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Transmission mount, is this internal or external to the engine?

Nipper, Thanks for all the links and all the information. After few weeks of looking into this issue, the Tranquil kit almost fits perfect in to the puzzle. If anyone knows if this kit is something approved by Subaru of America please let me know. Regardless, my first phone call on Tuesday will be to SoA to see what else they have to say about their clutch design. It blows my mind that with so many people being unhappy with their manual transmissions, SoA is just sitting quite.

The car has 83k mi on it and if I try to go from stop into third gear it will die...

Judder it is something that I just leared to drive with eversince the car was new. However, it is different from what's happening in second, third and fourth gear...

Clutch, or something else... This is what I have. My 2000 Outback seems to have some problems for the last month or so. Sometimes, not always, only in second, third and sometimes fourth gear. When I put it in gear and if I accelerate slowly it is almost always ok. When I try to accelerate fast it seems like something is skipping. It is lasting only second or two, the rpm on the engine stays the same. I'm not sure if its the clutch or something else. If it was the clutch, and if I allow it to slip multiple times, should I be able to smell it? I had a trusted mechanic look at it, and he agrees with me that if this was clutch problem it should smell. He checked it on the computer and everything looks ok. He said that he also checked the suspension and that looked good as well. At this point, I can only dive it and see what happens next. Any suggestions? Thanks,