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I tried 750kg of gravle in my Brat (2" body lift, air pump up shocks, 27" MT's) and I couldn't get it to move because the tires were rubbing horribly. Stock tires would of fixed that problem..

You have to split the trans to replace that bearing... It's a pain just for a bearing. Trust me.

I don't care about gas milage.. I just don't want a $250 odd dollor tyre wearing out in only half of any other tyre. (I've heard they were soft, so I thought I'd ask how they go on Subies.) I was looking at the SSR 27x9.5R15's, they are like, THE PERFECT TYRE for me. Apart from the fact I am not sure if I will be offroading the Brat anymore or just rally crossing it. I really just want that tyre size in a nice looking A/T with maybe some side biters. Oh, and yes, Interco cost through the roof here..... I'm gonna keep an eye out for rally tires.. Might be worth while and might be what I want.

I have plenty of video of my brothers 4runner, and a mates Nissan. I just don't want to be told off for posting it here as I was last time I posted non-subaru material :-p

play side to side or backwards and forwards? Either way I think it shouldn't be there. But if it wasn't making a problem, then it would just be a waist of time and a pain to replace it.

Eheh.. Just noticed your avatar is the same pic I used to make the EA82 hatch

Good point, but I forgot to clarify.. The house circuit breaker I would use is made for 12-24v DC (cos our house is run off 24v battery circuits.)

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Hey, thought I'd bring this back up as I don't know where to post the video on my brothers 4runner.. We reckon it was close to going over.. 34degrees side ways.

Yeah, last time I was at a wrecker I noticed that too... I was after intake piping parts though..

I don't even want to know how you know they all look at your car when your pulling a maneuver like that.......

Suspension travel on original shockers is shocking, excuse the pun. If you want good front shocks go for something like Monroe, KYB or Gabriel. Rear in the EA81's is easy, go get some shocks out of a 4WD with eye attachments on both ends. For rear of EA82's is harder... haven't figured that one out yet.

I want to know what the average mileage you get out of a subie with super swampers is? Are they really that much softer then the kumho's?

Ahhh.. Not that I would drawthru anyhow, ever (as you know from our chat a while back.)

I got into it today and cleaned out all the burnt stuff.. It only just got my original loom and it will be ok to just recover it and not rewire it all. I also got a new bonnet "popper" in cos the old one got burnt to a crisp, and that was after a mate broke it... My dad and I are worried that circuit breakers for 100-150amps (being house hold type) aren't going to like the bumps.. So I'm still not sure what I'll go with. My dad seems to think a very well insulated wire from the pos to my shunt and then fuse everything independently after that, and thus replacing the fuseable links box. Nothing wrong with installing more fuses then I need I am thinking now...!

I'm thinking about replacing the fuseable link box with a proper fuse box out of my Liberty (legacy.) Anyone know what the fuse links are rated at?

I've read many places now that it doesn't cause a problem. So I think I'll just leave it, I just have to put a switch on the CEL now.

I don't know how much a winch can draw.. But I know it's well over 100amps. I'll have to look into it. Because we live on solar and wind power only here I know a lot about breakers, fuses, low voltage wiring, and so on.. The spike the winch sometimes draws when it's working very hard might just break a breaker.

The toyota 4 and 6 cylider SC'ed motors have very good SC's for any Subie motor I reckon.

Sadly I think that mine was the same problem, me being stupid and putting the cable in the wrong spot (un fused pos sitting on neg:rolleyes:.) I blame myself completely, I'm just happy it wasn't any worse. Also my brother and a mate are both looking at there extra wire installations and fusing/moving wires so they don't suffer the same fate. My brother had a winch cable (can't really fuse that one) rubbing away at his brake booster reservoir in his diesel yota.. That could of turned out bad..

well it was a bad day yesterday and I'm hoping today goes better. Our stupid pressure cleaner died so I couldn't wash my car, which ment I couldn't work on it to fix all the issues that arose while I was on a 4wd trip.. And now it's a little hard to move so I can't wash it there and can't work on it there.. So first up is a new pressure cleaner plus work on the wires and see if I can get it to a moving state. A new battery, plus all those other problems fixed should mean I'll be ready to go pick up my new toy I can also get a new bonnet for the Brumby. But for now I'm at a **** you stage with the subie.. So I'll see how I feel about it later. I guess really I'm more like **** me, as I was the one that made the mistake of putting that positive next to the negative... But I've learnt a good lesson.. If you have any decent sized wires coming form your battery postive then make sure they are fused before they get anywhere near anything! I have a huge wire running to the back at the moment with new fuse or breaker.. So I plan on installing a circuit breaker right new to the battery for that. inbetween my battery and ammeter shunt. Then I'll only have to worry about the starter cable doing what it done this time.. I'd feel ok if I knew this would only happen while I was running the car. But the fact it just lite up hours after I had touched it freaks me out.. Almost want a total cut out switch on the batter terminal now!

One of the only funny things to come out of this was... About an hour earlier I was telling my parents that I shouldn't work as a sparky as everything I do with wires I screw up the first time round.. Then that happened.. Think my car was saying "DAMN STRAIGHT!!!!"????

Was just sitting there, hadn't been running for a couple of hours... Looks like the pos from the battery to starter wore down and stupid me had it right next to the neg terminal... Lucky my dad looked out the window before it got any worse.

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=77205 That's what happened while it was just sitting in my drive way about 6 hours after it had been running.. Looks like the starter positive wore away and hit the neg terminal.. Oh well.. gotta fix it.. There goes another $150