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Hi, all, Need a little advice. This is a 2003 Outback Sedan with H-6 engine and automatic. One tire in front developed a ply failure and I bought 4 new, all were to the wear bars. I laboriously took off the fronts one at a time and carried them down to a tire shop for mounting, now the front axle has two new and the rears are down to the wear bars. Obviously the twin shafts coming out of the transfer case are going to spin at different speeds and the clutch in there will have to take up the slip. Asking at the dealership and they say do not drive it (only 10 miles to that garage) or I can wreck the clutch pack in there. In looking through the web I discovered a post where there is a fuse spot inside the front fusebox in the engine compartment, marked "FWD," and if you pop a fuse in there then the solenoid engages constantly and disconnects power to the rear shaft, thus converting the car to a front-wheel only. So I go look in the box and there aare no spade contact points ofr that fuse! Looks like SUbie decided not to include that wiring feature in the Outback Sedan. Is there some other way to wire up that solenoid? How risky is it to drive it over to the dealer with both shafts engaged (and presumably the sensors will disengage the clutch, maybe not). Or should I err on the safe side, jack up the car in my driveway, pull off one tire at a time, and do a ferry trip x 2 to finish the mounting? Which latter exercise is a real pain, already wrecked one jack when the car slipped and bent it to a pretzel. Oh, well. And, what provoked Subaru to not install the by-pass wiring into the front fuse box on this model? Sure would make life easier!