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yes. struts are interchangeable and top mounts are the same - so yes, spring just sits between them and will vary height and spring rate. if you're only concerned about sag and not struts - could you use a rear spacer? For some models there are some 3/8" or 1" or other spacers available. Unbolt strut, slide in spacer, reinstall and you're done with no strut replacement or part buying necessary. I'd suggest buying the two cheapest rear used struts in the country on car-part.com or locally and install them. take your old ones and swap out the struts with KYB. you can hand a shop the parts and they'll do it for pocket change. but you will need to grease pen mark the top mount and lower mount location as these are fixed and need to retain their orientation for installing. there is some wiggle room. If it's a little off you just twist it and it's good. annoying - but so are aftermarket struts and top mounts. i've seen 95-99 aftermarket legacy top mounts fail in less than a week. BAM - strut shooting right through the brand new top mount. i've seen other brand new aftermarket top mounts balloon upwards like an inch, maybe that's fine but no way i'd want that on a daily driver. i'm sure they work fine for some people and situation so don't let me scare you. lots of people probably make it fine, but there's plenty of real world experiences that they're really bottom shelf options too. and it sort of makes sense - most people that want complete units are cheap and trying to be quick, inexpensive rusty old cars in the northeast, used car dealers, shops that just want quick turn around volume - so that demand is created by cheaper/lazy people - there's little incentive to make the pre assembled units high quality parts.

I see you want the quick struts. Some of them suck really bad for Subaru’s. I’ve seen them installed a few times on Subaru’s by local shops. I guess some are good or you’ll get lucky but I’d put a little effort towards avoiding them if possible. I recommend KYB struts and mounts for Subaru’s. some of the aftermarket struts are awful. Floaty, fail, and if they weren’t so awful I might know, instead of guess, that their longevity is suspect. All the struts are interchangeable, the springs are different lengths and spring rates. I installed FWD rear struts on AWD 95-99s. A few years ago the FWD rear KYB struts were much cheaper so I just installed those. Haven’t checked in awhile to see if that’s still true. And they could have changed applications - like just sell one strut for them all instead of one for FWD and one for AWD.

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Click the following link to download the FSM for your 2001 Forester in one zip file. Go down to 2001 and across to Forester and click on SF in that block. A new tab will open. Click the big green button (upper right) to start the download. Another window will open with an add, click the X to close it. https://sl-i.net/FORUM/showthread.php?18087-Subaru-Factory-Service-Manuals- Unzip the file to its own folder. There are 8 PDF files. Open the Fuel and OBD II pdf file. Page 7-10 shows piping and location for Emission components. Page 182 shows testing for P0442 code. In the Engine Section PDF file the first 18 pages has Emission component info. Scroll way down to section 2-8 (top of page) page 4 and subsequent pages for fuel tank, fuel and emission components and EVAP Lines. When you find the pages you want, right click on a blank area of the page and print them (current page). It will save you a lot of time scrolling up and down and going between manuals.

Not seen any non turbo EA82 with knock sensors, but the 85&86 turbo got this dizzy that I would not recommend you try to use. But you are welcome to send me their module There is a US based member in here that has a secret personal use only supply of these units to keep his ever faithful EA82T on the road. To the OP , don't mind GDs opinion, just heed his warnings, he has good knowledge on EA82 and some bad experiences Never let EA82 extend oil and filter changes, never let them get hot - if need be use elusive twin core EA82 radiator or adapt EA81 radiator as they are all twin core. Keep EGR clean, keep PCV clean Fit new timing belt kit every 40,000 miles When my dizzy module dies I plan to do the Ford EDIS4 distributorless ignition. Like my EA82 that much