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[grampahull]

I loaned my 99 soobie to a relative.    auto trans, pristine.        that person ran it out of coolant on the highway

till the engine quit.  then towed it 40 miles with wheels on ground.      engine will crank but not start.

I'm assuming engine and transmission are both toast.  any opinions or advice?  (on the car)

thanks,  old geezer.

[spazomatic]

Wow. And this is why, I'll give rides, but do not loan out cars to anybody. No where, no how!

 

I cant give you a prognosis, but i hope its quick, cheap and easy. Wish you luck!

[gbhrps]

From what you describe the car may not be worth fixing, unless you have access to the parts cheaply and you can do the work yourself. Buying a used engine and tranny from a wrecker and then paying a mechanic to drop them in may prove to cost more than the car is worth.

 

As for a replacement motor and tranny, try     JDMTigerJapanese   (do a Google search). Good Luck!

[Fairtax4me]

Might get lucky with the trans, depending on how fast they went, but the engine is probably toast.

 

How many miles on it?

When was the last timing belt replacement? Was the water pump replaced at that time?

[grampahull]

It had 10,000 on the belt and pump and 500 on the cam seals. i can do the work but hate to go thru or replace the engine unless i'm

reasonably sure i have a tranny.   i estimate the speed of tow at about 60.    guess i'm just venting. thanks for the replys guys.

like spaz says, don't ever loan em out. do whatever you have to to provide a ride.

[lmdew]

You Pull get a 2.2 and Auto Trans from a car that has been hit and plug and play.

 

$500 in parts and a day to plug it in.  If the trans diff ratio is different you'd have to swap out the rear diff as well.

[Gloyale]

If the trans is a manual it's fine to tow 4 wheels on the ground.

 

Even an auto, if they didn't go fast would be fine.......maybe some wear on the transfer clutch but should be ok.........flat towing is better than 2 wheels on a dolly......that is the worst for subaru.  I owned a Legacy automatic that had been flat towed behind a motor home most of it's life, for almost 200k miles.  It ran great up to about 300k when the trans went out.....

 

And really, You Can't really blame them (the borrower) for the initial loss of coolant...........Why did it lose coolant?  Who worked on it last? Sounds like that's on you.

 

Honestly I'd be WAAAAY more worried about an engine run without coolant til it wouldn't go than that trans.

 

The engine is the bigger worry......it's likely toast if it was run til it stopped with no water.

[Fairtax4me]

The trans I might gamble on. But it's usually cheap enough to grab the whole shebang from a u-pull.

 

What year? What engine does it have?

[grampahull]

yup i have to take the responsibility  on the coolant leak.     engine's a 2.5 with new head gaskets a year ago  it's a 99.

re the 2.2...............is it really that plug and play?  if i have to do any computer mods, that would be over my old head.

havent had a chance yet to examine it to see what happened with the coolant. i doubt head gaskets....too sudden.

thanks guys.

[Fairtax4me]

Any 95-98 2.2 will drop in. 96-98 has single port heads which require matching y-pipe, but other than that there are no hold-ups except for EGR which is an easy work around.