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Oh yeah! I will be testing this thing before I put it all back together. No doubt about that. I'm 3 hours into this thing including the ratchet search and I just managed to pull the dash out. I realized that instead of unhooking the entire harness from the dash itself, you can just unclip all the connectors and leave it attached to the dash which will make it much easier to install in the end. I found this out after I detached 3/4 of the harness which was extremely difficult to do since there was barely any room for a screw driver back there! I keep all my tools in my car in that tool tray normally. The rachet found it's way into the house and I don't rememebr how... This is my first time taking the dash out of any car and I have a pretty crappy feeling in my stomach telling me that all those screws are not gonna make it back where they came from... I don't know if I will sound deaden. I'm gonna lean towards no but there's a slight possiblity. First I need to see how much it will cost, since I'll only be doing my firewall I don't think it'll be too much. Therefore my girlfriend might pay for it and I'll pay her back when I get the money. She's such a sweetheart, I'll ask her later when I find the price lol. I will be using RAAMmat if I end up deadening the firewall. I'll probably start working at the casino in late december and once I've paid my mom off the money she's loaned me lately, I'll start deadening the rest of my car. All the floor, the doors, the hatch, spare tire well, and the walls in the rear. The works basically. I want that luxury car silence and great acoustics. I'm gonna go take some pictures of this massacre.

Alright $10 bucks at my local pick a part junkyard. God I love that place! They have about 8 subaru wagons of my year range and half of them the dashes are already apart and getting the heater core will be a breeze and if the one I get is bad, I can just got back and exchange it for another one for no extra cost! I have about 3/4 of the dash out and I come across this 10mm bolt. It's the first bolt that wasn't a phillips screw head so I hadn't gotten a ratchet out yet. I went to look where I had it and it's gone. So I spent probably almost 45 minutes looking everywhere probably 5 times over and I'm losing my damn mind! Finally I go inside and ask my mom if she had seen it and she doesn't even know what a ratchet is lol. So I explain it to her and she said my 2 year old niece was walking around with something silver. MY RATCHET! She doesn't understand many words, so there's no use interogating her. I found the ratchet in the couch coushens in the living room! That was after searching the entire downstairs of my house in every possible corner. Words cannot explain how frustrated I was nor how happy I was to see my ratchet again. I'll never let it sit around like that again! Back to work...

I ran seafoam in my 90 legacy wagon AWD 5spd and it went from having a nice quiet engine to having loud lifters. It's supposed to "free up" the lifters and that's exactly what it did lol. It fried up all those sticky lifters and after that they were loud as hell. But that only lasted about a day or two and then they were quiet again. I did the same thing to my other 90 legacy wagon AWD 4EAT and nothing happened. Well, the tranny shifted smoother for a while but then slowly went back to shifting a bit rougher into 2nd like it used to.

You don't know how jealous I am right now. That's a damn good deal if I ever saw one. I bought a really nice condition 90 leg AWD 5spd wagon a while back for 800 plus tax and licensing and now I find out that it needs a tranny! Nice find.

WOW! Autozone has the heater core listed for $350 bucks on their site!

Damn, that's what I feared. It has nothing to do with the cruise control because, as I mentioned before, I only installed the steering wheel part and the on/off switch. I don't buy anything at schmuck's. I hate that place. Last time I called up there and asked them if they had bosch plug wires and the guy on the phone said they only make spark plugs and O2 sensors. I won't be calling there again. Those guys are morons and they don't know anything. How much of the dash do you have to pull out? When I was in auto tech class there was a couple kids who tore apart a Tbird(thunderchicken lol)to replace the heater core and it took them like 2 weeks of class time or probably about 14 hours to do and they had to take pretty much everything out. If it's gonna take and cost a lot, I may just drive my toyota pickup to my class because I have zero money and no income at the moment. I can do it by myself, I'm sure but I'm worried about the cost of a new core. I plan on sound deadening the car so maybe I should just wait until I get some money so I can get the sound deadening and do the firewall while the dash is out. Would it be worth getting from a junkyard if it's gonna be $80 bucks? Is the failure of these things pretty common? Also, my truck has a clogged heater core. At least I think it does. The radiator is fine, the thermostat is pretty new and the fan clutch was just replaced but it still gets way too warm. Plus(I rarely drive it)I noticed the other night that it isn't putting out any heat from the heater, even though the engine is at operating temp. How do you flush out the core? Thanks, I don't know what I would do without forums like this one.

I believe I was told by a mechanic and actually I think more than one mechanic to mix 70%antifreeze with 30%water. But I guess it could have been the other way around...But that's what I always thought.

90 Legacy Wagon AWD 4EAT A couple days ago I hopped into my problem free subaru and started it up. It was night time so it was cold out and I turned on the defrost. Started driving and the windows got a lot more foggier. I could smell antifreeze as well. I didn't think much of it at first. This morning I warmed the car up for nearly 10 minutes and got in and couldn't hardly see a thing. At the bottom of my windshield there's little patches of clear glass and the rest is extremely foggy. I don't understand. It's blowing hot air. Not extremely hot but pretty warm. At that point I was a little more concerned. I had no choice but to drive it like it was to my card dealing class at the casino 20 miles from here. It took about 30-35 mins to defrost the winshield, including the 10 mins idling in the driveway. The side windows never got clear. The rear hatch window was clear to begin with but I noticed it was foggy upon my arrival at the casino. There's two things I can think of: 1. The windshield is cracked towards the bottom all the way across. This has never leaked as far as I can tell and I've never had this problem before. (so I doubt that's the problem). 2. Since I can smell antifreeze maybe there's a leak or something in the heater core causing moisture inside the car? That's all I can come up with. Any other ideas or suggestions to fix this problem? Someone must have had this happen to them before.

Nope, none of that. I had no idea at the time that it was anything more than electronics and the switches. I guess if it was all controlled purely from electronics, they'd put it on all the models.

I have a an automatic 90 Legacy Wagon AWD and I realized there's a blank spot where the cruise control button goes. So I went to the junkyard and got the switch and the controls that goes in the steering wheel and hoped that it would work. It does not, of course. I tried looking in the haynes book but it doesn't tell me what I need to get to have cruise control in a car that never had it before. I know I'm missing some stuff. I've been told maybe some sort of ECU and vacuum line and brake cable attachment of some sort? Is this task hopeless? I know a pretty decent amount about cars, just nothing about cruise control since this is the first vehicle I've ever had that actually had that option. Thanks. I searched for this but didn't find much. At least not enough information to get the job done.

I have a an automatic 90 Legacy Wagon AWD and I realized there's a blank spot where the cruise control button goes. So I went to the junkyard and got the switch and the controls that goes in the steering wheel and hoped that it would work. It does not, of course. I tried looking in the haynes book but it doesn't tell me what I need to get to have cruise control in a car that never had it before. I know I'm missing some stuff. I've been told maybe some sort of ECU and vacuum line and brake cable attachment of some sort? Is this task hopeless? I know a pretty decent amount about cars, just nothing about cruise control since this is the first vehicle I've ever had that actually had that option. Thanks. I searched for this but didn't find much. At least not enough information to get the job done.

Yeah I thought so as well. My 90 legacy has seperate sticks for the front diff and the tranny.

I would be furioius! I would have called those bastards up immediately and told them they were going to pay for a new engine installed in full and I'd get a lawyer because they probably aren't just going to hand over cash. I hate stupid shops. There's one in my town and a friend of mine went there to have some work done on their car and when they drove off one of their wheels came off!

x2 got my hopes up for nothing

lol I like how he tries making fun of the first guy's typo and in doing so makes his own typo.

I made the mistake of not checking the ratio of the donor car and my car's diff. Turns out mine was 4.111 but the donor was 3.90 and this caused a huge problem when I test drove it. The moron who sold me the car told me the rear diff was bad and that was the cause of the noise you'd hear driving down the road(turned out to be two bad wheel bearings)and I I stupidly replaced the rear diff with a different ratio one. It seemed ok at very low speeds but once you hit probably 20 mph+ it sounded horrible. My friend told me it was the wheel bearings and we lifted the car and spun the wheels by hand and it was definately the bearings. Those are replaced and now the noise went away and like a week later the transmission died on me so I had to replace all that stuff anyway. Luckily I knew to look for the ratio first(on the back of the rear diff there's a sticker that shows it, you may have to wipe off the dirt to see it). The guys at the junkyard told me that all the subaru 90-92or94? legacy's have the same ratio diffs in them. He was wrong. And then that idiot went so far as to tell me that even if it didn't have the same ratio, it wouldn't matter. I hate that guy. I hope they fire him. He's an rump roast and he's stupid. So never trust the guys at the junkyard.

I see. Well I guess I'll look in my book and see how to remove it and then call autozone or something and see how much they are and from there I'll determine if it's worth replacing. Thanks a bunch.

I have an 89 Toyota pickup 4x4 22re (fuel injected engine for those of you who probably don't know toyotas) It's fuel Injected as I stated right in the begining. I forgot about the different sections of the board because I'm always in here. I have 90 legacys so I just put this site as a link in my links toobar and it brings me right here when I click on it.

Alright, well this probably shouldn't be here but I get much better responses(nicer and much quicker)on this site than I do on the toyota 4x4 site. Anyways, I have an 89 Toyota pickup 4x4 22re (fuel injected engine for those of you who probably don't know toyotas) The problem is that my gas guage only works if there's a half a tank or more of gas in the truck. Once it gets about halfway down, it just slowly drops to empty when there's still about 10 gallons(20 gallon tank)in the truck! Could this be my fuel float? That's all I can come up with. I want to sell the truck ASAP but I would like to fix that problem because I know people won't like that problem. I drove it for the last couple years or more and only ran out of gas like 4 times lol. Actually that's probably a lot haha. The reason I asked here was because it's a really general question and I think it applies to all cars, not just toyota trucks. And those guys over at Pirate4x4 can be pretty rude for no reason at all. Thanks.

HAHA! That's hilarious. No offense to the others, just the way he put that cracked me up. He sounded so stern about it, almost pissed off lol. I remember a long time ago(this is very stupid)I was driving my friend's 93? celica and it was an automatic. I was shifting it like that and chuckling as I went. I did this for a couple minutes driving through the city and then got out onto an open road and somehow accidently shoved it past 3rd, drive, neutral and (that's right) right into REVERSE! This resulted in a violent jerk and a horrible noise. I quickly slammed it back into drive and never did that again. Somehow the tranny never had any problems. And then he sold that POS to some poor kid for like $2500 bucks! I'd say it was worth $800. But now that I look back on it, I can laugh and that's all that matters! Good times.

This reminds me of a time! I was at the junkyard and did not have a punch and I didn't have allen wrenches either. So I walked around the junkyard for a while searching the ground for something, anything that would do the job. And I came across the really long bolt the you screw the plate on top of your battery on to hold the battery in place. And that baby saved my life! I still have it in my car in case I ever have to remove them again.

My vehicles anger me. They always demand the most work! I won't even begin to get into the long list of repairs I've gone through with my truck alone and then came my automatic 90 leg wagon and now this 5spd 90 leg wagon comes along with more problems! If I replace the tranny in this car, it'll be the second tranny that I had to replace in two subarus...that's 2 for 2! Plus the clutch is not very good in this subaru.

Alright, I'll take a look at the clutch cable when I have time. And replace the fluid too. Thanks.

90 Legacy Wagon 5spd AWD 180,000 miles I bought a car recently that had a noise that was present whenever you took your foot off the clutch. But when you push the clutch in, the noise dissappears. I was told by the owner that he thought it was the throw out bearing and I guess I just never gave it much thought. Another guy told me today that it's not the throw out bearing because that makes noise when the clutch is pushed in, not when it's out. Which makes sense, now that I think about it. My question is, what could the noise be then? Probably the transmission, right? But what in the transmission? Is it safe to say I am in the market for a different tranny(not a new one lol a junkyard near here has amazing prices and everyone goes there and it happens to have several Legacy Wagons)?

Autozone! Do they have them in Canada? Oh and is it true they sell hockey sticks at Canadian Tire? A friend of mine said he went up there and they sold hockey sticks in the most random stores...