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It's a little late for this to be helpful now, but... I bought Mevotech mounts for the rear of my wife's 97 Postal Legacy. The left mount bushing tore loose on the first day and when she got home from the route the strut shaft was banging on the cover plate. The right mount bushing tore loose on the second day. Since I didn't have time to get replacements, I reinstalled the original mounts each night. (The ones that had 420,000 miles on them and were still okay). They are still working about 15,000 miles later. What a waste of time that was.
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Odd that the AT temp light is not flashing on start up. Doesn't that indicate that there is no transmission code (or that the bulb is burned out)? I wonder if the OBDII code will provide any useful information.
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Perhaps the OP is asking if the crank gear makes two rotations to one cam gear rotation. This would be the case with any 4 cycle engine and it would be possible to have the timing off 180 degrees. I don't know what kind of engine damage would occur on his interference engine if he had the timing off like this. Edit: This post is incorrect
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It's been years but I imagine the oil additive was something like Motor Medic Valve Medic. The gas treatment could have been anything that mentioned valves. I didn't use the Seafoam that time, but have used it since too decarbonize cylinders, after having seen it used on Youtube. Sorry I can't be more helpful. Maybe someone else will have better or more specific suggestions.
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Sounds like the symptoms our 91 Postal Legacy had. Decided based on a radio show that the valves were sticking open when the engine heated from load, so it would gradually lose compression. Fixed it by using an oil additive that cleaned the valves and a decarbonizing gas additive, but it sounds like you've already tried that? Did you try adding something like Seafoam gradually into the intake manifold?
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An unfortunate possibility is that the nylon speedometer gears are worn and slipping. These are considered by all but a few to be accessible only by pulling the transmission. Our Postal Legacys seem to eat them every 150,000 miles or so. The speedometers work intermittently for a while and then quit entirely. Hope this isn't what is going on for you.
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Flat rate book I'm looking at lists .6 hours for thermostat and .2 for an oil change. Parts should cost $40 or so ? Flat rate for the timing belt is 2.6 hours
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And no need to do the boot until the axle goes bad, unless you object to the grease that might get slung around the torn boot. We've driven with torn boots for 20,000 before the axle itself went bad.
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No need to do the CV boot until the axle itself goes bad, then replace the whole axle. It will start to make noise when turning and can run like that for quite a while..
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The wife's mail route was 90+ miles at the time. I think it took a couple of days on the route. I'll ask her if she remembers when she gets off work today. It being pre-Christmas she should finish her route and be home by Dark-thirty.
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If I understood correctly the explanation was that as one valve lags the cam due to carbonization on its stem the engine runs hotter locally and makes the other valves' carbonized stems bind as well. So the engine progressively loses compression.
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It was more than 10 years ago. I would have used an oil treatment from Advance Auto. Possibly Motor Medic Valve Medic?
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Have you checked compression? My wife's '91 experienced varying loss of power at about that mileage. I added decarbonizer to the oil and gas and fixed it. The dealer was unable to diagnose the problem after having the car for 8 days. They said they thought it was "something electronic." (Yes morons, that's the reason I brought it in to you. You have scan tools that I don't.) I heard a segment on Cartalk about Toyota valves sticking open due to carbonization and the symptoms matched ours so I took the car back and tried the cure. It worked.
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