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Plugs... passenger side rear the ceramic insulator cracked and fell off... new NGKs are running great

I totally agree... I told him(Johnny) buy NGK plugs and the worthless parts jokey sold him Autolites... I told him get NGK plugs they just plain work...He thinks the guy at Autozone is a doctor... I explained to him... The doctor is the mechanic who works on your car, he prescribes parts for the repair and makes the repair (I was a mechanic for a well known Porsche repair and performance shop) the pharmacist is the autoparts store's computer... and it aint always right, the pharmacist's assistant is the worthless parts jokey... who likely knows nothing about diagnosis

I know the rear o2 sensor is broken... rumor has it that platinum plugs do not like it when the fuel mix is not perfect.... can anyone confirm this?

it's same as it was, idles ok, its the quick blips that make it stutter

New wires and still there

I have a higher mileage 1998 Legacy Outback (2.5DOHC)that has about 313,500 miles on the clock... it used to be mine, but I have recently gifted it to a friend Valve covers where leaking like a sift... so I changed them It ran smoothly before this, nice crisp throttle response. The new owner purchased Autolite Platinum AP3924... I checked the gap, looked good, I know you should not adjust the gap on platinum plugs.... But I still carefully check them, I have found a bad one once before I typically run NGK BKR5E11 I did not replace the wires as the car was running fine at the time it's a slight stutter off the line, seems fine as the car gets past the blip, it also seems to buck a little bit if you blip the throttle while parked...

Speed sensor worked

The poor car did have an oil leak... I wonder if oil got in the connection coming off the trans...???

So speed sensor then?

Could it be that o just beat the life out of it?

Im great at soldering. But sadly this didn't work... i drove it earlier... it wouldn't shift nor would the speedo work... then a few seconds later everything worked great... Then on the highway the transmission shifted great but I had no speedo meter

I have put a lot of miles on my 1998 Outback... it at 313,000 as of a few days ago. The weird thing is from time to time the speedometer won't work... and sometimes when that happens the transmission won't shift past 1st gear. Normally hitting the gauge cluster will cause the Speedometer to start working...(sometimes it won't help) normally this will cause the transmission to hunt for its gear (engine revs until it shifts) then it runs fine... This has been going on for about the last 115,000 miles Ideas please?

well now that the sun is out it was EASY to figure out... the starter relay wire came loose and was just hanging there

Auto trans I did try neutral if the contacts are worn out wouldn't it give some early warning like slow starts? It does not even click at all, it's like the starter is not even there electrically I am heading back out to the church today armed with a test light, a 10 gauge jumper wire, digital volt/ohm meter, and at the bare minimum that should get me home another thing I noticed is a few weeks ago the key I usually use kept getting stuck in the ignition, I also noticed that the ignition switch felt a little wobbley however my spare key does not get stuck so I doubt it is related... is there a FUSE for the starter?