Painted my friend. I had some rust issues and I figured the only way to make it look decent was to either paint the whole car or go for a "Beagle" look. Beagle look cost 1.99, full paint
I am in Germany but work for the US Military. I have to have a car taken out of the German system and registered in the Military system. I am only allowed 3 cars in the Military system. So we were in need of another vehicle while the wagon is down and in order to get it out of the Military system you have to de-register the car which requires you to sell it to a German again. So my car was sold to my buddy, whom turned around and sold it back to me. Now it is in limbo, like it never existed. If I go the Military they won't see it in their system, and the Germans won't see it in their system.
A Huge pain in the ass. If there is anybody in this world that can make crap as difficult as possible for its people, it is the US Military.
NOW BACK TO WAGON LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8)
Swapped my windshield wipers around to the appropriate sides (the metal-on-metal rubbing was driving me nuts!) and painted them flat black while I was at it. 1000x better!
Built an exhaust for the wag yesterday. Cost me absolutely NOTHING. Made everything from scrap tubing off a wrecked '04 Cavalier and an '84 Cressida. Muffler and resonator is off the Cav, and the tip is a Y-pipe I had an exhaust shop make last year for the side-exit exhaust on my Jetta, that I never permanently installed, 2.5" into two 2-1/4" outlets. The car sounds completely stock, and can breathe a bit better, as the piping is 2-1/4" instead of the anemic 1-7/8" that fell off previously.
Pardon the crap welds, I taught myself how to weld and will admit they're not the prettiest, but they penetrate completely and hold together.
Yes, those are ZipTies holding the muffler up. There are two rubber donuts holding temporarily until I can get proper-length rubber hangers installed, but as it sits, everything is fine. The muffler rests snugly on the undercoating by the towhook, and the only vibration is from the piping where it contacts the rear subframe when cold.
Finally gave the wagon some love that got my hands a little dirty. (Yeah, I know - everyone else here does amazing swaps, drops and wire tucks and make it look easy. I'm the guy the shops have the rate sign for, that reads "Customer Wants to Help - Additional $45.00 Per Hour".)
So, anyway, I put the rear mudflaps on that Wagodizzle sold me. Did the trimming to make sedan flaps fit thanks to Bam-Bam's excellent "how-to" he posted a while back. Borrowed a ratchet srewdriver thingy that let me screw the flaps on without pulling the tires. I may even pull all the flaps off, prep them and paint them like Bam did at some point soon.
Put the passenger side mirror on today at lunch, replaced the passenger side hood hinge with the good one from the junk yard. Also dropped it off so it can get it's state inspection done. Continued in a new thread in the main off topic section...
Oh yeah... forgot I put "new" tires on the RT4WD rims so now my rims all match. Also replaced various steering and suspension parts on the driver's side front. No more vibration!!
Wagons are great support vehicles. Mine went along to the autocross weekend in NH last week, carrying all the tools, wheels with racing tires, and baggage that wouldn't fit in the Miata (which was most of it). Ran the Miata, not the wagon. Won my class, both days, first time out with the new car, unmodified except for the tires. Doesn't get much better than that. 8)
A co-worker of mine had borrowed my Dodge over the weekend. I refurbish the older Honda liquid cooled mowers as a hobby. I had listed one on Craigslist and sold it today. The guy needed to meet me to pick it up so I enlisted the Wego to help. It done well. I have been figuring out how to upgrade the brakes as I feel that is a weak spot. Thanks to all the info on here I think I will tackle that job by summer.
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are those actual fender flares or is it just painted to look like fender flares :?:
Its cool man. Unfortunately the only people that can see my stickers are people who come to the garage since the wagon has been de-registered.
:?: :?:
A Huge pain in the ass. If there is anybody in this world that can make crap as difficult as possible for its people, it is the US Military.
NOW BACK TO WAGON LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8)
If only i had a place, time and money to work on my wagon!!
Bastard, No i was up in dargasville visiting my grandparents lol
Built an exhaust for the wag yesterday. Cost me absolutely NOTHING. Made everything from scrap tubing off a wrecked '04 Cavalier and an '84 Cressida. Muffler and resonator is off the Cav, and the tip is a Y-pipe I had an exhaust shop make last year for the side-exit exhaust on my Jetta, that I never permanently installed, 2.5" into two 2-1/4" outlets. The car sounds completely stock, and can breathe a bit better, as the piping is 2-1/4" instead of the anemic 1-7/8" that fell off previously.
Pardon the crap welds, I taught myself how to weld and will admit they're not the prettiest, but they penetrate completely and hold together.
Yes, those are ZipTies holding the muffler up. There are two rubber donuts holding temporarily until I can get proper-length rubber hangers installed, but as it sits, everything is fine. The muffler rests snugly on the undercoating by the towhook, and the only vibration is from the piping where it contacts the rear subframe when cold.
So, anyway, I put the rear mudflaps on that Wagodizzle sold me. Did the trimming to make sedan flaps fit thanks to Bam-Bam's excellent "how-to" he posted a while back. Borrowed a ratchet srewdriver thingy that let me screw the flaps on without pulling the tires. I may even pull all the flaps off, prep them and paint them like Bam did at some point soon.
A Pioneer '80s middle-class-radio:
Oh yeah... forgot I put "new" tires on the RT4WD rims so now my rims all match. Also replaced various steering and suspension parts on the driver's side front. No more vibration!!
Tomorrow, I'm going to try and do a transmission fluid change.
8)
Next up is a new air filter.