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AWE-SOME!

Finally got the power steering sorted out in the 94 turbo lego. First it lost a pressure line and drained the fluid. The car the got driven for a day on a 12 year old power steering pump with no juice in it. The next week the pump screamed like a raped ape a few times and then started pissing fluid out. I suspect the first bout of no fluid is what finished off the old pump. Fast forward to Monday: I run to the local crapyard to get a replacement pump and I get one off a 96 which shows up in all the searches I've done as interchangeable. I can now confidently assure you that this is NOT TRUE. I think that if I had the bracket off the 96 I could have made it work but no way no how was that 96 pump going into my 94 bracket. Turns out the closest direct-fit replacement was an hour away so I took a vacation day and went to get that. Installed it, bled it, and test drove it. So for it seems okay. I hope that's all the time and money the old subaru wants for a while... So lesson learned: the serial number on the pumps changed sometime between 95 and 96. even though the 96 pump looked the same it's dimensions had been fattened up by about 1/8th inch (thanks FHI).

My 94 EJ22T has about 101,000mi on it. Runs strong, seems tight, and so far doesn't use a drop of oil. My buddy's 94 ej222t had just a hair under 300k miles on it when it went to the junkyard with a failing 4eat. motor was still great too. sad times.

Since you asked nicely here's a gravelpit shot of the 94 turbo-money burner:

WOW. Maybe to recoup the price of lights you can open a tanning salon. Looks sweet though, I bet it's a dream on those dark woodsroads and such.

You guys are a bad influence yet again! You're making me want to go shoving other cars around with the turbo wagon! Maybe I can adapt one of those police style push bumpers to the front. hehe!

I've noticed my turbo wagon to be way more liftoff-oversteery than anything else I've ever driven from 80's rwd sedans, to fwd pisscutters, to 70's for trucks. HOWEVER it's a very predictable and enjoyable symptom of a chassis that seems very easy to control and fun to drive. I've managed liftoff oversteer on dry pavement before. This is the first car I've ever had do that. I was impressed That being said I find the snow driving to be very very safe (read: understeer). And when I'm out horsing around in the snow I really have to provoke the car into a slide or spin. I think it would be a different story if I didn't have decent gummy winter tires on it.

I love this concept for a stereo demo car: a 2005 Legacy GT wagon!

Very, very awesome.

I'm not sure about subarus but a lot of GMs eat up the rubber in their rear strut mounts and it sounds like someone beating two pieces of hardwood together in your trunk every time you hit little bumps and stuff. If that is the case in your car then I wouldn't think it would be unsafe to drive. Just noisy. Check all of your strut mounting hardware for tightness and then worry about it when you have the opportunity to work on it.:cool:

The only thing that came to my mind is fuel. Are you perhaps getting your gas in both cars at the same stations? Might be a little watery. and/or your fuel filter could be full of watery goodness which might mess around with you once the mercury drops past freezing. just an idea...

I don't know if I'm supposed to feel guilty for liking that so much but I think it's fantastic!

That looks like a tonne of fun! Looks like your rig works pretty well and the front bumper seems pretty good at moving sand too

Hey guys, I think the PS pump on my 94 turbo legacy wagon sh*t the bed on me. I figure the 90-94 ej22 pumps should all fit right? what about 95-97 ones? There aren't a lot of subes in the local yard so I can't really just compare and contrast :-\ Basically which donors can a pump come from? any help genuinely appreciated.

I've got a question/partial on-topic threadjack If you stick OB struts in a leggy and you get the extra 1.5" of lift. How much harder is that on your CVs? -counter question- Isn't this basically the factory setup for an OB? Or does the OB come factory with different pumpkin/cradle mounting to allow for the lift?

+1 My old lumina got a "hitchup in it's getalong" in a similar way. When cruising along with low throttle and a steady speed it would hitch and buck a bit. It got worse and worse till I finally pulled the plugs (several hours work on that POS 3.4) and noticed that one of the tips of the plugs had burned off like a bastard. Replaced the plug and BAM! no problem!

My 94 has a jeezely leak in the filler neck area... I was thinking about trying something similar but I'm also starting to price around for replacements. since I should be able to R&R it myself I might splurge on a replacement I just found one for my 94 at 1stsubaruparts.com for $111usd plus shipping. That'll be touching $200 once it gets to me in Canada. Maybe I'll try a home-brewed repair and use the savings to buy fire insurance

My 94 turbo does this about once every couple months. usually after 10-15 minutes driving. Thus far it has been pretty faithful about starting with the pedal floored on the second attempt so I haven't worried about it much. To me it's acting very much like a flooded fuel injected car but a little more regular.

That looks snork-tastic!

Most awesome! That's about what I wish my project wagon looked like. of course I'm going to need to BUY a project wagon someday to start on that...

seXXXy!

Nice pics! here in eastern Canada we get several of those good freezing rain days each winter. They usually make for lots of idiot action on the roads. Makes me feel better to be driving a subie

You did a great job subaru-ing up that parking lot. good on ya mate!

That's HOT.

It might very well be. If you're crusing along at a steady speed and turn gently to one side and then the other does it get louder in one direction? That would be classic wheel bearing.