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_Aramchek_ replied to 97OBW's topic in 1990 to Present Legacy, Impreza, Outback, Forester, Baja, WRX&WrxSTI, SVX
my 5 speed 96 is about 8 seconds more or less,but would be quicker if I didn't have to shift into third. -
It looks to me like someone had the shifter apart and just didn't remember to put the nut back on or something,but it's a good place to start...the nut on yours could be really loose or something. Well the switch is kind of behind the steering wheel on top of the column for me,dunno about in other subaru's as this is my first one.
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Ah yeah,Loctite! forgot all about that stuff. There are probably 2-4 threads through,so that calms my worries a bit. I would have used the bolt from the top of the linkage down in the lower bit except I live in a somewhat rural area and couldn't readily purchase a nut that would work on the old bolt since I couldn't drive anywhere. The bolts I got do look pretty comparable to the one from the top of the linkage though.
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Ok,I was driving up a hill today and went to downshift only to discover that I couldn't. After getting stopped and taking a look I discovered that the bolt/pin/w/e holding the linkage had broken or came loose. After taking a good look at it I figured I could probably fix this myself,I called my grandfathers mechanic for some advice beforehand to see if there was a specific bolt or whatever that I needed for it,he didn't know off-hand but told me a case hardened bolt would probably work at least long enough for him to look over it in a few days when he has the time. So after finding a good enough size bolt and all I managed to put it together,now at this point I noticed that there really isn't all that much of the bolt sticking through the nut. My question is,do you think that really will be ok for a couple days or should I be worried? The bolt IS as tight as I could get it and it seems to me that there really shouldn't be too much stress on the bolt as long as I don't shift like a madman,so will that be ok for a while? Oh and before this there was a lot of play in the shifter,when I took it apart I noticed that the bolt on the shifter side didn't even have a nut on it:banghead: ,so I replaced that with the same nut bolt combo and now it feels like a completely different car when shifting.:cool:
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My previous car was a 1992 oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera 3.3 v-6 and it had roughly 160k miles on it and ran strong,used no oil,ran very cool,the most work it ever needed was tires and a new muffler and to top it off would destroy my 2.2 5spd outback anywhere over 70mph...and i think that it actually got better gas milage than my outback too:D ...that car was bulletproof and I abused it as much as I could too. Granted it was *nowhere* near as fun to drive as the outback is,but my point is that it would still be going strong now and well into the 200kmile future if some idiot on their cell phone hadn't ran into me.