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Subaru power steering pumps always seem to leak after a few years. On my original Impreza I just let it leak until it got so bad I replaced the pump. If I knew I could fix it for $20, I probably would not have picked up that used replacement.

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Months into this paint job and I am now fully Convinced.

Hours have been spent straightening, sanding, cleaning, painting, cleaning, painting, sanding and so it goes. The first coat was a little thick and had some massive orange peel, as I progress I get better and faster. I still have two coats of black but I got anxious. I had to see the finish product. I’m glad I I’d too and for two reasons. One, I have a better understanding about the wet sanding. Two, I can see myself in that paint! After some wet sanding with 1000 grit on a block I followed up with 2000 in my hand. A few spots of primer are showing up which can be expected as I’m still a few coats away from being done.

I wrote up a little more, talking about the highs and lows of this evening, me battling the shine but I lost it. Turns out I should hit save prior to done and since I’m making this post from my phone I really don’t want to go back into it. Important thing is the shine.

Now for some pictures. I took a few pictures of the hood, as you can see I only actually buffed a small section. I also have some pictures of the front fenders after two coats of paint. The mix is two parts Rustoleum hunter green to one part Lowes royal blue enamel.

Part 2 of the interior cleaning. Here I removed the seats and found an HVAC knob which through me completely off task for the rest of the cleaning. I completely disassembled the HVAC controller so if you want to know how a 93-97 HVAC controller works, this post is for you.

Today I pulled some more interior panels, the “to clean” stack is rather high. I will probably be picking up some plastic paint and start the interior color change.

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Some of the pictures between part 1 and part 2 will be mixed up and possibly even duplicated. I was more concerned with working on the car than having an impeccable photo collection. Now with that said, here is a video clip of the progress along with all the photos.

Other than the mystery screw to the right of the glove box, most of the interior cleaning went quite well.

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New rebuild project. This is just a teaser, initial check in and plans to follow.