December 11, 200520 yr My friend wanted to know if you could take the front axels out of his 95 Legacy and drive it around with RWD?
December 11, 200520 yr i wouldn't.... there's that whole issue with the tranny trying to power the front, and not being able to...
December 11, 200520 yr i wouldn't....there's that whole issue with the tranny trying to power the front, and not being able to... agreed. the power just doesn't work that way. there are ways to convert it to rw but i don't know what it is and that's not it. it has been done though.
December 11, 200520 yr Author I don't know what kind of a person would want to make a AWD subaru into a RWD. That just takes the fun out of it.
December 11, 200520 yr If it was a manual tranny, Yes, you can convert it to RWD. But then you can NEVER GO BACK to Awd. The manual trannys have a silicone liquid that hardens as it heats up, giving a LSD effect to the center differential. When that fluid overheats enough, it becomes a solid. Permanently. So the car now has a locked center differential. This lets you drive the car in RWD with the front halfshaft removed, but if the front halfshafts are ever replaced, the car will experience major binding on turns. So it's a one way street, with a new tranny needed if he ever wants to go back to AWD.
December 12, 200520 yr If he put a 4wd transmission in it from an EA82 car instead of the AWD transmission the legacies came with then it's not problem. I ran my '82 GL as a rear wheel drive for a while when I stripped a front hub on it. But why? If you want to slide around ineffectually in the snow, get a '70's american V-8 coupe with an auto transmission and bald tires.... don't nueter a subaru.
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