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Sublimejoe

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    Virginia
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    93 RHD Wagon, 95 Wagon, 05 Outback
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    My Wife & Kids
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    Commercial Photographer

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  1. Digging both cars dude, great job. I keep going back and forth whether to raise or lower my current Outback.
  2. He is right, the Legacy grill does not fit the Outback perfectly. I had to make my own:
  3. Yeah, unfortunately. I sold it around the same time I picked up the RHD one, which is just now back together and running/driving:
  4. The quarantine has me pretty bored, so I finally got around to cleaning up my outback. I bought the car from a friend a couple of years ago, he came across it with a blown motor and swapped in a JDM ej20 before selling to me. Here it is before I did anything: Aside from that one door being slightly different color the car was mostly just very very dirty. Over the last month or two ive done a bunch of maintenance to the car as well. Wheel bearings, brakes, parking brake adjustment, oil change and surely some other stuff I am forgetting. First up I swapped out the black door handles to body color versions, and repainted the black trim at the bottom of windows. Next up I ordered some red film for the tail lights. This has been a challenging install for me in the past, and it seems that is still very much the case. Before: After: Its so wild how just the most minor of things can really change the look of a car. Once I get the car all cleaned up I will take some real photos. Next up is to replace the power steering pump and probably the battery.
  5. Got power steering lines set up! Also here is a picture of my old car for good measure
  6. It is indeed very satisfying! This was the first time I drove it on the road in four years, and there are definitely some bushings and stuff that need replacing before its really road worthy. I ordered a few and will get those on before getting an alignment. I am also running open header because of the turbo crossmember annoyance.
  7. Updates! Went through a lot of troubleshooting to fix no start issue. Eventually got it taken care of and now the car starts every time! I spent most of the day yesterday driving around town:
  8. So frustrated with this car right now. I wired the crank sensor using an XLR microphone cable from microcenter. It was $14 for 25 feet. This did not change the no start situation. However it did clear codes 11 & 13 which are the crank position sensor & cam position sensor. Good enough for me. Today I checked everything for the seemingly hundredth time and find nothing to be amiss. I pulled the hose from the inlet on intake manifold to clean the fuel filter and lines. I sprayed air into the lines and it seems to be fine. Blew air into the hard lines on the firewall back towards the tank. While I had the fuel lines off I ran a line from the inlet line directly into this smart water bottle and tried to start the car. The fuel pump seems to be pumping just fine, this was how much fuel is pumped when cranking the car for ten seconds. Oddly enough the car turned over and sputtered for about ten seconds before stalling out. This was the only time today I got the car to turn over and run. With nothing connected to inlet or return on intake manifold. Anyone have any ideas on what could be the issue? I am getting a code 42 on the cluster, which is idle switch. The throttle body was messed with a little, but could small adjustments cause enough of a difference that the car doesn't even try to start? It seems to be something is preventing the car from knowing its ok to start, rather than an issue of it not getting spark/fuel. Update: Took plugs out, they are soaked in gas from trying to start it so much on Sunday I guess. The weird thing is the plugs still smell like bad gas. I have already drained the tank twice using the fuel pump. Am I going to need to remove tank and lines to clean properly? Also, a friend of mine pointed out that I dont have an oxygen sensor connected. It never even crossed my mind that I should have one since I dont remember removing one from the old motor. Ordered the sensor and it should be here tomorrow.
  9. My rear bearings are super loud too. Almost unbearable. I tried to replace but could not get the axle nut off no matter what I tried. Guess I need to take it to a shop as well.
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