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`Nemesis posted:Says the guy who hasn't posted a single picture in the entire 524 page thread This. I bled for this thread.
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The rear camber on my outback has been getting worse for a couple months now... It's been destroying the rear tires which are now pretty much bald, fronts are still great. The rear toe has been going off, and everything back there is entirely Caddywhompus. No more need to wonder why... I closed the back door kinda hard...  Hmmm... interesting...  This is bad...  Let's take a peek under the car real quick...   The whole subframe is swiss cheese. The car is sadly done for... You can see where the subframe is entirely cracked in half and the metal is just flaking out. I'm sure if I went in there with a chipping hammer I could remove most of the subframe with little to no effort. It was a good car, pretty comfortable, lots of room, a nice cruising car. But alas, I ended up with a free forester that needed an engine. So I took the engine out of the outback and put it in the forester (I'd already swapped a 2.2 into the outback because the ej25 can go to hell forever). I think foresters are ugly and stupid, but hey, a car that isn't breaking in half is always a bonus.
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Mar 6, 2015 05:54
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chrisgt posted:The rear camber on my outback has been getting worse for a couple months now... It's been destroying the rear tires which are now pretty much bald, fronts are still great. The rear toe has been going off, and everything back there is entirely Caddywhompus. Oh... oh my god. 
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Mar 6, 2015 06:06
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Oh... oh my god. There is no god, only rust.
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Mar 6, 2015 06:17
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Oh... oh my god. Powershift posted:There is no god, only rust. Welcome to the
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Mar 6, 2015 06:32
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Did we just surpass the Sockington scale? 
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Mar 6, 2015 06:33
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Rust for the rust god? Junk for the junkyard? 
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Mar 6, 2015 06:35
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Powershift posted:There is no god, only rust. I sent my Protege to the scrap yard for less than that, dear rust
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Mar 6, 2015 07:27
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EightBit posted:Did we just surpass the Sockington scale? No, it's open ended.
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Mar 6, 2015 09:24
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The end rusted off.
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Mar 6, 2015 11:48
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Something about that just gives me the itch to take it to a field and hoon around until it finally gives way. I mean more than it already has.
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Mar 6, 2015 15:14
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Shifty Pony posted:Something about that just gives me the itch to take it to a field and hoon around until it finally gives way. This, do this and film it.
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Mar 6, 2015 16:17
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Splizwarf posted:This, do this and film it. So something like this? http://youtube.com/watch?v=cZxjk_fumOI
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Mar 6, 2015 17:40
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Edward IV posted:So something like this? These videos are the best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITfWgGCkbv8 I hope to reenact this sometime soon with my red XJ, but hopefully just barely not hurt anything I want out of it.
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Mar 6, 2015 18:22
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Oh... oh my god. I just went outside to hug my completely rust free e30. e: and to take solace in the fact that while the citizens of Atlanta are, for the most part, ignorant and awful people, at least we don't have to deal with that
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Mar 6, 2015 19:00
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Shifty Pony posted:Something about that just gives me the itch to take it to a field and hoon around until it finally gives way. That would be fun, although it was on organ donor, and its driveline lives on in the forester. I was honestly worried I'd have to do another log suspension modification driving the outback around...
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Mar 6, 2015 19:52
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chrisgt posted:another log suspension modification driving the outback around... 
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Mar 6, 2015 20:01
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It's already been posted in here, but some friends and I were driving out on logging roads in the middle of nowhere, northern Maine. I was trailing behind with a car full of tools in case someone broke down. First this guy lost a brake line, so I did some expert brake line crimping. Then he was stopped on the side of the road.... This is what I found when I pulled some interior crap out of the way... Rear strut tower.  Of course I carry a chainsaw in my DD, so I cut up a tree:  Repaired as that car is ever gonna get:   He drove it over 50 miles out of the logging roads, very slowly... Then about 200 miles on the highway like that.
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Mar 6, 2015 20:15
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In craigslist code, that's minor surface rust, needs new rear struts(cheap fix)
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Mar 6, 2015 20:21
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He'd only bought it a couple weeks beforehand, paid some outrageous price for it. RECENTLY REPAINTED!!!!
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Mar 6, 2015 21:27
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chrisgt posted:RECENTLY REPAINTED!!!! Instant red flag anywhere in the rust belt. 
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Mar 6, 2015 21:40
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xzzy posted:Instant red flag anywhere in the rust belt. More so than "Rust free" or "Spotless"
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Mar 7, 2015 07:56
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This video is scary, it starts off not looking too bad until he starts whacking it with a hammer and there are just crumbling sounds. gently caress rust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2din5kmNqfw
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Mar 7, 2015 17:50
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Jesus. When was the last time you peeked under the car? Is that white crap on the pictures salt?
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Mar 7, 2015 19:18
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Dr. Klas posted:Is that white crap on the pictures salt? Yes but it's beneficial, it's the only thing holding the frame together.
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Mar 7, 2015 19:23
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Huggable Bear King posted:This video is scary, it starts off not looking too bad until he starts whacking it with a hammer and there are just crumbling sounds. gently caress rust. The paint is literally holding it together.
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Mar 7, 2015 19:29
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Nah someone had bondo'd over the rust to make it look better, probably so they could sell it off and make it someone elses problem. The PO is always a motherfucker.
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Mar 7, 2015 20:55
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Huggable Bear King posted:This video is scary, it starts off not looking too bad until he starts whacking it with a hammer and there are just crumbling sounds. gently caress rust.
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Mar 8, 2015 00:38
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chrisgt posted:Horrors I was trying to figure out a way to fit in chemo, but I have no idea what that would be. POR15?
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Mar 8, 2015 05:42
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that thing would need a bone marrow transplant
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Mar 8, 2015 13:21
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That thing needs a skeleton transplant more like.
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Mar 8, 2015 15:07
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Fire Storm posted:I'm so sorry. Cancer is a hell of a way to go. If it was just the subframe that was rusted out, I'd replace it. That was a good, comfortable car. But alas, the rockers were GONE, quarters were going, the steering rack was so bad I thought I was driving a 90's f250, etc. I could replace all the parts on the car..... Or just replace the car, and sadly that time had come. Its driveline parts (which are all from the junkyard anyway...) will live on in the forester. As Cakefool said, a skeleton transplant was the repair. I jacked up the radiator cap and pushed a new car under it.
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Mar 8, 2015 17:23
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Horrible owner failure. Use synthetic oil in any engine you care about  One of these heads ran synthetic oil, the other dino oil. I don't need to tell you which one, I hope.  
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Mar 9, 2015 02:30
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Ehhhh, change your oil every 3k miles and that doesn't happen no matter what oil you run. If you don't keep oil in there long enough to sludge up, it won't get sludgy. Generally people who change to synthetic oil do so because they have a slight clue about cars and know that oil needs to be changed, so you get a biased group of people in the synthetic vs dino oil debate.
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Mar 9, 2015 02:47
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chrisgt posted:Ehhhh, change your oil every 3k miles and that doesn't happen no matter what oil you run. If you don't keep oil in there long enough to sludge up, it won't get sludgy. Generally people who change to synthetic oil do so because they have a slight clue about cars and know that oil needs to be changed, so you get a biased group of people in the synthetic vs dino oil debate. That interval is way short for any modern engine running synthetic. Jeep recommends 7500 miles for the 4.0, with conventional, ffs.
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EightBit posted:That interval is way short for any modern engine running synthetic. Jeep recommends 7500 miles for the 4.0, with conventional, ffs. Yea IIRC subarus are similar, but they have an "extreme service" OCI which is 3000 miles. I drive like an idiot all the time, and winter is rough on cars up here (as you saw from my poor old 2000 outback...) so I generally do it around 3k. I'd rather change by oil a bit more often than my engine...
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I had to replace the engine in my wife's Mazda 6 about a year ago after it got out of time enough that the valves and pistons touched (my father-in-law found a Ford 2.3 with under 100,000 miles for $300.) I had been running store-brand synthetic in the engine for about four years prior at ~10,000 mile intervals. There wasn't any sludge to be found in the head when we took it apart to swap the cams over. e: not the clearest picture but the old engine is in the foreground: 
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Mar 9, 2015 03:06
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The crank shaft timing sproket on those is held in place by friction only. No keyway.
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chrisgt posted:Yea IIRC subarus are similar, but they have an "extreme service" OCI which is 3000 miles. I drive like an idiot all the time, and winter is rough on cars up here (as you saw from my poor old 2000 outback...) so I generally do it around 3k. I'd rather change by oil a bit more often than my engine... I'd be making fun of you right now, but you EJ22'd it, so I guess you don't have to change the engine with the oil anymore.
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Geoj posted:I had to replace the engine in my wife's Mazda 6 about a year ago after it got out of time enough that the valves and pistons touched (my father-in-law found a Ford 2.3 with under 100,000 miles for $300.) I had been running store-brand synthetic in the engine for about four years prior at ~10,000 mile intervals. This is a pretty common problem on that engine, usually caused by: jamal posted:The crank shaft timing sproket on those is held in place by friction only. No keyway. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to which car does it - I've seen neglected beaters run up 300kkm no problems, and I've seen owned-by-seniors pampered garage queens annihilate themselves for no reason.
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