local as in other city .. ? yh we have those. but to call to get help... thats not how its works here i duno maybe other places people more friendly and helpfull there but not here. still local would be in other city and noone will drive from another city to some place they never been don't know how to find and such. plus i dont know those people o just talked couple times in forum maybe.
next time i will carry at least come along maybe and later could be even hi lift and i can do it myself. i like more to do stuff alone and drive alone here anyways. i never yet drove with any of those local as of country subaru club guys. they pretty boring i think. and i just drive when i want where i want.
it was all fun there until i made mistake myself. and it doesnt look bad.. this car can drive fine in mud or anything untill it have traction with ground, but when any car no matter how tuff 4wd looses traction wheels with ground its just sits there and does nothing. if that ground that its sits is hard you cant do nothing
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cvyehHf8w&t=1s"]Subaru outback offroad mud - YouTube[/ame]
my mistake with pulling out car was trying do that myself too much and then trying to pull with another car while car was still sitting on hard ground and exhaust was just pushing against driveshaft with that exaust was pushing against one side of rear diff cv rubber and snapped that too. so that was not best idea.
and i got out not by other car pulling me out but by lifting my car and putting trees under wheels and repeating that over and over until car was lifted to point when wheels actually got some traction . and at that point i could just dive off myself too. i got little pull with other car but not so much as factor it was.
pulling out car on just mud , soft , wet no matter is another things. you dont have hard surface under car so yu wont damage car . this was as car sits on concrete and one side car is in deep mud but center car still sits on concrete . would you pull out car by force ? dont think so. so i snapped exhaust pipe in 2 places because of that .
another lesson learned : lowest part of car is exhaust . and its bad .i will try to change it somehow so it would go more in that tunel where driveshaft is maybe. or put some protection for it then.
one thing could do all job i was doing there today would be hi lift. i would lift car so much faster maybe in one try even and then even pull car with it if needed.
instead i had come along which didint helped without lifting car still. so still some higher jack is needed with some along at least. or normal jack but lots of stuff to put under it and different size. thats how i did it. and noone would carry bunch of wood cubes in car with jack all times.
thats how i lift it up from mud. that driver side was all in mud until door. it doesnt look much in picture but it was trap made by underground water or something. you cant see it from top and you feel it just when you enter it . and then you done.
and thats exaust that i welded back.
so i was using my existing bottle jack to lift car but that took multiple times over and over and lots of wood boards, blocks and stuff
that yellow is bottle jack and that exact point that i lift all front of car actually. strong enough even now so if make it even stronger would be good point to lift front
so on same spot could go hi lift alone. no block needed no nothing just some board stuff under it if its sinks down. but one strong board i could carry in car. instead of like 5-7 small ones for that bottle jack.