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it's a 00, same part number even

could've been wrong stuff, hmm. yeah I plan on pulling old Trans apart and rebuilding front diff, being as the Trans itself has less than 40k on it

I did drain front fluid before this happened, it did have sparkles in it...looked like brass though, and it was about half full, it had a strange smell to it kinda skunky, not the normal gear oil smell, I thought maybe someone put some magic punch in it. I'm thinking it was getting ready to crap the bed. I snagged a 50k mile tranny off eBay from a localish jdm parts company, comes with a great unlimited mileage warranty for 1yr and I got it for 700 with tax

looks like 99-04 outback Trans should fit? or? everything at local wreckers is junk cores, a guy on Craigslist has a jdm motor and Trans doesn't know the year, also comes with a 2000 obw that's complete

well I was wrong on previous rebuild on differental, was Trans only. I took it into a shop (amco) they said diff needs gone through, $1530! so my cheapness has kicked in, what are my options at this point? I'm thinking of finding another trans, what year should I look for? might do this myself, autos aren't my thing, I've rebuilt a couple suby motors, not afraid here

axles on both sides are about a year old, when I had it off all 4s I was checking free wheel spin on front checking for noticeable binding or resistance, couldn't feel anything that way.

Ok so here's the deal, Picked up this car (2000 outback limited AWD, Auto trans) from a good friend (122k on it) did HG's and all that happy stuff... friend had transmission and front diff rebuilt by amco (35-40k ago) I'm getting a constant clicking from the drivers side output shaft area, its not a CV clicking but sounds internal, driving patterns don't make any chance to noise, going into neutral while coasting makes it go away and also does clicking when all 4 wheels are on jack stands, I also found that the drivers side wheel appears to be binding when the other 3 are spinning. Any ideas here? i'm not fond of amco but might take it back....its outta warranty

Okay, I have an alternator off an H6 (EZ30) and on my oval plug I have a white with black stripe, white with red and a black with red I don't have a wiring diagram in front of me yet, does anyone know or have place I could find this quick info on soob alt wiring?

HMM, I am having difficulties finding the correct wires for my OBD port....its been hacked/cracked to death. I keep having high idle issues but when I disconnect the battery and back again it clears the issue till it warms up then back to high idle...so I would GUESS this is going in to a fault mode.

Yes, its an 86 vanagon (westy camper) Woulda posted this over in the conversion section...not alot of action over there.

Deff not an OBD2 port. Anyone got ideas?

Well.....thats just it, its in a van Supposed to be all 04 forester stuff. but I have no ODB2 port to speak of.

Its labeled "check engine"

I removed the adapter and I deff need the union for the filter to stay on. It looks like suby has a part number for this union so hopfully they have it.

Well, I picked up an elbow and it helps clear the angle but I have bad feelings about it. So i'm going to pull all this out and just put a normal pump in. I can post this stuff up forsale for another suby fan if someone wants it. Question(s) If I head to my local FLAPS and pickup say a duralast or other would I be shooting myself in the foot? they are about $60-70 bucks are these crap or should I get one at a dealer? (I should bring lube right? ) And now that this cooler is taken off my oil filter, I'll need a shorter oil lug where can I get one of these? And on the bottom of the head I had a threaded barb that connected to the side of this heat exchanger, Its now removed and I can just pickup a threaded freeze plug right? man it looks like I need to find a hashed out engine to rob....junkyard here are scarce in the suby parts biz. :-\

Good info, I think i'll try and source an aluminum elbow so I can keep expansion rates close to the same, i'll epoxy the pig in place anyway it should be good for as long as I run the timing belt. As for the cooling plumbing all mine is ho-made, all this will now staytucked between the oil pan and my motor mounts so the odds of it being hit are going to be pretty low.

I'm thinking I might run this for another 20k, I know it has less then 50k though. I pulled the covers and checked the belt and its not frayed or cracked...So I think the risk isn't much if any. So think it would be kosher pulling this barbed fitting any tapping it so I can thread in a 45 elbow? or too risky? i've done worse thats for sure

Keeping the cooler would be "cool" If I can figure out a reliable method to changing the straight barb to a 45. thanks for the info on the belts, it will save me some $$$ does a belt change at 50k sound too paranoid?

I want to keep hoses to a min, and to me its just one more thing to have leak or bust and something to snag off road. and I would need to make that barb angle at a 45deg angle, so I would have to fiddle with it anytime I swapped water pumps. Both are SOHC

I picked up a motor and it came with a bunch of tensioners/pulleys and a timing belt. I believe all of these are new cept a couple. Not knowing a whole heck of a lot about these except I wanted to attempt to use'em how should I verify them being correct for my 04 forester motor? or do you think this isn't worth the risk? my engine has around 50k on it. If I do a timing belt change while the motor is out I could switch the water pump out to one that does not have this coolent port. It also has a oil cooler/heat exhanger (non turbo) its going into a car without this setup would it be wise to plug these coolent ports? (ie one off the water pump and one off the head above the oil filter)

Missed that post, thanks pulled them right up.

I have the wear groove post booked too, I think If i'm going to take it apart those parts are getting replaced while im in there. Time and cleaning up the mess is more valuable to me then a couple hundy..PLUS the wifey will have an AWD car that gets around decent in bad weather. not that an FWD one won't do that.

I did a search nothing found, do you have those part numbers?:-\

Thanks John, that is exactly the info I needed

Yeah, I thought about picking up another used one and cleaning it up. Lotta wrecked ones here in some yards. I have that thread bookmarked with all the pictures and info...pretty handy.