Tractorhead 9,087 #1 Posted March 9 Hi To all my Friends, i had a troubleful times behind me, that was one of the reasons i was not able for longer time to visit The Forum periodically. Changin the Company and help the to become Serial State and do a lot of Work also arround the House. Than a Family Member passes and we was very busy in this timeline. Also the Subi needs a lot of attention, because the company they do the Rustrepair before makes sadly a lot of Junk Work. the Previous owner showed me a Bill over 3500 Bucks for „massive Rustrepairs“. The Truth is, the work was not worth the Paperwork where the Bill was written on. a Broken Rear Spring at 100Km/h was the beginning of that whole Disaster, what cutt‘s the Tire like a Soup Cup opener. Ok it is a 25 Year old Car, so that can be happen a spring collapses - no doubt. So we took the Subi to a Friends Workshop, who is a Car Sheetmetal professional to use his Car Lift. The Basic Job was exchange 2 completely new Rear Shocks including springs to prevent the same was happen on the opposite Side. By inspecting the Damages of the tyres we found a Sheetmetal part in the Wheelhousing, that flapped a little unmotivated arround and seemed just „ flown in“. We grab a pliers to remove it and another sheetmetal part was „hanging“ on it and opened like a tuna can. Dang - looked behind the scenes, we found that the previous company just glued the sheet metal Patches on the gunk and rust of the old Sheetmetal and just „finished it“ with lots of filler to egalize it. Undercar stone protection to hide the worse Work finalized the kind of „ Work“ the more we inspecting, the more the real disaster becomes visible and we deciding what to do. I was short ahead to Sent the Subi to the Junkyard, but i love that Car. ok, short Calculation - trash it - but what Car get next? It must be a 4x4 for the Fawn Saving, Petrol Engine - best with a LPG system in - my Pricerange is about 4000-6000 Bucks Let‘s start a Search....🤪🤬🤐😱 after 3 Weeks of Searching i found, that i wouldn‘t find a honest Car for a real Price. Prices for used Cars are exploding here. For the Subi i payed 1300 bucks and i knew there is several Work to do on. i calculated add on with about 1500-2000 bucks for 4 year Road Safety. So i opened myself a calculation ahead and finalized i have to invest 4000 bucks into the Subi and a dang amount of Time as compare another 4 Wd Car what is better than the Subi to go is at least 10000 bucks here at the moment.🤬🤐 At least we decide to completely rework the whole rear Car and even the Axle mounts. Except the rear side doors and rear door nothing is as it was before, 1/4 of the Whole car is completely rebuilt new. all parts are needed be at 2800 bucks plus his salery and support for the Workshop. A real fair Deal. We completely rebuilt the whole rear end once with parts that be available on the market and what is not available we built it by ourself. We also rebuilt the whole section under the rear Axles Axlemounts, that binds lot‘s of time but i just can work on Weekend on my Car. My Friends helps me a lot, by set me his Trainee aside as helper. Win Win situation for us both, he learned a lot and now the Subi is back on the Road. just his first Paintjob was, let me say Discusting 😎😂😂😂, but hey it just must be Fixed not be a beauty its a Car to Work. Yesterday i finished the whole Frontaxle ( Calipers, new Discs, Brakepads, Dustcovers for brakediscs, Joints) Luckily we didn‘t have that much Snow this year, so i can do lots of things by Myself. 13 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 70,089 #2 Posted March 9 Great to see you posting again! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky-(Admin) 21,814 #3 Posted March 9 No pictures taken along the way showing the Subi progress? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squonk 42,144 #4 Posted March 9 Pay close attention to the front cross member. A common Subi rust out DEE-SAS-TOR waiting to happen! I know the feeling. Found the frame rotted out on my GMC last Sept. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tractorhead 9,087 #5 Posted March 9 (edited) 1 hour ago, Sparky said: No pictures taken along the way showing the Subi progress? Pics wil comeing soon... Btw. I didn‘t make that much pics, because the work was formerly in foreground to be made as quick as possible. Edited March 9 by Tractorhead Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wallfish 17,311 #6 Posted March 9 Glad to see you posting again! Apparently you have been VERY busy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tractorhead 9,087 #7 Posted March 9 There was a lot of things to do that bound nearly all my sparetime. next week is time to Service my Wheelhorse. it was this year just 2 times needed for Winter Service. once the Beast must Work with the New Bigger Bucket and the rest was molten or washed quickly. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 63,984 #8 Posted March 9 I was just wondering about you this week Stephan, and thought I should send you a message soon if I don’t hear from you. Glad to hear you found the bad, before it tried to take you out again! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tractorhead 9,087 #9 Posted March 9 Thanks Bro‘s for all your kind words. The whole World seems changing, but never our Passions - the Wheelhorses. Sadly mine has a long time Break, but it was not bad at all. Not much Snow means to me - not much rust that can occur. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
