jross

thanks guys...I understand the physics of the 4wd I just wanted to make sure that this wasn't a sign of a bad diff. Thanks for the confirmation...I think I'll probably buy the car even though the horsepower is about 40% of my current car...I'm really gonna have to get used to that. Oh well, that's just the nature of older subaru's I guess. Is there any other common problems that I should know about other than normal wear and tear items?

I searched and found a few threads with similar topics but I just wanted to see if this is a fairly common thing with a 93 loyale... i'm considering buying it but want to see if I will need to replace the diff soon or something. It seems like it is just binding up since I couldn't get it to clunk when I was in gravel, so I left it in 4wd and drove on the pavement for like 10 feet and disengaged it, which it then clunked very loudly. And I looked, but obviously don't know for sure if the tires are the exact same diameter or not but they appeared to be the same. Can anyone tell me if this is a common thing with these cars and with it clunking is it a sign of the differential going bad? Or is it just the way these cars behave when you have the 4wd on pavement... Thanks for any help, Jason