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They can't. As long as you line the marks up when you take the belt off and don't turn the crank, you can turn the cams as many times as you like and it won't damage anything. When the crank is on the timing mark, all the pistons are down. On the other hand, if you turn the crank with the valves open the will hit.

1. 100,000 miles is nothing on an impreza, don't even worry about mileage until it's over 200,000 2. If you can go to a U-pull it junkyard and are capable of pulling it out, a trans is less than $100. There are several in the area (saw you are from PA also) From a regular junkyard they are a few hunded. 3. It is no more difficult than a RWD trans to install. The automatic is just big and heavy.

The clocks are usually a broken solder joint on the circuit board. If you take it apart, it will obvious where to re-solder it.

You have a phase 2 2.5 Most of the differences in the phase 2's are the cam and crank gears for the timing belt and the intake manifolds and sensors. If you want to use a different year phase 2 engine, just count the teeth on the back of the gears that trigger the cam and crank sensors and be sure they are the same, if not re-use the originals. If the intake is different just swap that over too. Watch the water pump too, there are 2 different ones.

Yes they will work fine. Unplug the abs and take the bulb out on the dash.

I had one like that last week. I spent an hour beating on it with a 5lb sledge and soaking it with pb blaster. It finally let loose and came out. No fun.

I use 5/16, be sure to get the high presure fuel injection hose.

I learned my lesson about that nasty clay. It was as slippery as ice.

Yup, look on the top of the block where they are sticking out. If you see brownish stuff between two layers of metal, those are the originals. If it's multi layer metal, they have been changed. The tabs sticking up look different, but I don't have pics to show right now. There were at least 3 different part number gaskets. The latest update is the only one that lasts.

Nice. A while back the guy who owns this car? I think? was on NASIOC asking about how to run it N/A. I have been getting a lot more interested in rally too. Still at the spectating stage for now. I am going to Rally New York next weekend and also will make 2 Rally America races this year. SPTR and New England forest. My buddy and I have been giving a lot of thought to doing a super low budget pgt rally car. As in safety equipment and not much else. I have an old legacy turbo sitting around doing nothing. Lucky for us east coast people we have NASA rally that lets anyone run a turbo car and then you can move over to Rally America.

That was a lot of fun. Figures I was the one to get stuck. I didn't take a lot of pics. Here is what I have. I'm sure the pics of me stuck will be posted soon.

You don't need any special tools to do head gaskets on a 2.5 Before you pull the belt off break the cam bolts loose. An air gun works great for this. If you don't have one just wedge a prybar in the flywheel and break the bolts loose. I do these gaskets all the time and don't use any special tools.

Look for the rust line on the spindle and line the strut back up to that.

Me too. Is it right on Rt 206? If not I'll just figure it out in the morning I know the general area and I have people's cell numbers.

My brother in law has that size tire on his 97 or so OBS and it's been fine, never rubs. They have been on there years with no issues.

95 was the last year for dual port EJ22. non- interference. 96 was the first year for the single port EJ22. non-intereference 97-98 was single port EJ22. interference EJ22 went to phase 2 in 99. all phase 2 is interference.

I can also add, yes they work fine. I have put wrx wheels on an OBS several times.

I just registered 2. Planning on the wrx wagon and the 360, but who knows what I will own by then.

My 91 suburban has 240,000 and runs fine, doesn't leak or burn anything. It is rusted out badly though. Kind of like a subie actually.

I think you are going to find damage to the block. It was probably badly overheated. Usually when they get that hot you find chunks missing out of the block. Personally I would not even attempt a repair on that engine.

All the connectors for the transmission plug into the body harness, not the engine harness.

The crank and cam sensors are the same.

On the back of the cam and crank pulleys for the timing belt, just count the teeth that trigger the sensor. There are 2 different possibilities for each. If the ones on the replacement engine are different, just re-use your old ones. Oh and the crankcase breather on the newer blocks that looks like it screws into the block doesn't, it just presses in. You can just carefully pull it out and put the fitting from your old block back in

I've swapped 3 different 99's with the 2.2 no issues on any of them. I did not look at the trans numbers on any of them. But as far as I have seen the only ones with the 2 plug engine wiring harness are the 99 legacy phase 2 2.2

It looks like I am still in for Saturday. Where you all go the cars need to be registered/insured right? I'm guessing yes, but if not I want to bring out the Legacy turbo I have, that would be a fun off road car. I'm slowly being convinced it wants to be a stage rally car. I see it sitting behind the garage lonely and it just wants to play in the dirt. If I can come up with a few thousand for safety equipment someday...