nipper

Anyone have a on-line source for Gates belts or better? Blu just passed inspection (amazes me at 256,000 miles sometimes) and the dealer on the invoice recomended belts. Metric Subaru doesnt try to sell you anything verbally which is cool. I've noticed my belts squeel a but and i did replace one with a crappy autochain part store chineese junk one since it was about to break. It lasted all of three months (the belt was junk, so its not Blu's fault). The stores around here seem to sell junk belts. nipper

STOP THE PRESSES! DUAL RANGE? You get stuck in neutral in the dual range? Here i thought it was in the forward gears. Next tiem this happens try jacking up one wheel of the car off the ground. This relieves driveline stresses (torque bind) and should fix the issues. Do not use 4wd on this car on pavement or packed dry surfaces. nipper

Its been done before, conversion is a bit pricey but very doable. I would stick with FWD for range. If you do AWD you will loose range. Googel EV World or EV conversions or electric car conversions. Lots of info out there. nipper

Start simple, replace the cap, its cheap. nipper

Yes if there is no CEL the senser is fine. Usually in the 99's cleaning up the grounds inside the spedo head solves the issue. If not then you have to replace it. There was a bad run of spedos in that year. nipper

A real person reads thier email, so you can try that too. nipper

Thats what i was thinking. Thingd have to be very bad to affect all the forks. Is your transmission and engine mounts in good shape? nipper

No no no. By grabbing the linkage and shifting it, you get an honest feel for the condition of the shift forks inside the transmission. It will take a little force to get them in gear, but they should go in. nipper

Can you shift the car from underneath, by moving the linkage at the transmission? nipper

The TV show on scyfy channel. Aparently they are still doing the heavy product placement thing, but they only had one in this last episode. Since this was TIVO'd, all i know is that it is this seasons episode. Aparently Subaru bought alot of placement time. The only thing they didnt work into the episode was "symetrical All Wheel Drive". They even managed to work in the 0-60 time. The car was a WRX police car. nipper

Killjoy. Sure make it easy for him

Lets jus say someone googled Subaru of America and found thier New Jersey Address Be overly nice to them, tell them you have been a loyal customer ever since Subarus were sold in this country, and how you named your children after Subarus. It cant hurt to ask. nipper

You can have a failed solenoid and a tired clutch pack. That would give you no AWD even though the soleoid has failed. Since you had signs of this already this is most likely what happened. nipper

Well if the solenoid is stuck wide open you may get a code. What is the code you have? nipper

Solenoid failure usually throws the car into full time 4wd, not awd. Defaults is full time 4wd. The fuse puts the car in FWD for diagnostics, emergencies, and flat tires. No awd is a tired clutch pack. nipper

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Do both heads, otherwise you may never get a smooth running engine again. nipper

How many miles? It sounds to me like all the bushings in the linkage are shot. nipper

Diamond plate always looks cool, even the aluminum stuff. nipper

Yes bent valves. And i agree that have a shop locally rebuild your heads. Lets keep those local machine shops in business. nipper

I owned a corvair. And here i play with it in my head on how to put a subaru engine into a corvair nipper

This is actually a common installation, There is the vanagon/subaru list on yahoo where you can gain lots of informtaion. I too am curious as to where you would place the radiator. nipper

There are two ways valves can get bent, one is from hitting each other, the other is to have them hit the piston. Lets try a cheap test. An engine is a big air pump. Air should get sucked in the intake, and blown out the exhaust. Either us a peice of paper or your hand over the intake and feel which way the air is flowing. A compression test will tell us if the valve timing is off on one head, and a dry/wet test will tell us if the valves are not sealing. nipper

If its a bad steering angle sensor they should just fix it. Is your steering wheel off center? And i dont agree with your conclusion about the dealers, but hey, thats me. I have seen subaru come to bat for things that are out of warrenty before, but to me, this is just one of those things that break. Call a subaru area rep and sweet talk them. i dont know what the paramiters are for the fault codes and tolerances are for the steering angle sensor, so I cant say if this will fix it or not. If they are saying the car thinks its always going to the left when the wheel sensors are saying its going straight, i can see how the puter would give up trying to figure it out and throw a code. The real question is, is something bent in the front end? If your wheel is straight, car goes straight, then its just a bad sensor. nipper

Ask NJdrSubaru he lives around there. As far as what to do next? How many miles on the engine. How long has it been over heating. What has been done to diagnose it? What recent service has been done to it? Has the car been driven with the engine temp gauge pegged. nipper