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I wouldn't be surprised if the wiring is already there. Pull back the carpet and look for open plugs.

You know recently I moved to a new city, and had to try to find a new mechanic for my 95 legacy. to be honest my old one in Houston wasn’t all that fluent in Sublish, but he was very affordable and honest. And you know going to a new person to trust with your baby, well it can be traumatizing. So knowing the resources here on USMB, I searched for “Austin”. And I came across posts specifically by 1LuckyTexan who I know speaks the ancient tongue of Subaric. Long story short, I found the cardoc sage, his shop is 15 minutes from my house if that, and he works on Saturdays. Life is good. thank you all, again. ‘97

I'm still waiting for info on this "strut delete", lol

Mine's definitely 1.59 from engine speeds in low box. It's also part time. I took it on a snow mish the other weekend too which was also good fun. It runs cooler than the old motor, which definitely had a blown hg. I don't think this one does as it's got no other symptoms of one and runs much better overall. Just seems weird as it's a low kms engine and a new radiator. Maybe I should swap on the brand new water pump from the old engine. It's great in the snow, when we were up 4wding there was a young guy in a big lifted 80 series who couldn't believe it didn't get stuck haha. Mind you he also didn't believe it had low box 4x4 so yeah...

That’s quite a task you got yourself into. Pulling and reinstalling a dash is probably the job I would least enjoy. well done! I peeled all the liitle dash bulbs of their blue ‘skin’ on the forester once, as I had to replace two fried bulbs and didn’t know about the blue tint on the existing ones until I pulled the dash apart. The green dials became a warm pale muddy colour. Not green any more.

people are just trying to give you helpful advice. get used strut assemblies from car-part.com

I love how I specifically request no recommendations to compress the springs myself or bring it to a mechanic's shop for them to do yet rather for people to recommend quick struts or a shock conversion kit.....yet they repeatedly recommend what I specifically asked them not to. Oh internet!