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Ill keep that in mind. Probably won't know much more till I wipe wverything down and borrow a floorjack so I can get a better look. Thanks for the input!

Thanks, Tractor! Ill check the links out right now! :-)

Knoxuni, good buy!!! My first subie was a '92 Loyale wag I bought last winter, same colour as yours, was beat to fuss, but for $600, I figured it'd get me by till I found something more durable. Replaced the retaining bolt in the front right wheel when the old one sheared and started trynna walk sideways on me. Then, 2 days after buying new tires, poof goes the tranny. Luckily, I got a call from a friend at a wrecking yard who read my facebook post where I was lamenting the loss of my loyale and on a hunch he went out in the yard and found the SAME EXACT CAR that a lady had sold to the lot for scrap when they bought a new Outback. She'd sold it the day before my loyale died. Still seems pretty bizarre to me. Anyway, I traded the old one in against the one at the lot, and for $400 cash, I have a "resurrected" Loyale... that started fountaining fluids pretty much the instant I dropped it off the trailer and warmed it up. Ugh. Anyway, good to see another Loyale owner posting here! Our cars won't be the same colour or configuration for long, I'm willing to bet. It'll be interesting to see what directions we take our same(ish) cars. Good luck, cheers! Also, Subarudude, how do I tell what model I have in my '92 loyale? I have the motor from the old one on reserve, but if I can replace this one with something stouter and more reliable, ill jump at the chance. I bought my first Loyale because my research indicated that early 90's subies get good mileage and run like tanks if you maintain them, so here I am| making my GM AND Mopar family members ashamed to admit they know me ;-)

Also, is there such a thing as an online Loyale build manual? I'm buying a Haynes, but its too often I run into something the Haynes doesn't explain and I wanna have all my bases covered. I'd search the forum, but my mobile browser is, how would I say, rather limited

I owned a '92 loyale wag beater for 6 months before the transmission went out, a friend had the exact same loyale at the salvage yard he works at. It leaks fluids, but runs like a champ. I need a car badly, so I traded in the old loyale for the one at the lot. I got it home and noticed after it drives, the leak is REALLY bad. I'm a GM guy mostly when it comes to turning wrenches, so I don't have a firm basis of reference here. Hoping to find some input at this forum. When I drop the front skidplate, I can see bright green coolant leaking a couple drops a minute or so. Oil is dripping as well, but the two don't look mixed together and until I borrow a floorjack and tools from work I'm kinda stuck jamming my head under the bumper and craning my neck around to see what I can. I'm guessing here, like I said no real basis of reference on this configuration of engine, but the fact that its only leaking from the area of the front driver's side cylinder makes me think it could be a head gasket issue? The Loyale is a standard '92 1.8l sohc, so I think if I pull the skidplate and belt, I can reach what I need to replae the gasket without having to pull the engine. Am I way off base with my guesswork here? Also, I have the engine and exhaust from the old Loyale on parts pull list before they send it to be crushed. Maybe the front windscreen as well. Is there anything else I might want to pull off the old car before they pancake the poor thing?