Has anyone ever heard of putting Automatic tranny fluid into an ea81 subaru? I have a friend Matt (superrallyroo) who was having major problems with ticking in his hatch back. I knew of a solution that works in bigger engines. We changed oil and added 1 quart of dexron 3 and magically the ticking went away and the car had more power and everything. Later on Matt found out that there was a lifter nut and lock washer in the oil pan! And it was still managing to mask the sound of the mad ticking. It also prevented it from loosing all power on the freeway and making a horrible Pu pu noise. So has anyone ever done this? Can think of any possible ill effects later down the road? It was either do this or swap engines because the problem still came back even after we put the bolt and washer on the lifter and had it readjusted. And changed oil yet again. All the oil changes was because the oil was lost on the freeway thanks to stupid PAP. Anyway ya it worked woo hoo.