avg_joe Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I ended up finding a decent(hopefully) short block for my 99 Forester, from a donor that suffered from a broken timing belt. It has a cute little oil cooler that the oil filter screws in to, so apparantly it's from an automatic trans. car. Do I have to take it off to put this engine in my manual trans. car? Thanks. avg_joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
987687 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Yep, it'll be fine. If you're replacing the water pump with the new timing belt, make sure you get one that has two ports on it, one for the heater core, one for the oil cooler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86BRATMAN Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 The water pump isn't different for the na oil cooler equipped cars. It's the thermostat housing/neck that has the extra port on it. I would recommend changing out the o-ring between the cooler and the block as well as the coolant hoses while you've got pretty easy access to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avg_joe Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 O.K. I will check into the O-ring. And coolant hoses were gonna get replaced anyway, for the reason you stated. I'm wondering why the automatics got an oil cooler, while the manuals didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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