jackinthecrack

Okay, took the rear shaft out. After doing ALOT of reading and parts hunting, I'm pretty sure the solenoid is shot and possibly the clutches cooked. SO, no one online has clutches or the solenoid listed but the dealer locally can order them (solenoid was $140!) and the he guy at the parts counter gave me a funny look when I started talking about clutches in the tranfercase....I even asked for clutch pack, he kept giving me qoutes for reverse/2nd/3rd. I left a message at subarupartsforu.com but no call backs, since they listed 96 and up clutchpacks. How long can I get away with driving this like this without the rear driveshaft installed?

Trans swap was what I was thinkig too, the ATF fluid that I drained smelled really cooked and was almost totally brown

Yeah, thats exactly what it was....a waste of time. 4 gallons of ATF later and nada. Are these clutch packs and solenoids NLA or something? I searched the top online suby parts dealers and came up with only stuff for 96 and up

I want to do it right, replacing clutch packs don't sound like an issue, I picked this car up for less then $800 with about 8k on the new motor. If flushing will help I'll do it, but sounds like a temp fix to what is glooming ahead of me, car has 225k on it the tranny looks it had been worked on at some point in time, lot of grease above it and the trans is fairly clean. I have 40 gallons of ATF fluid so I'll flush it a few times and see how it goes

Also note me CEL light is on, I'm leaning towards my duty c solenoid being shot Being as the rear tires are still being powered with the fwd fuse in

Ok, Put the fuse in backed out of the garage (tore 3 tiles up form the floor from the rear tire:mad:) And the rear wheels still are spinning, in fact I could hear a "clank" noise with fuse in place. FWD light was ON with fuse in. So I put it up on jack stands, fuse out or in the rear tires are moving...about the same speed as the front. I popped the plug from the rear diff to see if I could see any chunks of metal, nada, just stinky black gear oil. Sooooo

Well here's my problem, I thought the fwd fuse was a heavy duty type breaker type fuse.. To my suprise it's just a holder with no fuse in it:rolleyes: I'll put the fuse in when I get home, this is just a limp thing though I want to fix it right. Hopefully I can test it to see how the tranny works at highspeed. Bought this car to chop up and use for spares but it ended up being waaaay to nice to do that.

What amp of fuse should it be?

I think the rear diff is original...I believed they only replaced the seal, cause the bolts holding everything in place look factory tight, but I could be wrong. Tires are all the same, I don't see any obvious wear but they are probably about 40% gear ratio is the first thing that popped into my mind when I drove this.

No FWD light. rear wheels are spinning too.

Its already plugged in.

Everything shifts fine. Power light doesn't flash, its steady when you start then goes out.

I did some searching and didn't turn up much of anything to get started on....Here's my problem 93 AWD Legacy wagon, Rear diff seems to be binding up If you put it in either reverse or drive and move 20-30ft its almost like you are putting the e-break on and when to give it more gas it almost seems as if the rear wheels and breaking loose (as in more power then the front) I just picked up this subaru and am pretty new to them, The PO said that he had a shop (non/suby) do some servicing on the rearend and he said it did this ever since...true or not? dunno. Where should I start? Oh, its an Auto tranny too..I have all the service records (including all the paperwork for the motor replacement done 7300 miles ago by subaru)

I'm over in Kennewick too!