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stuck waiting for sti oil pump gears had a thought about lathing the cam pullys down to lighten them anyone done thiss ? think it whould help? The plastic one is light but meatal one is very heavy tried a 25d plastic ds cam pully but is 2 mm to far from senser to work

Doubt coolant senser only because have never seen one fail but low coolant level whould do it or shorted o2

closer wont do you any good have 6 subarus in a line waiting takes months to get in my shop have a crazy wait list. A good idea is to take detailed pics of how it comes apart so you can refer to them when puting it back together. Eg pics of witch way toringtons go were tubes and drums go ect. If band addjustment helps the band is very close to being worn out probly just temp fix have seen them run and work with no coating but drum takes a beating

Make shure air is all out or pump may cavitate is hardest to get air out of engine

my hoist changed my life what a difference trany jobs whent from 3 hours to 45 min

have done the 5 speed swap is a pain and hard to get check engine light out I think the 4eat is 90 % stronger than 5 speed i do 5 standards for every auto. And a'm considering the 4.44 4eat as the new offroad trans to replace the 5 speed high low as is way stronger and reverse is bulet prof. I absoluty torture the 4eat in my race buggy and it holds up when i ran a deul range 5 speed i blew 1rst 2nd and low in one race mind you was runing a 2.7 turbo six with nos

And i run stock thermostat no problems

The buggy runs rear rad is a pain to burp air out but works well i also added a 6L heat exchanger inline to add volume to coolant sestem it holds 12 L i use a sprint rad as is very light. Is mounted higher than engine I had to put a radcap filler off the upper heater hose to fill engine and front half of sestem. Have been useing this setup for 10 years and 20 different engines ea ej dident mater as long as all the air was out. Even drag raceing in 35 degre heat can run all day and never overheat

maf ? or leaking injector if feul reg is bad will be gas in vacume line or pluged feul fillter if pluged the pump makes more psi than normal and can over feul

I criused my 79 brat thru town and man it turns heads noone has even seen one round here in ten years it feels good to drive somting none has ! Have seen lots of retro cars coming back but very few have retro subarus. And goto love ripen past plasticy cars on the hyway in good old subaru iron !

I rebiuld alot of 4 eats takes me about 1 hour to teardown and go thru one they are very good about just fixing whats broken and get out. You dont even have to pull the pan to change clutches just diff and tailshaft.

have a 2001 outback 2.5 loaded needs nothing 3500$ 225000kms and a 03 legacy for 3200$ hard to sell a awd car in springtime

That ej motor with the studs in shure looks like a ea81 i noticed yesterday that we ground off every identifyabble mark on the engine no ej 25 or any of that stuff gess will have to restamp it ej261 and race prototype engine # 4

plan to pull trans and inspect its internals sounds like a broken band or planetary or high clutch drum 1rst and reverse use low reverse clutch drum the rest use high clutch and band and forward clutch. You could pull pan and see whats in it any meatal is bad.

How long to go into gear cold in morning ?

rockford high speed in reverse into drive and crank the wheel oppeset way and punch it looks cool but killer on awds

is that for when the slip rings wear into the tail shaft housing on output ?

The jdm boys like doing rockfords tends to damage the trans might be damaged internaly how long dose it take to go into gear the first time cold in morning ? A clutch pack is probly worn and trans ecu is trying to compensate for to mutch clearance tcu is smart and determined will try and try and try. Also check all trany grounds and engine grounds

i was able to remove it and run line to soiliniod then to tb use the routing for the 98 outback that dident have it have beat thiss one before.

Putt the ARP head studs in last night clearanced the heads to block had to use 1 2.5d headgasket and one layer of 2.51 headgasket to get right height so pistons dont hit heads. I only get a hour here and there to work on it but is coming along

Justy and nissan use same conector some mitsubishis to

i pull the cover and count the teeth dosent lie but is probly 4.44 i put 5 in the core pile last night 3 were ok but high kms i save the 4.44 ratio front diffs for offroaders

ya do that lol

yes short block is asembeled and the heads are ready cams are here look realy nice. Pistons in block come about 1/2 a mm above deck the headgaskets will be here today. The rear diff is a 88 rx posi with extra thick clutches on clutchpack from subaru has a outback 4.44 ratio uses a 80-84 gl center axle with 85-89 gl cv ends on it i do break them from time to time but mostly when i do donuts or realy sharp turns. Seems to hold the power well have broken a few diff stubs but are easy to change out and i carry a spare i call them the diff fuse save the diff blow the stub !

I test them on a uphill gravel grade from dead stop should drive away with no front wheel spin or very little. Is it posibble that fluid got contamanated that may make it break down clutch materal ?