BooRadley522

i have similar damage to my 99 legacy. I bent some bumper brackets for an old ranger back to straight once by heating them up then pounding them. I've been thinking of apllying this technique to the Legacy. I can see the wrinkles in the spare wheel storage, so I will remove all the interior flammable materials, heat up the wrinkles with a torch, and attach a chain to the tow loop on the back right then the other side of the chain to a tree. I will either let the car roll in neutral down hill or just tug on it in first gear, but i don't like the idea of the sudden jerk/stop on my drive train. A neutral roll sounds much better. I am somewhat lucky with the damage tho. the guy that hit it tried to swerve and only hit the right side, so that tow loop is positioned perfectly to pull out the damage. I cut the bumper of by the wheel to prevent rubbing on the tires.

It only jumps at start up, and the code only generates if I do not deal with the speedometer issue by cycling the key before driving away from the parking spot. Like I said, if the code IS generated and CEL is triggered, the CEL goes away after 2 or 3 cycles of the key. will a stored code vanish on its own, or do I have to clear it with my scan tool?

Hello everybody, My 99 legacy has a stored p1507 code. My question is will this stored code cause me to fail emissions? I need to give some back story to my car before you all chime in. I bought this legacy from a good friend. It originally had a 2.2 motor in it, but he swapped the motor for a 2.5 and swapped the tyranny from auto to 5 speed. The heads and everything on top of the motor is the original 2.2 equipment; he did this so he didn't have to change out the wiring harness. The heads have ground down cams to increase the power in the low end. It has had outback suspension swapped onto it to give extra ground clearance. This is it as far as I know for the mods. I tried to get the vehicle to pass emissions in Oregon where it is registered, but 3 monitors were unready: 02 sensor, catalyst, and evap. Needless to say, they wouldn't test because of this; only 2 are allowed to be unready. After a day of driving and multiple attempts ato testing, I gave up and drove it home to Washington state. I am leaving it registered in Oregon because I will be moving back there in 4 months and don't want to pay to transfer states twice. This is where my REAL problem/question comes in. The speedo, when keyed to on, occasionally either goes all the way around to the maxed out position, or to about the 40 mph area. When it maxes out, the car will start and die immediately. When it goes to the 40 mph area, it starts and runs, but won't register the true speed. If I forget to look for and deal with this on start up, it throws the p1507 code. (To "deal with" the speedo I simply cycle the key from off to on until it doesn't jump at all.) Once I remedy the speedo, after a couple cycles the CEL goes away, but the code is stored. I do not want to clear the codes and reset my monitors again; I have to make a drive to Oregon to test and I want to be sure I pass. Will this stored code make me fail, and will pulling the speedo out of the dash and adding solder fix my issue of the needle jumping? Thanks for reading my novel. Appreciate any help on this matter.