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Not really interested in tearing into the original transmission, I'd rather get my core refunded and they don't accept disassembled components. Might zip off the oil pan for a peek, but probably won't. If this reman transmission fails, or makes me nervous at all during the next 12 months, I've got the warranty to go back and try again. Sounded good on the initial test drive back to my place. It did slip once pulling onto the main, steep, uphill road, but that was before the ATF was topped off and it hasn't done it again since. Only have maybe 8 miles on the thing because we were out of town and I didn't want the test drive to leave us stranded 150 miles from home. Updates to come once we've got some more road miles.

You, of all people should have known better to check and or swap/replace while doing a comp test before even posting ! But, this forum is a good thinking out loud space

It's been forever... But I got back to working this out. Checked the plug wires,nothing looked or measured bad. Checked for vacuum leaks with a smoke machine, no big red flags. Pulled a spark plug. Ok, wow, I guess this set has been in a while.. gap about .059", all eroded / rounded electrodes. Put in new plugs. Just did a 5 mile test run, no glitches.

Will be interesting to see what you find in the old trans. Sounds like front diff maybe but you say it doesn't sound like it's coming from there. Anything on the magnets? 250k is a good run. Personally would have opted for low mileage used. Have seen several scenarios where Subaru Reman transmissions have had quality control problems. I have a customer that the dealer installed 5 of them before they got a "good" one and 80k later it's making quite a bit of metal - more than I like to see anyway. Still going but did require a new transfer clutch and both drums as it was binding badly (deep grooves in the drums). Should not be the case for a Reman transmission with 80k on it. GD