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If your caliper piston is sticking, it can give you that clunking noise. I had to replace my passenger front caliper last year. Clutch and pressure plate is very simple on these, but in my experience it is easier to pull the engine than the transmission, especially if it's 4wd. I can have my engine unhooked, out, back in and running after about 4hrs (several years of old gen subaru wrenching lol). You will need an alignment tool for the clutch you can get about anywhere for $20 and the 2wd and 4wd clutches are different with different splines.

If you take a small punch and knock the roll pin out to disconnect the cv from the shaft, it makes it alot easier working with that little booger. Just be sure you keep the hole marked which side goes with which. If you line the axle up on the opposite hole of the shaft, it is just a fraction off inside and the roll pin won't go back in. Happy wrenching.

Remove the cotter pin and take the stub axle off the CV shaft. Go to a bench or a big solid block of wood and hit the axle from behind - with another’s block of wood between the stub axle and the BFH. Or use the threads of the shaft to act like a hydraulic press to pull the stub axle through the hub. You’ll need a way to transmit the force from the nut to the hub - something to go between theses that you can make larger as you run out of thread on the stub axle. Personally, I remove the CV shaft and do the bearings with the swing axle on the vehicle. Cheers Bennie

That shouldn’t have been an issue. Once the negative cable is removed from the battery, it can touch the positive etc and there won’t be any flying sparks or burning to the wiring. Something else is at play here I reckon - unless you’ve got a second battery hooked up or some sort of capacitor for a subwoofer etc. if either of those were not disconnected or discharged, then you’d have sparks and burning/melting wire conduit. All the best in sorting out the issue! Cheers Bennie

The sohc ej22 is actually narrower than an ea82. The ea82 is stupidly wide for what it is, it's as big as a DOHC EJ. Probably easiest to keep the original trans and find an ea81 or ea71 for bolt in simplicity.

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