nipper

Hrmm The ac short cycling means it may be low on coolant. Are you sure the squeeling isnt a loose belt? How many miles on the car? Does the car stumble then stall, or stalls like someone shut it off? What recent work has been done to the car? Does the car do this with the AC on Off or Both?

Or a DVM if your really techy

WHAT! See now you wolke me up and reminded me that i am the only one home while everyone else is out enjoying themselvs. i need more freinds and to get out more woe is me oh thats right, this is not about me Anyway...... During hot weather some ping is not a bad thing. In modern engines this ping (usually being ignited by a hot plug) is not an issue. You can try a cooler spark plug. The knock sensor is there to try to ignite the mixture before it controls in an uncontrolled pattern. You can do a tuneup, and make sure your EGR valve is functioning properly. Dont forget to change the pcv valve. Valve adjustmnent is called for at 105,000 miles, and thats just an inspection. www.cars101.com will have maint scheduales and info on your car. Now let me go back to my lonely beer.....hrmm.... lonely... MORE BEER FOR ME!

The only one I cant answer is the accerroies. The engines transmission and other tidbits hold up just as well as any other subaru (meaning expect 200K or more out of it if well maintaned). As with any AWD car, make sure all the tires match, and drive it in a tight circle on level ground. The car should be able to move itself with no or very little throttle. This test is easy as if it fails it will need alot of throttle to move. The movement should be smooth. A slight bump at the start of it is ok as the computer figures out the car is turning. Good luck. BTW I have only seen these in yellow, has anyone seen one in any other color? nipper

That used to be my response to, let em get a job like i did, but not these days. My nephew had been looking for months and can't find anything. His friend got one shift a week at mcdonalds (hardly makes it worth it). Locally here in downstate NY there really is nothing. Even whne stores do have signs in the windows, they are just collecting applications. I can't even find part time work myself.

i was going to say piles of money myself.

If i had photoshop skills i would make a 360 with a lit fuse, but since i don't look at this http://www.xs4all.nl/~mjs/subaruk.html

An SVX is a typical trophy wife. It is beutiful. Your frineds will be envious. If you are lucky at times she will let you run your hand up and down her (gear) knob, but when she needs something, and she will, it will cost you. And yes i would want one

http://www.cars101.com/subaru_svx.html

Ya know ...... Then we can maybe give a Jeep a run for the money, and i would stop lusting after a wrangler limited. nipper

Pulls to the right. That can mean so many things. How many feet forward on a properly flat road does it take to drift 3 feet to the right. There is a right drift aligned in cars, but it should not be noticable nor fatiguing. A good alignment shop (and there are less and less of them) can take into account the normal weightload of the passengers in the car (using weights) to adjust the alignment to your liking. Good alignment shops will use the mfg specs as a guide and tweak it to make the customer happy. I am going to assume that they checked tire pressures before they aligned the car or checked it. i have seen quite a few forget this detail. nipper

That doesnt look like a crack to me, it looks more like an erosion path. As long as you keep in mind that the repair may not work and dont blame subaru, the planets, or karma, i would say go ahead and try to repair it. nipper

Yay you have a great skillset. The only other caution I have is when you get the HG's from subaru, follow the torquing sequence someplace on www.endwrench.com in the archives under engine. They can be touchy. I too have worked on chevy. fords, AMC and mopars. Back when they were all so very forgiving. BTW check the seperator plate in back of the engine. If it is plastic replace it with a metal one. Also put in a new PCV valve. nipper

I want to say yes, but i wouldnt rest my rep on it just yet. It seems that every premature HG failure seems to be the 2.5 in the outback. My theory (blind educated guess) is that the outback is a heavier car. the engine is taxed more due to the weight, higher drag, gearing (and the pull of mars). I know the 2.5 DOHC was designed at the very limit (at the time) for that engine. Maybe the smaller car took off just enough stress where it wasnt an issue anymore. I want to say it is a US vs Japanese thing, but i know Outbacks blew HG's in Germany and Austrailia, but odly in all my research I did not see any Imps doing it. I dont even know how many Imps were sold with 2.5's. If my theory is correct, then once you add the heavier car into the mix, they may also go bad. nipper

Imps arent made in the USA so they don't seem to have HG issues. Subarus tend to get the epa rated mileage for most drivers (those that dont live where there is a stoop sign on every corner). www.cars101.com And yes the HG issues seemed to have gone away to some extenet. Some HG's i feel in 2005 were over zealous mechanics seeing oil leaks from other sources. nipper

I googled "subaru 4eat gear ratios" and that was on the second page of search results. But now i must kill you since I gave away one of my secrets nipper

GOOGLE actually i screwed up i was going to respond to the imprezza tranny swap thread, and i had too many windows open, and posted to the wrong window. my bad.

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?p=595297 try that. nipper

And all done witout tirggering the instant pillow? way cool.

The SVX forum can be a little, er, um, bullheaded? But there are also SVX owners here too. nipper

Im betting its the gauge voltage regulator. nipper

Yes that happens. Cars have to be moved and people just grabs keys to move them without checking. SO what you are saying is that it happened to them?

Two general rules of themb for any heavy engine work. 1- Cleanliness is next to godleness, and begin clean working on an engine is akin to sitting on God's moms lap. 2- Unless the part is being replaced, everything goes back to where it came from, the only exception are the fasteners, though I know people who even tag the Major bolts and pu them back where they came from (nothing wrong with that). You can never be to anal retnetive when doing major work. At this point I would just dig into it, as I am satsified with the vac gauge test. Also if you did put the wrong lifter in the wrong spot, you may now need a valve job (which I would have done to begin with). nipper

I'm sorry but everytime i hear nabisco and i think, what are subarus doing on a oreo board? And they are right. Go aftermarket for the filters or stick with the stated change intervals and keep those reciepts. nipper

Poor valve seating if it does that all RPMS. If it does it just at idle leaking HG. nipper