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Andyjo

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  1. in the new car... yes... in the impreza... well... a few small people doesn't everyone carry around a meduim sized breakerbar... a 32mm socket, and some steal tubing... and a few hammers... standard power tools... full socket/wrenchset... eesh... you people travel light...
  2. grr... tirerack annoys me, because you can't search my size... darn subaru and their 14" rear wiper blade :-\
  3. I've found that it's not always the huge breaker bar that does it... i've snapped many a' breaker bar by throwing a 5ft tube on it and reaming the ************ out of something... best luck i've had getting the axle nut off (in the rain, middle of nowhere vt), was taking a 1/2" breaker bar, about 1.5' long, slide a tube over it (another foot maybe. then i had someone press down on the tube, leaving some room about 4" up the main breaker bar... then i wailed directly on the breaker bar with a 3lbs mini sledge, while there was still force being applied to the bar... the nut right off it's called... manual-impact-gun
  4. +100 for the lightforces they're the... middle blob of light.... mind you... these pictures were in the middle of the day.. the lights just confused my camera middle of the day... yet again....
  5. just the struts will do, springs if you want to go higher.
  6. what kind of snowbanks will you be busting through? the biggest problem you'll have with the WRX vs OBW is the ground clearance... if you were sporting the same tire type, and tranny. Getting high centered with an impreza/wrx is alor easier than with an outback.. but then again, the OBW weighs quite a bit more... but that momentum can help you smash yourself through some snowbanks... trust me i've got some pictures floating around somewhere that will explain this....
  7. If the fluid is nice and red it's good, if it's dark and black... it's bad some where in between.. might as well change it.
  8. according to the back of my clicker, you just hit unlock, and then hold unlock and lock together, for ~2 seconds and that should turn on/off the beeps. you might be able to find the trim on the marketplace at legacygt.com, there's always wierd things flying around there.
  9. You have to remove those bolts, yes, you also have to remove some other stuff.. like the axle... maybe the ball joint nut.. a few other things are holding on to that hub pretty tight
  10. i can get 26 out of my OBXT if i'm good... the OBS i could squeeze 29-32 on the highway fully loaded, doing about 65, any more than that and the gas gauge just drops...
  11. Well.. since it only clicks when it's getting about 200+ft-lbs of torque to it i'm not exactly sure about the click:wheel spin ratio, i guess i could run beside it when someone's stomping on the gas.... i'm wondering if there's a bit of water in the diff.. frozen chunk or something. eh.. it's about time to go synthetic with is anyhow...
  12. i didn't break it yet nipper, it broke itself actually what's interesting it that one of my buddies who has an OBXT, says his does the same thing, and a guy over on legacygt.com. the fluids look good (yes i still know how to check those :-p ) and the axles seem to be solid (can't move them laterally really) at first when i heard it i thought blown cv joint... but the boots look perfect, and i felt around em and it feels fine inside, for all i can tell. hmm.... i don't want to bring it to a dealer
  13. Anyone every have a problem with an LSD clicking on heavy acceleration in the cold? i seem to be having this problem... nothing major, just have to let the diffs warm up a little more i guess. Anyone know a fix?
  14. I've come to expect something like that from a link like "http://wrxvideo.vidiac.com/video/c68...fd5ac8697f.htm" stupid kids....
  15. the local transmission place near my house in NH said they could fix it for 2-400 bucks, depending on how bad it was.
  16. Well we all must remember, torque bind is completely opposite from a burnt out clutch pack... torque bind you have the rear engaged all the time a burnt out clutch pack the rear doesn't engage.
  17. You should be getting abour 10 ohms off the duty C solenoid. here's the connection: Here's the connector: that is.. 4 3 2 1 8 7 6 5 12 11 10 9 13 - - - the dashs repersent NO PINS (there isnt' a pin there), you can only sort of see that in the image. and here's what you get when you grab pins 4 and 11 If you get something completely different from that resistance... you may have a fried duty C solenoid. When i burnt out my clutch pack, when i romped on it i could spin the front tires... and the rear would do nothing. How does your ATF look? burnt, black, nasty? I've heard you can replace the duty C and the clutch packs with the tranny still in the vehicle... just a little tight i believe. If you want more info on how it works: http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=50264 that's how to lock it up, but i wrote a bit about how it works & stuff.
  18. Derrick, just rip out the center trim stuffs, and the shifter trim, there's a little metal tabb'd switch that you can push up, and it will unlock the key. here.. the plate will look something like this... Where the notches for the gears do something like... 1 2 3 D N R P i believe... the switch is at the top of the P notch i think.
  19. Rear Passenger side, on the back unibody part... behind the trim... yeah.. that doesn't make any sense... just below the tail light assembly if i remember correctly. I think it's a light blue, with an aluminum tab that screws into the unibody.
  20. I've heard dealers say that tire cables will damage the awd less... but yeah... i wouldn't risk it.. i've already blown up 1 subaru transmission, i'm hoping to not do the same with this one
  21. I'm sorry.. if you have an apporpriate set of tires you should not need chains... both my subarus maintained superb (i dunno if i've ever used that word before... ) traction and handleing characteristics. Hell, even with my old yoko avid touring tires ( 0 on the snow scale ) i managed not to kill myself on a highway covered with 1/8" of glare ice... downhill... That AWD system is expensive, Tires are cheaper, dont' trash it. a note on tires... my obxt 5mt, crawled up a 38deg hill w/ 6" of snow on it last night, no tires slipping at all... so yes, AWD will get you where you want, you just have to not drive like an idiot
  22. I might be wrong.. but i think AA stoped making Subaru stuff.... To get 300hp out of your stock EJ25, you're going to have alot of work ahead of you.. it's going to take a bit more than just a turbo... you need to upgrade your fuel rails, put a nice turbo in there (not a stock OB/GT turbo) get some up/down pipes going, you'll most likely also need to get it pro tuned... with an Access Port or something along those lines (i don't know if they make AP's for older Subarus). Once you get the horsepower cranking, you're going to almost instantly start snapping halfshafts, like it's your job. That's why you said go solidaxle... that will have to be totally custom, because as much as i can remember, no subarus came stock with solid axles. As for the dual range tranny, you'll need to find one, get an adapter plate (easy enough) and mount that all up, if you want solid axles, you're going to have to put a T-Case after the tranny... i'm pretty sure you might need a little more than 10" of lift to get a T-Case under there... not 100% sure on that either. But i am pretty sure that if you're trying to push 300hp through an EA Tranny... things are going to start to break very fast.... Have fun, hope you have a big welder, and alot of free time!
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