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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:16 pm
by T'subaru
That wagon is cool dude! Wish mine was a touring, love the roof lines.
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 6:35 pm
by AndrewT
Okay well I drove it home from the workshop the other night (~50kms). She drove pretty well but there was quite abit of vibration from the tailshaft.
Drove it to work the next day, another 40kms or so up the freeway, by the time I got to work the tailshaft vibrations were much worse! So at lunchtime I drove it back to my workshop and swapped back into my Legacy.
Pulled the tailshaft out. The rear uni was starting to fail, and the yolk at the front really wasn't going far enough onto the splines of the output shaft from the gearbox. Also noticed the brand new unis on the front part were not quite perfect.
So took it back to the tailshaft place and got some stuff done to it.
- Brand new uni joint on the back (only cheap chinese, won't last too long)
- Re-tubed the whole thing and added a whole extra 50mm length to get it further onto the gearbox splines
- Replaced front uni joint under warranty.
Shoved it back in and I'm driving it for work today.
Much better
Still getting abit of a noise on decelleration but on the whole it's working well now. After all this is only temporary until I can get the transfer case and front diff in sometime.
I'm quite happy with how it handles. I was expecting it to feel alot more unstable than it does. Still goes around corners very easily. High speed on the highway is a little disconcerting for me but I havn't been driving a lifted car for a very long time now, been getting around in the Legacy GT, so when the car moves around depending on strong crosswinds I'm still crapping my pants slightly! But it's just a case of getting used to it again.
The 4.111 clutch LSD diff seems to propel the car along nicely by itself.
I'm still running 100% stock L series rear end, no strengthening at all to the moustache bar or anything so I'm abit hesitant to smash the clutch to try and spin the big 29" tyres for fear of breaking things.
It's quite weird driving it. It's kindof crossed that threshhold of feeling more like driving a "real 4x4" than driving a "car that goes offroad too" now. It sortof lumbers along like a big beast. I think the big wheels are mostly the culprets.
On the lookout for some free stock Liberty rims with crap tyres and I'll find out how well it does a skid
At some stage I'll try and get some videos happening. Maybe some from my driving point of view. It will still be a while before I press on with the transfer case and front diff so no offroading yet, at least not in the boggy stuff!
quick side note - I chucked in the early WRX seats Alex used to have in his wanky-wagon. Bloody hell they are a billion times more comfy than the L series ones! Very very highly recommend doing this! The early ones are very cheap to buy, and if you can get blue ones they match into the blue L series interior very nicely.
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:27 am
by AndrewT
Long time since updates again.
She hasn't changed recently. Basically since that last post she has been parked up not driven for ages as I've been too busy, but a couple of months ago I pulled the Legacy off the road to upgrade it's engine (putting in an EJ20R) so I've been using the L series as a daily.
It's been fun, gets lots of looks haha.
Hadn't really planned to do that, the L series really needs more work to make it a bit nicer to drive and iron out all the teething issues, but the Legacy really needed a new motor so I had little choice.
I've racked up probably about 10,000kms in the L series over the last couple of months driving it daily just in RWD, but unfortunately just last week something bad happened in the driveline. As in "crack, bang bang bang, no drive". It's one of either 3 things.
- welds on the centre diff broke (unlikely, they were pretty decently done)
- rear drop gears in the gearbox have smashed (could be, it's an aussie spec RS with ratio changing drop gears, not really designed to take 100% of the drive)
- rear diff has died
No time to troubleshoot it at the moment, so the car stays in the yard at work until I get time.
So at this moment both my Subaru's are off the road, hopefully the Legacy will be finished soon, I'm almost finished piecing it together but then need to book it in to get a tune on the PowerFC.
I'm putting around in a little Diahatsu Mira now lol.
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:03 pm
by Alex
AndrewT wrote:
I'm putting around in a little Diahatsu Mira now lol.
do they make them for men too?
alex
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 7:14 pm
by D3V1L
failblog.com
davo
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:22 am
by spike
are we talking mira mira off the wall?? Autospeed.com
Kinda like the Rex kie class car, 660 cc engine, 4wd, turbo, intercooled
Theres one in sa thats all fiberglass and carbon that goes like stink
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:52 am
by TOONGA
Alex wrote:do they make them for men too?
alex
D3V1L wrote:failblog.com
davo
very mean
Im sure he is very comfortable driving it.....
in a disguise
TOONGA
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:53 am
by AndrewT
haha not quite so extreme, no turbo on this one.
It's a 660cc 3cyl EFI engine with 5spd box and very very slow.
And yeah it is quite girly (even more than yellow bash plates) - it has flowers on the seat covers and matching flower floor mats - I bought it off an 18yo girl who just got her P's. Gets me from A to B about as cheap as possible. Only annoying thing is I've got some sand and bricks to shift and this thing aint going to do it!
Hopefully Monster will be back and running soon, just gotta find time to get under there and diagnose it. I'm suspecting rear diff actually now - thinking about it, this rear diff has been in the car over 6 years now with many kms and it's never been a good one, it has whined ever since the first day I put it in. Will find out soon I hope anyways.
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:18 pm
by AndrewT
Just separated the tailshaft from the rear diff.
Confirmed it's definitely gearbox end, the diff is fine - rolling the real wheels around everything is nice and smooth. Rotate the tailshaft in my hands - bang bang clunk clunk, lots of random chunky resistance.
In the next few days I'll drop the gearbox oil and take the rear cover off the gearbox to see what's happened. Should make for some juicy photos I'd say.
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 8:22 pm
by cooloothin
ouch. hope juicy doesn't mean pricey. good luck andrew. (been lurk-following this buildup since you started it, glad to see you're nearly there)
dave
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:01 pm
by El_Freddo
AndrewT wrote:In the next few days I'll drop the gearbox oil and take the rear cover off the gearbox to see what's happened. Should make for some juicy photos I'd say.
And where are said photos?
Hope it was a simple fix!
Cheers
Bennie
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:43 pm
by AndrewT
said car has not moved from said parking spot since.
No time.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:16 am
by RSR 555
AndrewT wrote:said car has not moved from said parking spot since.
No time.
LOL.. know the feeling
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:40 pm
by El_Freddo
RSR 555 wrote:LOL.. know the feeling
My thoughts exactly!
Bennie
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:01 am
by RSR 555
Drew.. some of these pics don't match the descriptions
AndrewT wrote:Here is some info and photos on the front-end lift.
Here's the last pic again with some crude labels added;
Oh.. ok.. I see yours is quiet different to the one Guy and I are making but I think this is mainly due to the lift.. we will be keeping it 2" only. I will have pics once I'm back from work.
AndrewT wrote:the bar hanging down is an old folded bit of metal i used to use as a bracket for a bash plate back in the 3" lift kit days. I bent it down again the other day when I did a quick look-see as to the plate's suitability for the 6" kit. Looks like it will need a few changes to get it to fit. Naturally I really need to make a whole new bashplate from scratch but one thing at a time
I've always wondered (since buying your old bullbar) what this was for
I did think it was a very strong number plate holder
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:45 pm
by Dann
*cough* PICS? *cough*
Any progress?
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:43 pm
by RSR 555
Dann wrote:*cough* PICS? *cough*
Any progress?
pics of what? and best get down to a chemist for some cough medicine
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:07 pm
by Dann
haha pics of 'any' progress happening at the moment
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:47 pm
by AndrewT
Well okay, I just went and took some photos just this minute.
The first pic litterally shows the progress since my last post - ie, cobwebs;
Here are two others;
That's where she's been parked since the gearbox packed it in (in the yard at my office). I'm sure it's just a minor issue with just the rear transfer of it - most likely the drop gears because it's an aussie RS box. I'm hoping to swap these out with a standard 1:1 gearset to prevent it happening in the future. But of course I don't really know until I get under there and swing some spanners. Been back from the most recent overseas trip for a few days now but I still don't forsee any time in the immediate future for working on the wagon - putting a house on the market, and doing it all yourself to avoid agent fees is quite time consuming!
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:53 pm
by Alex
nice bullbar and mirrors :P
cant wait till you get her going again andrew, then we will have to go for a spin...still rwd only?
alex
