PeterD

awsome i was hoping that it wasn't the press in type plug. ive seen that plug many times...i will look into getting one. as last night it was well under 20 degrees poor little car...the heater starts working when i pull into the parking lot at school :-\ thanks for the tips guys

well the suby dosn't even have one and i really don't feel like messing with the freeze plug as im not even sure how to remove them or even were its at on my suby....withough having the engine out of the car. does anyone know how i can do this...or if its possible withough having the engine out of the car....i can drain the water that is no big deal.

hey yall its 19 degrees out right now in Cheney Washington. My suby is freezing its but off hardcore. What kinda block heater could you recomend for me. Something that i can plug in when i wake up and let it warm up before i drive off to school in the morning. i looked a one today but the lady in the parts store said the only kind for my suby is the kind you put ware the freeze plug goes. im sure i could pull out the plug but i don't want to F stuff up.

that sucks man, ive had the lest luck finding parts at a dealer...one of the local auto parts stores has never let me down...if they don't have my part its there by noon or the next day

thats kinda what im thinking. its not a great finacial move...for me atleast. in no way am i saing none of what all you guys do is wrong. In MY posision its not a good move. That said the suby ran great driving 280 miles back from school. its a great little car...i guess i was just tired of driving it...heck being slow keeps the cops off my back.

i would like to do alot...i just don't have alot of disposable income to play with it. as much as i want to i cant. i guess i will just have to have fun with what i got....keep my VW for the summer.

well the past three days have been a blast. Cheney has had about 6inches of snow come down over the past few days with some nice cool temps to keep it around. this is my first winter with the subaru and it is crazy fun. but ast the temperature came up over the night the snow is now gone off the streets and its somewhat dry now. i took a nice drive in the suby just because i was bored and began to miss my old scirocco thats at my parents house. The problem that i have had is the fact that subaru built thse wagons very well and im suprised that it still works but they were only thinking so hard. i know its not a sports car but im having real beef with the tranny. Subaru picked the worst possibly gear ratios that don't match the engine at all IMO. first to second shifts are horable. with only 75hp to play with...less at the wheels you would think the geniouses at subaru would have thought of matching the gears to get the most out of the engine...but nooooo thats not important. was there a reason subaru did a poor job at puttig the right gearing in the tranny or is it just that the engine has no power...and if it does there is such a small portion of the rev range that is usefull. Sure i have had fun driving the suby around town and in the dirt and snow but man im tired of 75hp This brings me to my final question. how interchangeable are subaru parts. engines mainly. like my old vw i can mount even a 2004 8v 2L to my tranny . are any of the ohc engins compatable with an old 84 duel range tranny? Im thinking engine swap...ej22 into my wagon for some more grunt. or how about a trubo ea81...possibly custom manifold small turbo with a carb not FI big enoug to get enough fuel in the motor.

oh man the old bugs were great in the snow. the places my dad went with his could rivle my suby wagon

aaa yea it snowed lastnight thismorning was mass fun

i was reading a little more and it seems its rebadged for India....

sup new guys...im just ventureing into this side of the board....and i just found out that GM has been selling the Forester under the Chevy badge :-\ im not sure what countrys though...does anyone have any info on this....i thing its lame,..badge engineering is dumb they have done this with saab also

I hope it looks a little clear out....hopefully the clouds come and we get some white stuff...

she sure does...small world aint it.

what area did you guys drive in...i may just have to make a trip up there to play around...humm friends 95 legacy turbo...snow

mitght just have to...maby play in the snow when i come back to the west side for winter break....wow i kinda lost track of this post.

i wussed out and didn't show.... :-\ oh well looks like there was quite a bit of snow

sweeet! i can't wait till we get some snow over in spokane. its so dry this year. but went it comes...its gonna be crazy fun.

ok im just going to follow up on the problem and how it got fixed so if any one else has a similar problem. I jacked up the rear of the car and took off both brake drums. i cleaned both sides out real well with brake cleaner, adjusted the adjustment screw so the drum could be sliped back on. ( both sides were in very good shape with no real serious pad ware.) after i instaled both drums i adjusted the adjustment bolt untill the wheel couldn't move then backed off untill the wheel moved, i did this to both sides. though im really not sure what the proper way to adjust them is, my dad seemed to think we did it correct. after i did that i blead the system real good both front and back and also the master cylinder. After all this the rear still was locking up, acualy more than it had before. After alot of tossing of tools i went inside to have a fresh hot cooky :cool: came out side and my dad had driven around the block with the car and somehow fixed my problem...he drove around and applyed the brakes and it managed to do something but now the rear dosn;t lock up and i feel the front helping out. i personaly think its a master cylinder problem, somethig could have been stuck and it just happend to get unstuck. i hope this is clear enough.

well my dad and i just adjusted the rear drums a bit more...losening them up. we got the fronts working a bit better. i guess we just needed to drive the car around a bit more. im still thinkig there is a small problem with perportioning between the front and rear but im not sure what cold cause that.

EDIT...im coming most likely problem somewhat fixed:)

well today i went to bleed the master cylinder and the front calapers. everything went fine. i then went to take apart the rear drums to check them out and see if anything is not together correctly. i then put them back together and adjusted them with the little adjusting screw on the back of the drum. now when i drive down the road the right rear tire will lock up leavig a nice black strip on te road. this is not normal. its pissing me off. Could this be the master cylinder going bad. i dont feel any pull from the front brakes. if so is there anyone in the NW that has a spare they would be willing to get rid of. i kinda need to get my car running.

well i did bleed the breaks when i changed out the fronts. but i didn't know you can bleed the master cylinder itself. and yes the e-break does work and it is conected to the fronts. so i guess that could through out the stiking calaper idea.

well i noticed that the piston dosnt slide in so to make it go in you have to turn it. and i also remember lubing the slide pins, they slide back and forth quite well. i think its sticking myself now that i think about it. do they make rebuild kits for these subys?

alright ive asked this before but now i have my backup car on the road and i can take some time to fix the suby. im having a big problem with the brakes. ive changed the pads on the front and blead all 4 corners but im still having problems. when i use the breaks it feels as if the front brakes are not doing anything. all i get is breaking from the rear. when its wet out as it was last night if i have to slam the brakes on the rear breaks will lock up. this is not normal on my car or on my vw. . could this be a sign of bad front brake calapers. they do have 200k miles on them and when i went to push the pistons in when i changed the pads it was very very hard ( and yes i know yuu have to turn the piston to make it go back into the calaper. can anyone point me in the right drection.

oh man, when my dad first got the subaru i know have we were headed up to a camp for a winter retreat with my curch back home. when we got stuff unpaced i decided to "park" the suby. i thought it would be cool to pull it into the snow bank in a foot or two of snow. i put it in 4hi and went for it. well it was very wet snow and the street tires didn't do crap. i was stuck with two tires in the deep snow and to on the parking lot area that was clear. and to top it off i was kinda hi-centered. then the rest of the people got up there to find my suby stuck in the most visible place and were wondering what i was thinking all weekend.