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Commen to be loose on splines i put a oring between the cv and the trans to slow down the loosenes.

We found that if you put in the fwd fuse put it in fwd drive it 20 kms or better thiss will hold the awd soiliniod open and flush any crap that may be pluging it out. If this dosent work change the clutch pack and soliniod can be done with trany in car takes me about an hour to change clutch pack. Thiss is very commen problem caused by having diferent size tires or low tires or abuse.

I only install dealer parts but have no problem with customer picking them up but i order them so no mistakes are made. The dealer is 200 km away so if customer picks up parts saves me greif.

Doing that exact job today headgaskets in a 04 impreza 2.5 uses two half gasket sets. Timing belt water pump coged idler pully plugs fliuds. Customer bought own parts cost 800$ my labour is 12 hours + 150 plane heads my bill is around 1200-1500 depending on extras. Two day turnaround time started 9yesterday done 12 today. I cant figure out why the dealer dosent change the water pump or idlers its just silly not to.The last 3 cars i did heads on all 04 's all 156000-160000 kms the head gaskets seem particulary bad on thiss year

I have one of those engines out here used it for race car had 380000kms on it origanal chain. had to change one piston had to undo over 165 bolts to get to it was crazy. But i did have it apart and know that engine and i have two cores with good heads. One with broken pistons one over heated both run still.I could see the timing chain skiping but not breaking i ran that moter at 8000 rpm with turbo no timing problems.I whould pull out one of the cam sensers and look to see if the cam is turning.

their is a anti sifon plug in bottom of filler tube mabee is not clocked right only works if strait up and down.

The piston comes out fairly easy then can gentaly hone it make shure you put a rag in it keep junk out and wash it good after.

Their is a late model ea71 that came out in 79 - 81 that had no stainless inserts in ex ports did it have ports for air injection ? probly a late model ea71 head. The late model one makes a bitt more power and has a one piece intake and water pump bolts to block.

My other problem is that most of my customers demand factory subaru parts for their cars so that leaves me with just the dealer as a supplyer.

Had one that evrytime you came off hyway and hit brakes it stalled. It was sticking in lockup tourque whould not relese and as soon as you started car was ok. The lady had spent alot of money trying to fix it she had changed the ecu tps tune up o2 ect. It was a loose ground on the right side of intake where the main trans and engine ground go to intake. was left loose when dealer did headgaskets. Think if soiliniod looses ground it stays on till car is shut off.

Check headlight realys their is on for left and one for right work both high and low just to left of stering coullum they all clip together to a plastic bracket. If the terminals on the realy have changed coulor it may be burnt. Or try subing in a different headlight switch.

Thanks i will call them dosent seem to far away from me. Whould be nice to be able to use theese cranks. As they are in short supply here iv'e been striping engines just for there cranks.

Is there anyone that has a crank grinder thats capabble of turning down EJ cranks? Have ten that could be turned and reused but no one here has a grinder with a narrow enuff wheel. And has anyone turned a 2.2 crank to 2.5 specs ? Figure whould be good use of damaged 2.2 cranks anyone ?

The coil mount braket grounds the ignition mod make shure thiss is bare meatal and grounded very good i run an extra ground from batt - to coil bracket

I repair ecus from time to time if you file down the end of a fine point soder pen and use a good flux core soder. Most boards are coated so have to clean any coating off. I use a big magnifying glass to c the cirucut in detail. I just did a ecu for 02 outback shop had pinched wire and burnt a trace was able to remake it with one straind of wire sodered across the burnt trace.

When i do head gaskets i remove the pistons and clean out the oil ring lube holes. The bottom holes are always pluged up and makes for poor lube on bottom of piston. Witch may cause it to burn oil or hurt piston i knurll them when they are out to tightens them up in bore.

2.2 and 2.5 are not the same found out the hard way wreaker got us wrong one dident set any codes but ran realy rough and lean.

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The local dealer here informed me there is a recall for clutch peadal sicking somthing to do with slave and line to it. They say change both and i use dott 4 brake fliud seems to help. If the fork is broken it will twist little bitt when you push clutch

Had a engine droped off in a box is a early jdm 2.0 has a weird valve train with lifters in head like a ea82. Have never seen this type of heads before. Has anyone seen any of theese jdm engines apart before. To bad the shop who worked on it tryed to remove the lifters with a torch and damaged one of the heads. Engine only had 100000 kms on it had a complant of ticking shop got over there heads and ruined a realy nice engine. It a shame i'll i could find wrong was a bad front crank seal. Was probly pulling air into oil pump making it tick

check fan realy

iv'e seen offset ground cam pins somting to same efect not shure if it worked though.

there is a inline fuse for carge circut in dash harness one thats in its own holder was in early years

38 is were the bolt stirps out not where i tourqe it i tested the max 1 lb at a time till it striped to c how strong it was. To confirm my tourqe was wrong it was ok then whats the max now we know. Dosent mean i'm going to tourqe the crap out of evrything.I'm the only subaru shop in B.C as far as i know not my choice but it means evry subaru here comes to me.So thiss whould be why subaru people share info so if there is a mistake it gets caught i'll be the first to say i'm wrong fine thats part of the job.Dosent change the fact i have to do subaru head gaskets all day long.