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Old 11-26-2006, 12:01 AM   #76
ten80
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: AK
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00 16' FXT

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Ok, today was a mixed success.

Timing belt installation was unsuccessful. Installed the belt, realized that it was one tooth off, then remembered that I was also going to do the water pump and thermostat. Both of those were missing gaskets, so back to the dealership I go on monday!

I did have a great success fixing the rear control arm threads that I borked when not paying attention to bolt straghtness. Thanks to a friend at NAPA who tracked down the 14x1.50 tap needed. He also found me the 12x1.25 tap I needed to clean up the mashed ball-joint threads on the front left control arm. It turns out that I didn't need to remove the ball joint anyways. I highly recommend removing the entire front subframe/control arms/drive shafts/sway bar/steering rack assembly instead of removing one piece at a time. DUH!

Wiring guru Matt Monson came over and we started trimming the legacy harness and finding out how to make the gauge cluster and dash harness functional. I'll need to track down the diagnostic manual which has the pinouts for all the connectors in the dash (hvac, radio, cluster, etc). Not a problem since I'm going to the dealership anyways!

xntrk75- after looking at the dash harness, we think it will be a heck of a lot easier to not touch it and use the legacy cluster. We could do this by merging the harness before the SMJ, using pinouts from the diagnostic manual. Are you suggesting that the legacy cluster will have problems with the VSS? I have yet to find out if the VSS is 2 or 3 wire. Also, did you remove any of the ATC wires connecting to the SMJ/tranny plugs, or did you just leave it in, untouched and with the connectors unplugged? it looks like there is only one wire going from the ATC to the ABS ECU and it would be nice if it was the only wire that should be connected to the ATC. The other option is removing the legacy ABS ECU from the ABS controller and installing the WRX one. Since the ABS units look identical and have identical plugs, I suspect that the ECU's can be swapped. I'd love to toss that ATC out the window . Thanks again!

back to my grad school application, wish me luck! Hopefully I'll snap a few pictures of the wiring tomorrow so everyone can see the progress.
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