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looks great. whenever i see a subaru wagon with the windows tinted, i get really jealous because it looks so good. i plan to get mine tinted next spring, after i get the windshield changed... you should get the aluminum airfoil for your car's hatch, it'd look sharp. still does

well, i looked at my spindles while they were off the car. where the spacer rides inside the spindle is right behind the brake rotor, so there's either not enough room for a grease fitting there, or you'd have to take the brakes off to access it, and what'd be the point? the way to do it would be to drill at an angle from behind the spindle and have the hole come out behind the spacer, effectively on the other side. probably better to drill a smaller hole all the way through and just widen out the top to install a small grease fitting.. the store had some that were about 5mm in diameter. i can't get to my dad's drill press for a few days and i need to get my car finished before then, so i won't be trying this now. but there's a little info anyway.

i'm doing my front wheel bearings tomorrow. i've had this idea for a while about drilling into the spindle and installing a small grease fitting, and i'm thinking about it. i'm going to at least see how small they're available, at the hardware store. i got the idea after i noticed an illustration for the front wheel bearings, that the spacer isn't in contact with the inside of the spindle like the bearings are, so if there was a hole drilled through behind the spacer, the grease would have a way to get through. the only thing that i could see to worry about would be the hole itself causing a spontaneous catastrophic structural failure in the spindle.... opinions?

well, for a bike, you could fit it in a hatch with the seat down and the front wheel off.. i like wagons for the space issue too, though. nice to have sleeping room in your car you might be able to get a bike rack for a trailer hitch reciever. you'd of course need one of those too... whatever you get, good luck!

wow, that looks great! better than the stock ones, i think, though I've never liked them anyway i can't help but think that someone here would have probably helped you hook up with the hatch taillights if you'd wanted, though

some places don't charge differently if the spindle is brought in off of the car.. my friend justin did his front bearings and a couple places he called only had equipment to replace the bearings on the car, instead of a stand alone press.. and their service price was the same. might save you some work, call around..

one might not expect the wheel studs to accept lugnuts after such a removal, either. consider already having a leverage tool to be the easy way

wow, chris. you got lucky! but it's great that you don't have a HG to do for christmas. may i recommend some marvel mystery oil or seafoam to clean out the gunk from the turbo? and yes, i can take that intake to the valley Costco.. i'll talk to you later on that..

you could weld/silicone something that would stay watertight easily enough, but it's correct that it wouldn't always be the easiest to get to. Some people, who do not have oversize wheel/tire setups on their subarus, put the spare in the back of the wagon and the goodies under the hood in the spare well when parked in the woods.. thinking that many people don't know the spare "belongs" under the hood so they wouldn't think to look for something ELSE there with a spare visible in the back. Of course, even with pugs and super swampers, you could always leave the stock donut there for the collision benefits. Unless you have a turbo car, in which case an intercooler is another attractive choice.

ok, thanks. i'll wait till spring before i go to the JY and play with this one..

POR-15 has a very good reputation in the auto restoration crowd. just don't get sweat in it.. not as much of a problem in december but it will ruin the whole can.

the job is made much easier by that middle part being made of aluminum!

hey miles. you might add that the "modification" necessary to the 2WD backing plate is simply an enlargement of the center.. not hard to do; i know as Skeet's 4WD wagon has 2WD backing plates on it thanks to yours truly. I'm liking your tech writeups more and more; "someone had to do it!"

take the pulley off of your car's water pump and take some meaurements of the shaft length/clearances.. a picture you could take to the parts store would be primo. then compare the two different water pumps at the parts store to your info. they are visually different so the difference will be obvious. don't forget a new O-ring for the pipe that goes to the radiator.. i replace the elbow hose to the heater core pipe as well during a water pump job. AAAAND if you want to install the timing marks from an XT, they use the water pump's bolts for mounting.

don't eat the *brown* acid.

looks good! has the voice of experience

pretty much says it all. anyone ever tried? XT sunroof is mucho bigger

just throw on a few type R stickers, Chris! (i forget, do you have a larger turbo on the RX?)

are the engine and transmission fitting flush and straight to each other? if there's any sort of "bend" it might cause some drag..

a GL10 sedan's trunk might be a little different? because the seats fold down to allow trunk access.. may or may not affect the pieces you need.

don't forget the transverse gyroscope relay dampener fluid for the rear wishbone cushion.

oh, on that not of using soda pop for battery goonk cleaner, use diet soda. it doesn't have any actual sugar (duh) but that means it won't make your car sticky if you can't rinse it soon. i think diet pepsi is more acidic than diet coke, so that would make it the better choice. funny how the advertisers don't touch on this but i'll endorse this use for it. don't drink the stuff cause aspartame = poison but i've used it to clean up battery crap with good results.

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hey richie.. are you going for a stock interior on that convertible restoration? or maybe blue XT6 seats front and rear would look sharp... oh, and do you mean THIS black convertible?