Konis and Wheel Bearing installed!

[SVXRide]

Drove the SVX up to scenic Cumberland, Maryland yesterday to take advantage of Red Hill Auto Center's (14701 National Hwy. 301-689-0315) great hourly rates and Subaru technical skills (they're right next door to SVXFiles's Route 40 Auto Sales). Tom was nice enough to lend Austin and myself Nick's 4:44-equipped SVX so we could drive back into Cumberland while Troy worked on my SVX. Several hours later and my SVX was fully "Koni-fied" (thanks again, Todd!!!) and no longer suffered from the dreaded "snow tire" sound. Two notes to add: (1) Red Hill actually removes the hub and sends it over to a machine shop that is very familiar with the "don't use that grease, it's just packing grease!" issue with the SVX wheel bearing, so they totally flush out the packing grease and repack the bearing with high temp grease before pressing the new bearing into the hub, (2) Even though I had had 4 brand new Subaru (Showa) struts installed (by a different shop) less than 5k miles ago, all but one of them was totally "shot" when Troy removed them!! Either they were defective to begin with, or my autoX suspension mods and driving were detrimental to their health

Thanks again to Troy and Tom!!
-Bill