What did you do to improve your soobie today

B00sting · Post by **B00sting** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 4:09 pm

steptoe wrote:you get the ******** specials ?

sorry the what?

Post by **TOONGA** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 6:01 pm

sholinguteman wrote:Well i dont know if its "improve" but I hope so , stripped the inside of my truck to give it a good clean and now I am trying to source some rubber bushes to fix my standard Brumby sloppy stick syndrome:shock:. Can anybody point me in the right direction for those ? thanks "MO"

FROG!!!!!!! where are you, Im sure Andy can still get the kit from subaru

TOONGA

scoobymine · Post by **scoobymine** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 6:30 pm

Added a nice roo bar, courtesy of a neighbour ($100) whose pride and joy was rear ended by a moron kid with no insurance. Car was irrepairable, but his insurance company wanted it. Wonder why!!!

B00sting · Post by **B00sting** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:01 pm

B00sting wrote:sorry the what?

it was these ones mate:

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:10 pm

was just a free plug in case ******** also did rims, but the name gets * out !

thunder039 · Post by **thunder039** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:22 pm

B00sting wrote:it was these ones mate:

nice rims, will look great on the brumby

B00sting · Post by **B00sting** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:19 pm

thunder039 wrote:nice rims, will look great on the brumby

I found them by accident. Never seen them before on a suby.

thunder039 · Post by **thunder039** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:24 pm

B00sting wrote:I found them by accident. Never seen them before on a suby.

1980s Japanese for sure. see them on a lot of early nissan sport cars and drifts cars these days, super strong

B00sting · Post by **B00sting** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:17 pm

well i got them today, super light!

they fit alright, BUT (here we go) - there is not enough thread sticking out from the hubs to properly screw the wheels nuts on.

I haven't thought about it properly yet, the PCD is correct, the offset I haven't measured yet though. If i fit longer wheel studs my other wheels wont fit with there wheel nuts!

/sigh

purp · Post by **purp** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:38 pm

B00sting wrote:I haven't thought about it properly yet, the PCD is correct, the offset I haven't measured yet though. If i fit longer wheel studs my other wheels wont fit with there wheel nuts!

Can you not just get longer studs, and when using your other wheels have the end of the studs stick out past the nut?

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 10:30 am

Well, last night on the way home from the pub Ruby Scoo's harmonic balancer came loose

It's only been 18 months since I had it last had it off. Must have been the full moon or something superstitious!

Gave my better half a fright - she was the one driving me home at the time! So, midnight, quite back road in the dark here we were repairing the car to get us home. It took half an hour and we were off again. Luckily the keyway wasn't badly damaged!

Now to go out in the bitter cold and replace the thermo fan we had to remove then replace the rear strut that's leaking and not doing what it should be doing properly - if I've got another one handy

Cheers

Bennie

subaruby · Post by **subaruby** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 4:58 pm

Went from this.....

To this...........

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:28 pm

Richard - VERY STOKED!!!

When's the H6 conversion come along?

Exciting times - I'm looking forward to catching up offroad!

Cheers

Bennie

PS - time to update your sig I think

outtheback97 · Post by **outtheback97** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:31 pm

Replaced spark plugs and leads and did oil and filter on my 97 outback the other day. Less of a miss at idle and feels smoother, but CEL still appears and fuel economy poor. Today bought some uec from subie just waiting for the right time to dutch out the neighborhood.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:27 pm

New front brake pads thanks to a US source and mailman, they hitched a ride about eighteen months ago. Here I was thinking Bendix was a good old Australian company

Found these metals ? pretty affordable, and they bite just nice. The set that came out had two squeal reminder tabs per pad and started to make odd noises only in reverse and while turning.

They wore very evenly throughout the surface area of the pad, down to about 3 or 4mm - all four pads. I dunno how many km previous owner got from the pads - I got nearly 75,000km out of my share! Change went well, one piston a little stiffer than the other. A high pressure hose down the other day helped - no dust

Cliff R · Post by **Cliff R** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 4:15 pm

The L series passed rego for its 20th year yesterday so for 2012 the MY passed its 30th year and the L series its 20th.

taza · Post by **taza** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 6:28 pm

Scored a bullbar for the Forester on ebay!! Only $400 plus freight to WA

Have been looking for one for 2 years!

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 6:20 pm

Replaced the power window motor in the Forester today.

The Auto-Up button is faulty and doesn't automatically switch off and thus burnt the motor out.. Im gonna rig up a little orange LED to tell me when the switch is stuck on until I work how to fix it propperly

alang · Post by **alang** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:44 pm

had a go at replacing the boots on a good cv axle today. their was no clicking noise or noises coming from the cv's only the boots had rips in them pulled apart cleaned examined repacked with new grease cost $36 with postage for the boot kits

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stilson · Post by **stilson** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:54 am

Nice!

Is the red tool on the bottom right of the pic for tightening and crimping the stainless steel straps?

If so what's it called an where do I get one?