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Your mileage will decrease as your speed goes past 60mph. My wife's legacy with 2.2 gets 26-28 if I drive 60mph to work, but if I drive 80mph, it gets 21. I was late to work today, and had traffic on the way home, so when I wasn't in traffic wasting gas, I was driving 80. Filled up again just today to see what repercussions it had on my tank. 20.68mpg. :-\ One's foot has a huge effect on MPG. and yeah the surf board rack will hurt areodnamics

I know I shouldn't be making a post about this buuuuttt... I cannot find a part number for the duty cycle C solenoid itself. Wife's 96 LSi has TB and putting the FWD fuse in it does NOTHING, doesn't even light up the light. I called subaru, they gave me the part # for the assembly which is $320... I'm in texas and for that price, the wife's car can stay FWD :-\ oh and don't say search button, I tried about 10 different searches I have heard talk in the past that the solenoid is under $50...

Sounds pretty rod knocky to me. Hate to say it but roommate's postal does the same thing.

3 words my friend. Battery Powered Sawzall...

2012 impreza? if so, it's GDI and has a high pressure (way higher than the standard 45-60 psi) and could just take a little more time to pressure up when cold. I would document a complaint with the dealer. Subaru can't fix it if they don't know there is a problem. all my old subies crank within 1-2 seconds. chee chee chee roooooooommmmmmblablablablablabla.

does your freeway have traffic? My 90 lego got 25-26 out on the open road but get it around dallas, in city traffic and it got 18-20...

jb'd a wallowed out crank key way on a 1.8 impreza. Bought the car with a kajillion miles on it and a loose crank pulley. We got a new crank pulley did the timing belt/waterpump/idlers, filled the void in the crank snout with JB added a little for some extra love and impacted it on with my snap on MG725 LIKE A BOSS. Let it set for a couple days and my buddy drove it like that for a long time!

the mesh bag he speaks of (some call it the sock) has fallen off. mine did exactly that. Pissed me off when I was driving "spiritedly" through the cloverleaf on my WRX struts/springs and my car would cut an buck and surge.

I tried it. No. Simple answer. The 92-94 fenders are longer and the marker is set deeper into the fender and different shaped. The whole front is stretched on the facelifted version and has a significantly different core support. I had the whole front end from a turbo SS and know it WONT fit a pre face lift

thanks for the input GD, it makes me feel better I am at the Indianapolis dealer expo now so car work has halted, but I will be right back at it on monday or thursday. And yes, on all 3 auto subies that have had the radiators out, I just cut the hoses and replace them with nice new supple Gates transmission cooler hose. I just wish I could find a source for 10mm hose, not this 3/8" stuff. Good time to replace them anyways, I learned the first time I tried to get bugger break loose, I busted my hands all to hell.

it wasn't too hard to get them to mate. I hope it works now... grrrr. I HATE automatics.

double ouch. pride and head LOL

Learned a couple of valuable lessons last night. Lesson one. EJ22 Flexplates are about 1/2 smaller than EJ25's (overall diameter) Found this out THROUGH the tiny bolt "inspection" hole. Lesson Two. Don't leave your engine hoist boom up at about 5 1/2 feef off the ground in the dark. Bent the SHNIZZ out of my glasses and knocked me to the ground. I saw stars. I still have a lump/bruise on my forehead. Im most pissed that I have to pull the engine again...

I have a degree in automotive technology. I can say that too. Because I DO... The ECM adjusts the AF ratio based on the front O2 sensor. Rear sensor only indicates a problem with the cat or with the O2 sensors. It will not damage the engine by taking it out of the stream.

its the wheel speed sensor the awd system monitors wheel slip at each wheel on that car and applies braking to the "slipping" wheel via the abs/tcs. If you have an intermittent wheel speed sensor failing, it puts the awd into FWD mode only with no traction control.

ahhh originally you said it was for a 97 legacy. a forester one is different I believe

+1. all of it!

yeah im not too worried about ground clearance lol. I am looking for a set of wrx struts and if I cannot find wagon rears, I will just put 1"/1 1/2" tokiko sportlines on them. But I bet that is hella low. here is my roommate's 1995 postal with tokiko sportlines on wrx struts. 1"f 1 1/2" r

that is a steal. I bought a 1997 outback knowing that the headgasket was blown for 900. Jump on that sucker and worry about it later EJ22's are solid, if I were you, I would replace the timing belt, water pump, Idlers, water pump elbow (little rubber hose) and any other original rubber hoses on the car and you should be good to go oh and check the pcv valve, and change the valve cover gaskets. I would buy it. I could easily double my money on it :cool:

I use gimp and the whole car is dropped, I cut the whole frame in half at the bottom line of the car following the wheel arches, leave the wheels with the lower half of the "picture" and move the body of the car down. It is just something I figured out. Notice the picture is about 1/4 inch shorter after editing If I cannot find a full set with springs and struts, I will let you know texan. The outback struts are longer. WRX struts are 3" shorter than standard legacy struts so who knows the diff for outback struts maybe another 2". I will know once I have a set and go to swap them. I will measure them when I do. gimp is a free image editing tool rugby and is full feature and works on linux, mac, and windows http://www.gimp.org/downloads I like the outback look, and I know there are lego GT's everywhere in the north, but even "L" legacies are kinda scarce down here. I see outbacks daily, but legacy gt's are a pretty rare occurance. Plus I got this gem for 900 with a blown headgasket and am getting rid of my 91 in order to keep it :-\

I wouldn't do it, unless I was in a bind out of town or something. If I can pull a hub, I can sure as hell take it to a local shop and have the bearing pressed in/out

as she sits now my "end game" with the obw is something like this i know, quicky photodrop

no I don't have the parts currently. I was looking to pick up a set off of craigslist. They are always floating around. you in the DFW area 1 Lucky?

Yeah yeah, I know flame flame lol. I got a 1997 outback as my new daily driver and I am lowering it with WRX struts/springs. My question is to lower it and be "right", do I need to change the trailing arm brackets and remove the subframe spacers? My answer is yes but don't know what all this entails, like steering shaft length etc. What I am really looking for in an answer is from someone who has first or second hand experience lowering an outback.

i probably wouldn't run rotella with lucas, but I guess half of a quart won't really hurt it. I run Rotella 15w-40 with WIX filters on all my 100k Plus subies. It shut up the forester's piston slap, and It NEVER went away before then. It did it cold, warm or hot before the rotella. My wife bought a Legacy LSi last month, had new "valvoline" 5w-30 from some lube shop, and was 1 qt low when we got it. I added a quart of rotella to it and It shut up the slap on that beast too! EDIT, I also live in TEXAS. A BAWLS COLD winter here is 17*... ABOVE 0!