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all of my subarus heat within a few

thank you!!!!! this is what i have been saying is the prob and everyone shoots me down. that is the biggest prob for torque bind. if anyone has never seen this and you ever pull one apart you will see the shaft that goes into the housing has 2 washers and the cut right into the housing allowing full pressure for the awd

they are the same. rear disc setups especially, they are the same from early legacies to late and with the exception of abs sensor setups they are even the same into wrx setups.

how far rebuilt? i have done them to the point of down to swapping pistons from phase 1 to phase 2 and i do head gaskets probably once a week on diff subys and as long as you follow specs and take time you will rarely encounter a problem.

This car will have a map and no mass air. It sounds like the same prob we had on an 02 forester. For us it was that airflow metering front O2 sensor.

wow!! i guess we are way toooooo cheap where i work, we do them for 550 with a good used back half!

i dont consider that jumping to conclusions, on phase 1's that is the first place to look

if you are lookin for used parts check weddes auto center in bath pa (near allentown). getusedsubaru.com

why do you want to use 2.2 heads. dual cam heads have bigger runners to accomodate more air. find a turbo crossmember for the pipe to clear, had a friend who tried the whole make the existing one work by beating and cutting and he wound up getting a wrx crossmember.

just do a search for torque bind, everyone has covered this thouroghly and you will see many people have different opinions on the subject. if he wants a temp fix to just drive it normally, just pop in the fwd fuse under the hood.

if you actually decide to do this keep me posted please. i have the exact same cars, and was thinking on one of the 95's doing an sti swap but cheap is always better, already have the ss with a bad trans.

i second or third or whatever on the corrosion between the bead on the wheel and the tire, it is another one of those see it everyday things, especially on those wheels.

what do you mean by "supposed to be reman"? depending how far into a rebuild they went into the rebuild you could have guide issues. as far as i know and last time i checked they dont make oversized guides for these heads and if they removed and reinstalled or put new ones in they might not be held in tight enough and could have dropped. on single port heads you can look into the exhaust port to see how far the valve guides are sticking out, dont know if you can see them on dual port. but you can clearly see when they drop, and it will cause the issues you are having for sure. i wouldnt jump right away at saying it is rings, i have had the ring problem before on other engines: 5.0 mustang and sbc, but not on subys, at my work we are constantly sending heads out to have bent valves fixed and reground and never see that as an issue.

it should be fine by just tightening, it should already have a lock washer on it.

you should be able to pick one up there. look at the condition of the fluid when it comes out and check for metal shavings or chunks of rubber. i havent seen it as a big sube issue but sometimes the hoses can deteriorate from the inside.

in the situations i dealt with it deffinately was not an issue of mis-diagnosis. the ones we pull you can put a coat hanger half way or all the way through the body of one of the cats before you hit anything.

it actually is fairly common for efi subarus to have cat failures, and especially on newer phase 2 vehicles, i have done quite a few at work in the last couple months.

2nd that

the car depending how bad it goes into meltdown could basically run power wise like you pulled a couple plug wires

nokians are nice tires for winter. i dont recall which ones i ran but i would compare them to blizzak

take it to have a hydrocarbon test done, it sounds like that is where you are gonna end up though.

how old are the drivers of the car?

i recall seeing a sport compact car magazine that had a flat black wrx on the cover about 2 years or so ago that had a how to go rear wheel drive article

all i have to say is VW:lol: :lol: what a joke

i almost bet the problem will be back. one major problem is that the rings on the output shaft wear a grove into the rear journal causing it to hold full pressure. i just did one in an impreza the other day that was the worst one i have ever seen. i still have it on the bench at work. just an idea, and i know nipper can probably contribute some to this, maybe we should get some photos up of what the assembly looks like dismantled and problem areas. then people who haven't actually gotten into one of these setups can see the problems and what they are all about.