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There she is at the destination. Yes, she made it there, and back, but it did take it's toll. a few thousand miles with a massively overloaded vehicle and my back struts are completely shot now. Instead of elegantly gliding down the road, now I bounce. And bounce. And bounce. Until finally it smooths out and whoop! Another bump! Bounce, bounce bounce. lol Thank you guys for the replies, I am going to heed the advice and do as much of that work as I can.

What's poppin' scubarus? I picked up an 87 5spd 4WD gl in Pennsylvania awhile ago because it only had 46,000 miles on it That's a good thing, and apparently a bad thing. Good thing as it's practically brand new, bad thing as in it obviously wasn't used very much and spent a great deal of time sitting. In Staten Island. Through those winters.... Anyway, this is bad news for many parts of the car. Most lately my water pump, which decided to stop spinning so well..... When I got it I had to replace the wheel bearings on both sides in the front, along with the driver's side axle, because there was terrible noises coming from there. I did that, and then took the car on a 6,500 mile round trip to burning man in Nevada and back. Now it's making terrible noises again but that's a separate matter (I am thinking of just pulling an entire front suspension out of a junk car and swapping it in later) To my water pump issue which thankfully happened after the beast got myself and it's occupants back to new jersey safe and sound. When I swap in the new pump, what else should I do while I have it all ripped apart in the front there? I'm thinking timing belt kit and cam seals, but idk if I'm leaving anything else out. And for everybody ready to say do everything, I'm talking like within a moderate price range. I'm doing the work so just parts, leaving me with say about an $500 budget. Gurus help help help keep another soob on the road =) thanks in advance btw naturally to the wisdom I'm about to get kicked with. haha

To keep this endless thread endless, I just picked up an 87 GL with 46,000 miles on it. = ) This was a week and a day ago I got this car and I'm more than half way to 48,000 miles already haha.

"Since grinding down pads is not the smartest thing to do" Just wanted to say I loved that sentence lol. I have to swap out the calipers on my 87 GL that I bought...a week ago. That thing is in need of quite a bit of work, thinking calipers is a good place to start considering the noise is getting unbearable. Glad you were able to figure out what was hanging up your wheel. Isn't it a gratifying feeling when you curse and curse and curse and get really angry and then finally, finally you're under the car just looking around like WTF and it hits you. OH!!!!!!! lol. Thinking we've all been there. =P