McDave

I just bought a '93 Loyale 2wd with 165k miles. It's in very nice shape and the 3 speed auto tranny was rebuilt 50k miles ago. Runs great other than some lifter noise on the right bank. I notice in the transition between on and off the throttle there seems to be a lot of slack in the driveline. If it were a rear wheel drive car I would say there is too much backlash in the ring and pinion. Does this apply to these fwd cars too? Is this common to Subarus and/or is it something I should be concerned about? I'm getting ready to change out the leaking axle seals in the diff and wonder if I need to address this issue at the same time. PS I'm not getting any noise out of the CV joints when turning corners so can I assume they aren't the cause of the slack?

Anybody remember 'Splitfire Plugs'? We called them Spitfire since that is about all they did. Many cars were towed in to our shop when the only thing wrong was those plugs. I'm guessing they were the high resistance type.