MilesFox

My in-laws have a 97 forester. It has the 2.5 DOHC ej25d. We got it for $1750, although it could sell for towards $3000 as it is. We lucked out with several circumstances. One, we got the car from someone i knew personally. Two, he was moving and had to sell fast. three, the car had service papers showing new struts, HG, and timing belt before 150,000 miles. the car currently has a little less than 150k. Compared to my 94 legacy, the forester is a little narrower and shorter, but has more head room. Personally, i think the egacy has more square feet of space than the forester, but the forester makes up with equal cubic feet with the extra headroom. the forester is based on the impreza chassis, which shares mechanical dimension with the legacy. What i would do if in the market for swapping a fixer upper, is to find a complete forester with a bad 2.5 and drop the 2.2. If it is just a head gasket failure with no bottom end issues, i would swap the 2.2 heads onto the 2.5 block, and the 97 should have dual port exhaust witch match 2.2. You get a franken motor this way with high compression and 200 hp, but you need to run higher octane gas. As a general rule for rock-solid reliability, and parts swappability, i would look mainly within 1990-1997 legacy, and 93-98 impreza. Impreza is not a bad option, as they are generally cheaper than foresters, just as common as legacy, and can usually be had for cheap needing regular repairs. the phase 2 engines use a metal head gasket, and the ej22e (90-96 legacy) uses a composite gasket. The composite head gaskets last the life of the engine(with regular care and maintenence, no overheats) and the metal gaskets usually fail with lack of coolant maintenance, with the water jacket rusting out and causing an external leak, which leads to low coolant, which leads to overheat and compression failure with the average consumer car owner who relies on low mileage instead of regular maintenance for reliability.

IT is also there to manually reel the automatic seat belt

I have a complete dual range 5spd with everything required to swap into an ea82. For the impreza, you supply the hybrid trans mount, and sjr bellhousing adapter. this comes with flywheel, u-drill it. 3.9 diff included It also includes and ea82 driveshaft. I do have parts for putting and ej trans in an ea82 body: custom driveshaft and hybrid trans mounts. hollar at me as i am your local source for this trans. I would consider th leftover impreza 5spd as trade for the legacy. $300 local pickup everything included.

the one for the dash is a single spade terminal.

I vote for stuck slide pins. this is easy to do. once you remove the caliper, use penetrant and steel wool to clean off any rust and crud, and use a silicone based lubricant for re-assembly. check fro rust around the piston boot as well. i like to put caliper lube on the boot where it meets the piston.

If you are getting combustion gasses pushing out hte coolant causing an air pocket, try a can of the liquid glass block sealr. this can proling an already blown hg if you definately are getting ombustion bubbles, but it is the only practical thing you can do short of repairing the head gaskets themselves.

rear wheel bearings, possible. when you use the brake, the caliper can cancel the sound, but when coasting, the edge of the disc rotor may be dragging on the caliper bracket. look for a shiny spot on the caliper bracket.

I have accidentally mixed them up between themselves, or other engines for parts, with no adverse affects.

I put a cherry bomb on the trashwagon trying to restore the torque from having no muffler, It is mounted at the center section. It is improved, but still getting just better than 15 mpg with the borla replica header. maybe it needs another one at the tailpipe, the tres are too big, or the engine is just tired.

I forgot to mention this. My 94 legacy has 15 inch forester wheels, and i cannot go back to the original 14" snowflakes. make the move to 15 inch wheels with 195/60 15 tires and it will be close to the original 185/70 14 without throwing off the speedo more than a few pwercent.

I did this to a 94 legacy gt wagon using dual pots from a 2000 legacy outback wagon. I did the rears too, doing the same thing with caliper brackets and backing plates, but using the same parking brake shoes original to the car. The rears are still single pots, but larger rotors. If you can snag all 4 brakes that is a total package. These calipers i used appear to be the same a 90-94 turbo legacy, and wrx 2 pot as well.

maybe they are for the 'fat case' ea71 which shares dimensions with an ea81 but 1600 displacement in later model hatchbacks with the side starter.

I used to go to c-bus to get subaru parts at the junkyard when i lived in Indiana. I would go to J.C's and Woody's. I stashed a pile of ea82 parts in the back lot of woody's, only to come back and see they paved with concrete, with only the strut top of my stash poking out of the edge. I made the stash to hld parts to cars that would go away by the time i came back for them.

I like it. Very clever. It is so obvious that no one thought of it. those are the best ideas. Grease doesn't always work.

I had a harbor freight solar powered unit. I used it a few times and it worked great, but i left it in the rin once and it was done.

was that in a video?

LOW COOLANT. check for leaks. cold heat is an obvius sign. fillit up now and you will be ok. do the burp procedure, may want to search tat(youtube) and use a good oem thermostat (do this now with a fresh coolant change. For now, top it off and check for leaks

The seals and bearings do not have to come out to service the axle. You can service the axle boots without having to remove the spindle end from the knuckle. If you can get the ball joint apart, you can remove the roll pin on the DOJ end of the axle, pull it off the trans, and pull the doj cup off the axle and reboot it. You will need to remove the circlip on the inner bearing race of the doj to get the boots over the axle shaft. It is not much more work to remove the axle entirely and bench build it, or simply replace it. There are tricks to get the axle in and out without special tools. you may as well replace the seals if you have the axle out, as the bearings will only last as long as the seals do.

You should keep it as it is part of the front vlence strucure. You will want it for the skidplate to bolt onto. Usually, they get bent, so it may be a good seller, but i would keep it if i were you. I think i have seen one on an ea82. Maybe i might want it on my 3door if it will work.

There is a junkyard on 94 east just before acing, "Sturtevant Auto Salvage" they will let you pull your own part. There is an Al's junkyard on the southside, but i have never been there. Tom and scott have been there, and they are members of this forum. there is a machine shop on north ave @ 19th st, I have taken heads there to be planed, and a flywheel to be turned. Price it right. The store front says "Mr. Otto Partz'. what part of milwaukee are you in? We have a local subar club so to speak, at least a few of us in town that are enthusiasts. Welcome! What parts are you looking for I still have a hoard of older subaru parts, maybe i might have something for you.

This depends on the model and variant of the engine for the 1997 model year. I have had non-interference 97 brighton with roller rocker vavetrain, and single port exhaust. The outback probably is interference. the wikepidia page on subaru ej series engine breaks it down pretty well which engine is in which model for which year, and weird production overlaps between mdels and years.

wheel bearings can be vagie. they an be failing , but are not detected by classical procedure, buty ou get a delayed steering response where the car feels like it turns more one way than the other. The bearings are a-typical from other vehicles, being dual roller bearings in the front versus a hub style or spindle style.

If yu go there again, ask if they would put por-15 in aerosol cans, i that is possible. Maybe the shortie aerosol cans. The idea being use a can, but the whole thing, but without the rest of the quart drying out. However many cans you have is how many times you can use it.

this brat?

knock sensor