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  1. reduce speed a little, lower gear, higher revs will help a great deal. ie: take it out of overdrive! as for the radiator you are looking, probably no such beast for the automatics.
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  2. 18 years later HOLY caterpillar liver Batman!! Good work, those long years ago and sharing the specs here. Thanks. I’m dying to know what happened to the car?! Did it treat you well as how did you end up here 18 years later?
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  3. The most direct way would be to make manifold adapters to mate the intake manifold from the 2.5 to the 2.2 Generally not worth the effort. The 2.5 is better suited and doing the HG's is less work. If they are done properly there should be no additional failures. GD
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  4. Yes. It's easy. I've done it tons of times. Oil - doesn't matter. Let me explain... If you unbolted A/C lines on a brand new Subaru, removed the compressor, then reinstalled it again 4 minutes later - would you be worried about "oil" in the compressor? Of course not - it's got whatever oil in it that is distributed throughout the system and will retain that when removed from the vehicle. Just like a part at a local yard. A reasonable mechanic or yard knows not to dump the oil out or expose the orifices to debris...they're often stuffed with plastic caps or something to prevent debris/humidity/oil escape when I get one if it's not removed directly from the car. I'm somewhat overstating the illustration...but not by much - maybe time and conditions warrant adding some oil, and it is a good idea. Sure go ahead and do that - no it's not precise. You'd have to try really hard to get it wrong, you don't sound like that type. Imagine adding up all the internal surface area of the compressor guts, air lines, evaporator, drier, etc.....there's gobs of square inches of surface area. Get it close. If you think you should add 1 unit of oil....and you add 2....it won't matter - it'll be distributed over such a large surface area that the small amounts we are talking about are inconsequential. If you didn't add any then all of the cumulative oil in the system will over time just redistribute itself into a slightly thinner layer covering the innards of your compressor (which has it's own residual oil already in it - they didn't dump cleaner down the thing!). You can never known how much oil to add so it's always somewhat of guess. How many times has your A/C been worked on from brand new, how much oil has been lost due to depressing the valve for charging or testing over the years, has any of the oil "degraded", how many parts have been replaced...same goes with the "new" compressor -you can't cut it open and see how much residual oil and film is extant in the compressor. so it's one big huge guess. Also there's no need to pull a vaccuum. Remove your compressor, bolt the new one in place. Very little air got into the system and what little humidity was in the "new" compressor will get absorbed by the drier. There's basically zero chance of all the cataclysmic nonsense people like to rave about online...it's crazy talk and practically speaking never happens to subarus unless you're a hack. Add 18-22 ounces - whatever yours calls for and you're done. If you live around exceptional humidity/heat or are transporting frozen goods in the cabin then pull that vacuum and get it perfect. Yes - lots of shops//mechanics/DIY/HVAC people would not say anything close to what I just said....but practically and physically thats' what's happening. Sure - don't be dumb. Don't buy an unknown cheap compressor from some guy who had to unburry from the back yard garden pile and clean the bugs out of the holes - and dont' randomly guess on how much oil to add. Looks it up and make a very rough educated guess - you'll be right. By your sense of talking about this and detail and interest in diagnosing this - you sound like you know what you're doing and not about to just guess/hack/and roll dice here. So yeah - it's easy. I've done it a ton of times. I've bolted on ancient Subaru compressors older than yours, some I've added oil, some I haven't....same result every time. They work and never need replaced again. But compressors here are cheap and easy to come by and I often have them on hand...so I get you that you might want to diagnose it more first and make sure it's the compressor if they're harder to come by there.
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  5. yes swap the brackets they bolt too Look closely it’s easy to overlook and think it’s part of the engine. Compare the hydraulic seal - use the one that’s the most dry. That indicates the seal is leaking. I’d use the older two piece style one if the hydraulic seal is dry. They’re more reliable, the pulleys can be easily bought to get a new one.’although they are generally older. I’d get like an NSK or OEM brand if you do replace any pulleys. 97 are both interference engines - I’d use the old style tensioner, get a new Subaru belt and new lower clogged (toothed) pulley from Subaru or OEM brand. Those are by far the most likely parts to fail. Although most 97s come with new style tensioners so the tensioner or engine may not be original to the legacy they came out of. may not be a 97 engine that you got out of that legacy. It may have been swapped for a 96 at some point which is more likely to have an old style tensioner. In which case it may not be an interference engine. Almost all EJ22s (in stock form) with the older style two piece tensioner are non interference.
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  6. Oh, it wasn't ever really MY Loyale. The backstory is that I was the 2nd AND 4th owner of an '82 Datsun (remember Datsun?) Maxima (formerly 810) SW with the LD28 DIESEL engine, which was the 240/260/280Z engine block modified to an Inline-Six diesel. A very nice engine. I'd bought it from the original family in Portland, Ore. around 1996? When I was living in Bellingham, Wash. around 1999, I had two other diesels and three vehicles was at least one too many, so I sold the wagon to a co-worker. Later, around 2003, his new wife wanted a Subaru, I bought the Loyale and was fixing up some things before swapping it for my old Maxima wagon again. That's how I ended up working on that '93 Loyale. They had two kids, split up in an ugly divorce, and I lost track of him and the Loyale. Like so many things in life, I wonder where they are now.
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  7. that's one hell of an amazing first car for your kid to show off at school! I love Zero, more pictures of that one please!
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  8. Well, she's definitely blown the head gasket. Pulled the dipstick out today and it's looking like a chocolate milkshake in there. Might be time for an EJ I think.
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