joat09
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- Aug 1, 2008
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Galesburg,
Illinois
First day I bought my awd in December last year the E-brake breaks. I was just parking. I guess the previous owner never used it or stretched it out. Christmas day I'm leaving a stop light and I was harder on it usually taking the interstate. It was a very loud squealing sound. I immediately pull over thinking it was something in my turbo or my fans. I didn't see anything and I started the car up with no problem. Which was a bad idea. but I had to get home and I would worry about the damage later. I get home and there is smoke rolling from under the hood. I never did figure it out. I take it to a dealership and they tell me it is the clutch. I have a shop replace the clutch (worst idea I ever had.) Protip: always do your own repairs. Right after I get the clutch replaced I take the car around to break in the clutch. It is still slipping. Turns out it was the xfer case. I found out the transfer case was under recall. For a month I tried to get a dealership to honor the recall and do the work but i never did. I end up buying a rebuilt transfer case and putting it in. 2 days later my clutch master cylinder goes out. The entire time this is happening I keep trying to figure out all the boost leaks and fixing them but they always came back. I replaced throttle body gaskets to get rid of some of the boost leaks. When I put the tb back on I tightened the bolt too much and 2 bolts snapped. Both were still in the intake mani, and I had that replaced. I ended up replacing it with a 95 manifold but I needed a 6-bolt intake. That took me forever to figure out. putting everything back on i break one of the fuel rail bolts off in the head. that was a pain in the ass. After that I just said #### it. If I'm always going to be waiting for it to be fixed than I might as well rebuild it. Which I am doing right down. rebuild should be done late this May and I can't wait.