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Nuwan, Thanks for the reply. My (Haynes) manual recommends the valve check. I've never had an to make an adjustment on any of my other vehicles either. The corrosion on the coil pack is something I'll inquire about when I take the car in for the timing belt. I coated the terminal with dielectric grease which is supposed to guard against oxidation, but the deposits continue. I'm located over on the left coast, between Vancouver and Whistler. Thanks for the welcome! Cheers, Greg.

Greetings fellow Subee owners! I've been lurking for the past few weeks after discovering this board and I've been pouring over the old posts. Lots of great info to be had. I bought a 98 Legacy Brighton in Jan. of 03 and I'm real happy with it. It has the 2.2 and 5 sp. trans. Currently it has 121k km. on the clock(I'm in Canada) and I'm going to get the timing belt replaced along with a valve adjustment and whatever seals while they're in there. Any suggestions as to anything else while they're in there? The only problems that I have at the moment are the fuel door doesn't open when you pull the remote lever. I stick my keys in the gap between the fuel door and the body, then either get someone else to pull the lever or walk around myself and do it. I've looked for an adjustment but I haven't found anything. Has anyone else experienced this minor but annoying problem? The other issue I have is with the distributor module. I get corrosion/oxidation between the lead for the #1 plug wire and the distributor. It only happens on the #1, none of the others are affected by this. When I bought the car I changed the plugs( the PO had installed Champions) to NGK's and installed NGK plug wires. The boot on the OEM #1 plug wire had disintegrated and the engine had a noticable miss after the plug change, thus the plug wire replacement. The engine runs smooth now, but the corrosion seems to build up every 3-4 months and I notice a slight miss so I clean it with emory cloth and the engine the miss disappears. I've tried dielectric grease with no noticable improvements. Any ideas? TIA. Cheers, Greg.