lsd problems

[johnceggleston]

so i am looking at a solinoid or stck clutch packs inthe rear of the transmission?

 

since the fuse in solves the problem, it appears that the duty c solenoid is working. this would seem to mean that it is the clutch plates or hubs or some variation. if this problem was new, not 3 years old i would suggest changing your trans fluid, this has helped some with torque bind. several drain and fills with driving in between, will replace almost all of the fluid. do this now and again in several weeks and your situation might improve.

 

but since you have had this problem for years, it may not help. but it is still pretty cheap even if it does not help.

 

does it bind up in all turns or only when you turn it all the way?? my 95 was bearable in most turns until i turned it all the way. i swapped in a known good rear extension housing.

[Fordman]

it does it in very few turns. it doesnt always happen. i am usually the passenger when the car is on the road. so i cant really describe full turns or not. the only time i could get it to do it today was when we backed up from behind my truck and made a slight turn to the leftto get out on the street and go around the truck parking place.

[4x4_Welder]

 

4x4 welder how is your bumpside? give up on it for the sub or what? havent seen you post over there in a while.

 

I still have two of them. I just am not there anymore because I am on FTE. I was on FTE first, and honestly like that site a lot more.

I have a 72 F250 hauling rig that I converted to p/s and disks, built a new 360 with a 4BBL intake, and I still have my 72 F100 4x4 project. It's currently sitting on 3/4ton axles with a fresh 352 (what I had sitting around) and is about to get modded to fit 38s.

The current Subaru is my wife's, the two of us and now two kids don't fit in a pickup cab.

 

It does sound like an output clutch issue, but that's a cakewalk repair. Find a Legacy in the junkyard up to 98, and pull the rear housing off the tranny. Get a gasket from the dealer ($5-6), and put it all together. The universal joints should be replaced as a disturbingly common failure is for the joint to seize, and then the rear housing gets ripped off the transmission.

Another thought is that the tires might not all be the same- They all need to be within 1/4" CIRCUMFERENCE for things to work properly.

 

I'm not intending to attack, but the language here is different- Subaru calls things what they want, and you can't say "I call it this and that should be good enough"

especially when that term is used for something else.

Edited June 6, 2009 by 4x4_Welder

[Fordman]

i think i would be lucky to even find a sub around here in a junkyard. there is only one that i have seen locally and its a stick. plus it is older. i am unsure of what model it even is. so this repair can be done without pulling the trans or totally rebuilding it? what parts would i need? a clutch pack from the donor? a gasket and maybe some fluid? the tires are in pretty good shape. they are still pretty new. and a matched set. if i have to rebuild it i would probably just get a new set of clutches seals and or whatever else to put back in it. if it was a reasonable price.

 

as far as bumps i have now four of the things. i have one that i bought just to get the transmission out of. i also got a 71 4x4 i traded the trans out of the first truck to trade in to get the 4x4. i just got the trans put in the 2wd and amgoing to try and resale it now. i dont need another 2wd. my other two bumps havent been touched. i did put a new bed on my 67 about two weeks ago. it has a minor bit of fixable rust and no dents. it looks pretty good. i traded a 390 w/automatic for the bed. lets see what else i can read hear before i do to much more. its been nice to hear from you though. i had almost forgot about you.

[CNY_Dave]

it does it in very few turns. it doesnt always happen. i am usually the passenger when the car is on the road. so i cant really describe full turns or not. the only time i could get it to do it today was when we backed up from behind my truck and made a slight turn to the leftto get out on the street and go around the truck parking place.

 

The cheap bastard in me says 'hook up a switch to activate the fuse when you have a tight turn you have to take'.

 

Listening to the cheap bastard sometimes pays off, sometimes it does not.

 

 

Dave

[ShawnW]

I would agree this is a good fix in this situation. A switch in the dash and run a pair of wires to the wire plug where the FWD fuse holder is.

[rainman19154]

The Torque Bind problem is very common. I'm sure most of us reading this thread were sure it's where you'd end up.

 

Do the drain and fill a few times. It's cheap, and probably overdue for the transmission anyway. On my 95 (not terribly differant from your model) I get just about a gallon when I pull the plug and drain the tranny. I then put in a fresh gallon jug of ATF and call it good.

Doing three or four drain-and-fill cycles over a couple days pretty much fixed the torgue bind on my Legacy. I do sometimesl feel stiffness when taking tight corners but compared to what I did have it's nonexistent.

 

I bought my car has over 200k and had to deal with the Torque Bind right off the bat. Now that I know about this issue, I do a one gallon swap of the transmission fluid each time I do the engine oil.

 

 

Search "Torque Bind" on this forum and you'll read where a good number of us have had success with getting fresh fluid circulated throughout the system and apparently cleaning up some internal workings.

 

As for the actual mechanical repair, it does seem to be pretty straightforward if you need to go that way.

[Olnick]

FYI, the OP is no longer with us:

 

"by the way forget anyone on here ever helping me agian F that. dont bother repling i will not be back."

[rainman19154]

Huh, and he had a real "positive" attitude. :-\

/shrug Can't please everyone.

[Suzam]

That's what happens when a post over a year old gets resurrected.