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in the last 2 years have had 6 xx blocks come in with thrown rods engines had been bored and rod berrings were reused or not even looked at. The pistons were not slopy in bore but rod berrings were gone. and all had 7mm oil pumps and factory rod berrings. Have seen better results with the 99 2.5d as it has the bigger rod berrings and is stronger. I looked at my core linup yesterday 6 2.5ds 2 2.51s and 2 2.23s and one 2.2b and 2 ez3.0s should keep me bussy for a while.

try surfacing the heads i see thiss over and over and over the heads must be surfaced or the meatal gasket will never seal for long do a cly preshure test to see what cly is pushing into the cooling system. I have had to redo at least 8 head jobs thiss year same problem. If you dont surface the heads the coolant follows the path that previus coolant took past the headgasket like a crbon track on a spark plug. If it has a path it will always follow that path

sound about right for old loyale put in new oem thermostat oil gauge sounds right normal for low op at idle and high when reved tach probly just sticky beat on top of dash a bitt loosen her up

also has a neutral position switch on trans to tell ecu that trans is in neutral mabee thiss got damaged

No different things go wrong broken low range x 4 broken reverse x4 and 2 broken diffs and 2 broken seconds but takes two cores to get a good one so save them broken deulranges

wow i caled my dealer 2750 $ for a rebiuld short block + 1150$ core and they are thoose horribble xx 25 rebiulds with the 7mm oil pump. Dealer says no new short blocks avalibble in canada only in the usa and are different blocks and dont interchange. So my short block is 2000 $ so i'm happy with my price.But a'm concerned about why is sutch a difference between usa and canada what happened to FREE TRADE lol

i like my rebiulds all have knurlled pistons 0 slap ever fresh surfaces only subaru oem seals and gaskets and all the stuff that subaru missed is tight and proper no loose oil pump screws or plastic seperator plates or loose pistons. A subaru factory short block dreams about being thiss good with all there wornout engine tooling and loose bolts from the factory a new short block is not a way i would go. I have definatly seen my share of engine defects on subarus engines. At least if i find a problem i can fix it or replace it the robot just lets it go down the line. There is alot to be said for human quality control !

check blower realay

i have the step on the flywheel machined to compensate but sounds like a ea81 pp mixup to me

if temp senser is failed the fans will default to on more likly a coolant circulation problem or still air in coolant did the rad get hot ? very rare to see and bad sensor but very commen to see coolant problems is the waterpump turning

like gd said lotts of heat damage i bett the gears are welded to shafts the pinion shaft looks ok and the main may go agian but when they get hot the shafts are no longer as strong. I fixed one like thiss and it only lasted for 3 months and peeled 2nd gear

I build alot but are all sold instantly go's for about 3500$ installed and cores are at a premium. Have a wait list for 2.51 engines

cool i have a 77 brat that coulor came like a bright orange almost red is 11 of 77 is the only brat that coulor ive seen will get the pait code off it

if the nut came loose the hub is probly worn were the berring sitts on it and will most liky come loose agian have 20 broken hubs in thiss way once its worn its done

had a 2001 legacy with a crazy weird problem with its brakes but oppest problem the brake peadal was way to stiff and brakes did nothing on first app in - weather was water contamination turning to ice over night and pluging syestem was hard to track down as there was no problem in + weather.

we had a fair bitt to had the 79 wagon up in 2ft or better she just dosent say no !

after broken 5 speed deul ranges have 12 broken ones whant to get as many as i can to do a mutiplle rebiulds day

had anuther one yesterday had a intermitant crank sensor start one minute not the next cranked and cranked nothing. The way we found it was by watching the tach we had 0 tach movement change the sensor and tach and engine instantly started working.

heads 80$ + shiping already surfaced do you need cams and valve trian ?

the ujiont will have a ping when going into gear from a stop or trnsitioning from forward to backward if the berring thge sound will change when the weight of car is shifted side to side at speed.

i like to look down the exhaust pipes from heads to see how the burn was a light tan exhaust header port is normal any wet or oil or black or white deposits are i sign of oil or coolant burning. On the short block i rock the #2#4 pistons at tdc to check for slap if slopy the rest is probly slopy to

I have a press setup just for subaru tranys and it gets used alot the trick is to find a very low profile berring spilter had to get a snapon one and grind it down to get it to fitt under the berrings and gears. On average it takes about 1-1/2 tons force to press the shafts apart

i have 25 tranys apart if you need a specific part only two awd units for rx and one from xt 6

i start with the ps side plugs for heater fan ac temp control ect lower bolt on ps side then top bolt ps and ds side do not remove the center middle bolt. Then drop the ecu and realys unplug the ds conectors only the ones that conect the dash to wire harness. And the vent control then drop columm down undo the vacume heater control main plug. Then the bolt on lower ds dash and the speedo from cluster. Have a assistaint hold the ps side of dash while you pull the last bolt center midle of dash then one person on each side gentaly pull dash away from car. Slowly to check for anything that may have been missed. Once the dash is out two bolts and two lines and the box comes right out. I can do it with my eyes closed is not that hard. The reinstall is exactly opposet. The most important part is nothing comes off the dash is removed in one peice.

drill a hole just behind it and weld in a new bung probly the fastest way