 It's straight now No, I mean it was you know, 20 degrees Towing I guess the the bulging moves when you go back and forth. All right Let's do something. Let's see if our new Mad Max bumper beam will work You got some gappage It's quite a bit actually I want do you have nuts nuts? Yeah, yeah You if we can we got some serious gappage on both sides I want to just grab it and let's see if bumper will fit because if bumper will fit then the screw it We'll just put a washer here. You don't want to make the bend. I found some nuts and bolts This one needs Cleaning This is a 10 by 1.25 the body shop welded is not in Some of these welds are in the way like no second time seriously You can never have enough extensions So it's it's all the way here, but this is the gap we're working with so we're gonna try the bumper now And just see how it fits so the bumper was funny fun, but we still don't have all the pieces for the grow What this thing See we may have an issue is this Supposed to go where the bolt is There's a rubber bushing behind No, I don't think so that's That's for a light What No, I don't think it's for the bumper because it doesn't line up No, or maybe the bumper what year is the bumper or six or seven All seven. Well, I mean lines up very nicely with this fender. Okay, so these these two are for the light brackets the headlight brackets That's what we're thinking close Yeah, I think this is the way This ain't gonna work so but we have an idea we got a plan So what we need to do? We need to come this way So this the corners of the bumper beam will go inside. All right. We have an issue Don't try this at home as you can see these Are all the way To each other touching both sides. We cannot compress this spring anymore and it's not moving I mean, it's still, you know, slightly compressed about whatever. So this is what you do. I would use a Ratchet I don't know Thing ratchet Okay, that's what happens. I'm gonna step back just enough What do you know don't don't it's like, you know, don't point the gun at yourself. I Think it's stuck over here. There we go. For God's sake. Don't try this at home. Is it still moving? It's still moving and I should be okay. They're going easy So you go no didn't go that easy. So the plan is since This one here is bent Okay, we're gonna try and take that one apart and Switch the inserts Right, right. No, we're gonna know because these these are STIs. These are from an 06 or an 07 STI struts Oh five up, whatever. Yeah, the red ones are all four, but those are shots So so what's the plan to put these in the red ones? Inserts into red Okay, because All right, I'm gonna take those apart again. Take this apart. I'm gonna compare The holes with those big bolts go through. Yeah, so just took out this knot for the ball joint little more That was loose that not was loose any the match The problem. Yeah one of you. All right guys, so Red ones are from an 04 STI These The black ones not this not this one this one is from as the damaged one from the 2.5 The one we just took apart that's from this STI. So what we need we need these Struts, but we need the actual inserts from the STI and the STI springs Because These holes do line up the mounting holes do line up between the 04 and the an hours the 06 But the STI ones don't These are spread off wider from each other So we need what's inside there in the spring and basically build Build it on this one. It may be tough to take this apart because the nuts on the bottom These nuts are stuck. They're spinning. So I'm gonna have to figure something out And we basically got it removed eight of these. I have my own old Sway bar with good sway bar links. I'm gonna take one out and Install one there. So now to remove this control arm. I'm gonna remove the bottom nut from the sway bar link Oh, I forgot. I'm looking for the subframe and it's not even it's It's there somewhere so then I'm gonna remove this nut and This nut here and the control arm will come out. All right so far so good. I can open these up. Yeah These actually came out Yeah, pretty easily and you can see how this looks inside. We gotta watch out for those those seals Because now we are We have to do that we have to clean this up so we need to clean it up and Pack it with the other grease something what grease not sure what kind of grease I don't know Just for now, I will put this one back Which one the old This one yeah, all right guys easy way to take a sway bar link off if you're gonna just Know if it's bad or you don't want it You take A pipe or you can actually cut it in half and use a wrench the closed end Bend it out pop it out then all your left is With this plastic insert then there's a ball inside Go now The one on the car actually came out for me by using the allen key inside and spinning that while holding the nut in place But if you can if it's on the car and you got a tight spot where you can put a gun on it And you get to the ball Get yourself some vise grips Make sure that's tight and voilà So this is what the sway bar links ball joints Tie rod ends and what not look like inside. What happens is this gets worn On the inside there and it starts to have a little play going up and down and For example if you're go going over bumps and you're hearing little knocks here and there. This is it Well, obviously there's this plastic insert, but it's a kind of a metal a metal action and that's what you're hearing update update We managed to finally take this bottom Screw off the bottom here. Remember if you're gonna this the spring needs to be compressed when you take this out it Will still shoot out. So remember don't hurt yourself remember to put these on Compress the spring So that's why this needed to be flipped Let's try this again up date You got this one in same one is back same exact Strut is back got that new new old sway bar link This one we basically loosen up this nut after flipping this or twisting this around 180 degrees we loosen this one up so it turns and Because these the bushings spin inside these Whatever you call these brackets, whatever So you don't have to You know compress the suspension up and then tighten this up We can you can do it while the car is up on these STI Control arms All right, so now we're gonna get ready for a test drive number two. We got a muscle up some lights Oh, yeah, let's let's bring it down and fix the air box Okay wheel on and then we got a new used Air box because that one was broken I should I should show you the ABS brackets for the ABS pump This was all bent up a little bit rusted here and there look at it now No, this is not new beautiful Are you gonna switch the sensor No, it may not work that may be different what the sensor? Yeah, that's what I'm saying Yeah, we have to switch I can attach this We may need some rubber behind it New slightly rusted Bolt so it feels right at home Could be right Good need to show We need to know we need to band right so we got the lights fully adjustable Also side markers Good low low beam and then high beam. Holy shit. Hell yeah Let's do this. Oh, yeah, we gotta take it off the jack. Still got an exhaust leak Need a new gasket. Holy shit. We got too much camber man. Man, we got too much camber Holy shit And this wheel also. Oh man. All right, let's turn these lights on It's pretty good actually. All right, so we do have lights. We do see what's ahead of us, but You probably don't Driving we're driving don't knock in so we do have we're doing what 20 set noise sounds like a gearbox Wine. Yeah, go right Cricking noises from the front we probably should Put it all back together and then you know test drive it not Halfway and then you know listen for noises. Obviously, you know, there's stuff missing like the subframe Oh, it's fender liner. Yeah, that's the fender Because we're gonna end up buying another one It's rubbing against the wheel Let's do a drive event these lights man. These look they actually look pretty cool. Is this a spaceship? fender liner again yeah, because we adjusted the Camp the top camber bolt to full minus or negative camber and we didn't touch the other side and That shock that bent Strat tower on the bottom. It's also giving us negative camber. Yeah, this is Mad Max Stuff over here. All right boys and girls. So we do have some progress We have been I've been working all day 10 hours straight probably anyways, we're gonna We're gonna have to bend this Bumper beam out a little bit and we do have a plan. That's next part next episode The control arms are done We do have to still replace the struts And that's what's going on here. I'm gonna do some switching around That's what we're gonna do next probably Under the hood is pretty much done. The air box is In place the ABS bracket is in place not much to do there We're probably gonna end up doing some maintenance, you know change oil Oil in the trends oil in the rear diff. Maybe spark locks. We'll see Low mileage, but you know, it is old. It is a 10 year or 14 year old car after all So we might as well do spark locks as well. And then I'm sure we're gonna have a lot of fun Messing around with the fender and the bumper attaching all this other stuff and that fender liner is on the way I think it was $15 from rock auto and Then after all that's done, it's gonna be paint. All right. See you soon