johnceggleston

if the alt is not doing it's job the car runs off of the battery. i have also heard that a bad alt can kill even a new battery.

there is an id tag under the hood on the driver side strut tower. it will tell you that your trans is TZ102Z2DBA. this is also labeled on the trans bell housing at the starter. you can use any trans 96 - 98 that starts with TZ102Z2..... this includes outbacks, GTs and LSi. the last 3 letters don't mean much. these trans code numbers include: TZ102Z2ABA TZ102Z2CBA TZ102Z2DBA TZ102Z2BAA TZ102Z2ACA if you search here, http://www.car-part.com , you will have to search different years separately. what is wrong with your trans?

is it using coolant? do you have to add it to keep it full? do you have bubbles in the coolant? is there 'gunk' in the radiator or overflow tank? does the coolant smell like exhaust?

does this need to be an OEM part?? $75.73 plus shipping at: https://www.chaplinssubarugenuineparts.com/oe_parts_cat.html $88.99 at my local autozone. $78 - $153 at napa online. well that's a no-brainer.

is the tubing old and cracked?

more of a how. spray carb cleaner? or some such stuff all around the black plastic intake tubing and hoses. if there is a leak, it will suck in the spray and the idle should increase.

subaru went OBD2 a year early, 95, at least in the legacy line in the US. there is some debate about the impreza line and a recent thread to prove it. and regarding MAP vs MAF, the 96 lego is maf, and i "ASSUME" 95 lego is as well, but i don't really know. i have both and never noticed a difference, but i never really looked for it either.

check for leaves or snow on the radiator/condenser, or in between them. check the fans, are both working, especially when warm? check the wiring connectors. any recent work done?

i doubt i'll know the answer, but i would need the year of each to even begin to answer.

i thought 96 was the last year for HLAs???

check your crank sprocket, does it wobble??

good price, i'd take it. i paid 285$ to swap out rear section, add needed fluid. get it in writing.

96 - 99 had internal leaks so they those head gaskets were bad, or had a good chance of going bad. 00 - 03/04?/05? had external leaks so they changed the HGs for those years, but still some were bad, maybe not as many, but still a design problem. so at some point they changed the gasket again. i've been on here since late '05 and i have only heard that if you use the ''newest" subaru HGs you'll be fine. so it would appear that they finally got it right before then. clearly the original HG design had limitations, but what i find interesting is that not all of them went bad in the first 100k miles. some are just now going bad at 180k or more. and i like nipper's theory that the heavier outback overtaxed the hg on those cars more than on the lighter imprezas or foresters. but the more miles you put on any car the higher the chance of needing a major repair.

so what happens if you put a 95 2.2L plug, BKR6ES-11, a hotter plug, in an outback 2.5L. www.ngksparkplugs.com click on parts search button, lower right.

there is a slight chance there is no damage, but you probably have bent valves. there is almost 0 chance of piston or head damage. put the belt on, and drive it. if necessary do a compression test, then you will know which cylinders have problems. but even if it is only on one side, you will still want to do both head gaskets , unless they have been done.

how long does it take to pump out the old fluid?? how much pressure is the fluid under at the radiator during normal operation?

what would happen if you hung a bucket with a bottom drain/tube and 10 qts of new fluid so gravity would work in your favor. would the new fluid flow in fast enough?

i keep forgetting that both subaru and the internet are world wide.

a liter is 5% more than a qt. or a qt is ~5% less than a liter.

no, there is no chart. these are the numbers for the 95 - 98 legacys. i do not know imprezas. TZ102ZAAAA = 95 LEG 2.2L A/T AWD TZ102ZABAA = 96 LEG 2.2L A/T AWD TZ102ZACAA = 97/98 2.2L LEG A/T AWD with some research here you may figure out which impreza trans hae the correct diff ratio. http://opposedforces.com/parts/ in a nut shell, all of the TZ102Z..... trans that subaru made are the same. but they changed the final drive ratio to match the need. legacy and impreza? are 4.11 and outback, LSi, and GTs are 4.44. so a outback trans will bolt in the legacy, but the diffs will not match. ask here on the classifieds "wanted" section for a trans. i know there is one in pittsburg, subex i think is selling now. where are you located? and look here, www.car-part.com . sort your search by distance. you will have to search each year seperatly, because the trans have different codes for most years, the software on the site thinks that the trans are not the same.

TZ102ZA5AA this is not the original trans for the car, this is an impreza trans. it should have a 4.11 final drive ratio. a 96 legacy trans is TZ102ZABAA. you can use any auto trans from 95 - 98 legacy that starts with TZ102Z... and ends with 4 LETTERS, no numbers. these are legacy trans. you can also use an impreza trans but i don't know them as well so i don't really know which have the 4.11 final drive, but most will be similar to the code you currently have ending in ...ZAxyy where the x is a number (3,4,5) and the y's are letters (A,B, maybe C). but you need to double check rthe final drive ratio. you cannot use a trans that has a '2' after the second 'Z', this is a trans for a 2.5L car and they have a different final drive ratio. TZ1A2ZJeAA, this is a completely different trans, it appears to come from a 99 or 00 legacy, or GT maybe. i do not know the final drive ratio, but the TZ1A2Z.... is a phase 2 trans . they have more speed sensors, a different wiring harness and connector and a screw on fluid filter. (if the trans code were TZ1A2ZJEBA it would be from a 99 OBW. i didn't know they made a ...ZJEAA. AA usually means legacy and ...BA usually means outback. 99 was a transitional year and an odd duck.)

fuel gauges tend to go south, thechron fuel additive may help.

i assume you have a limited amount of this stuff so i'd go with the complete fluid change and make sure 1 qt of the new fluid is the t-x. this will/should give you the longest 'life' of the trans-x. you will not have to change atf again for 60 - 90k miles (100k - 150k km?). if you have any extra, save it until you need it. if i were doing it here i'd just drain and add the t-x on the re-fill. if the fluid wasn't the best i could do it again next week what's another qt of t-x.

i'm on here a lot and i don't remember any discussions about front vs. rear cat. most 420 threads focus on front vs. rear o2 sensor. there is a thread with the anti fouler fix which will eliminate, a lot of the time, the p0420 code regardless of the condition of the cats. i know this isn't what you asked for but i thought you might find it interesting. http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=107476&highlight=anti*

the subie owner who cried leak... i'd park on the cardboard for a few days or a week before i cried leak. that being said, that location would be the oil separater plate on the rear of the engine behind the flywheel/flexplate. (you have to pull the engine to fix it.) or maybe the cam cap o-ring, but again, wait until it leaks before you .... if there isn't a drip on the cardboard or you do not have to add oil then there is no leak, at least not one big enough to justfy pulling the engine.