johnceggleston

90 - 99 the abs sensor is mounted in machined hole in the spindle housing. the tone ring is mounted on the back side of the hub flange, basically it sits on what would be the ''heads'' of the lug studs / bolts.

what year was the impreza? i know it was not the original engine but it may help. was the impreza originally an ej22 car? it will be on the ID tag under the hood driver side strut tower. 95 was the first year for the ej22 in the impreza, as an option, and not standard until 98 i think. look at the exhaust ports where the exhaust y-pipe mates to the engine, single port = 96 - 98 dual port = 90 - 95. remove the valve cover and look for valve adjusters, set screw and lock nut, if yes, then it is 97 - 98 and it will be single port exhaust, if no, then it is 90 - 95 if dual port exhaust, 96 if single port exhaust. i cannot identify an obd1, 90 - 94 intake manifold, as compared to obd2 95 - 98, but someone should be able to. the lego went obd2 in 96, i'm not sure about the impreza.

there are 2 issues. the 96 has single port exhaust on the heads, so you would need the matching exhaust y-pipe. the other issue, the 96 is obd2, the 90 is obd1. but that can be corrected by using the 90 intake manifold on you 96 engine. easy peasy. if the 96 has EGR on the intake manifold, (was pulled from an auto trans car) you will have to plug the hole in the head where the EGR pipe mated. or just swap the wire harness and ?throttle body? from the 90 on to the 96 intake. but if the 96 does not have EGR, it was from a manual trans car, just use the 90 intake on the 96 engine.

remind me again just what the problem is????

why do you need an ECU? my guess is it will sit on the shelf as a ''back up'' for a long time. they do not fail often, unless you like to take your car swimming.

is the oil pan on the trans dented??????

i have recently read that the forester struts are about the same height as the outback struts, but that the lower spring perch on the rear is lower than the outback. this suggest that the springs on the rear of the forester is taller to fill in the extra length. so installing forester springs on outback struts will give you a little more lift since the taller spring will be more compressed, creating more tension, greater spring rate???, a little more lift? anyway , i do not know if this is accurate, but is is an explanation that answers some obw vs. forester strut questions. thoughts?????????

drive it with the CE light on, it will run fine, but you will have a CE light. unless Tenn has a state inspection that the CEL would fail. in that case sell in WV where they have no inspections. or VA, the southwestern part, we have safety inspections, but a CEL will not fail it. PS: you can get the intake for about $65 www.car-part.com

thanks heartless. in the 95 - 99 years, there is no manual button, but the trans will hold in first if the selector is in 1, and the trans will start in second and hold it, if the selector is in 2, if the selector is in 3 it will start in first and shift normally up to third, but not shift into fourth. having said that, the trans will in fact shift up to protect the engine regardless of the selector as the tach approaches red line.

yes, the 4.11 ratio will have 37 teeth on the ring gear. the 4.44 will have 40 teeth.

90 - 94 legos had a ''manual'' button on the auto trans shifter.??? it allowed you to change the manner in which the computer shifted the auto trans.??? probably similar to the ''power'' button of the same years.??? i'm not really sure, i have never owned a 90 - 94, but whatever it was, it was standard for the model year,

do the daytime running lights go OFF when you pull on the hand brake? are they on when driving?

different years require different methods to flash the codes. what year, model, engine, miles, color, are we talking about????????????????

this means you had an problem with the trans electrical components the last time you drove the car. you were in ''limp'' mode. this means you had NONE of the electrical parts of the trans operating. you had a mechanical 3rd gear only, (and reverse) this is so when the electronics fail, you can limp home. the problem could have been as simple as a disconnected wire harness, or a bad TCU, or the trans was fried. but what ever it was, it was electronic, it had nothing to do with the gears and clutches in the trans. please define ''grinding''? could it be the drive shaft rubbing on the heat shield? did you tighten all the flex plates to torque converter bolts ? did you drop anything down in the flex plate area, a socket perhaps? is there a small, maybe mangled, cover on the bottom of the bell housing that is rubbing on the torque converter? did you check, drain, fill the front diff gear oil? how did it look? did the trans come with the ''stub axles'' in place? you might drain the gear oil and look in there with a flash light. is the speed sensor seated properly?

do a search for ''readingtranscodes'', you are looking for the handshake fo the 90 - 94 cars.

this is entiretly possible for a JDM trans, but not found in USDM auto trans. jdm did some things differently. regrettably you probably will not know until you have it up and running, unless you take the time to count the teeth on the ring gear in the front diff. you can look in the drain plug hole with a flash light and some sort of a marker or scratch-er.

this is true for 00 - 04 cars. but you can remove the drive side cover , and open the inspection port on the passenger side cover. this is true for 90 - 99 cars. this thread happens to be about a 96 ej22 engine with the tree piece timing covers .

there is a trans ID# on the bell housing near the starter, what is it? TZ102ZABAA or or TZ102Z2ABA? there is a difference.

this. just remove the cam covers on each side. rotate the engine by hand until you can see the timing marks . if they match, the cams are good . the crank could be off but that is much less likely.

i do not think these are specified in the owners manual.?????????? they nay be fine, but if your problem is not correcterd, you will not know if it is the plugs or something else.

or disconnect the battery over night, that will erase everything. did you clean the engine or under the hood? double check your hoses under the hood. it sounds like you have a vac leak, a big one.

i thought the 98 forester and outback both came with 205/70/15 tires??? are you saying the forester spring perch caused it to have a smaller tire, or did it limit how much larger you could go?

i don't think they have one. check here: Subaru parts catalog

or just buy rthe exact same engine that came in the car. it will have what you need. and if you search at www.car-part.com, they will return ONLY the engines that match. other block, head, and intake combinations will work, but not without the correct cam and crank sprockets. but you knew that.

a few good reads. hopefully helpful? did you check the wiring? http://www.obd-codes.com/p0400 what i found interesting there is that it said you would not notice any drivability issues??????? whatever? http://www.obd-codes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6376 http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1453414