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Neat looking seats! I see what you mean about moving the seat towards the door a bit. It’d probably look better; the sides of your seat and your console would probably love you for it in the long run! Cheers Bennie

That flashing I believe IS the O2 reading. It will change the rate of flashing etc as engine load chages. I’m 99.99% sure the ECU is happy and all is working as it should. Happy days! Now, go pass the smog test! Cheers Bennie

There are uitsyou cagey to monitor the trans too. I wouldn’t bother with the engine oil temps as the idea of the metal sensor on the head is to alert you to high temps regardless of whether or not you have coolant. Find an in-used bolt hole on the head and use that. Cheers Bennie

Agreed about your towing comment. But if the centre diff is locked, there will not be any damage to the centre diff. I’ve done it for 70km due to necessity before. Ran the same, no noises etc. I fixed the issue once back at civilisation, unlocked the centre diff and continued as usual. Cheers Bennie

@divinicus - I’m sure you set the alarm to whatever temp you want. Find a bolt on one of the heads to use as the reference point, this is where the most heat is generated and where the coolant does most of its cooling transfer work (collecting heat). Cheers Bennie

Dunno about a light, but they system needs vacuum to operate the dog clutch in the centre diff. You may need to slip the clutch carefully at idle to get the dog clutch to engage as it may not be aligned properly to lock. The button doesn’t guarantee instant lock once pressed. It just activated the locking system. I would say there will be a diff lock light that illuminates once the centre diff is engaged. The centre diff lock is there for dirt road driving and those really odd times if you find yourself stuck in a pothole with one wheel that has little to no traction where all the engine power is going to. Subaru dropped this setup in the EJ AWD in favour of the centre diff LSD setup, much more user friendly and less parts to produce, so it was goodbye locking centre diff On the LHS strut tower, behind it actually, you should find some vacuum solenoids that have two lines running to the diaphragm, located just behind and below the starter motor. Make sure these are changing the direction of the vacuum and that the diaphragm is moving the cable. I hope this helps you out. Cheers Bennie

Or get one of these: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Engine-Block-Head-Temperature-Alarm-ENGINE-WATCHDOG-TM1/132987012774?hash=item1ef6a4c6a6:g:JJsAAOxyk99R3NSK can do Fahrenheit units too. Cheers Bennie

So does this mean the pick up tube was covered in crud and the priming of the tube pushed this blockage to the bottom of the sump? Cheers Bennie

If your diff lock system is working properly, you should be able to drive with the rear shaft removed, it will effectively be a front wheel drive. Cheers Bennie

Welcome to the forum. Sounds like some interesting living conditions and social “norms”. With your 2002 impreza, basically the 2002 forester will be your go to for parts. The EJ25 sensors will generally be interchangeable from the EJ20. The suspension will be taller but it will fit your impreza and provide you with a nice bit of lift. New or decent second hand items will do a lot to improve the handling of your impreza. I’m not sure that you need to run lift blocks with the forester struts, someone will know. Looking forward to a pic of your Nothing Special. Cheers Bennie

Wheel alignment all good? Have someone do the turn while you watch the wheel - see if it’s rolling the tyre wall hard then slipping it out again, or if there’s something else at play. Suspension bushes good? Cheers Bennie

All good mate, it can happen to the best of us! And an easy fix is best too! Cheers Bennie

All Subaru cotter pin/roll pins are the same Like Lego remember? Cheers Bennie

I read it on another forum and it made sense to us as mum’s corolla was using oil like no tomorrow but we couldn’t see it burning and it wasn’t dropping it - and it was running on full synthetic oil. We assume the oil rings were shot and it was burning it all off. And for those wondering how much, about a litre for every 400-500km (country driving, not start/stop city driving). Cheers Bennie EDIT: think about all these new cars running low friction rings, using oil between changes - you don’t see them burning oil! Not how they used to run them!

Correct. It’s an internal leak and a loss of oil pressure. @jeryst - you’re using synthetic oil? If so, you won’t see that burn like mineral oil. Cheers Bennie

Any 2wd (from 1984 onwards) or 4wd Leone (from 1985 onwards) will have the parts you’re chasing so long as it’s an L series model. Cheers Bennie

Those switches are known to be dicky. They’re easily pulled apart to be cleaned up, they are fiddly though! You need to get behind the switch as it’s held in by two screws Cheers Bennie

You could try pulling the spark plugs, overfilling it a bit with oil and cranking it over for 10 seconds at a time until the oil light goes out. Once the oil light goes out you can drain off some of the oil and top up as necessary, whack the spark plugs back in and fire her up - watching the oil pressure light! Otherwise I’d recommend pulling the oil pump and putting a seal kit through it. Remove the crank pulley to remove the oil pump, otherwise you’ll crack you pump housing (and no hitting it with a hammer, small or big!). Cheers Bennie

Sorry, this isn’t a Honda forum! Seriously though, why? Do an Eaj swap instead - it’s been tried, tested and proven! Mind you, I have heard of someone putting a Peugeot diesel in an L series but that’s all the info I got. Cheers Bennie

That should be them. On ours they’re on the right, but that’s for our right hand drive setup. You should feel them click when you turn the lights on or switch between high and low beam. Cheers Bennie

I always thought with the EA82 efi systems, plugs had to be connected before the engine was started. Not start then plug in. If it won’t start or run when the plugs are connected then I’m stumped. (Time to EJ?? ) Cheers Bennie

EA MPFI and MOfI turbo are also 25 spline count on the diff stubs - same as the EJ. I always thought the EJ shafts were too long for the EA setup when running EJ hubs. I’ll have to check out that front wheel drive impreza option. We got those over here, if the shaft length is good, it might be worth looking into for what I want. Cheers Bennie

The difference will be in the shaft. And I thought you always had to build custom shafts for the EJ brakes up front on the L series. Cheers Bennie

How well did it run before the Welch plugs let go? And how long did the engine sit full of water? I reckon that water damage looks like normal wear. The engine may be high miles but if it worked fine before it stopped, I reckon it’ll go just fine with new HGs etc When I got mine it had sat for 6 months full of water. PO said “it just stopped suddenly one day” and they walked away from it. Then they finally sold it to me. Top of one cylinder had a couple of rust pits but other than that we’ve continued to run this engine. Now I have a detonation issue that has me wondering about the compression on that cylinder. I’ve been too lazy/busy to check so far. We also had the Welch plug holes tapped and a big flat hex headed plug put in. No leaks, and something would have to be seriously wrong for one of them to let go! Cheers Bennie

What brand of clutch cable did you get? It sounds like it’s stretched beyond being useful and it could possibly be chewing itself out from the inside. It would be worth pulling the cable out and check how hard it is to pull/push through the outer casing. You should be able to do this by hand. Cheers Bennie