes to your car to adapt to the home made lift kit you had installed on your car. I noticed you said there was a problem with camber, is there a way to adjust that to avoid tire wear? I'm also not sure what may happen with my drive axles in terms of stress.
I would appreciate any heads up on what there is to expect with lifting my suby, thanks!
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Check the description for a second video
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@Red92 Thanks for the advice, I didn't think of bailing wire or zip ties, that would be handy if something comes loose. Everything else is pretty much covered, we're going to have a good camping inventory. I definitely have the flashlights covered, I recently bought two new LED lights that are still coming in the mail. The emitters are the XML type, I did a ton of research. They are basically handheld headlights. The buddy system sounded like a good idea I'll have to try that. I definitely am not prone to what that guy did with his (lowered?) subaru, I'm not even coming close to any rocks. Avoiding at all costs. Sure was entertaining to watch though, what's wrong with that guy? Why did he think it was a good idea to be towed in reverse? I'm pretty sure it was reverse, both wheels were turning backwards! Oh yes, I plan to upload photo's. It will be really funny to see your reactions.
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Yup... This is why I was interested in learning about a do it yourself lift kit. I kinda tested its climbing ability by going into a large ditch on a North Dakota road and climbing out on a pretty steep 10 foot hill. I'd say atleast 30 degrees. The engine kinda made a stalling noise, but it chugged through at idle speed. Plenty of dirt on the bumper too :-\
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Hi, I'm new UPDATE - Here's a video of one of the trails, and a link to a muddy hill climb is in the description. This weekend I'm going on a camping trip and taking my 5 spd 2000 legacy wagon. Were going to explore the area on a network of trails that I haven't seen before that shouldn't be too extreme. My friend picked them out with my subaru in mind. They will be mostly level trails, with some ruts here and there, definitely no rocks, and if we run into anything like that we will turn around or go around. It will get steep in a few places, after considering torque/hp charts we figure that the 5 spd would be able to climb what were going up against. I'm here to ask what you guys think a single range 5 speed manual is capable of, am I asking for trouble? I never thought I would take this car on a dirt trail when I bought it, I'm getting interested in modding it a little. I found a thread on these boards about a do it yourself lift kit using square steel tubing as a spacer in the suspension. I look forward to researching it.
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That's what I was thinking, nobody has come back with problems after drastically changing their tires on forums like this. But I saw Subaru strongly recommends the OEM size/construction/tread pattern. So I couldn't make sense of it.
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I noticed my recently bought used subaru 2000 legacy L wagon has 205/55 instead of 205/60 tires on all four corners. I did a lot of research on how you should never mis match tires and I understand why. But I can't find any information on non OEM size tires and any effects they could have. Could they damage any part of my car?
