porcupine73

I've wondered too; my guess is it is to help prevent chatter in the pins when stopping. i.e. the prescribed order is the best for smooth braking.

'99 Legacy speedo heads are known to have this issue.

What year and model soob do you have? That pic is for the dohc.

Yes that is a good question.......I wouldn't put it past some dealers out there to just sell the closest size o-ring from a harbor freight bulk pack.

Sometimes I use just a little of that gasket adhesive stuff to hold the o-ring in the block recess so it doesn't fall out. The first time I did it, the o-ring fell out of the recess but I pulled the oil pump back off to double check something and noticed it phew!. o-ring part # varies sometimes for different years

well I gave my o-rings acai berry for a couple weeks before installing them. just kidding. I can't remember if that is the old o-ring or the new o-ring on there. Does your o-ring size match up?

Interesting.....I also have a '96 Legacy Brighton I got in '03 and it has always had a kind of harsh 1-2 shift as well. Here are the links LINK LINK for some reason is prepended usmb.org onto the front of the ones up last post ^^^

As already mentioned, vacuum leaks. Did you replace or check the air filter or anything just before this problem started?

I haven't seen it posted too much lately, but there used to be some saying that if the line pressure solenoid dropping resistor on that bracket at the RH strut tower burned out, it could cause harder shifting?

I have done it both ways; doesn't seem to make much difference either way. If you do it before, maybe grease the cam a little bit to help the seal slide over it without getting nicked.

haha yes the 'special tools'. I have many scraps of wood and stuff that have been turned into special tools so I always write 'NOT SCRAP' with a a sharpie hoping it will stand a chance. This my 1-1/4" brutus tool in action: nope she wouldn't budge: Ah that's more like it:

Maybe you have a bad connection somewhere along the path.

hehe yes that sounds about right. I put a light coat of antisieze on there so next time maybe she won't be so stubborn.

Maybe your fuel pump relay is flaky. I think some ECU's from that era but maybe earlier the transistor driving the fuel pump relay got cold solder joints and needed reflowing.

First get good penetrating oil on the shaft so it can get in there, you probalby have a little rust in there. It makes it almost impossible to get off then. After that a puller of some sort might help.

Someplace such as Ace Hardware. It's just a metric bolt with standard thread pitch in its size, proobably M6 iirc or possibly M8.

It's mostly in Japanese...but http://www.oranpage.com/product/196171 Here's some place that has it, looks like Honda used it also. However price is in euros so don't know where they're out of http://www.cmsnl.com/products/greaseshell-6459_52102hn2p00/

Ah let's see...no suprise it is a grease made in Tokyo by SHOWA SHELL SEKIYU KABUSHIKI KAISHA so might be hard to find around here. Hm that info is from '98 who knows if it's even made anymore.

The soob numbers of like 190psig per cylinder are fully charged battery, cranking engine, and also throttle blocked wide open. Hand turning would almost be more like a cylinder leakdown test.

Yes I have used impact wrench on axle nuts. But they seem to come off just fine with the long pipe method as well so I use that since soob says wheel bearings can be damaged from the impact wrench.

Maybe look into that bolt thing further. Usually the bolt that will snap is the caliper bracket to bearing housing. If it wasn't fixed right the caliper might be on by only one bolt and might be rubbing/banging against the inside of the wheel.

How was it running before? It is always possible the existing belt is a tooth off somewhere along the line.

Yah that's generally what it takes. I go with 3/4" drive breaker bar and socket with a four foot piece of 1-1/4" black iron pipe on it. It usually resists....for a little bit but I keep telling it resistance is futile. That method is also helpful for the axle nuts.