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Ya, I have stuff shipped as the dealer is over an hour and a half from me. It was Evergreen subaru in Auburn Maine. I haven't bought contacts from there in over a year, fortunately I haven't needed any... Dunno if they still supply them, but they did at one point.

Have you ever heard of someone's timing jumping when they parked an older Legacy? Interference or not, it would suck to get out of the store to find your car doesn't run.

Axle stubs on an auto should just pop out.

SVX use 5x114.3, same as the STi. You can swap H6 legacy brakes onto a normal legacy, but I'm not sure if it works on an impreza too.

The drainplug in my GL was so tight that I had to use a jack to push up on my breaker bar. It lifted the back wheels off the ground. I jumped up on the bumper and it finally cracked loose. That's some serious abuse, and it didn't strip...

What's the point of that? For the rear diff just use a 1/2" end of a breaker bar or socket. Or some of them are hex head socket. Same goes for the front diff.

Cool! It's always nice to see the next owner of your car enjoying it as much as you did.

Since you have to pull the intake manifold, fuel hoses, throttle cable, etc. And you have to pull the exhaust to just pull one head. You've done most of the work to pull the engine. All additional you have to do is two motor mount nuts, one pitch stop bolt, four nuts/bolts holding the engine to the tranny, and one starter nut. It's really that easy.

So it whines almost always now, except for four cases. Hard acceleration, under 40mph. And the important two, in neutral and with FWD fuse in. So does that point directly at diff?

It's so easy to remove the engine. Just pull the engine and do both heads. If one started leaking, chances are the other one is gonna follow. I had a pressure plate fail when I was on a business trip. I pulled the engine with a come-along attached to the bottom of the deck of the people's house I was staying in. I had it out, replaced clutch, and back in about 2.5 hours. Just pull and re-seal everything, otherwise you're going to have to rip into it again.

I've tried running 89 and 91 in my ea81 and upping the timing. It didn't add any performance or gas mileage. It seems perfectly happy on 87. I like turbos until I have to fill up the tank. Or until something breaks.... then it gets expensive really fast.

I wasn't planning on tearing it completely down. If the screws are loose I'll just loctite them in place. yep. search site:domain.tld is great. I use that all the time.

Now you have me wanting to paint mine like that!

Arrrr. The search on this site pisses me off sometimes. Oil pump can't be searched for because oil too short... That's when google search comes in handy... For anybody wondering... http://beergarage.com/SubyOPump.aspx Great article. Bookmarked. Definitely opening that up on the shop computer when I take mine apart.

14" I don't think they made 15" in that style.

Wow! Those look amazing painted like that!

I know you don't like half-assery. I'll take it all apart.

Yea.... true. I need to search about oil pump, I know I've seen a ton of threads about it. Hopefully I can get the gear off.

Dave said the oil pump is rarely a problem on the older 2.2. It builds up oil pressure immediately when started, and I checked the pressure with a manual gauge. It's very good. I don't want to mess with it...

hmm, interesting. I read somewhere on here that one should use red RTV and the gasket for best results. I dunno if I can find Anearobic or Three Bond in my neck of the woods, but I might be able to get black or grey RTV.

So I can just use red RTV with no gasket at all on the WP? I usually use RTV with a gasket. Never had any leaks.

Ok, fine. The 96 isn't failure prone. When it happened to me, my speedo still worked. But the computer didn't get the signal. The VSS signal goes to the cluster. Makes the needle move, then the cluster converts the signal and sends it to the computer. And I've heard of it happening on an auto. Depending which VSS on the auto fails it will set a different code with different problems.

1996 does have the cluster issue. It was my 96 that prompted me to rip the cluster apart and make that guide. Also, this can effect an auto. I was talking with someone on here who had a 98, I think, auto which my guide fixed.

The WP gasket you get from rockauto looks just like the dealer one, too.

So I'm getting a kit with WP. Is the gasket any good, or should I go get one of the good ones from the dealer?