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If you want to sell it let me know. I'm in Colorado Springs and work on Subaru's for fun. Thanks Larry I have an 05 OBS with a rebuilt engine that's ready to go.

Not that hard to change, but expect a full day under the car if it's your first one. Search torque bind you will find some great write ups.

It's an pretty simple electrical circuit with a few connections. Open, Short or High Resistance is the only faults you can have in a circuit. Power on check is the best check you can do but harder to do. Easy stuff, have the shop open and clean the main trans connectors.

Easy or hard to change? Thanks, Larry

The question is what will it cost you to buy it back from the insurance company. It does not look to bad, if you could post pics of the engine compartment and frame rails... we could tell you more. In parts it's worth the most unless someone wants to put it on the road as a personal Subaru.

Subaru engine will airlock if not filled and burped properly. Why did you change those parts? Was it overheating before the change? Did you rule out Head Gaskets? Look in your overflow bottle, is there black oily stuff in there? If so your HG are most likely gone. 2.2 swap is a great option.

Get a nice 98-99 Subaru outback with a bad 2.5 DOHC engine and do the 2.2 swap. You will be in a newer car and love the engine.

95 2.2

2.2 or 2.5? When was the timing belt and Idler gears and water pump done last. I'd start by pulling the two t-belt end covers and see if the cams line up correctly. If not its a timing issue. You can bend valves so turning by hand is a great idea.

There are two 12mm bolt holes in the and the backs as well. You can drive the bolts in to break the rust.

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/topic/157364-99-outback-22-swap-random-p0325-p0303/ Always a good idea to search the Form and see what you find. I think the link above will help you out. Good Luck, Larry

Yes, it will bolt right up. Make sure the vac lines on the top are the same. If so you are good.

New knock sensor on order. I swapped in a used one, that ohm out correctly. New one going in and a seafoam treatment.

I did the engine swap a couple of years ago. Sold it to a fellow at work. He had the knock sensor P0325 & misfire on #3 P0303 pretty random for over a year. I suggested the normal: NGK Copper Plugs NGK Spark Plug Wires Gave him a knock sensor to put on gave him a set of fuel injectors to swap in He wanted to sell the car, so I got it back. He had not followed my advice on the NGK plugs and wires so I installed a set and drove the car for a couple of weeks. I sold it to another family friend the they drove it for over a month before the P0325 & P0303 codes came back. There is a slight miss, but over all runs well. About 210K mileage, 5sp. I have not adjusted the valves or taken a compression test. Other things? Thanks, Larry

Stay away from the turbo versions. Nothing but more work and less reliability IMHO.

Pics attached. The rear small hole is where the push plug goes in for the door sill plastic trim. The large hole is the one I cut in with the hole saw. Hope this helps someone down the line.

yes a 2,5 hb will work fine.

Get the key welded in by a quality welder. You'll be fine.

Yes, the crank gear has to be removed to get a new key in!

I'd pull the timing cover, clean out all the junk. If the T-belt and pulleys need to be replaced do it! You have an interference engine and if the timing goes, you will most likely bend valves. It will most likely be hard to remove the crank gear, but you can get it if you file any displaced metal and carefully work it off. Once it's off you can inspect the keyway and see how much damage there is to the crankshaft. I have had keys welded into the keyway and then replaced the gear and HB. It's still running fine. There is a company that sells a kit to mount the HB to the gear, using roll pins. Not cheap, but cheaper than a new engine. If you get a new key and HB in and then torque the bolt it will most likely last. I have HB and a key I could send to you if your in no rush. $25 shipped, USPS Priority.

Drilled off the head of the FWD Trailing arm mount bracket, then I drilled up through the body. It is right under the passenger rear seat. About an 1" behind the support tube and 5 1/2" in form the door seam. I have pictures I'll load later. I drilled an 2" hole down into the frame, which allowed me to put a nut on the front bolt and hold it with a socket. The failure of the nut spot welds was due to rust on the bolt above the nut. In the future, I see a 3 options to prevent the spot welds from breaking: 1) drill a small access hole right above the bolt and PB Blast it 2) remove the push pin that holds the plastic door rail cover and point the PB Blaster straw inside and forward and spray lots of oil in and let it set 3) drill the 2" hole and hold the spot welded nut with a socket so it does not break the welds as the bolt is removed. Forster Strut Lift complete I also swap the rear drums over to disk brakes and the hub bearings were shot. Quite a day's worth of work, but it's done.

If the timing is off far enough you can bend valves. If you have a cam and crank sensor you might want to swap them one at a time and see if the problem goes away. They usually fail completely and then there is no spark, but I have seen them do strange things. It would be worth hooking up a computer and seeing the signals to the ECU before you pull the intake.

NGK Copper Core plugs and NGK or Subaru Plug wires, hopefully you these. What did the old plugs look like? The MAF can be cleaned and could be the cause of a misfire. Subaru coils are pretty reliable, and usually one side of the coil goes bad causing a misfire on 1&3 or 2&4. What's the mileage? 2.5 DOHC or 2.2 SOHC engine? Please list the codes. Unlikely that the harness is bad and the engine harness goes to everything on the engine. To replace it you would have to pull the intake off.

I was installing the Legacy Outback trailing arm frame mounts today. I had lifted a 98 OBS a while ago, that lift was a good training on installing the trailing arm mounts. I lifted my new 2000 OBS and was careful to remove the trailing arm mount bolts by hand (on the 98 the Milwaukee Impact broke 2 of the 6 spot welded mount nuts off inside the frame). The drivers side went well, but the passenger side front mount bolt broke the spot welds on the nuts. I ran the bolt in an out by hand many times spraying it with kroll, but it still let loose. Drilling the hole inside on Saturday to get a socket on the bolt. So it goes. Larry