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Man, if you ever wanted to smuggle diamonds into the country...this would be the way to do it! These little beads...after dried out, become totally transperant. The look like lil round diamonds. Empty 1/2 of 'em out, fill it up with diamonds...drive across the border... Anyone writing a novel? What an idea! LOL

argh! I can't figure this out! Sadly when I took it apart it all popped apart suddenly...so I don't know the order which the things go in

I've taken apart my air dryer for the air suspension to check it out. I noticed that the flow was VERY low through it. I've got the re-assembly pretty much figured out...sorta. Does anyone have a diagram of how it goes back together? There are two little white plastic thingies, a spring, and a round metal gasket of sorts. I've got the plastic thingies and spring sorted out...but not sure where the metal ring goes. Can anyone help?

Well I'm just a Northern Californian girlie man. No snow here...evar. But I did work a lot in the pouring rain...if that makes me more of a man

That is probably true...and I admit, I can be fairly foolish when it comes to DIY tools. At least with the air struts it was fairly easy to deal with. Unscrew the air line going in up top...have someone compress the strut by hand...then screw the air line back in. That keeps the strut compressed. Then pull it out and unscrew the air line once everything is unubstructed. Piece of cake! Air suspension does have some benifits

I was having a real tough time with my air struts up front... It turned out the key was to unbolt the swaybar...I could lower the wheel assembly enough to get it out that way. But you probably have coilovers and may need to compress the spring. When I would do that with my 2.5RS I used tie down straps to compress the spring. Came right out.

It took me forever to do because of damn work. Holiday season kicked my rump roast. I'd race home from work (when I got off early) to get that 30 minute to one hour of daylight to wrench. It was really frustrating. But now...3 days in a row off. And I got it back on the road on the first day I'm a lazy bastard though, as you saw in OT Copy and paste baby...copy and paste. And speaking of your WA-TX trip...I'm toying with an SF to LA run at the end of this month...but I lack in courage.

Well, after buying the car back in Nov...I finally got it on the road. It's a 1986 GL-10 sedan...140K miles and all mine for $500 After replacing a mountain of air suspension bits (both front struts, computer, solenoids, o-rings, wires, etc), new front headlights, brakes, oil change, air filter, some work on interior lighting, massive interior cleaning (seems like someone may have thrown up all over the gearshifter/ebrake plastic stuff), doing a bit 'o un-dent work on a couple panels and front bumper, spark plugs...damn...I could go on and on... It runs! It starts! It stops! It air suspensions! Yes the idle is a bit rough. The ECS light comes on occasionally when coasting. It does have a minor oil leak. The clutch is slipping a touch. Oil is dripping onto the exhaust and making a bit of stink. The air suspension isn't 100% perfect...yet. But that is pretty much it for problems. But A/C works. Cruise control works. All interior lights work. All exterior lights work. Power windows...power locks...power mirrors...digital dash...clock...all those other silly things...they ALL WORK! Even 4WD is fully functional. I'm so freaking happy! There is still some stuff to be done. But it is no longer "the car in the driveway". It is officially "the car I can drive to work". Hopefully soon it will be "the car I can drive a medium distance without fear" and eventually will be "the car that actually kicks a small amount of rump roast". I think I am going to drive it right now Woot!

I'm sure this has been answered countless times before...but my fingers and brain are cold right now so I'll just ask this again... In order to mount the WRX TD04 into an EA81T you need to... -Rotate the turbo housing 90 deg -use a WRX downpipe (or whatever else uses the same bolt pattern) -??? Is there any trickery required with cooling/oil lines? Or is it really THAT simple? And how about mating the WRX downpipe to the stock exhaust...any tricks with that or is it just bolt on? I've got the downpipe, and have been thinking about this...just haven't pulled any triggers yet.

I'm pretty sure it is the oil pan gasket...which I suppose is good news/bad news. I got underneath the car with some de-greaser...sprayed the living dailylights out of it, and washed it all down...even got in with a rag for the trouble spots (damn that was a messy job). I jacked it up and crawled underneath while it was idling...and watched. I could see it coming out right up near the front of the engine, right along a 2 inch line above the exhaust as it crosses over. Knowing this car I've probably got another leak somewhere else too, and should honestly pull the engine and just do the whole durn thing...damnit. But I really really really don't want to do that. I haven't driven the car since I noticed this leak, so I haven't put a lot of pressure on the system. I "should" have it up and running within a couple days and will give it a more careful look over once it has been up to normal driving pressures. Hopefully it is just the oil pan gasket...but you people are probably right. Thanks for the offer to help rallyruss...I may take you up on that in a bit! Oh yeah...I did unscrew the majority of bolts I could get to, cleaned 'em up, cleaned the pan up...cleaned everything up I could...and put it all back together. Some of those bolts were really loose...I could undo 'em with my fingers. We shall see!

Ugh...after working on the suspension for WEEKS I noticed something else wrong...a leak from the oil pan gasket. It's right up front, right above the crossover pipe from the exhaust. I took a look under there, did some research here and discovered that this isn't a 5 minute job. I've either got to lift the engine or lower that crossmember. Since I don't have a hoist, what is the best way to go about doing this? I suppose I could put the car on jacks to give me room under it, and lift the engine with my jack. But I'm not sure where to jack it from. And if I did lower the crossmember...where should I support the car? With this car I haven't quite figured out the "best" places to put jacks. Damn....I'm sooooo close to getting this thing on the road! Front air suspension = working. Rear still not totally cooperating. Brakes need to be bled. Oil gasket needs replacing. Everything else (fingers crossed) OK! I'm heading off to work, I'll check up here later on when I get back. Thanks in advance!

Don't get me started on intakes and filters!

SUCESS!! Well...to a degree, but still...this is a good sign. From the junkyard I picked up... -pressure sensor (on air tank) -"charge" solenoid (on air tank) -suspension ECU -drivers side strut (in excellent condition) It's annoyingly rainy here so I am not going to swap out the strut right now. But I did pull my pressure sensor and solenoid off the air tank. The solenoid was very clean and nice looking...in better shape than the junkyard piece. The pressure sensor was coated with junk and looked awful. Granted the junkyard one didn't look that much better...but I took the junkyard piece, cleaned it up with some steel wool...and screwed it in. I jumped the car (yeah, battery dead...another thing for the list)...compressor kicks on, car RISES! You heard me...it freaking ROSE! All 4 struts filled up nice and tight, compressor even turned off WITHOUT giving me the dash light malfunction flash. I did notice that I am getting a little air leakage from the connectors (rain all over, everything wet, can see the bubbles)...and eventually the compressor kicked on again to re-fill the tank...but... WOO HOO! A postitive step! Now I just have to source the o-rings, swap out that drivers side strut, and that should be that. Of course there probably is some other issue that'll crop up...but for the time being, I'm a very happy Subaru owner

Well...the junkyard run was pretty successful...so far. I've aquired... -air tank pressure sensor -air tank charge solenoid -suspension ECU -new drivers side strut (in EXCELLENT condition) I'm going to yank the pressure sensor and charge solenoid from my car and compare 'em to the ones I picked up...try swaping ECU's...and pray. I wish I had another damn day off!