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It's a revolution sensor. It stops the fuel pump if the engine isn't running. The blue version is also used to power the carb electric choke on the feedback models. How do you know it's "bad"? Check the solder joints on the board. This will do the same job: https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Electronics-Electric-Controller-Primes/dp/B00BNZ05JM GD

EA81 = great engine. EA82 = EA81 with overhead cam abomination which = not such a good engine. As for big end bearing issues, usually low oil in any engine. It could be low enough that the engine oil starves. Or the low oil allows more heat retention further reducing the viscosity of the oil and reducing its lubricating ability. Cheers Bennie

No the previous owner died and his brother didn’t want it in the way of his built mustang. I got it for $400 so it doesn’t bug me. It’s a clean little car other then that.

Private and dealer both have upside and downside issues. It seems a of people find this hard (remembering that I've helped a ton of people buy subarus), but it seems easy to me. Every car I've bought from someone who clearly had a reason to sell - retired, moving, mobile people like military/grad/medical, car needed a new fender, family of 6 (the new baby can't possibly fit in their current car)....has been a great vehicle. Every car where the person didn't have a real reason to sell (they always have "a" reason - company car, needed something new....lots of 'artifical' or convenient 'reasons' to sell that are described to a prospective buyer but they aren't real reasons) - is when you are likely into a problematic vehicle. Dealers have some upsides too, usually on newer vehicles. A dealership purchase rarely has any upside to $5k vehicles - they get a car at auction they know nothing about that's had 3 prior owners and know known recent or past history. In my mind it's almost stupid to only look at dealers for sub $10k cars - you're guaranteeing to know nothing of the past history/ownership that way. Of course look there as well, but also consider private. I'll fly far away for a great private vehicle over a dealer. You almost always get a "worse" vehicle from a dealer of older, lower cost Subaru's because the nature of auctions/trade-ins is such that you're guaranteed to not know anything about the car. Unless yo'ure in a small or slow market where the trade-ins are local and known, but that's not the norm. You won't find one that replaces headgaskets on H6's - they're too costly and labor prohibitive. And I wouldn't trust that it's done right unless I know who did it and that OEM gaskets were used and the heads were resurfaced.