Complete Rear Subframe Restoration 

Wow, that's a trek! You're going to have to meet me halfway! Or I'ma have to finish another car for you to drive when you get here. ;P

I would if it's mine! It's a community blaster, though. I'm only invested in the dust collection system and media. : | The cabinet's Matt's.

@@Jafromobile Step 1: Find out what date is Matt's birthday. Step 2: buy him 4 cinder blocks. Step 3: have him install said cinder blocks under his cabinet. Step 4: profit :D

Another trick fab up an adjustable base that way it can be moved to the right height for whomever is going to use it at the time and put that base on double locking aka 2 stage casters (first stage swivel lock second stage wheel lock). I used 2 side wind trailer jacks connected together with a gear reduction motor in the middle... Unfortunately I had to sell my blast cabinet... The adjustable base made it easier to load awkward/heavy parts into it by lowering it all the way down to bench top level next mod my blast cabinet got was to have a rail type rack that slid into the cabinet and out from the cabinet onto rails embedded into the side table, as rolling parts in and out is so much easier plus if you have an overhead lift you can just set it on the rack carriage... Plus the adjustable base makes it easier to replace the old blast media... I used to run sodium bicarbonate in my blast media mix at a ratio of between 1/8-1/4 total media volume as it helped prevent re-rusting just need an acidic wash before paint (such as vinegar or diluted muriatic acid) to neutralize the sodium bicarbonate followed by a self etching primer I have had parts blasted with the sodium bicarbonate mixed media sit unpainted without rusting going on 6yrs. (project got back burnered)

@@jdxnc04 5. 5 cinder blocks. We need one for Matt. Or perhaps 7? Rumor has it he's a bit of a tripod.

@@Jafromobile😂

This era of auto manufacturing really was special. There was true competition among auto manufacturers for the performance market. You got a whole lot of car out of the imports and they were dominating sales for a reason. Pre-internet, pre-bailout cars were engineered to be practical, sustainable, and end-user serviceable. It's a shame to see that changing in our lifetimes. There's something very pure and wholesome about fixing a thing with a $100 1-time-purchase physical book (that you'll have forever) instead of the internet/subscription-based service model access to it. Who even still prints service manuals anymore? Dangit DQ, you got me started... 😄 But I agree with you.

Dude, if you ever need to dyno it, we got you.

Thanks man! I make these videos for people exactly like us. This is a feel good story.

You have been right for decades!

Not to mention it can be next to impossible to get a regular thread cutting die started if the end of the threads are boogered

Oh muh goodness... there's such an enormous backlog of 4K broadcast 1-hour length specials here! lol. Thanks man! And welcome aboard!

I hope so! But just in case I happen to be with the Hyundai that day, I'll bring you a blindfold. ;) We'll pretend it's one of the shiny ones.

I don't know how I managed to keep this one rolling for an hour and a half, but here we are... Thanks man!

You know how I do! An altruist's response: Why make a video to help people and not give them the recipe? Why let my research evaporate? Jafro's response: You people think I make these videos for you? These are my notes for later.

@@Jafromobile 😂😂😂 I hear you man. All of your videos are extremely detailed and meticulous. I appreciate the level you go to on these projects

Before I used to do this, I used to cross thread things and destroy fasteners all the time. It's a valuable lesson once learned.

It's a lesson that almost everyone learns the hard way. For the 1st 10 years of RU-vid everyone seemed to be trying to find the most powerful cordless tools. Competing. Picking their brand and cheerleading for them in comments. Some channels made a fortune torture testing them. I'm from the camp that believes cordless impacts are for production work on a job site, not for restoring anything. Although I will use them when manual methods fail. They are still valuable tools, just not the go-to tool.

We've been talking about this one amongst ourselves. I've been collecting these tools not just for doing this work. The dimensions of some things are very specific, and it's nice to be able to get them by measuring the actual thing. Back when doing this work was popular, nobody could afford any of these tools. Mitsubishi was famous here for charging people $90 for just a special socket to do a specific part of you job (probably in your driveway, probably one time). $90 was a whole lot of money in the '90's. That was like 4-5 full tanks of gas (depending on which part of the '90's). Non-mechanics just didn't buy them, so 30 years past their production, I'm having a hard time chasing down the originals. So even if I can make all of them and I probably will, I still want both! Somebody's going to really want my tool collection someday.

I mean I want it now @@Jafromobile

Yeah. But do you know how bad 4 spoke wheels look? I wish this car came with the rally wheels, but between both Galants, I got lucky with neither. These are a vast improvement over the factory wheels, and still within the correct lineage because they came from a Lancer OZ Rally Edition. One of this car's grandchildren.

But of course #Jafromobile ! What a horrid thought! I was merely suggesting that five spoke wheels should come with five bolts! One more bolt is too not much to ask is it? Of course, to a manufacturer, that makes four extra bolts (or was it five back then on account of the spare wheel?) times the number of cars produced... Cheapskates!

@@Stelios.Posantzis I totally agree. It provides so many more wheel options. The Galant shares a lug pattern with mini vans and station wagons. But at the power levels I'll be approaching, 5-lug would be safer, too. Once you go 5-lug on a Galant, then you start having problems finding wheels that fit the body. When that happens to this car it will be because the right wheel came along. It's a bigger upgrade than just adding a lug. The wheel size I have (15"x7") is advantageous because of the tire and sidewall options it provides me with. These big Galant brakes fit under this 15" wheel. That's the reason I'm keeping them around for now.

I knew it would please everyone who knows. ;)

I may have found gold for you in my shed... If it's what I think it is. Because if it's what I think it is, then I've spent a whole lot of money to have the wrong one restored. And it will be that already-restored one that you get. Wish I'd collected your contact info one of the half-dozen times we crossed paths (since I'm not on socials).

You were watching the wrong Eclipse... lol... But thank you! I appreciate you (4/8/2024)!

I swear that I live in the world's hot zone for daubers. At least they make their houses in the shapes of RageFaces like the LOL guy and the Forever Alone guy. It's uncanny. Nature is a meme.

I have a case of it. It's the only way to buy it.

🤣 Precisely!

I didn't do the toe eliminator (even though I have it and showed it in a previous video) is because it's the same joint as a non AWS Galant. It's the same thing the DSMs got. Nothing's different. The toe problems begin to develop once that joint fails, and they're in excellent condition. I also powder coated these before I accepted the fact that this AWS system could not be repaired. So there's that... Either way, if it ever becomes a problem, I've got all the parts! Remember I also have another Galant with trailing arms that haven't been restored yet.

Thanks man! Always great to see you and I hope your whole circle is well!

I noticed the same thing. Everything to build 2 rear diffs (but only 1 set of bearings) for $360. What a bargain! They even overcharged me for shipping and issued a $26 refund on that (without me asking). Stellar gents!

I agree with you, and I will. This one's still got a dry, indoor life for a while. Several more processes to go and the next one it sees will be done by a guy who does that for people for a living. He'll be one of the first and the last people this car visits.

There's a longer story here. I can tell.

@@Jafromobile just fleet servicing as the new guy always got rear diff services. I figured I would ask but have you ever thought of using a tsx ktuned shifter (rsx version is backwards) as a replacement to the stock dsm shifters? (There are reps of the shifters you can get for cheap) I have one to test but my talon broke and now I am fixing all the things I should have fixed since the car is down. I have gotten as far the shifter and push pull cables working but road blocked at transmission ends. Thought I would pick your brain.

@@sentryscrub What happened? Did you break the weld on your shifter? Or did you wear everything else out? Or both? Just curious. Because both of those problems are also 100% fixable with the factory shifter. Beyond that... if you've got the throw for up/down left/right working, but can't get the linkage to line up, it's the bracket that's bolted to the transmission throwing everything off. When I manual-swapped my Colt, I fought this like crazy. The "wrong" transmission mount bracket (I thought) really just ended up having to be moved simply because the distance from the shifter to that linkage was different in a Colt than it was in a DSM. The cable lengths are designed to match the length between the transmission linkage and the shifter output however it is bolted down. In my case had changed being in a Colt/in your case using a different shifter. That no doubt means you had to attach the cables differently. By changing how the cables are bolted down (moving that bracket, using shims, whatever you have to do there) you can give or take up some of that slack and fix the throw issue. That's how I got the Colt to row gears. Maybe it's not exact to your issue, but maybe that info might help?

@@Jafromobile there isn't really anything wrong with it I bought the parts a long time ago with the intentions of fiddling with it. It has been in the back of my mind for like 3 years and now with my talon broken I am really just finding things to tinker with while I wait for parts.

100%, would be a great colab! BTW, wheres he been? Haven't heard from him in a while.... :/

@@EvoSteve89 Good question.Being a family man I suppose.

Bro I just watched the whole 1h28m again and I have no idea how to answer your question? So I guess I don't? lol!

@@Jafromobile He's talking about tearing ball joint boots. 31:00

@@steve062989 OH, LOL!

To read you a bedtime story. Zzzz...

@@Jafromobile you are not wrong, I watched your vid until I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore. Soon work will be over and I can get my Jafro fixing stuff fix.

I beg of you for your forgiveness!