Legacy Wagon

Oh sweet! Didn't see that. Yeah, looked inactive at 2 months. Even a year seems kinda that way, but cool that it had at least some history

Yep. Owned a lot of Subarus over the years and this Legacy is still my favorite

I miss my first gen. Took a whole Junk to kinda replace it. Sorry, I meant Jeep.

Yeah, dreading the day I'll have to let this thing go. Just too hard to find any parts for them anymore :/

Ah, sorry. I was talking to JimBo. He's got a right hand drive model

with the tall roof.

Was the carrier bearing on the driveshaft going bad or something?

Sold the car a few years back. Bought it back about a year ago for $600 cause I missed it so much.

Stuff done since getting back:

Replaced ball joints, inner/outer tie rods, whiteline steering rack bushings, moog front endlinks, customish whiteline and poly rear endlinks, new flex plate, rear cam seal, rear main seal (viton), oil separator cover, valve cover gaskets, pcv valve t-connector, injector 3, injector 4, air filter, fuel filter, re-soldered knock sensor, 98 outback KYB struts, battery, cleaned and repainted some areas, replaced the motor/regulator in the driver door and the window control housing, re-soldered the back of the AC panel, upgraded the factory aux stereo to a nicer Kenwood one and got some Rockford Fosgates for it, replaced rear wheel bearings, added a receiver hitch...I know there's more. Either way, it's looking pretty good these days. I plan to bring it to Subifest in November.

I have new tires and after all of the suspension work it still feels a bit floaty. I'm sure it's due to keeping old springs and having it lifted to begin with. Any advice on what I could do to have it less so? I'd love not to spend a crap-ton of money on upgrades at this point. I'm considering strut braces front and rear, but not sure how much that would help.

I have WRX wheels on it with some Ohtsu 205/55's. Is the sidewall too high?

Soon to be done when I get free time:

Repaint the grille

Replace the calipers, rotors and pads all around

Repaint my WRX wheels

Install my 4 Hella's...probably...if I can find a good way to mount them that's removeable.

Here's a more recent picture of it:

A few years ago the gen 1 forum was full all the time. It seems most people have gotten rid of their Legacy's these days. Crushed or whatnot. Welcome to the club though

Nice wagon by the way. Where was it imported from?

I washed mine and the spray paint from previous owner fell off lol

 

 

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Wow...how's that even possible? haha

Bought new Outback struts and a bunch of other parts. Hopefully I'll have time to do the work on it soon. It's needs some crap.

Gotta figure out why my AC randomly turns off or to vent. Currently hitting the top of the dashboard will occasionally fix it, but it's not a long term solution

There are a few pipes that work with it. But I am more worried about cut and pasting the wires from the old one to the newer wrx one

I'll be the first to admit that I'm electrically

dumb. You could always ask the guys over

at Legacycentral

I mean they make specific ones that should hold

that MAF, but I cant see a custom design working

well without having that piece it connects to from

the WRX since you wont get a good mounting

surface for it otherwise.

I was just noting that it was a different kind

of MAF than what's on the Legacy. The Legacy

has an enclosed unit whereas the WRX has a

MAF that drops into the tube.

Although I probably missed an important part of this

conversation somewhere.

http://www.wrxtuners.com/forums/attachments/f51/4486d1259552481-idle-fuel-air-senors-wrx-maf-sensor.gif

I'm pretty sure the MAF in a WRX is much smaller.

It was just a sensor that stuck in the pipe instead

having its own enclosure.

scoobydoo73: I hate that freakin blue. My brother had

it in his first Subaru haha Looks good though. I like those

tweeters in the doors. Seems like a good spot where you

wont hit them. Looks good, man

Oh, cool. You found one. How did

the bracket mount up?

LOL! Nice dude

And I didnt even know they had to be notarized.

Is that a state thing?

Dang. Nice deal with the glass guy and

sucks about the ignition. I hate that crap.

What do you need a bill of sale for? Dont

you have the title?

I replaced my auto seatbelt and put the correct bulb in the backup light. Someone put and 1156 in an 1157 socket or the other way around. Didn't work too well. Now she should be ready for state inspection.

Sweet! You fix it for cheap?

AfterBurner1: Haha...well, that's pretty common.

If the clips weren't hooked on it

right it could have.

Man, I hope so too. I'm sure that's probably

it though.

Out with the old

http://i.imgur.com/bCrnz.jpg

 

In with the new

Yeah, more like "Out with the original". Funny how long

those axles can last when they dont see off-road often.

Thats nice. and you are very very very very fortunate to not have the front fenders rusted down by the mudflaps and doors. That's been my biggest pain since I got the car. Also, I figured out that the roof rack from a wagon WILL NOT fit on the sedan, it is too long and goes over the windshield/rear window. Guess I'll just have to buy Yakima Q-towers

Gracias Needs repainted.

My other one has the really bad rust

at the rear of the driver fender. Almost

gone. Cant even put the mudflaps on it.

That's a shame :/ What year did you buy

them from? I think the newer cars have

longer roof racks.

Yeeeeaaaah boooiiiii!

Got it a few months ago. I like it

Little 5 speed AWD one. It's got 220

on the cluster and drives better than

I'd expect anything with that many miles

on it to drive I may have a picture.

Turns out I only had crappy cell phone

pictures haha

I haven't done much exterior-wise. I pulled

the engine, replaced all the seals, changed

all the fluids and stuff...maintenance. The

only things I've done other than that were

painting the rims and painting/installing a

turbo grille on it. You can see my experiment

in the picture of trying to make it more like the

turbo grille, before I realized that the turbo grill

was different than the normal one haha

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/TetsuoShima/Photo04101913.jpg

This was when I repainted the rims before

the trip to Georgia.I guess I've had it since

April or the beginning of May, but have no real

pictures lol Sad.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/TetsuoShima/Photo05231822.jpg

Dang. The new ones have brackets. I wonder if I

even need to put the brackets from the new one

on my old Legacy then haha And roof racks are

pretty sweet. I threw and old Schwinn up on the

top of my green wagon last night

They dont have those metal brackets on the

ceiling of the old ones for the bars to bolt to?

The brackets underneath are going to be the hardest part.

I dont know if the older ones had them though. I pulled mine

off of a second gen so I'm not sure if it'll fit my car or not.