What did you do to your Subie today?

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Re: What did you do to your Subie today?

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Installed side marker turn signals on my 90 from the 92-94's.
Pain...what a pain.
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kimokalihi wrote:Yours is a car I would love to have. The attention to detail and care that you've put into your legacy is astounding Josh. Props to you!

Thanks Kimo! I appreciate it :)
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-Made a quick video of my car with out me in it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl2QV63NATI
-And that's the sound of sanding in the back ground!

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Holy crap! Your car is like freakin Kit...I wish mine could drive itself.

Makes me want a turbo again...
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Timing belt and water pump install...and replace the rattiest radiator with a fresh one! 92 L FWD. than replaced upper rad hose. Now, need to replace steering knuckle and ball joint. It never really ends, does it. Funny short story, I started the car after timing belt install for the first time before complete reassembly. Flipped the key, car starts, 2 seconds later hear BAM! I'm thinking OHNOES! LOL, I had pushed a long bolt into the tranny line going to the cooler and the pressure blew it out into the firewall. A mess...yes, but not a valve crashing into a piston!
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Did you replace the lower too? The upper usually stays good forever, but the lower sees all the crap.

Haha, well at least it's all good now. Sucks when stuff like that happens.
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Cleaned bird crap off the roof. What a pain to do in the sun, especially cause the roof is black.
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Man...funny bird crap story.

So a few months ago I used to park in the spot right in front of the building every day at a work. Well there was this guy that used to work here and he was disgusting in more ways than I could explain. Well anyway, they hired him back and he started taking my front spot right around the time that these birds showed up. Well I had my spot one day and got my car covered in bird crap. I had washed it off two nights later and found that it removed my clear coat. They must have been eating some pretty potent stuff. Either way I let him have that front spot for a week in his new Altima and started parking about 20' away from the building. He thought he won til he tried to wash the, no lie, at least 50 spots of bird crap off his car at the end of the week.
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Finally got my big invenstment for the manual swap. Bought a rebuild 5speed out of an 06 2.5rs. Should have the flywheel and clutch within the month (found a lightweight flywheel for $250)
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SWRT wrote:Man...funny bird crap story.

So a few months ago I used to park in the spot right in front of the building every day at a work. Well there was this guy that used to work here and he was disgusting in more ways than I could explain. Well anyway, they hired him back and he started taking my front spot right around the time that these birds showed up. Well I had my spot one day and got my car covered in bird crap. I had washed it off two nights later and found that it removed my clear coat. They must have been eating some pretty potent stuff. Either way I let him have that front spot for a week in his new Altima and started parking about 20' away from the building. He thought he won til he tried to wash the, no lie, at least 50 spots of bird crap off his car at the end of the week.
birdie birdie in the sky left a poopy in my eye me no mad me no sad me just happy a cow cant fly LOL i read it some where
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Does the 5spd have the same gear ratio as your rear diff? I think that makes a difference.

And man..that'd be awesome. I would have put sod all on his roof :D
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According to the guy I purchased the trans from, who seemed remarkably knowledgable, the trans has a 3.90 final drive which is the same as what I have. also, I have a 3.90 VLSD prepped and ready to go in.
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Wow, lucky! I wish mine has a LSD.
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Got a mega update.....I've been lazy updating my build thread.....and I'm going to be lazy now and just link to my update post :P

http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic. ... 63#p363763
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Replaced the FWD fuse box with a switch and mounted it where my non-working Cigarette lighter is... I don't really have a good reason for doing this. I was just bored and happened to have some extra wire and a switch lying around, so I grabbed and went to work:) lol.
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put new spark plugs in.. then i replaced a fuel pump 255 walbro car woudnt start with original one then next morning car wouldnt start again couldnt hear the fuel pump so re-instaled the original one it worked then cut out then finally realized the conecter that pluged into the fuel pump was all coroded with green crap got electrical spray clened it all up runs good so far. next will to install my sti fmic hopfully this weekend coming
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TBFK wrote:Replaced the FWD fuse box with a switch and mounted it where my non-working Cigarette lighter is... I don't really have a good reason for doing this. I was just bored and happened to have some extra wire and a switch lying around, so I grabbed and went to work:) lol.
I did almost exactly that lol. But I put the switch on top of the triple 12v outlet that replaced my ash tray. FWD is fun when you're tires are getting old and you wanna make some smoke :twisted: and if you have the habit of shifting you're auto all the time, to the point of driving in parking lots in first, FWD will get rid of any torque bind from the 50/50 and tight turning.
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biggreen96 wrote:well get out there and smash that geo around and get comfy.
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1994 Legacy Turbo wagon: rwd, 4eat, and a faint knock..
1992 Legacy postal: bone stock, 4eat, blown reverse.
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Gonna need some pics Falken ;)

I'm not sure how that fuse even works. Does it disengage the drive shaft from the rear diff?
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Re: What did you do to your Subie today?

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It disables the Duty C solenoid I think which sends 100% of the power to the front wheels via the center diff. How I don't know. lol Clutch pack?
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Weird. It seems like it would be bad for it to keep it in FWD mode for long periods of time.
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Danny-G wrote:
TBFK wrote:Replaced the FWD fuse box with a switch and mounted it where my non-working Cigarette lighter is... I don't really have a good reason for doing this. I was just bored and happened to have some extra wire and a switch lying around, so I grabbed and went to work:) lol.
I did almost exactly that lol. But I put the switch on top of the triple 12v outlet that replaced my ash tray. FWD is fun when you're tires are getting old and you wanna make some smoke :twisted: and if you have the habit of shifting you're auto all the time, to the point of driving in parking lots in first, FWD will get rid of any torque bind from the 50/50 and tight turning.
Lol. FWD is a lot of fun. I don't manually shift my AT though, mostly just leave in in "D" or "3" when drivin around. I use AWD when drivin on dirt or gravel because when you have FWD engaged, it's got to much torque and spins to easily when your not on paved roads.
SWRT wrote:Weird. It seems like it would be bad for it to keep it in FWD mode for long periods of time.
I've been driving it in FWD for about 2 months solid now, and I haven't noticed anything funky happening. I thought it might help me get better gas mileage, but it doesn't help much. maybe like .7 MPG difference...
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Re: What did you do to your Subie today?

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100% more mud guards! Stock ones front and aftermarket rear. Pictures will come later.
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biggreen96 wrote:well get out there and smash that geo around and get comfy.
1993 Legacy LS Awd: lifted, 4eat, higher mileage, and dirty.
1994 Legacy Turbo wagon: rwd, 4eat, and a faint knock..
1992 Legacy postal: bone stock, 4eat, blown reverse.
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Running in FWD mode all the time leaves the Duty C solenoid energized at 100% duty cycle all the time. It is not meant to run that way for extended periods of time. Doing so can possibly reduce its life.
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Re: What did you do to your Subie today?

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Legacy777 wrote:Running in FWD mode all the time leaves the Duty C solenoid energized at 100% duty cycle all the time. It is not meant to run that way for extended periods of time. Doing so can possibly reduce its life.
Thanks for letting me know. I'm gonna keep it set to AWD from now on anyways.
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Re: What did you do to your Subie today?

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[quote="SWRT"]Gonna need some pics Falken ;)

yea maybe this weekend ill get some pics up. some day pics nights pics and some gravel dust behind my car pic that gos for a mile lol probly not that last one but will see LMAO also one in the ditch LMAO LETS HOPE NOT
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