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or "bad gas"?

None of the vacuum hoses are cracked, but the rubber is old. So maybe the old rubber results in a less than perfect vacuum? What is the control valve?

Subarus (and probably others I just don't know) are well known for passing any wheel bearing test. There's no one test that positively identifies all failing wheel bearings.

The first 2 mechanics swore it was in the front and I did have the front right replaced. It took an 82 year old retired mechanic 15 min to diagnose the right rear. The rear wheel had NO symptoms of wheel bearing problem other than a noise everyone swore was coming from the front. Sometimes two heads working on the problem are better than one.

Not what was asked, but here's a useful tool for oil-filling: You can often find a Turkey Baster at low-cost at dollar-stores. Useful for filling or topping-up of rear-differentials. And can help with adding oil down the dipstick-tube of some manual transmissions.

can you still buy genuine?

the lego springs dont give any lift at all the outback strut has more traval than the lego strut and the spring is bigger the outback spring on a lego strut will be close to full exstension of the strut a lego spring on a outback strut will be at the bottom of the struts traval you would.bottom out alot like that the best lift was outback struts with forester springs but the differance was maybe a 1/2 " at most not worth the extra work or exspence the outback struts give the lego about 1 1/2" of lift a bit more on the impreza but not a true 2" lift note our 03 lego with 2" lift left the rear alignment out of specks we had to buy white racing adjustable rear links to keep the rear from eating tires not a big deal you could also use the drop brackets from the outback to keep the rear alignment in specks xt springs are stiffer than standerd outback springs and the 6 cylinder springs should be stiffer than those

I’ve installed legacy springs on outback struts. don’t recall what it did to the overall height as I didn’t install them on a legacy. I’d guess you get a 1” lift instead of 2”.