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Hopefully they did it right; $250 or so for the job, also a belt they ordered when I had it inside the car. Quick turn around, now I can work.

The mechanic is going to put it together this am, so hopefully they do it right. Car has 277K miles. I hope I am not being presumptuous that they will get it right.

I'm still not sure what happened here and since I never worked on the HB or the crankshaft, it must have had something to do with either a defective unit or defective installation.

I decided to let a mechanic handle it; the towing company said they would be there in 1 1/2 hours, ended up being 3. Agero, AAA is much better.

I saw some for under a hundred; the labor is going to be the real cost. I need to get the car back on the road soon, have four different jobs, was doing census taking when the car broke down. The harmonic balancer will just bolt back in and the belts go over that? Also need bolts for the unit.

Roughly how much on these, and recommend do it yourself or have my mechanic do it? Last time this was worked on was around two years ago where I had to go back to the mechanic when it came apart.

Harmonic balancer?

Ok, if the crankshaft pulley fell off wouldn't i have heard it? Looking at the crankshaft I am seeing a smooth surface like the pulley disappeared leaving the belts.

I was just on the phone with a mechanically inclined friend; any thoughts on procedure on this? Power steering fails, belt looks loose not broken, but looks like this belt drives most other pumps. Is this a tensioner failure usually?

I've had good luck with the Lucas products. With Blue Devil be sure to keep the receipt and read the guarantee terms, they don't like to pay out. If they balk if it doesn't work and don't want to reimburse you, go to the state consumers agency and that should do the trick.

Ok, so this is beyond my capability. Last time something got damaged when they were trying to get the balljoint out and they had to order extra parts. I checked Rock Auto which is running slow because of covid; even Fed Ex overnight is 3 days, Friday at earliest. I checked around for used spindles and no one locally had one. Found one yard in Hartford area that has one on the shelf with a lot of rust, probably ok otherwise. How do you know if the hub is damaged?

My right side front bearing went two years ago. The other side just went out, not safe to drive now. I parked the car on the way to work, in a church lot, called my insurance covered tow company. I had two tows through my Nationwide care insurance; they use a company called "Agero"; This is the second time I used their contact and tow service. The first time two years ago with a vehicle break down on the highway involved a tow to Norwalk and the tow service driver tried to shake me down for an additional substantial amount of money. Yesterday I contacted them at around 4pm for a 730 pm tow. Plenty of time, I received no service and waited a long time and could wait no longer. At 830pm I called them again and was told it would be 90 minutes before the tow company arrived!!! How do I report this company to a state agency? I have never had a similar problem with AAA! Mechanics I contacted can't get to it until the end of the week. What are the minimum in tools if I do it myself? 1997 Legacy Outback Limited. I called around from a front spindle, nothing local available. A parts finder service found one in NH, delays, I can't wait until next week. What risk would I be taking with a pressed in bearing in front? On rears I had a local shop replace the bearings and they failed within 2 years. I replaced them with rear hub assemblys used at a different shop.

I had several offers at $900; some sellers assume as a Subaru the HGs are a ticking timebomb, but it is a 2.2. A couple guys are interested now at around the asking price.

This was definitely a mechanic's job; I dropped it off and he did the airbag and an exhaust leak, so hopefully the car will be ok for now as I have been trying to sell it. It is running too well to sell for only $1300 IMO.

I let him know, we work in the same company. He should probably change out the thermostat with an OE or similar unit. Thanks.

Thanks for the input. I failed to include the 20 minute time it takes now for heat to come out. I surmised thermostat when I spoke to him.

Seasonally, when the temperature changes, the heat and A/C will not work until the car is running for 20 minutes. But it has to heat up for the heat to work. Is this a coolant flow issue or wiring with moisture maybe causing this? A friend wants to know. Is 20 minutes too long to get good heat or AC?

As far as I know it is not defective as the light went on, a long time ago without cause.

Ignition coils are not expensive, if used OE or new Herko, etc.. I don't know how bad that would have to be to not even start. If you put in a starter, what was the previous history of the car and starter? Who installed the new one?

I have had the red light on with the Airbag for a long time. No history of deployments with that. The state inspection passed; someone from NY wants to buy the 1996 Brighton, was a little concerned about the light. I think the fuses were checked and don't think I still have a problem one. Thanks for input on this.

I did the front pads, one side was near metal on metal, the other side was not as bad. I don't know what the likely wear will be on the rear drums once I get the drums off. Thanks for the advice.

A lot of good advice here and I will check out youtube on the brake drum service. What a royal pain, why didn't they switch over all drum brakes to discs when it became economical to do so? Two major hurdles with drums, getting them off and knowing how to remove springs put in new parts and put them back in. Too many challenges unless you are a trained mechanic! With disc brakes, you just take apart the front assembly after jacking the front up and push in the piston with a c clamp and change the pads.

Coil was put in maybe 3 years ago, so seems short term viability. I guess there were drums and discs in same year.

I usually check ebay for both quality new and OE used; Rock Auto of course has good stuff too. I asked a manager at a local Advance Auto whether he matched the prices of online new material and he said yes, which is hard to believe.