The Dude Abides

Mounted the Fog lights today, was a bigger pain in the butt then i thought and there not even but close enough.

I just put in a MWE in my car last weekend. Works like a champ and no binding. I would recomend them.

That one looks good to me, just need to settle on a date now.

2inch lift front and rear with 27x8x14 Mud Terrains with Pug wheels.

Hell that still looks driveable.

Anyone thinking july prehaps

Thats a very nice looking ford focus.

I cant tell at this point if its the wheels that are makeing the noise or most of the wheel bearings.

I understand what you are saying but trust me, there are certain things you want to make sure are done right. And Wheel nuts are one of them.

Did your pads fall apart in pieces like mine did. I didnt order new clips so i didnt use them. The ones that go on the pad not the ones on the caliper so hopfully i wont regret that deciion. It works good though and i dont care what anyone says, the rear disk swap is the best upgrade i ever did on this car. At least you dont need to twist these calipers in to compress them.

We just worked on mine and bheinen looked up the specs in the how to keep your subaru alive book. Its 145lbs.

To be honest id just fix it up and drive it. Far to many vintage jeeps get beat up on the trails. That one looks nice with the original tub. Id just put on some 235s or 31s fix whats wrong and drive it. I always love driveing an open top jeep.

Ive decided to hold back on this one. Its in great shape and i love it but my heart is set on a 5 speed. I know the AWD is all time AWD with the 5 speed and thats what i want. Thanks for the help though, guys.

Yet none will be offroaded I kid I kid:grin: With the help from bheinen we replaced the front cv shaft and rear brake pads and rotors. Took way longer then he thought but i knew better, cuz thats how guido is a pain in the a**. Brake pads were so bad they fell out in rusty pieces and the cv shaft came out in 2 pieces. Drove home at 85mph just to make sure we did everything correctly. I learned 2 things. 1 they dont like to do 85. 2 lifted with no sway bar and bad shocks shouldnt do 85 either.

Now you wouldnt squander away a mans hard earned money that he saved back to buy something nice for himself. That wouldnt be a womanly thing to do.

I want to say thank you. A while back we got into a huge debate on if that wheel would be even worth the swap. I was looking into lowering my wagon and was geting advice on doing the 6lug swap and useing the aluminum chevy 6 lug wheels. That looks great and if i ever lower a subaru i will be going that route. Good luck on your projects.

I want to make sure its a good car before i do this is the thing. I need to finalize the sale on my truck which should be tomorrow as well.

LOL Guard Kitty.

If thats the case then make sure you put in a 5 speed in place of the turbo. I talked to the guy and he said it was a turbo car. I was going to offer him 2k and see what he said. Thats about as high as i can go because now i need to pay for gas to get there and back. I would be worried about rust as well but you can only go off of what people tell you. He said it has had alot of work done to it.

Though this is true it might not be a while until i can get it like another week. To find a rust free subaru turbo in the midwest is just simply unheard of so sometimes youve got to jump. I guess relatively speaking i dont know how far madison is from milwaukee. I could just take my chances and drive up there in a couple of weekends and see it for myself but i know the alliance has very knowledgeable members so it would be beneficial for me to have them give it a good bill of health. If this is a problem i can do it myself but 2k is alot of money for me to spend on a car so if im driving out of state to get it i want it to be good. Like i said, just throwing this out there.

Anyone in the alliance willing to go check out this car for me. I could send the money and then you buy it for me and i pick it up a week latter. Its a huge trust in me to send you thousands of dollars but i would be willing if the right person did it. Ben http://madison.craigslist.org/cto/2331018736.html

Ooooooooooooooo right it has been raining alot. Either a ea82 or the maxima upgrade. Just the one on my soob the regulator is bad so when you hit the gas the wipers go faster and faster until you shift. On a side note if your looking for something to do ill be out at brents tomorrow working on the soob if you feel like getting greasy.

Hey let me know if they have alternators there and price.

Awww, wish i could go with you i have the day off but the miss is sick.

Drove Guido to work, man this thing needs some attention. Was low on every fluid, it squeeked, squeeled, leaked all over the place blew smoke. People stared at it like it was living death. It was great.