rpiereck Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 My name is Ren and I am the owner of a 1991 Loyale Wagon 4WD and a 2008 Forester Sports 2.5X. What can I say, I like my all wheel drive wagons. I am an active member at http://www.subaruforester.org (rpiereck there too), and just heard of Ultimate Subaru recently. My Loyale is what I call a beater with a heater. It isn't the prettiest of Loyales, with its share of rust and a fender bender on the rear left, and a reconstructed title, but I only paid $800 for it. Mechanically it's a sound little mover, with 138,000 miles and going strong. The previous owner had the local Subaru dealership (Auto Service Company) do a compression test about 5,000 miles ago and the numbers were good. I am a helicopter mechanic by trade and doing my own maintenance is my thing, so I like to get dirty fixing my Loyale. Currently it needs new CV joints on the front right. One of my main uses for the Loyale is to go fetch fire wood, I load up the whole interior from the passenger seat to the rear gate and roof rack too, and this little beast still makes it up a snowy uphill road. A true Alaskan beast of burden! There are two things I need help with: 1 - My rear right tail light is in good shape, with a decent gasket, but one of the nuts that holds it in place is missing, so the light protudes an inch out of the body. I was wondering what is the size of that nut so I can just go to a hardware store and buy one. 2 - The rubber molding around the driver's side window has a 3" gash that lets in wind (not good when it is -30F like the other day), and I need to replace it. The local Subaru dealer wants an arm, a leg and my left nad for it ($95), so I am here asking what is a good place to buy one for a decent price, OR does anyone here have one they could part with for a decent sum of money. Here's a pic of my two Subie wagons: The Forester loaded up for an Alaskan winter road trip The Loyale (the right headlight was broken in this pic, it's fixed now) My babies together I'm getting some more wood on Saturday, I'll try to remember to get a pic of the Loyale all loaded up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idosubaru Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 the nut should be easy, just grab any other nut off the car that looks the same, make sure it fits the threads and take it with you to go by another at the hardware store. those bolts are usually all over the place, usually there's more of the same nut on the same light fixture. as for the gasket i'm better that's not available except from Subaru. have you called any parts places? call some yards in the rust free areas of the country and see if they have some used ones. they usually get really dry rotted and damaged from rust around here. wonder if you could repair the gash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbone Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Take one of the other nuts off the back of the light, I think theres 5 on each one. Is the rubber gasket the one on the door, or the one that surrounds the door jamb? Should be able to find a good one down here in a wrecking yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdjdc Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 have a parts car that has the gasket on it and I can put it into a USPS proirity box. That way shipping is only 10.00. How about 20.00 shipped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Abides Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Looks like youve got a headlight out as well. I have one i think for that side ill give to ya for the cost of shipping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbone Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Looks like youve got a headlight out as well. I have one i think for that side ill give to ya for the cost of shipping. The Loyale (the right headlight was broken in this pic, it's fixed now) You missed that part :-p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Abides Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quidam Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 It's the thought that counts:) Someone fix the man up, cheap. Or I will. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpiereck Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 Thanks for all the replies and for the help. Grossgary and Turbone, I can't believe I was so dumb as to not think of removing a nut from the other tail light to go match it at a hardware store. Thanks for bringing my brain back to earth!! mdjdc, I'm sending you a PM. I'm starting to really like this forum, nice comminity here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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