Reubens rolling roster. Shale the HX20S 10/3/15

[Reuben]

So thought I ought to start a new thread just for the Subies I've bought for the purposes of fix'n'flics (or car flipping as you guys call it I think), as well as posting up cars I've been working on. Thought it'd be appropriate, keeps Beast (https://sl-i.net/FORUM/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9872) and Blighters (https://sl-i.net/FORUM/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=24458) threads clean, and gives me somewhere to post the fun stories of carting dead Subies around the Queenstown, the Subaru world capitol. (Seriously, I live on a culdersac that probably has 20 houses, and in just that time street, there's at least 6-7 subaru's that don't belong to me - then there's the 7 that DO live at our flat) (In the pic the SF and the BE are guests! there's two in the garage out of shot!).

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IMG_7935 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57752725@N05/9737571927/) by Reuben Horsley (https://www.flickr.com/people/57752725@N05/), on Flickr

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IMG_9582 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57752725@N05/15068521729/) by Reuben Horsley (https://www.flickr.com/people/57752725@N05/), on Flickr

And this is where the magic happens:
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IMG_9230 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57752725@N05/14170052853/) by Reuben Horsley (https://www.flickr.com/people/57752725@N05/), on Flickr

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IMG_9229 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57752725@N05/13963320167/) by Reuben Horsley (https://www.flickr.com/people/57752725@N05/), on Flickr

[Reuben]

The 250-Turd.

So a couple weeks ago one of the local mechanics needed to offload some dead cars, and naturally he came to me with the subies. Terms are, you can have them for cheap if they are removed by morning. Done.

So today after work I was going to start up the head-gasketed 250T and get it up the drive to pull the motor. Was going to time myself too, see If I could do it in an hour, already has the rad out anyway.

So we hooked up a battery, the mechanics that had it had already pulled the plugs, so I cranked it with the plugs out to make sure it wouldn't hydrolock. popped the plugs in and tried to start it... It barely had compression in one cylinder.. Must have cranked for a full minute total over a few attempts before calling it fucked (took my dads BH almost a minute before it started to get that car into the garage when that thing popped). Got out, and found it had barfed probably 2 litres of oil out of the rad hose onto the fucking road. Ran upstairs and grabbed the kittey litter, and managed to stop it trickling down the hill... Mitch is out at the moment to the warehouse to get a couple more bags to fully clean up the spill...

What a fucking nightmare... And that engine must be proper toast. Man.

Still, $50 car, can't complain! Pics tomorrow.

[meepers]

love it! I wish I had more time I could have picked up 3 or 4 more subies to play with.. I suppose I need to focus my energy on getting Ruby running first. Lol I love your GTB BTW.

[Reuben]

Sorry I didn't get pics of the current 250T I'm working on, currently the interior is in a state...

On the weekend I helped a friend though, with a BG9C Lancaster:

An aquantance of mine does a lot of Subie fix'n'flics, he's good and quick on the tools, but when something goes wrong, he'll come to me cause he know's I have a pile of shit and manuals in the garage :D. In this instance, he had done the headgaskets on an EJ25 that had been overheated to buggery, and it had developed a bit of a miss. That is, it ran fine, but if you blipped the throttle, it'd basically knock like a mofo, or stall. We came up with possible options; AFM, TPS, Ignitor/coil/leads/plugs. Start with the basics eh...

He replaced the plugs and leads, no different. Coil pack, no difference, ignitor, nothing. Then the TPS, I adjusted it, measured it's output etc. Swapped the AFM, still nothing. Clutching at straws, we checked the ECU earths, and swapped ECU, no difference. well shit. I honestly thought it'd be something like TPS failing, giving no fuel boost with throttle advance (it ran fine when not moving the pedal).

We had heard of injectors possibly going bung after a bad overheat, so I listened out, and each was working, each was talking to the ECU, and each had resistance within normals... but eventually scratching out heads as to what else it could be, and with rumours on the internet of bad injectors after overheats, he replaced those and the problem was solved... Injector 3 was looking pretty manky TBH!

[Reuben]

Twin Turbo 95 GT:

One of the local mechanics today asked me to get a GT going for him. The primary turbo had utterly shat itself, and oil all through the engine, yum. Purportedly he had cleaned out the intercooler and intake when he fitted the new turbo, but when he went to start it, it refused to fire... Having had enough of it and with plenty of other cars to fix, he gave up on it for the day...

I wondered over after work and had a theory straight away. In my mind, obviously the plugs were still fouled up with oil, so withing 5 mins I had No.1 out, and sure enough, it was wet with it. Cleaned it up, then went to get No.3 out, and must have spent half an hour faffing about getting nowhere. I eventually found an inspection mirror, and sure enough there was a bit of the coil wedged in there preventing the socket getting on. Another half hour wasted getting it out, and cleaning the plug up, I thought i'd be smart and try starting it with two plugs cleaned, and let combustion do the rest on the other side (big day, just wanted to get home). Well it made a damn feeble attempt at it I tell you what, it only barely fired on one cyl while cranking, then the battery went dead on me. I downed tools and blasted home in Blighter at warp nine as I usually do (god I love that wee bc!)

Tomorrow if he still hasn't touched it, I'll clean the other sides, unplug the injectors and crank it for a good 30+ seconds, then try again. Might talk him into an upper engine clean too (seafoam you guys may know it as)

[Red85Celica]

Fuckkkk! That view from your house (flat) jealous of the cars and scenery.

[Reuben]

Teeheehee

[Hinyo]

Still want pics =( but glad to hear about the progress =)

[Dead91silvia]

That view... sigh...

[Reuben]

2003 SG5 Forester:

Had a quick job tonight cambelt and water pump, as well as oil pump reseal on a SOHC SG5. I quoted the guy 4 hours to do the job, managed it in 3:45. Chur! Such a nice car to work on this one, literally nothing went wrong, and nothing was stuck. Crank sprocket and pulleys just came off, oil pump had no screws unwound and was clean, whole engine bay was clean. Just a joy.

More cash in my back pocket now to go towards blighters 2.2

[Reuben]

The Turd, Mitches 1996 BG9 (facelift) 250T.

So this one is a good story, my flatmate Mitch, who has the drop dead mint white BC GT, and the battle wagon rough as guts BF GT, inherited his old work hack, a 96 250Turd. This car has been thrashed for YEARS, abused as hell, and neglected, but amazing never broke, still is on the original EJ25 incredibly! Something to be said about itallian tune ups eh?

Well, we didn't get it in the best of condition, had sign writing sticky crap over the whole car, a cracked radiator, a busted inner CV, a cambelt 40,000km overdue, and bald tyres... Determined to do this on the cheap we managed to pick up some wicked deals. A set if all matching supercats with about 70% tread on them for a box of beers is one example.

Tonight we managed to sell it for $2600, but still hadn't done the rad and cambelt. So we managed to bust out the job in a good 3 hours flat! Didn't do the thorough job though, left the oil pump and water pump in place, but hey, that's what you get for $2600. Would have felt a bit more generous if we had got the asked $3000! Other work done on it leading up till now is new wof and rego, trans fluid flush, full service including plugs and filters, and inner CV replacement.

Anyway, here's the pics I took on the weekend after two days of meths peeling glue off, then getting out the ol mothers 3-step. I'd say a bloody bargain for that kind of cash in queenstown!!!

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IMG_9793 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57752725@N05/15895439922/) by Reuben Horsley (https://www.flickr.com/people/57752725@N05/), on Flickr

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IMG_9794 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57752725@N05/15708797550/) by Reuben Horsley (https://www.flickr.com/people/57752725@N05/), on Flickr

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IMG_9798 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57752725@N05/15896099185/) by Reuben Horsley (https://www.flickr.com/people/57752725@N05/), on Flickr

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IMG_9801 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57752725@N05/15870282606/) by Reuben Horsley (https://www.flickr.com/people/57752725@N05/), on Flickr

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IMG_2766 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57752725@N05/15723612300/) by Reuben Horsley (https://www.flickr.com/people/57752725@N05/), on Flickr

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IMG_2751 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57752725@N05/15910917665/) by Reuben Horsley (https://www.flickr.com/people/57752725@N05/), on Flickr

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IMG_2749 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57752725@N05/15725147717/) by Reuben Horsley (https://www.flickr.com/people/57752725@N05/), on Flickr

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IMG_2743 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57752725@N05/15908945011/) by Reuben Horsley (https://www.flickr.com/people/57752725@N05/), on Flickr

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IMG_2742 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57752725@N05/15291260933/) by Reuben Horsley (https://www.flickr.com/people/57752725@N05/), on Flickr

[Reuben]

Sooo been a while since working on other peoples cars. I think I have done a pretty bog standard rocker cover job on a BE twin turbo, and a stereo install, pretty dry. But a couple of weeks ago the Mr's HX20S decided to spit the dummy. The HX in question is the V6 STi looking GC in the first post!

Couple of weeks ago we got back from a road trip to dunedin, and the whole drive back the car would hesitate real bad if attempting to move off from a stand still. Shale's always done this to a degree (my theory - pod filter), but this was something else, way worse, 100% of the time. When we pulled up at home it was starting to knock too, a good tick like a collapsed lifter, so we popped the bonnet and the crank pulley was on the piss and wobbling about, few test revs, and sure enough, cough-splutter-choke-REV. Add that with a gruesome sound when you depress the clutch pedal. All the dot's lined up to fucked thrust bearings in the motor, basically a death sentence for a 20E, simply not economical to rebuild, much better off replacing and up-speccing to DOHC AVCS or something.

SO, Shale sat for the night thinking about what he had done, and next evening I went to go have a look. I thought I ought to look at the motor first, to try and sus what was actually wrong. Went and pushed the crank back with all the might I could handle, then got someone to depress the clutch pedal, and it only moved forward a quater of a mm at most. I thought that probably wasn't enough for a fucked thrust bearing, so moved onto the next item, the wobble front pulley, that was way too wobbly to be a crank, I knew it had to be a bit loose.

The crank bolt was loose.

The pulley fell off in my hands after removing it...

DUN DUN DUN

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So back on the pully went, and up into the garage went Shale. Luckily I have spares of everything, and the timing kit in stock upstairs, so I set to work! Whipped the whole front end out as per normal cambelt job, and got to the front crank sprocket... It was stuck. Whacked it, CRC'd it, tugged on it, pried it, aaaaand got fed up and downed tools for the night. Next night, more heaving, nothing, down tools. Next night, weak pathetic attempts to see if the CRC had done anything... It hadn't... So finally after leaving it in there till the weekend I brought home a puller from work, figure it was about high time I bought one... and wow. Instant success. Stupid stupid me, always have the tool for the job for gods sake!

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New ones lined up and ready to go in.

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Much better....

And damage away from seal, a wee tap with the hammer after this shot to smooth it out...

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Job mother-fucking-done. Shale runs all good now, all the issues at the start of this post were cause by one loose crank pulley. Not bad!

Now to address the seized caliper that has worn one pad to the metal... BREMBO TIME!

[CaleDeRoo]

These look much nicer than the OEM rears in my Outback... Jealous