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Posted 10-13-2009 at 03:16 PM by Boosted98gsx

my brother had to go and use a non-deep well socket on one of my strut towers causing it to round, so yea, kinda stuck atm, but about to go and get an extraction kit.

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Well beat a 6pt deep well onto that nut, and got her loose. The ebrake cables are loosed from the cabin, rear end is pretty much ready to drop out. I don't know if the rear diff can be dropped w/o the entire subframe. I need to go research that and find out. Certainly would make the whole drop thing less difficult.

oh wells, that's it for today, going to do some fluid mechanics homework and then maybe get some more wrenching in on it tonight.

Posted 10-13-2009 at 04:47 PM by Boosted98gsx Boosted98gsx is offline

	Oh yea, this is what I am doing to the car. Adding an LSD, and steel rear diff cover. Plus some polyurethane damped solid rear diff bushings.
	Posted 10-13-2009 at 04:49 PM by Boosted98gsx

	Fluid Mechanics...nice, I just took that last semester. Go ME!
	Posted 10-13-2009 at 04:50 PM by mitch86

	Man that rear diff looks sweet. Good job!!
	Posted 10-13-2009 at 08:21 PM by Gstclipse69

	They make steel rear diff covers? Or is that custom?
	Posted 10-13-2009 at 08:50 PM by Morpherex

	Yea I want one of those diff covers....
	Posted 10-13-2009 at 08:53 PM by DWR-DSM

	where do u get one of those covers.....never seen one of them before
	Posted 10-13-2009 at 08:59 PM by 2gGSXEclipse

Thats a "semi custom" cover. There's a guy on the ECM/DSMLink boards thats currently producing 2g versions & in the future will be making a 1g version as well.

Nice looking setup, was thinking about maybe stepping up my rear cover as well. Not sure if you can drop the rear diff without the subframe, if it can be done, it would be extremely tight & IIRC correctly you won't be able to use a torque wrench to install the diff. Probably easier to drop the subframe in the long run.

Posted 10-13-2009 at 09:11 PM by daren_p daren_p is offline

	Heh, that dude should be on a different board... Not sheep board.
	Posted 10-13-2009 at 10:00 PM by Morpherex

	UPDATES! Got the subframe out (wasn't that hard after all) Got the bushings out, and the new ones hammered in. Pics of the emptiness that is my rear end now
	Posted 10-13-2009 at 11:05 PM by Boosted98gsx

	Congrants, what bots did you take out so it all comes off in one piece?
	Posted 10-13-2009 at 11:10 PM by eder-loco

2 on the top of each strut to the strut tower, 4 bolts that connect the upper wishbones to the chassis, 1 bolt on each side that connect the front control arm, disconnected the ebrake cables from the cabin (requires taking out the console and the airbag ECU to get to, then feeding them through the rear bench).

Finally the 4 rear subframe nuts, and everything just drops out as one big piece.

(I took off my brakes and rotors as a precaution, I don't want those things getting damaged)

Posted 10-13-2009 at 11:16 PM by Boosted98gsx Boosted98gsx is offline

	More PICTURES!! YAY! but BOO!
	Posted 10-14-2009 at 03:23 PM by Boosted98gsx

	axels too short?
	Posted 10-14-2009 at 10:44 PM by Jankenshank

	Hey looks good. Do you have an email for the guy that makes the rear end cover?
	Posted 10-15-2009 at 12:54 PM by Insane Performa

	Hey, that looks familiar. Get ahold of Andrew if you haven't already (I think I saw your post about it, though); he's re-doing the posts on mine. If you didn't do a side-by-side comparison with the old cover, the main posts are about 3/8" (1cm) too short, at least on my car.
	Posted 10-15-2009 at 01:36 PM by logic

	You're not trying to put the axles in backwards are you? The lsd rear end uses different left and right axles unlike the non-lsd where you can switch them side to side.
	Posted 10-15-2009 at 07:10 PM by evileclipse909

	Diff cover ears are right where they are supposed to be Axles are fixed, and I made a spacer for the bushing to subframe gap
	Posted 10-16-2009 at 11:01 AM by Boosted98gsx

	those bushings are fun to beat in arent they! good luck with everything. its about time you put those bushings in though you bought those from me months ago
	Posted 10-16-2009 at 01:09 PM by black_gst

	I've been waiting for months for the diff cover. If I'm going to be swapping to an LSD, might as well upgrade w/e else is around it, right?
	Posted 10-17-2009 at 10:21 AM by Boosted98gsx

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	Posted 10-17-2009 at 10:23 AM by Boosted98gsx Updated 10-21-2009 at 04:34 PM by Boosted98gsx

	Okay, despite the 1/4" gap, everything went in smoothly.
	Posted 10-20-2009 at 09:35 AM by Boosted98gsx