"PowderHound" (PowderHound)
11/25/2015 at 15:48 • Filed to: None
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"PowderHound" (PowderHound)
11/25/2015 at 15:48 • Filed to: None | 2
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Happy nearly Thanksgiving! A time to reflect on that which you are thankful for, spending time with family, and getting away with gluttony. Well sort of. I’ll be spending My thanksgiving day making some food and drinking, of course, but it looks like I have some big plans for working on my car those days! Why am I excited to sit in a cold garage most likely swearing at inanimate objects and bloodying knuckles? Maybe I like the smell of motor oil? Maybe the brake cleaner has gone to my head? Maybe I don’t wear gloves so I spend half my time figuring out how to hold on to a beer can while trying not leak any oil in to it? All I know it’s been a while since I have had any plans to work on my car and now I’m excited.
Without further ado here is this Thursday/Weekends activities. Note: I only have Thursday off so anything done that day I need to actually finish that day.
1. Transmission and rear differential fluid changes. (It’s been so long! really need to do this and have been slowly compiling fluids for the past month. You’re guess is as good as mine as to why that took so long)
2. Transmission mount bushings and sturdier transmission mount. (Bought them the other day because I have an addiction to bushings and want to tighten up my driveline) Good god this is a terrible photo of nothing.
3. Fix the damn smell that happens when it gets cold. (Something I really should have done a few winters ago. You know, when I initially smelled it! This will hopefully be easy and all I have to do is take out the turbo inlet, that runs underneath the intake manifold, and I will have access to the problem fuel lines)
4. Adjust my throttle cable. (It’s right there and easy enough to do with everything else)
5. Undent my rear hatch. (Not too sure about how well this will work. I have an indent on the back of my rear hatch that I believe I would need to remove the rear trim and just push it back out. There is a spot where the paint cracked and is getting rusty so step two of this would be sand it down and repaint that area.)
So Oppo, what are your plans? Sleeping on the couch with your pants undone? cooking for two days straight? Drinking for two days straight? Going on a drive? Fixing your car?
HammerheadFistpunch
> PowderHound
11/25/2015 at 16:05 |
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I regretted putting group N trans mounts on the forester; just an increase of NVH for no real gain. Not saying you shouldn’t, just giving you the heads up.
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PowderHound
> HammerheadFistpunch
11/25/2015 at 16:28 |
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I haven’t even opened the box yet because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to install it. I should have got some bushings for the rear diff and lockdown bolts. Think my problem is more in the rear than the front
TheJMan92
> PowderHound
11/25/2015 at 16:30 |
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Sitting in the cold and finally replacing my inner & outer tie rod ends on my project so I can feel like I’m getting somewhere on it.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> PowderHound
11/25/2015 at 16:31 |
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I think the big helpers for Subis are the rear diff and the pitch mount for the engine. The trans mount didn’t do anything to clean up the muddy shifts just made the interior slightly noisier and harsher.
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PowderHound
> HammerheadFistpunch
11/25/2015 at 16:55 |
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Those are all on the exhaustive list of things I’m replacing. I’ll probably still end up putting on the trans mount just because I have it
for Michigan
> PowderHound
11/26/2015 at 17:09 |
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Just got done putting new rotors and calipers on the front of my brother’s ’92 Firebird. About to drive it over to some friends’ house for dinner.