I just took my van for a first testdrive after having it in the driveway for
weeks and months of sitting and upgrading, which included a subie
conversion. in the process i installed a new clutch and had the axles out. I
will post a review of all this later. Now to the problem.

the drive went fine for the first 1000feet - then a weird sound - the van
starts shivering very unpleasantly, feels like we are loosing a wheel.
coasted slowly back into my driveway. suspected cv axles, since i had them
out and regreased them while doing the conversion, and sure enough they were
absolutely tight - not moving in any direction at all (normally they should
move a little to the right and left, shouldnt they? jacked up one wheel and
everything was back to normal in terms of movement.
what happened? is this really the axles or did i do something to the
transmission?
any comments highly appreciated.
I am kind of in a bind as i promised my wife a two week roadtrip to new
mexiko starting on friday (aaaah, yeah, I am in berkeley, so thats a few
miles....) Sorry to those who are also on the subie list as I crossposted
this since i have to solve this problem within a few days. But I felt that
this is probably not an engine issue but something i did wrong with the
drivetrain.

thanks
flo