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Hi All,

I have a Liberty Wagan RS 2.5Lt with the manual trans. After my mechanic replaced both CV joins (in fact he replaced the whole axle assembly) he realised that the issue I was having with my car was in fact the centre diff. Luckily he only charged me for one!
Its the usual fault where upon turning sharply at low speeds the car acts like it has a detroit locker front and back and the wheels slip and carry on. This fault was then confirmed by Subaru when I had the clutch replaced through them.
The problem I have is how to fix this as cheaply as possible. From memory (Ihave been driving it like this for over 12 months now) Subaru wanted something around the $2k mark to replace the centre diff. I have also been told that the particular part that causes this issue is within the gearbox housing so I thought maybe I can just get a second hand tranny and do the swap myself. However to get a 2nd hand manual box from what I can tell costs anywhere from $1100 - $1750 and then I have to put the bastid in. The thing is, I want to sell this car and want to fix this as cheaply as possible.

Does anyone have any ideas or advice on what I should/could do?

I found this article which was very interesting;

http://www.anfdriveshafts.com/TECH%20SH ... 0DRIVE.pdf

I can assure you I have never had different sized or a different ware rates of tires on this car. She's done 250k km so it may be just worn out but geez what an expensive part...

Best Regards,
Luke

Very interesting guide, thanks for posting it up. I did my first tyre rotation (since I bought the car) about 1,000Kms ago and I put the front left onto rear right, front right onto rear left, and vice versa. The tyre tread is almost identical left to right so it shouldn't be a problem.

teK-- wrote:Very interesting guide, thanks for posting it up. I did my first tyre rotation (since I bought the car) about 1,000Kms ago and I put the front left onto rear right, front right onto rear left, and vice versa. The tyre tread is almost identical left to right so it shouldn't be a problem.

You did see the bit saying: "DO NOT PUT LEFTS ON RIGHT OR RIGHTS ON LEFT" ?
(or is that what you're commenting on?)

Yeah I did a criss cross rotation of the tyres. Left and Right looked very evenly worn it was only the fronts slightly more worn than the rear.

Just checked the workshop manual it does say swap front to rear only. But there is no precaution against going left to right. I'll swap them back to the "correct" sides on the weekend when I bleed the brake fluid.

Hey mate..

with your RS jump on rslibertyclub.org

you might be able to get some second hand parts for your RS on there fairly cheep alot cheeper then going through subaru or a wrecker anyway an the guys on there all work on their RS all the time so they might be able to give you a little more help maybe?

j1c2m3 wrote:Hey mate..

with your RS jump on rslibertyclub.org

you might be able to get some second hand parts for your RS on there fairly cheep alot cheeper then going through subaru or a wrecker anyway an the guys on there all work on their RS all the time so they might be able to give you a little more help maybe?

Hey James, he's actually got a 1999 RX 2.5 Lib, so perhaps a bit too young for the RSLC.