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  1.  i have a 2001 outback and i have a 2000 impreza transmission in it. ever since i put the impreza transmission in it it shifts very slowly if i have to accelerate quickly. if i drive at a nice pace it shifts smooth and quickly like normal but if i have to step on it there is about a second or 2 delay between shifts the engagement of the gears are smooth just a long delay before doing so. any ideas what may be causing it? the transmission suposedly has about 100,000 miles on it. i have tried putting trans-x in it with no change.

  2. On 12/30/2021 at 1:40 PM, 1 Lucky Texan said:

    well, one possibility is the little foam gaskets on the blend doors are failing and draggging or getting 'bunched-up' in some way. I have even had older cars 'spit-out' pieces of foam from the vents. But, I have no idea if failures like that in Texas would be common elsewhere. Heat here is brutal on many plastics and rubbers.

    it does function normally most of the time. seems like when its very cold thogh is when it gets stuck

  3. ive been noticing recently in the last few weeks now that my hvac has been getting stuck on certain vent positions and wont change when i select dash vents or defrost right away. it usually takes it like 10 to 20 min before the vent will switch to the setting i switched it to. after it does change it will change when i switch the control at a normal speed seems cold related and as the hvac warms up it will switch the setting. what part should i look at?

  4. 21 hours ago, laegion said:

    No. It's not the same. The exhaust gaskets for the manifold to pipe is not the same part as for the H6. The muffler is also different if I'm not mistaken.

    i was hoping to use the cat section of an h6 and keep the h4 rear section. this is one of the cat sections i hollowed out to get his car running again for now. you can see the port for where it mounts up tot eh engine in this picture. this is the exhaust i took off the 2004 h4 outback that i want to replace with the h6 version. are we sure its not the same?

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  5. fixed the steering shake by swapping the front tires left to right i guess i put them back on backwards from how i had them. not sure why that would cause the shaking though.

    transmission fluid is definitely full i re checked that many times during the filling process and after it sat for a while checked it again. the transmission i put in did sit for 5 or 6 years out of a car before going into mine.

     

  6. so far the temp light has stayed off it drives alright seems slower with the 4.11 in it but i kinda expected that. shifts great when im driving around normally but if i have to floor it for a pass or hard acceleration like getting on highway it shifts very slow kinda seems wrong. its like it stops reving out dis engages the gear does a very slow shift then re engages seems like a second or 2 for it to complete the shift before it starts pulling again. but at normal speeds cruising it shifts almost instant at what seems to be a normal way. im not willing to change the transmission again at this point thogh so im running it like this. could this maby have been an effect of using the bigger torque converter from the outback trans in the impreza trans? i would have thoght a 90,000 mile transmission would shift better than the 180,000 mile unit i took out. the shaking steering is back after the trans swap as well. on a plus side i do like that it seems to shift at more normal times than my old one did and doesent wait around in 3rd or 4rth forever before shifting to overdrive.

  7. Just now, idosubaru said:

    Nice work! You cranked that right out and in!  Give me a tip - my 02 OB AT doesn’t want to mate up to the (tilted and slightly lifted) engine properly!?

    use a jack and a block of wood in front of the engine and jack the front end of the engine upward a little so the engine tilts back. i actually had to backtrack this morning trans is back out on the floor again and just swapped the torque converter from old trans to new one. turns out an impreza transmission has a smaller torque converter and wont bolt up to an outback flex plate. ugg im doing this on jack stands have a floor jack on the back of the transmission and using an engine house and a strap connected tot he front of the transmission jumping back and forth jacking each end up little by little until it lines up. this is the juggling act.

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  8. Afternoon update driving home with the light flashing nothing I am doing is making the light stop flashing there's probably a good chance that I'm either going to just drive it until the transmission blows up with the light flashing or I might actually get the UMP together and pull the transmission out I don't know yet it's cold I don't want to change the transmission in the driveway

  9. New update it seems to be an almost constant problem now I had the light come on last night and was able to clear it with the TCU swap method that I described then this morning when I left for work it was flashing again and was able to stop it with the TCU swap method I described now I'm on lunch break and I could not get the light to stop so does so it has become a constant fault at the moment

  10. now that i got the shake fixed i see this becoming my new nightmare. every couple weeks i get an at temp light flashing and the car will spit out a code 79 from the at temp light. i did replace the duty c solenoid but still have the issue. for some reason i can get the light to stop flashing reliably by plugging an h6 tcu into the car starting it shutting it off then plugging the cars h4 tcu back in and the light will be off on the next start and stay off for a couple weeks again. how can i figure out whats going on? i do not think its the tcu as i have put another 4 cylinder tcu in the car already and has the same results. how can i test this sub harness? im not great with electrical testing more of a find a fault and replace the part person. i do have another transmission just dont really want to go through the hell of installing it.

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