Allenharveydale

Dude, I got it! I was also wondering how to snag an answer to holding the camshaft. But then I remembered how I got my camshaft bolts off! While you have the covers off put a visegrip or large crescent wrench on the hex shaped part of the camshft! Lock it up and rock! 60 ft/pounds for my 2.5 DOHC as I recall!

Out flush-It took me three tries to figure this out or it GUARANTEED to leak!

Put it out flush! I've had that motor of mine out Three times to figure out what the real problem was! The first time I started it it leaked, so I thought maybe I had cracked that cheesy little black plastic cover. I took it out and replaced the plastic with an aluminum cover and it still leaked! The third time I had it out I finally figured out it wasn't the cover but the depth at which I installed the main. I know your frustration, seems like it should be set back in to the stop> I won't have to do that again,I hope. gave the chance to hone my installation/removal skills though!

Get a chain vise grip! I bought a cheap one at Princess Auto while I was in Canada for $8 and it has paid for itself twenty times over.

What I'm under now is by far one of the most daunting tasks I have ever assembled. Pretty straight-forward, a longstory, but here's how it goes; I bought a 99 Impreza RS in Canada as a repairable. I was told all I needed to do was replace the blown motor in it and head off into the sunset. The motor I pulled out was a phase two 2.2 and the first thing I did was find a 2.2 at the local PICK-N-PULL. A 2.2 is a 2.2, aright? Wrong 2.2, fact is, that first motor I pulled was a 1.8. I still have it. Fast forward thru a crank regrind and several months looking for a 99-02 2.2. I ended up putting in a SOHC 2.5 and it runs, but not so good, not good idle, throttle lags, etc, but it runs! All the while that first 2.2 is getting a short block and ready to be installled in the right chassis. One appears in the not too far sdistance and I haul it back to my buudies house ehere I do the swap. 2000 shortblock w/99 heads under a 2001 intake. Should work? Wrong! $400 worth of analysising later the ecu is the culprit. Why should shattering of the #2 piston be a cause for the ecu to rendered inoperable? Nevermind, I find an 99 Legacy 5-speed ecu at a local yard and the mechanics install it and i runs barely (8 malfunction codes). I'm thinkin' the ecu in the RS might be a better fit. Incidently, I ran the VIN of the RS and it turns out to be an Impreza L with RS stickers, oh well. At least I know. It runs the 2.2 about as well as it ran the 2.5, but it ran. The ecu in the RS is a B1 and ecu in the 2001 impreza L is a B3. I picked up a B3 at alocal yard to replace the one we thought was bad but it just did the same no-start bull************ as the original. What I'm wondering is are the 99 injectors sending a no-start signal to the B3 but not to the B1? I feel like I'm under the MAF/MAP switch that made the pre-99 and post -99 2.2s so incompatable. Help is what I need and sympathy, because I sworn off alcohol. What should I do next. That B3 has to go back, because it's no better than the original. Ask them for a B1, so both my Impreza run like ************ instead of stink? Anyway, that's whyI'm here in the first place, to sort this thread out and I'll be fanged if I will have any pece until I do!