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it looks from the pic that the punch you used was a little too small and ended up going inside the pin and now both are stuck? If this is correct, you have soaked it so now put a socket on that punch and work it out with a ratchet, one direction then the other, back and forth. maybe try a vice grip on the pin side to help hold it while you work the punch out with you socket/ratchet. let the vice grip get wedged to keep the pin from turning. I assume that you have acquired the correct punch now. If you get the stuck punch out then you can easily drive the pin out with your new (correct) punch. If the problem is that you tried to punch the pin out in the wrong direction (One hole on the axle is beveled and the pin should be driven into that hole and driven out of the opposite side) then try putting a drift on the pin and drive it back / work it out. Patience. If you drove it out the wrong way and the pin breaks off, just put the correct punch on the broken pin and drive it out the right direction. if you have identified the direction as you problem and can't get it out, you might try to shear the pin off and do this.

on the cradle, when you find your donor car, take the crossmember with pump etc in one awkward piece, it keeps crap from getting in hoses if you leave it all intact and makes for an easier swap.

X 2 on the need for the crossmember (cradle), also some early engines will not have the holes in the pass side head to mount the ps pump mounting bracket, but I have found that the one mounting hole is fine to hold it, litterally drove for years like that.

actually I think the 80-84 subies are probably better grouped with the historic forum. The pushrod era. OHV represent!

Thanks moosens, I'll let you know if I want to take you up on that but it looks like the links dude provided here will do me . You guys are the best!

@oce177 thanks that is awesome! much apreesh. would still take a FSM if somebody has it available, but the pages you posted are great. What is the source of that document?

I want a FSM for a 92 EJ22 engine, I saw from looking around on ebay that the FSMs for this era subie are several books, I am only interested in the engine. It looks like section 2 & 3 are in one single book that covers engine and transmission. Is this correct? Anyone have and want to part with it? I would consider another early ej22 year if they are the basically the same.One other thought if somebody would lend it to me if you don't want to sell it

@nighthawk no worries, and thanks for the kind words. If you are ever cruising by and you catch me outside (in the spring and summer I am in the driveway a lot) stop in and say hello.

@nighthawk2006 the directions you give are to my house, but I have no tan car. I don't think this car is from Lyons, it's to small a town for me not to know if it was. It must be somebody nearby enough though to be coming by here from time to time.

Please help me out here- twice I have caught a brief glimpt at an absolutely huge tan/gold 80-84 wagon that was passing through Lyons, Colorado heading up the south st vrain canyon on state rt 7. The first time was maybe 3 years ago, it pulled over in front of my house to check out my subies and was gone by the time i could get outside. Then today it drove by my house on rt 7. all I know is it's huge, looks like maybe its on 33s? and I can hear it is EJ'd. If this is somebody on the board or if anyone knows who, PLEASE get in touch, I really want to check this thing out. and I am sure whoever own it would like to check out my hatch too.

Please help me out here- twice I have caught a brief glimps at an absolutely huge tan/gold 80-84 wagon that was passing through Lyons, Colorado heading up the south st. vrain canyon on state rt. 7. The first time was maybe 3 years ago, it pulled over in front of my house to check out my subies and was gone by the time i could get outside. Then today it drove by my house on rt 7. all I know is it's huge, looks like maybe its on 33s? and I can hear it is EJ'd. If this is somebody on the board or if anyone knows who, PLEASE get in touch, I really want to check this thing out. and I am sure whoever owns it would like to check out my hatch too.

was there a skidplate made for first gen (pre-2000) outbacks?

subaru dealership.

yes thanks freak, You could count me in for 2 rear gen 2 hatch gaskets. and just fyi last I checked you could still get the chrome trim pieces that go with.

I would love a new rear glass gasket for my hatch, but I doubt we could find 50 people to order them. anyone else?

so in a previous post I said that the diagnostic connector was hard to find, well I found it and it was actually one that I had first found but it did not look like the one in the diagram so I continued to look and look. anyway here are some pics and I can tell you that these instructions apply to my 00 outback. to find the connector- there are two green connectors that are very easy to find above the gas pedal. They are compatible male and female plugs that are just dangling, not hooked up. If you follow the green connectors back to where they emerge from the taped up harness, the ABS diagnostic connector emerges from the same place. It is helpfull to pull out the connector as far as you can, this required re-routing it through the jumble of harness. I think the reason a few in this thread have said "but the two test wires are no where to be found" is because they are taped up tight right where the connector as well as the two green connectors emerge from the harness. start unwinding tape and you will find the terminals. The ABS diagnostic connector and the two test terminals are the ONLY THINGS THAT EMERGE FROM THE HARNESS AT THE SAME POINT AS THOSE WIRES ATTACHED TO THE GREEN CONNECTORS, so if you trace the green connectors to the harness, you will find it. at least on my 00 outback. here are pics. it is the white connector dead center in first pic. in the other two pics one ground terminal is plugged into possition 6 hope this helps somebody, in regards to comments about wanting to be lead to answers without doing research, the questions asked on this board are part of research in my opinion, I know a lot more about subies than most, and I have asked more dumb questions than most, it is how we learn here, besides what is this message board for, anyway? I agree that posting results/solutions is important because often when you search the board with specifics, you come across 10 threads with no answer. I love you all.

this video better to locate oil pressure sending unit

oil pressure sending unit is a common oil leak on top of the block. I would look there first. This yoube video shows you where its at-

hey I am trying to do the same diagnostics on a 2000 outback with an ABS light and I can't find the connector, and I was told it is the same procedure for the 2000-2004 outbacks as the legacy outbacks, can you give me any help? I also have a 97 outback that I can compare to, I can't find the plug on that one either. I have a printout of the procedure I just can't find the connector! Thanks

hey thanks, Grossgary can you possibly help me find the plug? I have the diagram for the 99 and it shows it above the gas pedal like you say, but I can't find it on the 2000. I thought maybe it just looked a little different on the next generation, but I can't find it on my 97 OBW either. I removed the kick panel on the 2000 OBW still can't find it.n Any advice? what color is the plug? there are lots of plugs in there not connected. Is it screwed to the heater unit? Thanks.

my obd 2 reader won't pull a code, I have instructions for a 99 that involves plugging into an electrical connector and watching the light for morse code style blinks that tell you different problems, I don't suppose its the same on 2000? any help apreesh.

bump for the egr question

Thank you, for some reason I was under the impression that the earliest ej22 were easier to use in ea cars. If the engines all the way through 98 are just as do-able, that would sure make them easier to find. The EGR thing- to be legal I would need it, what ej22 years would you use in order to keep the EGR system functional?

What year models of legacy cars have the preferred EJ22 engines for swapping into older cars. What do you look for on the engine to visually confirm it's the right one? There is something about an egr port or something on the early ej22?

rdweninger I talked to my insurance co about the agreed value policy, I have come full circle on this, I don't think it's worth paying for the apraisal that this would require and in the end I wouldn't put collision on a $5,000 car anyway. I didn't realize until this claim that the gap was closing on this vintage of Subaru. That they actually valued it at nearly 3k is alright by me. When I did the stated value based on bad advice, I was trying to better insure a car that I thought they would have totalled out after $1000 damage. but such is not the case. And you are right, the insurance company will value the car how they see fit, and there isn't much you can do about it. In the end, they treated me better on my hatch than they did on our outback. Go figure. When it comes down to it I got more than enough money to fix the hatch, and the outback really doesn't even look that bad anyway. I have heard about the dry ice thing, I might try it, but the plan is to replace the hood, I have a couple straight in my shed, fix whatever other dents I can and have the whole car painted, it will look tip top again.