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If it is a wheel bearing out you can get the spindle and hub from wrecking yard for around fifty dollars and not have to go hunt some one with a press. Then take the money you save and buy the press that is sold at Harbor Freight and practice taking your old one apart and putting it back together then the next time you need one done you will be able to fix it for around 50.00 dollars bearing and seals.

I think the top of the line pads that I use from Auto Zone are the same as the Bendix. Bendix was the first aftermarket pad I was able to find for my Subaru after the desighn change in late 96. Now at Auto Zone I pay around 24.00 dollars for them if I remember right. When I was buying this pad from Bendix it was around 40.00 dollars.

I am running my 97 Legacy wagon with the F.W.D. fuse in, and have been for a while with no codes. And I have also been replacing my tires one at a time when they need it for the last ten years and 320,000 miles and Iam still on the same transmission. And I dont care what the manual or experts say.

Have you tried the top of the line pads from Auto Zone or is this just what you belive. And I agree they do have a lot of stuff that is low quality. I have tried many brands of pads and I find these better than the O.E.M. pads that I was forced to use for nearly two years because of the design change from 96 Legacy to the 97 Legacy and they were no after market pads available. I have never tried the Hawk but if you will tell me where to get them I will give them a try and see how they hold up under the conditions I work under.

Yes, maybe three sets a year, Iam a rural mail carrier carrying a full car load and stoping around 600 times a day, with a lot of these stops from 50 miles an hour. I have so many wore out rotors stacked by my shop you would think it is a brake shop.

I had the antenna problem on my 97 Legacy wagon also, I was able to clean and lighty grease the stem and it would work for awhile it finnaly got so bad that I run it to the top and unpluged the elc. plug there at the base of the antenna, it is now better then it ever was, and if you need to you can push it back in by hand for Auto car wash I think mine has been through a few times up without hurting it.

I go through about two sets of semi metallics pads a year and I have had some that squeal, but I have also had other pads that would squeal. If calipers are replaced and everything is cleaned and calipers pins greased they are ussually really good.

I think you should go back and make them fix it. The record of the miles on the last change should be there and if you are not to many miles over they ought not be any questions, take brus brothers advice it sounds good.

Fuel filter is a good place to start, but dont forget plug wires can also break down at high or low speeds.

This sounds like good advice Gary. I was thinking of maybe a fumoto plug with J.B. weld but your ideal is better.

The semi metallic pad that Auto Zone sells is good. Better than the O.E.M. from Subaru in my opinion.

It was probably put in cross threaded at the last change. Who changed the oil Last?

I agree I would go with that offer, I fought in court nearly a year with the problem I had and it is not fun. I was never offered a compromise before, and even after the year through the court the compromise was about all I won.

Take this how you want, but I put 310,000 miles on my Legacy postal Subaru before torque bind finnaly set in on my car. I did not replace my tires in sets I went through way to many tires for that. However I bought a 98 Legacy wagon from another carrier for 100.00 dollars because the transmisson was shot. After taking the transmission out I noticed it had a remanufacted tag on it, so this was his second transmission after replacing it with one from wrecking yard I noticed he was running different size tires on the car. So I put a new matching set on it and have not had any problems with it. When it needs a tire I will buy one tire not a set. If this car wont hold up under these conditions then I will sell it and get one I can use. I am not telling you this is the correct way that you must decide, but I saved enough money on tires the last ten years to buy another transmission from the wrecking yard.

Have you cleaned the throttle body? Next time the rough idle sets in you might check the inj. plugs with a noid light to make sure the E.C.U. is working proper.

Okinawa, brings back memories I was there in 1972 with M.A.B.S. 36 They do drive those cars fast on those small roads. I still remember how to say hurry please to the cab driver in Japanse, but that was all I ever learned and it was never needed as they always drove plenty fast anyway. Are you in the Military?

Delete, sorry I had part numbers for front struts, I see you want numbers for the Hatch struts. I could not find the part numbers for them there neither.

You can go to Auto Zone web site and do a part search for each and see if the part number is the same.

If you can keep the car running by keeping gas pedal pushed, this may not be the problem because when the line is off on mine it willl ussualy die anyway. I would then spray some carb. cleaner in that line or clean the Idle air control valve. You can do a search on idle air control valve and find out how to clean it.

At the back off the engine near the center at the top their is a black box, it has an accordian looking thing running to the air filter box under this accordian looking thing near the center is a place for a hose about 1/2 or 5/8 to push on to, no clamps on it. From here it runs down toward the center of engine if one end is off, the car will start and then die just like you say yours is doing. At least this is the way my Legacy is set up maybe your car is close to the same.

Did you check that vacum line, it sounds like that is your problem.

I think you have a good idea, that was what I was going to suggest but you beat me to it.

Check and make sure the big vacum line that goes to the Idle air control valve is connected. You will find one end under the air filter tube.

It sounds like you have done well. Did you mail your letter certified with a return receipt? Remember if you end up in court you need a paper trail and the court will not question your correspondence if it is certified mail. If not the other party can just say he never tried to settle this with us, we didn't even know he had a problem until we was informed to show up at court.

Looks like you got a front wheel drive transmission for an all wheel drive car.