glyfx3d Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 I have a 1991 subaru legacy ls wagon awd and at 260k miles the cars tranny has failed. It was interesting how it was failing but took a month for it to act very wierd. Because of the cost of replacing it with a used unit at $3,000 CDN I decided to let it go. The tranny started to exibit symptoms early on. When comming to a stop the tranny draged the engine down to a stop and stalled the trany. It also did this when placing the car in reverse. Did this off and on and finally replaced the fluid even though the fluid color a bright pink was in great shape before replacing it. After replacing that symptom stopped and was replaced with another symptom. It would slip comming off from a stop at random times and had it diognosed from a tranny freind but he could not find the problem. Driving it for about a month it suddenly started doing some strange things. Would not drive in first but in nutrual. Make lots of noise in gear while driving and in nutural. I finally parked it looked at the tranny fluid and the color/smell looked right. I figured somoething has finally failed internally but not having any experiance in transmissions I do not know. My experaince comed from many years as a diognostic and mechanical mechanic in the past on most makes and model vehicles. Its been a good reliable car and had it not been for a misdiognosis from another shop while I was driving on the road the head gaskets would have lasted and not had a head gasket replacment. BTW, Is the gas millage for 2.2 typical for engines of this size or has subaru not figured out a way to increase its millage? thats my only gripe. I would like to possible replace the tranny but need cost estimates and a good reliable source of used subaru trannys for this car. Loren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legacy777 Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 gas mileage unfortunately is not really as good as some of the other manufacturers like toyota or honda with the same size engine. However the subaru motor is more powerful.....it's a trade off I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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