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Legacy777 wrote:The feel is really nice with the short shifter and new linkage piece. I'm really quite surprised it feels the way it does, because I've driven quite a few subarus that feel like mush....even newer ones.

I got the front struts on, driveline in, and filled the diff and tranny with fluid.

I'm sort of holding off on putting the starter and all that shit back together until I get the clutch slave cylinder on and bled. That's goin to be real fun. Might try out the vacuum pump. I need a "good" one man bleeder kit.

doesn't vikash have something for that?
or was it the brake bleeder? can't they be used interchageably?

-=tris

Yeah, my "DIY Vacuum Brake Bleeder" works just dandily on hydraulic clutches too.

cool. i knew something. yay for me. Now i get a cookie.

-=tristan

Yeah I had a little hand pump/vacuum. it worked pretty well. However you really need some pressure behind the fluid to work all the bubbles to slave cylinder and the highest point.

I started on the electrical stuff today. A few things were throwing me a little. First I was going to test the neutral switch and reverse lights, but they wouldn't test right for some reason. I don't know if they ground through the chassis, because when I tested them on the car with juice, they worked fine. I spent a little while digesting some of the electrical diagrams on what to do. First thing I did was snip the AT/MT identifier pin on the ECU. I also snipped the "park" pin. The neutral switch for the inhibitor was hooked up to the ECU, however it's behavior for the MT is different. If I just hooked it up as is, it would not have worked. So I had to snip a wire which led to the "N" position on the combination meter. It is fed by 12v, and was back feeding through the sensor. By snipping that, you don't back feed any more, and the sensor has the appropriate signal for the MT. Hooked up the reverse lights, that's not a big deal. For the starting system, I snagged a MT starting relay out of the donor car, as well as the one set of connectors. I made up a wiring harness, and then plugged that harness into my car. This makes you press the clutch in to start the car. Since I did it this way, I had to jumper pins 11 & 12 on the AT wiring harness in the engine bay. I spliced the MT & AT harnesses for the pins I needed, and just plugged everything in. Nice and neat. Only thing that is left is the cruise control. I need to run a wire over from the other clutch switch, and then change the harness on the relay. Shouldn't be too big a deal. I started on it tonight, but cut my thumb, and took that as a sign to call it quits until tomorrow.

I plan to make pretty detailed electrical documentation since most of the swap info I've read is pretty lacking in that department.

pics
http://www.main.experiencetherave.com:8 ... legswap/15

Barring any unforeseen major issues the car will be running tomorrow. I may hold off on the cruise wiring and focus on putting the exhaust back on, and all the other engine components back together so I have time to get the car aligned. I can then finish up the last little odds and ends, and hopefully take it out for a little drive tomorrow night.