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another trip about 900km like half round country 3 days first day to lakes . sleep there , second day long day driving to sea about 500km , sleep there, 3rd day enjoy sea and back home
found camper monster there too from germany . thats like ultimate camper go anywhere camp on endge of world style
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did you though of rear diff torq locker that is now made for R160 diff ? russians have allready similar design lock-right lockers for those diffs too. just matter of time when we could be locked as well... then you dont need to mod car so much maybe if you have that rear locker .
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long way from factory
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another VDC test .
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did it on 1st gear locked, it just needs more revs then VDC more happy . but could be my engine on low revs have some problems maybe too , because i have O2 sensor errors on catalyst , not sure if thats related but engine sounds like it missing something on low revs.
tried same place with 2 pedals style . wondered if it would go better like holding brake pedal with right leg and same time raising revs to about 3k and letting go brake . i thought VDC would get better kick maybe but its still not low gear as car with low gear would just drive here from stop no problem. not subaru though. but doing with pedals brought some results sure and it feels better inside more punchy still if its not enough to climb then its not enough and its just sits there. and now everytime i drive there im making that part of track worse and worse well better for myself i mean haha. i dug allready many halls there so its harder to drive there up hill now . but its nice at least some chalange and its not hurting anyone its not road for use anyway just has some interesting climbing angles and turns
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how VDC cuts engine power and car just not moving anywhere. it looks just helpless there if you come it slowly and try to pass some holes... see my wheels have some grip and front wheel have all grip there but VDC is not enough to figure out that and give there more power... or its just that H4 engine here is lacking power ... would H6 3.0 work there better i wonder
it does good job to not dig down deeper sure but car not moving too. well without momentum its not. im finding there that is kinda engine rev problem as if i give it more revs before that place its jumps over it , but if i strat from low revs then its like dead horse not going anywhere.
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Great custom work there man. And how you figuring out like on custom shocks how you know what would be good lenght and travel and how much it would go down and up and that springs will be enough. I so envy that freedom to just do what you want try things and test later.
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those are some scary dinosaurs you have there...hehe i live in safe and boring enviroment here nothing to see just some deers and foxes and rabbits, no slow animals here that you could find and look at them ... so cool
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new longer better version of bed in car ... same matress just seats now not folded by book just half and with extra boxes now its plenty of space to keep things too and put your head same time ... and now its even longer then i would need ... superb... next step would be some fan or diy air condition system to keep that air coller at night
learned from some overlanders about boxes and thought what if it just use boxes ...what an amazing idea , no more need many bags and packets with stuff all over car now all can be better organized and allways in one place
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Cool car cool videos..
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bought wrong rear strut mount as i ordered for normal shock and completely forgot that i need for self leveling and they not same... so as i took my old appart it broke down so wasnt possible to put it back and return those same day , and as its my daily car i needed to drive it like in couple hrs ...so i cut half from old mount where it holds srping and put new one with rubber part on top of it ... then did same with other side and well for now i dont feel any bad stuff there ..nothing is moving there nothing happening as spring just push that all up and they sit there tight...
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yes we have some mushrooms here and they comes more to autumn time . more like standard mushrooms like
we have many lakes here and 1 sea its baltic sea. but many lakes and forests. no stones no hills , more like sand on some places but not much too, more like mud in forests or just dry surfaces. So its hard to find much obstacles if not mud or sand stuff. its like russia areas same here.
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ABS light gone fixed whats left its humming sound from rear, changed all 4 wheel bearings , but rear ones to used ones, changed rear both axles and tried drive on changed wheels front to rear still same ... and sounds changes with road type and depends to what side im turning sometimes... not sure all sound like bearing but i cvhanged it to not bad used one ...
had about 7 days in all trips with 2 nights staying in one place , was sea then lakes then sea again.
cooking was good thing and easy simple and fast , two peace camper stuff with portable mini gas burner or how its called no need fire nothing
every morning coffe and then preheating some food or cooking sausages etc
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Cool so i missed maybe where are yours outback hi lift mount places..? Nice pad and those locks wish i could found that kinda here
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steering rack must be on center now as those links sits on same spots both sides when wheels look straight means it must be now ok that rack. time to try reset those abs lights again , fingers crossed
and now that bolt tightened lots more its lil more heavy on steering maybe but i was used so much now to ratling front that now it seems so cool and new to me this experience.
about that overheating still didint tested do that fan now works but it works on test mode... yh i found those 2 green sockets under wheel where abs test socket is , so if you connect those 2 greens with key turned to lights on dash it does that test where it test both your cars fans ...and they both working spinning and stoping an then again and they work, so that working now i guess ...frist will fix that abs light then will test does fan turn on after reaching some temp
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Last couple weeks new both sides wheel bearings steering rack links and bushings...rear wheel bearings as well
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Looks clean and nice , so its not covered now fully meaning its straight hot goes outside. How about more noise and maybe dirt will come inside now via there? You could make some full cover like cup bolted onto it and cover that with some sound isolation even.
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new problems . well errors. ABS errors. after changing not changing but removing steering rack and puting it back i didint dissconect battery and now i have ABS light with VDC light. and i checked ABS error codes by blinking and i got errors 38 and 28 and that is rear left ABS sensor problem and Rear left outlet valve problem ... but i never touched rear wheels or ABS sensors there. so i thought maybe i touched some wires but i couldnt find anything that i would knocked or broke by accident. but errros came first thing after i put back everything back and start the car.... and as far as i know ABS errors cant be reset. so duno today i did some 440km trip without ABS and VDC thought they maybe come back to normal but no they didnt. so i duno whats happened with my ABS there.
did test from this example
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yes fan i not mentioned it . so thats ehy i have coolant temp goes too high... i will try to connect it straight for day and will see will fan will turn on
59 minutes ago, pontoontodd said:Have I mentioned you should get a rust free car?
Not necessarily newer or more expensive, just make sure it's not rotted out like this one. Buy one in a different country if you have to.
man your car brakes everytime you drive it , its even worse. i did 5.5k km euro trip in it with all those problems without any problem. yes i will change it when this wont work anymore... it still works. it does what i see for it would need to do . but i know i will change car in time... i know what rust does... but for now ... its still works. again front part and middle is fine i fixed rust and its not much rust on that part anyway.
this radiator i changed so i just bought used radiator with fans and i never checked those connectors. its not rusted because my car anyway. i bought it it this condition. nothing too bad here, thats fixeable. and you see if you will do worse car and use it then all other cars that will be newer will be better . for know if i hear some sound in my car i almost know for sure where its from ... and its good... and i mean subaru parts are cheap here... plenty of them too... and oem used parts are way more better then new aftermarket ones.
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Wondered why my radiator maybe not working lets see that socket
Lol
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so what then use car loan from bank and buy other maybe rust free car ...i was looking at some 2007 outbacks or grand sherokees same year. but i would pay so much more because car loan like instead 4k i would pay 6k to them. i dont have 4k or even 2k in savings at all so im not sure yet ... and yes rear is rusty but maybe it can hold some still. front and middle i dont see problems still . as i would do head gaskets myself so it would be minimum spends like just for gaskets and other rubber stuff there to change. wouldnt change all stuff . and i wouldnt remove engine too. would do it outside on grass just with maybe some lifting engine up , but not removing. i saw its possible though much harder but i dont see why its not doable.
and with that i would learn more too i mean practice stuff , do all myself alone even.
and yes rusty but if you cut worse metal and weld to more ticker one that there was ever it will hold some time there. if its something there to weld to... yes its not for long time but it can hold some time still and then connect that new metal with other new metal that is connected to other good metal on car and you can make some kinda new exosceleton there that will hold some... well i allways tested my new welding offroad with maximum flexing suspension even going fast trough bad roads and susch and i wanna see is it holding there. and well it is ...for now ...
and maybe its hard for people to understand who not strugle with life , if you need new subaru you will find it and buy it no ? or car for parts , or spend 3k on shocks ... i can see how it seems weird for you why im still driving same car . and if upgrade i want then go at least for somehting 2006-2007. it doesnt mean it wont be rust . if that car was driving in my country it will be rust still maybe not that much but it will be no matter what. i can buy exported cars sure from italy, germany and such, but do they not have salt on roads too ? i think they do similar to us .
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for overheats yes internal but my oil leaks outside on ground everyday after i leave car and in couple weeks im having oil level on low or even less level. in 2017 it was not so bad as i did my euro trip 5500km i put about 5l oil in engine then. but then it was not so bad leaking outside as now is worse as weather got hot now about 25 celcious and car sits on sun that doesnt help either.
i still wonder about head gaskets what fits my engine and can i put newer year or turbo model gasket. i mean if its identical all holes same then why not ? that stainless steal one . then again i should look what i have here in online shops localy . will search for those codes what fits me and what not.
and another thing what i should and could change while doing head gaskets. found some amazon kit for those engines.
would be nice to find all codes for all those parts too. well timing belt i did like 2 years ago myself so maybe no need timing belt yet. and its doable easily from front , but all those other stuff i should change i thing ... yes ?
or then head gasket bolts kit . does it need to change those bolts too ?
'01 outback 2.5AT, VDC offroad/ overlanding build
in Off Road
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VDC does something good at least when its not too hard on it