98legwag's 98 Legacy L Wagon

[peugoby]

Looks sharp! What a great color on the wagon. Mine is long overdue for a good waxing. Your wagon would look great with slim JDM door trim.

[foohfooh]

God, what's with these cars just soaking up wax?

Re-reading this thread and all I can say is you put in due diligence in attempting to save his cars exterior. I know second generation. Paint and clear was notorious.

Experienced the same struggle with my 2nd gen. Previous owners neglect to wash caused a lot of work detailwise .

Looks sharp now though! Both your cars live in the garage?

[98legwag]

Thanks guys.

Looks sharp! What a great color on the wagon. Mine is long overdue for a good waxing. Your wagon would look great with slim JDM door trim.

I am much too lazy to change the door trim.

God, what's with these cars just soaking up wax? Re-reading this thread and all I can say is you put in due diligence in attempting to save his cars exterior. I know second generation. Paint and clear was notorious. Experienced the same struggle with my 2nd gen. Previous owners neglect to wash caused a lot of work detail wise. Looks sharp now though! Both your cars live in the garage?

Nope. The 3.0R gets the garage spot while this one gets parked outside under a tree. If anyone of saw the condition of the paint on this car in person and up close you would wonder why I bother detailing it at all. Some times I wonder. Every panel has either scratches, dents, or the beginning of clear coat failure/cracking. There is a tiny rust spot on the driver's door. Rust on the driver's side quarter panel and the rear hatch near the handle. I just want this car to get to 200,000 miles. Its a few miles shy of 183,000 right now.

[BL6BO]

Hey Stuart!

[Muse]

I love hearing people complain about the minor blemishes on their 2nd gens, when I've got holes straight through the rear quarters. Just shows how much you guys care though. I know I need to pick up a better car (or at least a better shell) before too long, and you're the guys that ensure that a better BK/BG will exist for me. Kudos.

[98legwag]

I love hearing people complain about the minor blemishes on their 2nd gens, when I've got holes straight through the rear quarters. Just shows how much you guys care though. I know I need to pick up a better car (or at least a better shell) before too long, and you're the guys that ensure that a better BK/BG will exist for me. Kudos.

I would not consider buying a car like that.

[Muse]

I would not consider buying a car like that.

Cost me $200, and I needed a cheapass parts car instantaneously. Then it turned out to be in better shape, mechanically, so I registered it instead.

[98legwag]

Well, I finally got tired of the hearing the muffler hitting the shell of the car. I ordered Kartboy PU exhaust hangers like I have on the 3.0R. Hopefully they do the trick.

[98legwag]

A few friends of mine asked me this morning at cars and coffee to bring the wagon to the next one in a couple weeks. The wagon currently needs an oil change and tire rotation so I need to hit up Pepboys this week to get oil and a filter. It also needs the warped left front rotor replaced so I just ordered a pair of Centric Premium rotors. Yesterday I fixed/replaced the leaking windshield washer fluid reservoir. In the process I damaged the wiring for the fog lights so I now need to fix that. And the car is desperate need of and nice wax. I will take pictures of some of this just for @Hinyo.

Edit- at some point I need to fix the leaking power steering pump as well. The car could use an ATF and front diff drain and refill as well.

[98legwag]

Changed the oil and filter. Rotated the tires. Changed the front rotors and bedded the new ones in. And of course I forgot to take pictures for @Hinyo.

[Hinyo]

Guess it never got done than! =P

[98legwag]

Took the wagon to a meet tonight. Two guys actually asked me questions about what I had done and how some of it was done. One guy actually recognized that the headlights and fog lights are JDM.

[foohfooh]

Love a 2nd Gen with a clean front end!

Btw. I am a huge fan of that bronze leggy your parked next to. I have a 1000 photos of it saved on my phone lol. Does he have a build thread somewhere on the Internet? I've looked on lgt.com but can't find anything.

[98legwag]

Love a 2nd Gen with a clean front end!

Btw. I am a huge fan of that bronze leggy your parked next to. I have a 1000 photos of it saved on my phone lol. Does he have a build thread somewhere on the Internet? I've looked on lgt.com but can't find anything.

The picture makes it look a lot better than it is. You cannot see it in the picture, but recently it got barely hit. There is small indentation and scratch from the other car's license plate on the front bumper.

I don't think he has a built thread anywhere. But he is a friend of mine and I know a fair amount of what he has done.

[98legwag]

This turd bucket took 5 tries to start this morning. It gets power but the starter isn't turning. Tried starting it twice and no start. Before it worked if I put in drive then back in park. Tried that today and no start. Put it in neutral and no start. Turned the key one last time and it started right up.


Hmmmm.....4th gen wagons and Outbacks are getting cheaper.......

[Muse]

My driveway has a spot for this car, if you wanna let go. I'm just sayin'...

[98legwag]

There are a bunch of people in line ahead of you

[98legwag]

Well, I am thinking its the starter. This morning I could hear it click but not crank. Then on the third turn of the key it fired right up.

[98legwag]

Here is an update. My boss let me out early yesterday so I stopped on the way home and got a re-manufactured starter. A friend helped me take the old one off an bench test it. The first 6 tries on the bench test and it worked great. He then got curious and opened it up. No obvious issues there either. He then put it back together and BAM. It did exactly what it was doing on the car. The rod would pop out, but not spin. It did that 3 times in a row. After that we put the new starter on. Here is to hoping its fixed.

[98legwag]

No changes with this car lately. It has gone through a few left front calipers in the last year to year and a half. I have replaced all the soft brake lines, calipers, pads, rotors, and master cylinder with in the last 15 months and yet the left front still makes considerably more dust than the right front. I figured out the relay for my JDM fog lights failed so I need to replace that. I still need to replace the right front cv axle. It is still rusting on the driver's side quarter panel. I am still thinking about whether I want to spend money fixing the issues with this car or save it towards and eventual replacement for this car. Maybe a BH Outback H6. Or if I could find a really good deal, a BP Outback 3.0R.

[98legwag]

Ordered the gaskets and springs bolts to replace the annoying rattling exhaust on this car. The wrx muffler that is on it is rattling off the body due to the shape of the hangers that were bent to make it work. Oh yeah, that muffler is welded to the mid pipe. Now I need a new mid pipe and muffler. A lesson learn, don't cheap out on fixing stuff.

[98legwag]

Just got done changing the exhaust on the wagon. I got a Bosal mid pipe and Bosal muffler from Rock Auto. No more rattling makes me happy.

[Somac]

Out of curiosity, which Bosal pipes are they? I was looking at just getting a Bosal replacement midpipe since it was so cheap but couldn't find much information on it. Is that one an OEM replacement or is it different?

[98legwag]

Out of curiosity, which Bosal pipes are they? I was looking at just getting a Bosal replacement midpipe since it was so cheap but couldn't find much information on it. Is that one an OEM replacement or is it different?

I got OEM style replacement parts.

[98legwag]

Removed all the broken photo links from Photobucket. Any new pictures will be added from here on out.

[98legwag]

Well, the alternator lasted about 3 years and less than 30,000 miles. Its making a lot of noise so a new one was ordered last night. This car will be needed a timing service at some point this year. But with the quarter panel rust I will be debating whether or not I want to put the money in the car to do the timing service.

[98legwag]

Gotta love spending money to replace parts that were replaced less than 3 years and 20,000 miles ago. In addition to the alternator starting to fail now both rear calipers are seized open. New ones are in route.

[98legwag]

All the new parts are here. They will be installed on Saturday.

[98legwag]

A good bit of work got done on the wagon today. Also found more parts that need to be replaced. Today the rear brake calipers got replaced with re-manufactured parts from Power Stop. All the Stop Tech brake pads were replaced with Hawk HPS pads. The alternator was replaced with an oem re-manufactured one. The accessory belts for the alternator and power steering pump along with the one for the AC got replaced. Here is picture of the car on jack stands.



Here is a picture of the passenger side LCA. Anyone want to get why it will be replaced along with the driver side LCA and the ball joints?

[Reuben]

Yummy!!! That must be great for handling, will be light weight.