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The oil plug and filter are intact and tight. The belt appears to be dry. I guess I will take all of the pullys off and rcheck/replace the seals. So there are the 4 cam seals the crank seal and the oil pump sealant that should be replaced? The car has about 150,000mi. I don't know when the timing belt was replaced.

My 96 2.5L is dropping about 1qt. of oil per 20 feet. Yes - 20 feet! Have all of the seals gone at the same time or what? The timing belt seems to be dry, but a couple of the timing cover bolts-threads were saturated. It is too messy for me to tell.

He does have email that he checks often. jdouglas@mikescarff.com

I had a similar problem on a junker I don't want to spend money on. I removed both relays by the ABS, no more problems.

I am doing this right now, same year even, and am having some silly problems before I hardly get started. :-\ Here it is. Good luck. http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=76890

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I retrieved the tube that goes to the tranny pump and the bent retaining clip. The clip is fubar'd. Now I'm gonna have to return the cherry picker I rented and get it again after I get the clip. Well I think this problem is solved, I have to go away for the w/e, on monday I should be able to get back to the real issue of the swap.

Ok, i just stopped by the biggest indipendent-soob shop here. I talked to thier best mechanic. I explained everything I was seeing and that I still had 3mm to go to get them together. He said, did you see something that looks like a huge clip inside the tranny, I said yes. I'm sure you all know the rest. I didn't know there was a sleeve with a clip that went on the tc. Hopefully thats all it is and there is no damage to it. I will tell you in a few hours. Thx for all of the help. I think I want a soob of my own, I have always admired them.

Bump. Any thoughts? I am working on it tonight again. I am about ready to just bolt it in and stop questioning myself (and others:) ). Thx.

Ok thanks, I think I got it in, it feels like 3 clicks. Tried the torque converter dozens of times to see if I ever got a different result. It is much better now, the engine is only about 2 to 3 mm away from the tranny when I mate them. I still didn't like this so I pulled the engine back out. Tried the torque converter several more times with the same result, which feels like its seated good when I spin it. Now I am looking at the starter, and I pull the starter shaft onto the tc gear to see how it looks there. The starter gear only mates to the tc gear about half way. I can see from the wear marks on both gears that they are supposed to engage fully. I don't have a good feeling about it. I got some really good pics. to show but I can't find my cord right now, I will have to try to post them when I can.

The local independent Soob shop here in Anchorage swears up and down that the later 2.2's are interference.

Holy crap, thats what I am doing wrong. I have never dealt with an auto outside of a geo1.0 before and I didn't have probs with that. I know all my questions sound beyond noob. Thank you very much for all of the help so far.

Thank you, I will pull it back out tonight but I am not sure what to look for, is there a trick? Could I be doing it wrong? If it was a different vehicle without the crossmember there, I could have put the torqe converter on the tranny first, but I don't think that Is possible with this animal. I noticed, when I pulled the 2.5 junk out that the little splined shaft inside a splined shaft on the tranny had pulled out several inches, but with a push/twist it went right back in. Right now it is out about 3/4 inch passed the o-ring, maybe that is wrong.

Oh cool, thanks. I will have her replace them. Now i'm dropping the motor in and I can't push/wiggle the motor all the way up to the auto transmission by hand. I took it back out to assess the sitch and it looked ok. :-\ I don't have much experience with auto trannys or soob's so I am not sure if you can push it all the way up by hand. It is within about 1/2 inch/12mm and I could draw it up tight with the bolts but I don't like the idea of doing it that way. Does this sound like a concern?

Thanks, It looks like 2.2 doesn't have the egr, so I may have issues there. It was on the 2.5 however. I pulled both motors and swapped the flex plate over to the 2.2 so far. I did remove both exhausts up to and including the cat?. The 2.5 had one O2 sensor on what appears to be the cat up front and another O2 sensor on what appears to be the muffler out back. The 2.2 has both O2 sensors on the cat. The local shop said the 2.5 was throwing egr and cat. codes so I guess the cat. needs to be replaced. So one is a cat and one is a muffler right? Because they look about the same and are the same size, I thought otherwize they might both be cats?