What did you do to your subaru today?

Installed this fix to get rid of the pesky P0420 CEL. I hope this did it because the CEL comes on just about every day now where before it was only once every other week.

 

Went on the hunt for a boost leak.

Pull the TMIC, looked for the usual suspects (hoses and clamps). Turns out my TB hose was loose on the end that meets the TB. I have only had the rubber gasket fail on that end, but never had the hose get loose. I am guessing it is from pulling my TMIC so many times. I could see installing and uninstalling enough times making it loose... well that is the SCIENCE my brain came up with.... I pulled the hose off the TB with very little effort. So I am 99% sure that was the issue. When installed correctly it should not budge. The worm clamp should hold it down on the lip of the TB. I cleaned the hose out, cleaned out my TMIC. Forgot to mark the top of the TB hose .... ...... installed, checked fitment, uninstalled, adjusted, installed, checked fitment about 5 - 6 times before I got a good fit. Put it all back together. Letting the gasket maker dry before I go out for a test run. Sucked to tweak it so many times, but I feel that the TB hose has a better position that it did the last time it was installed. The worm clamp on the TMIC end seemed to have a tiny bit more lip to grab onto, and the clamp did not want to slide like it normally does. I guess we'll see if it was a success or not over my lunch break.

 

You should be using a t-bolt clamp.

 

Liar
We use standard menard worm clamps just fine

 

Washed it too

 

Cleaned it up after going way too long without a nice bath...

 

Sold it

However... Grocery Getter Foz Edition photo thread coming soon!

 

Install Boost gauge

 

Pics?

 

Maybe later tonight when I pick up my fresh painted door from legendx aka tommy

 

Dropped my wife's Forester XT today onto some 03 WRX struts/springs; looks pretty sweet but wish that I would have opted for 1/4" saggy butt spacers...looks like that will be the next part order!

 

Looking gd yusef...gonna have to drop mine soon here...maybe after I get it from the shop...

 

New front rotors and pads

 

I felt the same way after I lowered my first FXT. Loved the lowered look but it just looked butt heavy. Don't take a corner with heavy people in the back seat either.

 

Did you remedy with saggy spacers?

 

Changed the coolant. They don't put the plastic plug in a very good location do they? It's difficult to get into comfortable postion to loosen it and once you get it off the coolant falls onto a beam that spreads coolant everywhere. I probably caught 75% of it with my pan, and when I opened my mouth to say oh ****, I got some in my mouth. mmmm, sweet.

 

I don't think the spacers have been engineered yet at the time so I never had.

 

Picked up some 255/40/17 Kumho Ecsta XS tires.

 

yea, its a pain...and part of the reason why I've been putting it off on my car. I think it helps if you only open the plastic plug a small amount to it doesn't ole faithful everywhere.

 

I took my door off and totally apart, to put my newly fresh painted one on... I just hope I remember how to put it all back together tomorrow

 

Put on JDM coachworks alcantara shift boot and brake boot. I'll put pics up later

 

Put off washing it, again.

 

Got it back from the shop. Great work done by Devoted Auto Works of WBL. Great guys to work with. The owner Yang knows his stuff. Great guy to talk to also.

 

What you end up doing ?

 

Had a timing pulley go out last wk. They ened up having to do the timing belt and head gasket because it was leaking oil.

 

glad you got it fixed

 

finished my door...

 

Got it aligned by Jeff and drove it around a bit. It's nice being able to drive my car again.

 

Sounds like one of those stomach dropping moments...glad to hear everything worked out okay.

 

I pulled the crappy prodrive front sway and put the stock bar with new bushings and kartboy links in, it is nice not to hear clunking when I hit a bump

I also bled the clutch and greased the pivot pin for the clutch fork

 

De-mud flapped...

Before:





Halfway:



After:

 

Rolled some miles and took a picture.

 

Ha I rolled more miles then you! Step your game up! On a side note **** 555...

 

I managed to get the infamous spun bearing on my 02 WRX...sad day...I think? So now I'm on the hunt for the 2.5L and do a nice swap...

 

put a car cover on it in the garage so i don't have to look at it, and now i can safely use it as storage space...

 

Flipped my wheels with the new slimmer fitting tire to the other side for uniform gap/camber and no more rubbing until I get new tires

 

Got my Cobb heat shield in the mail and polished it up to look like new. Now just gotta wait for the TurboXS Stealthback to arrive...

 

Got new tires put on my stock wheels. Had my coworker paint them white while he was going to school for auto body and paint. FOOO FREE!! Turned out pretty nice if you ask me. Then kind of old but I reinstalled the momo shift knob that came with the car. The leather was all worn out so i striped the leather off sanded it down then stained and sealed it.

 

Aww so that was ur car a devoted!! I saw it the other day when I was over there. Alway wanted to get one, especially in white!

 

My Jpm alcantara boots

 

Were you going south on 494 by minnetonka blvd at about 715pm?

 

nope, I live about 2 hrs west of Minneapolis.