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did one yesterday axle and new berings on ds took 1 hour most time was cleanig the crap off parts

hearts go out to any subaru tech in need good luck with your bennifit dinner good luck mario

put on the nut and washer and pull from both sides with two heal bars or otc tools sells a axle puller tool for about 85$ a must for any oldschool subaru owner

i think one from ej timing cover could work or i have one in my 77-78 brat parts or could take off my parts 77 wag

i dont think we even got the 360 in canada

i put avionic forma gasket around the outside of evry seal takes care of any scratches or nicks and helps it to slide in and a little bit of grease on inside lip

teh front crank seal seals the oil pump if tierd the seal will allow air into the oil trough the seal and make foamy oil just like the ea82 did and will tick the hotter it gets try a crank seal from subaru the brown one and see if that helps

all 2.5 s mostly the 2.51 from 99-05 a few ealy ones the 2.2 seems immune to it only seen one 2.2 and was 01 phase two most have had engines rebuilt and all new compnents and good comp and tune most i have been the only one to work on them i tried some lucas feul syestem treatment on one yesterday as a test pilot is a 03 forester had turned light on will see if that helps it at all i still think its a lean problem pluged injectors i think

stop driveing and check the front ujoint in the driveshaft had one break and smash the whole tailshaft of trans and had one two days later same thing and one a week before same all the front ujoint makes it vibrate like crazy will feel like its in the floor under you bum or in back end of car ushaly has a ping when put in gear or transitioing from drive to reverse check all ujoints

go get the ones for drilling stainless steel cost big $ but realy work or snapon drill bitt cheapies will not do i have a set of reverse bitts they work good i dont weld nuts to it because will harden steel and make it undrillabble i grind them flat with flange pin punch the center and drill through it this is only way i have had luck cause the alluiminum melts to bolt thread and bolt will never come out

have only seen 4.44 in the newer trans no 3.9 or 4.11 yet i know there are differant stalls on the tourqe converter i phone the dealer with the trany vin to get ratios but the only for shure way is to pull the front diff and count is right every time the forester will have a 2100 stall and the impreza will have a 2800 stall the flex plate will be smaller unless was a 2.5 impreza then will be same

but its not just cars in my area on is from edmonton over 800 kms away and 420 other is from vancouver 600 kms away from all over the map and differnt gas stations and some run only premium feul some run crap feul i dont think its the gas I think that its to lean or ecu calibration problem i do get some very dirty feul fillters here still no solution as of yet

i have some but the spigots are broke on top of sending units

i drill them out to exact size of bolt not hole and retap the threds with bottoming tap just drill them will save many hous of greif buy a new cobalt bitt and make a dead center pilot hole with a small bitt first i fix about 50 broken exhuast bolts a week dam things

nice brat !

so had two broke pistons the other one took a race to show up was hurt but not broke started ratting and smoking on #3 hole comp is good still but piston is hurt will change it out today and see if stops smoken 2 forged and two stock pistons on oppeset side thiss should balance good yikes oh well just two more races to go hang in there poor old 2.51

so two more a 03 forester and a 99 outback yesterday 420 420 thats over 55 cars here with 420 codes and havent got one to shut off light yet i'm thinking pluged injectors making it to lean or just two small of injectors

there was a recall but none of them failed till long after waranty and still over 250 each + core subaru parts in canada are way over priced because they send them to canada from japan to vancouver then truck them to toronto then fly them back to vancouver then truck them to kelowna it makes no sense and adds 60 % to the price just in shiping subaru of canada has there head up there rump roast wonder if honda and toyota do thiss too

still driving me nuts two more yesterday a 99 forester twin cam 420 and a 97 legacy sedan 420 both full heat shields and no exhaust leaks thiss puts the total over 50 cars all 420 all 97-05 dosent seem to matter 2.2 2.5d 2.51 2.53 all 420 have had customers change both catts and 02 sensers but still the same to many cars with same problem i think subarus ecus are calibrated poorly it seems they turn on the 420 code when they change elavation drasticaly pull the pass or up to ski hill i still have no solution for thiss and have had to tell customers that i have no fix and its a subaru problem is very frustrating

so the thery is wrong had a 03 forester with all heat sheilds and shrouds intact and set the 420 code cleared it and it set it agian have a new thery that the cars are running to lean and there is not enuff feul left over to get cats hot the more lean it is the sooner it sets the 420 every one of theese moters i pull a plug on the plugs are very lean burning i think the feul injection is the problem to small for the engine dissplacment i do know that the more left over feul in exhaust the hotter the cats run

check high amp fuse in under hood fuse box hasent burnt one side of its contacts

75 $ i wish they are 285 $ at are subaru dealers

had some high kms 251s lately one was 33000kms on leaky headgaskets other had 34000 kms and a 96 outback twin cam with 35000kms on origanal engine just started leaking on headgasket it seems the more the car is used the longer the headgaskets hold up i think they get damaged from any kind of sitting around or short triping

well it works snaped my rear right axle on the launch and did a sidways pass was a bitt harry but engine held up good and got 3 good pases in the buggy comes of the line way harder lanuched at 3500 rpms instead of 2100 rpms got into the boost way faster and stayed on top works way better with a good trans