heavyarmsxx

Gotcha, I did grab a hold of each cv axle and tried moving and rotating as well as the drive shaft and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, not to say something may still not be the problem just something I tried.

So just a little update, haven't found any tires locally yet, well a full set. I did finish running transmission fluid through it 3 times now, the drain and refill method, problem is still there and I noticed something else. I drove up around and when I got back to park the forester it sat there for a second and then I heard a little thud around the middle of the vehicle and the vehicle rolled back and stopped. It wasn't the feel or sound of it not being in the notch for park, but then again I could be over thinking it. I do know I still need to get a set of tires to knock that area out.

Alright bud, will start looking.

Ok, and from what I can tell they will fit, 5x100 bolt pattern. I even looked up pictures of the same rims on a 98 forester and it looks good to me.

So for whatever reason I thought there was only 2 brands of tires but it turns out that all 4 are different, same size but different. I found a set of frs rims with 3 brand new blizzack tires and one hancook wintercept that is also new locally so I might pick up. The guy is asking 400 for the set. The PO said before he drove it, his sister owned it and only put fuel in it when needed. The PO also didn't have a clue about the vehicle other than a mechanic telling him it needed a fuel pump which it did, he was some kind of fashion designer who couldn't tell me why all of the relays were going off with the key in the on position, I later found out about the green test connectors.

I'll try that tonight.

I only drained, removed pan and mesh screen filter and replaced, figured since I was in there might as well, it does not have a spin on filter. Was going to go ahead and run at least 2 fresh runs of atf through it. I'm not using any type of additive or flusher. All 4 tires are the same size but 2 different makes, all have about the same wear but I'm going to be replacing them as soon as I can. And the PO did not replace anything that I'm aware of.

And the at light does not flash on start up.

98v automatic, I'll have to ask around for some loose road in the area because it's all urban here, I'll run another set of trans fluid through it after about 500 miles unless that's too much, should I leave it in only fwd until the flush is done? I'll get the miles tomorrow, kind of late right now. Thank you for the input.

Hello all, kinda new to the forum posting but before I turn to the dealer I wanted to try here first. My current problem is that whenever low speed cornering or just low speed straight I get a type of binding what feels like the brakes are grabbing momentarily then releasing. I did try to search this problem out and I wanted to know if I'm right. If I put the fwd fuse in the problem goes away, I checked for codes using the handshake and got 25 and 31, could have just been stored when I was trying to start the vehicle on a near dead battery, I checked voltage at the tps and it is fluent as well as ohming it out, checked for shorts or burn marks on the tcm and it looks clear, drained and replaced trans filter and fluid, original owner stated that he thought that the rear passenger axle needed replacing but I lifted the vehicle in the air and turned the wheel and heard no noise, when I checked the transmission fluid it was black and smelled like gear oil so I'm guessing that the last time it was changed was back in nam, so far what I've come to the conclusion is that the transfer clutch pack is bad and needs replaced. Any thoughts on something I might have missed?