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Regretful Sale. My grandfather bought this car new and I bought it when he passed away in 2001 since then it has been our family car. Family requires bigger car so i'm forced to sell. Details are 1989 Subaru L Series Touring Wagon fuel injected ea82 with 260,000km on the clock 2" lift, 27" nankang t...

king springs for $80-$90 are you talking for a pair or each coz if thats for a pair thats cheap. i rang kings springs HQ which is close by to where i live and they sell them there to customers for $170 per pair so $170 for front 2 then $170 for back 2. but not sure what the sell wholesale for. i pai...

That sounds pretty cheap openflame cheapest I could get kyb's for the rear was $200 and that was online. I did pick up kings for the rear for $115 plus $19 postage. Got the spring now just waiting for kyb's to arrive. I'll let you know how I go with the install.

Cheers
Nick

cheers elmy, i been looking into Kings and KYB's just wasen't sure how much improvment it would be but i think i'll end up doing it just on the rear.

I'm also wondering about replacing suspension on an L wagon. all tho i'm more interested in maintaining height when loaded with camping gear.

i'll be interested what people suggest openflame.

thanks for the info. got the little bugger off last night and there's no way for a quick fix so it looks like it's off the the wrecker for me this weekend. it's not affecting the running of the engine just bloody anoying to have a red light beaming on the dash at night.

I installed liftkit on the weekend and took out the air intake hose so nothing twisted or pull when lowering the engine. The little hose that comes out of the bottom of the air intake has a plasic nipple on the engine end and it snapped clean off as soon as i tried to take the hose off. i have plugg...

Jim, I'm pretty sure the l series have 50L tank at least i think thats whats in the manual says but in saying that when I fill mine up from empty it takes roughly 40L so must be 10L reserve or a misprint.