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I have driven the car all week and have not had a problem. There is absolutly no play in the clutch and it is engaging at the most extended position of the pedal. I think that the clutch is just old, and by adjusting it last weekend, we probably added a little bit of time to its life, although I fear it won't last long. Is there any adjustment on the pedal?

Plenty of oil in the tranny. Now I guess I just drive it until it starts acting up again.

The clutch cable is orig equipment. I drove the car home last night, and back to work today with no problems at all. Keep in mind, that this is 15 miles of serious stop and go traffic. I will take it to have the gearbox fluid level checked at lunch today, but I just don't see how that could explain the problem. I am just running out of things to check short of tearing into the clutch. Back to you with what I find later. Russ.

Ditto...Tail light seals. I took mine out and hit them with silicone clear and reinstalled and have no more problems. I am in Houston, and having the car sit in the heat made the car smell like swamp! As with others, I took out the plug and left it off, and have not had any more problems. I guess I am too cheap to buy new seals

Update: I spent the first part of the weekend degreasing the motor and washing the Legacy. Turns out, my Grey Legacy is actually white. Who knew? Josh came by to see if he could find the problem. After test drives, adjusting the clutch, and more test drives, both of us were at a loss. We were unable to duplicate the previous problems. (the test driving was fun though). Pushing the car flat out up to redline (on a 150k motor) resulted in no slipping at all. I drove the car to work through rush hour traffic and had no problems this morning. My thanks go out to Josh for his technical knowledge and his willingness to help a complete stranger out because he happened to own a legacy. It was nice to meet another "car guy" who is willing to help a Chevy hot rodder who knows little about Subaru's. Oh, and Josh's Subaru is very nice. Clean is an understatement. I will drive it all this week to try to duplicate the problem. As of now, I am shrugging my shoulders tho.

I really don't recall which one I talked to. It is off of 59s. I changed the clutch out at 90k miles, now it has almost 170k. Engine is fine, tranny is fine, AC blows cold, and I just changed the bushings on the shifter. The clutch engages and disengages just as it always has, but once it heats up, I think it is not fully disengaging the tranny. Even during the grinding, the clutch feel is normal. Possibly sounds like a worn clutch, but I have never had a car act this way before. In my experience, clutch problems start small and get worse over time, not appearing, then going away. The long and short of it is that the car needs new cv joints. I am willing to fix that, but if I have to install a new clutch, the parts alone are worth more than the car. My wife uses this car to go back and forth to work in to keep the miles off of the more expensive car, but we are at the point of decision here. If in fact it is an adjustment, I would rather keep the car. I would welcome the opportunity for you to look at it. I live in Pearland, but work next to the Galeria.

Hill holder?? - not really usefull here in Houston So, if the hill holder (I see it in a schematic as the PHV, which activates the front left and rear right brakes) has nothing to do with the clutch, then I probably have a clutch that is going bad? I have adjusted the clutch cable to remove any slack but the problem is persisting. I just don't understand why it goes away if it sits for a while. Thanks for the input.

My 91 Legacy LS has an intermitant problem of the manual transmission not wanting to engage. The gears grind while the engine is running. The car sat for a week, and the problem went away only to happen again after about 40 min of driving. I went to see if a clutch cable adjustment would help the problem, and that is were my questions started. At the end of the clutch cable, there is another cable that actuates a valve, which is connected to the brake master cylinder. What the heck is this thing doing?? At first I thought that it was a hydraulic assist or something. Any advice would be helpful. I called the local Subaru place and they said that the cable and the valve I was talking about didn't exsist. Gee thanks. Russ.