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Sometimes thats a good thing, it saves alot of cost and frustration nipper

The fuel injectors on soobies are rather loud. Make sure thats it and not the timing belt tensioner or idler ticking. Remeber timing belt life is mileage or time, whichever is sooner. May not hurt to do an oil change. Congrats on the new toy. nipper

Austrailia has a differn AWd setup then we do i think. i know the austrailian SVX's are nothing like the US ones as far as the tranny is concerned. So it may be possible he doesnt have a solenoid like we do (if the car is austrailian). nipper

yes, and for that you get a nipper

Well lets try this Remove the lead, Touch one lead to the terminal, the other to the sender body. you should get some sort of resistance reading. Next touch one lead to the body, and the other to the block. this should show no resistance. nipper

If it makes anyone feel better, it got me once too. I only drove around the block, and saw the temp higher then it should be. Oddly that short drive broke loose the air pocket. nipper

Also a thought, get a new radiator cap. nipper

Load test your charging system, and check the drag of the cooling fan. I had this on my 87 and it was a bad altenator. Seems the temp gauge reacts opposite of the voltage. Bad bearings in the cooling fan can draw alot of current. Check your grounds and cables too. nipper

OK top it off again. It should be so full that the when the Tstat opens up the car overflows. AFter that it will settle down, top off again if needed. Look at the fluid, there should be no bubbles (well maybe the odd stray bubble). Sometimes it takes few shots at it to get the air out. If the car didnt overflow then the tstat didnt open. nipper

Check for continuity between the sender body and the block. I bet the permatex is acting as an insulator. nipper

By chance your not using teflon tape on the threads are you? nipper

Thats not an easy thing to do. Put the switch someplace thats easy to see. You need to use a switch/relay that resets itself after every start (a latching relay). I dont know if this was available from Subaru. Also i am not sure what it will do to the Air Bag computer, or how it will interact. I would assume your airbag will still work, and that the airbag light will come on. nipper

Sounds kinky nipper

Probably a combination of both. With the hose off you lost antifreeze. Now there is air in the system where coolant used to be. Fill up the system and you should be ok. nipper

There are heat sheilds everywhere, just usually the rear ones arent a problem since they are ont the body and not the pipes. Can maybe be a backing plate too. nipper

well if you make it a mid engine, point the engine in the proper direction, no. If you want AWD, yes. Just did a quick look, and it seems the prefered tranny for a sandrail is the VW, since its overbuilt and simple. we love google http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Backwards_20AWD_20Sandrail nipper

come grasshopper take a lesson or two from the VW people. There are a few ways to solve this. One method has been to get reverse ground cams. Another method is to use a VW rear engined transmission. Gteeing a reverse cut gear will not change the direction, it wil just change the thrust surfaces. Someplace in the driveline you will need two gears contacting each other to reverse direction. This can be done at the tranny or at the rear suspension. Neither of these solutions are cheap. I have been toying with (keep in mind im an engineer so my toying is someones else finished design) putting a 2.5 in the business end of a corvair. Volkswagon (and porche) engines rotate in the same direction as front engine cars. This was one of the reason you can do all sorts of fun things with them. You could also flip over the transmission (though i dont see how). When they used corvair transxles in a VW they flipped the axles. Corvairs, the "front" of the engine is actually where the transmission is, and the rear is where the fan belts are. Another issue with running the engine backwards, is that the transmission may not like it. The gears are cut to minimize noise and for ease of shifting with the drivetrain rotating in one direction. Reversing that MAY dramatically alter the driveability of the car. Most engines really dont care what direction they run in. Just the direction of the starter cranking dictates which way it spins. WHen cars had distrubtors, it was possible to have the timing so far off, that there would be a backfire, and it would run backwards. Now with variable valave timing, it may make a differnce (but from what i can tell im not seeing it). You do need to modify some things though if you want it last: On applications where twin inboard engines are used, one engine typically rotates in the opposite direction to offset the prop torque generated by the second engine. Rebuilding a reverse rotation inboard engine requires a number of changes, including polishing the crank in the opposite direction as usual, using special oil seals with reversed flutes to prevent oil leaks, reversing pistons and rods left to right, and installing a cam with a special reverse rotation profile. From what i can tell, only the Cam and Crank positin sensors may have to be flipped over, everything else shouldnt care. I am sure that this has been done by someone (not with a subaru, but something other then a VW or olds conversion). nipper

Do a search its done with the springs. There is a lift kit, but it comes from upside down land (austrailia) It really depends what you want to do. nipper

If this making noise, your up against pending doom. This is not something that you want to let go. nipper

Heat sheild. They can drive you nurs, and are very specific when they will happen. nipper

There are only a few reasons for getting cabin exhaust in the car. None of them having to do with the cat. At 145000 miles your due for an oil leak or two. Suabru leaks may not show up on the ground, but will show up in the cabin when stopped at a traffic light. Another possability is that the cv boot (inner) has ripped and has tossed grease on the cat. Another possability is an exhaust leak. nipper

When you select a gear with an automatic, you are physically moving linkages and valves. When you go to R or D3 your are filling up a limited amount of the circuit. in Drive there is a lot more to fill up. The delay is one of two things. (here comes the bad news) The front pump or the internal seals. My gut feeling is that its the front pump, as opposed to seals. If you want to find out for sure, take it to a shop and they will put pressure gauges on the tranny to see what the pump is putting out. In the good old days i would wonder if the valve body had a sticking valve, but now with electronic trannies, there isnt really all that much down there to stick anymore. Since the previous owner did a flush, he suspected a sticking part. (now the not so bad news) What happens if you go to D3, then once you get going you put it in D4. Since the lag isnt in all the gears, I would say the tranny has life left in it. What happens in the other gears? nipper

And it gives the local fire department lots of practice nipper