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You didn't say what your working on. But I just pulled the harness out of a 96 outback and I had to take the heater box out to get it out. Also the box wont slide forward until the hoses are off.

I live over in Fleetwood. I can probably help you out of your problems. I work on Subaru's a lot. If you don't know the history of the 2.5 with head gasket issues I wouldn't put money into it, like you said, no way to know how many times it was overheated. I would do the swap to a 2.2 like somebody else mentioned. This is probably the cheapest way out of your problem. I've done 4 of these swaps and it works great. I work from home and I actually have 2 of the ones I did still here I could show you. If your interested send me a PM and we can talk, it's not an expensive job, neither is a used transmission if needed down the road.

Is it the one in your sig pic, black impreza wagon? If you decide not to fix it, I'd be interested in buying it.

The U pull it yard around here gets $85 and a 10 core charge.

With the engine running, spray some carb cleaner around all the hoses and see if the idle goes up.

I have a used one if you end up needing it.

2.7 g/s is low. You might have a hose off on the intake ducting between the mass airflow sensor and the throttle body or a vacum leak. If all that looks good and the wiring looks good it's probably a bad sensor.

That's a Sambar van. I don't know the year but that's a newer one probably less than 10 years old. They are neat I wish we could get them here in the US, I'd buy one. The last vans here were the 68-70 360 vans.

That is a great price. I'd buy it if I wasn't on the wrong side of the country. Even with cross country shipping it would still be a deal. Well maybe if it ran, the shippers kill you on price if it doesnt run. I'll watch this thread to see what happend with it.

The 360 is a great little car. I use it for exactly what is was designed for. Short trips around town, taking kids to school, the store etc. I think that's correct about '96 only has hydraulic lifters. I've had a '97 EJ25 apart and that had shims to adjust valve clearance.

It's just a suggestion. I've found it to be cheaper to replace EJ25's with EJ22's than to repair the EJ25. How can you go wrong for $100 plus fluids and a few hours of your time? All you stand to lose is $100 and your time. When I go to the u pull it yard, I only buy engines from cars that have been crashed. Most likely the car was running well at the time of the crash. I go to harry's u pull it here in PA a lot and they spray paint a big "R" on the windshield of the cars that ran ok when they came in.

Take the 10mm bolt off the a/c line on the firewall and it will give you more slack in the line to get the engine out past the compressor. You might want to think about replacing the EJ25 with a used EJ22. I personally wouldn't put a lot of time and money into a questionable engine, that's been overheated. Around here you can get a good EJ22 at the U pull it yards for $100. The full service yards sell them as low as $300-400. 95 is a direct swap and 96-98 you just need the y-pipe from the car you get the engine out of.

It's really common for the flange to rust away. Especially the one on the second convertor. It's an easy fix with a repair flange. Most any parts store can get them for under $10. If you need a y pipe I have several used dual port ones that will fit. I can sell you one for $20, I'm not that far from allentown. I might have convertors for sale also, I will know for sure in a week or so.

I've done this swap 4 times. If you get an EJ22 with egr everything plugs in. Even without EGR it all plugs in you just get a CEL. If you get one without EGR and you grab the ECU as well it won't have a CEL and will pass inpection in states where all they do is plug in to the car The new ECU won't be looking for an EGR, all the OBD2 monitors will set and the EGR monitor will come up N/A. Obviously it will fail a visual, but if you got an underhood sticker without egr you might be ok there. You can use a 96-98 EJ22 if you get the single port y pipe when you get the engine. The ej25 p/s lines don't line up with the ej22 intake. I just let it go, never had a problem, but if you're picky you can either make a bracket or swap to ej22 lines. Be sure to swap flexplates if it's an auto the EJ22 one is smaller. The only problem I ever had with an EJ25 to EJ22 swap was once I swapped ECU's and the car I got the donor ECU from had some odd emissions maybe california? It had a fuel temp sensor. So I had to swap fuel tank sending units and run a wire to the ECU.

Check and see how many bolts hold the engine to the trans. I think it was somewhere in '99 subaru went to 8 from 4. When junkyard shopping, just get one with the same bolt pattern with egr if you have it. Some people like the 95 for ej 25 to ej22 swaps because 95 ej22 is dual port. But if you just grab the y-pipe from the car you get the ej22 from , you can use 96 up engines also. All the wiring and hoses are the same and it will run fine with the ej25 computer, I do a lot of these swaps. Oh and be sure to swap the flexplates, the ej22 one is smaller.