Damn those tin worms!
I love Firefly. It's always nice to bump into someone in the wild with exquisite taste.
The Ballad of Simon The Squeaking Subaru- A 2004 BH Outback Build Thread.
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I love Firefly. It's always nice to bump into someone in the wild with exquisite taste.
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Not to mention "chaotic good" I know where that is originated...
But about the topic... So if you want more ground clearance then there are more complex lifts with dif drop etc available that would allow you to go with bigger tires. 1" lift with the struts/springs is fine and still adjustable with the stock suspension, so 2" lift would require 1" dif drop. By the nature of how it's built, it's not too much of a problem.
Make sure to check the rear "axle carrier" thing for corrosion... Subaru did a really bad job there.
Not sure about your gearing but my Forester was geared pretty low, previous owner had smaller than stock tires and it was annoying, went to the biggest stock size and proper ATs and it was much better, still would have been happy with bigger tires.
Funny you should mention that, I'm developing a character for D&D who is a Paladin with great Paladin skills and traits; but he wants to be a rogue so he has to use roguelike skills and tools, and he's really bad at them. Just waiting for that inevitable conversation:
"you should just slay the guard and steal the keys"
"No, no. I'll pick his pockets. He won't even notice. It'll be fine!"
On topic: I've been lucky that Simon is a former New Mexico car and rust hasn't been serious. I think that I'll get the 2" rear lift kit with diff spacers, like you're saying. From what I'd read, you can go as high as 2.5" without the diff drop before bushings start to wear out, so I think that I can get away with a 3" lift with the diff drop. We'll see how it goes.
The front will be a bit different. I plan on using the 3" spacers that I have in my parts pile, with aftermarket long-travel axles from NAPA. These guys have up to 1.5" of additional travel and extended CV joints. My biggest concern will be wear on the tie rod ends.
From there, a locker in the rear, and I'll have a pretty solid platform for exploration.
I'm not familiar with the gearing that they use in the Forester, but I believe that a BH Outback with a 4ATE transmission has 4.11 R&P gears, which is pretty stout for something with factory tires smaller than a stock Toyota 4X4. Going up 2" in diameter with these tires hasn't really hurt his ability to hustle, that's for sure. I wish that I could go up to 31" tires, though.
Jacob_6ac873
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Deffently curious to see how everything works out we got a 04 Outback and I was think of selling it or trading it off for a jeep or ext cab truck but have vbeen tossing the idea on doing a lift and keeping it around meen it’s been pretty good ride brand new front end almost new rear end minus rear shocks which I’m fixing to order some and replace them
