nipper

I am 99% sure you wont be reinventing the wheel. If you do make it too free flow you may loose bottom end torque and gain horsepower and top end. We are talking a justy here, so there is not a lot of hidden horse power or torque to be found. nipper

You do know the knock sensor is a pizeo electric device. It generates a small ac current that the ECU reads. Just because you tap it and it reacts doesnt mean it is funtioning properly. This is one of the fault codes that when it says bad knock sensor, it is a bad knock sensor. nipper

it's always the little details they leave out.... nipper

Just shift it manually thats what i do nipper

It doesnt take much oil redidue to make the car smoke. After i had my engine rebuilt, car smoked for 50 miles till everything burned off (50 highway miles). I wouldnt get too excited by it, give it time to burn off. nipper

This is old enough for the radiator fins to have fallen off the car. Also it would not be unreasonable for the radiator to be clogged. That would be the first thing i looked at. Thermostats dont care if your on level ground or up hill, but as you go uphill engine works harder, more heat to disipate, fouled radiator wont do its job. nipper

They could really care less. the only thing they worry about is getting the car quickly so they can put it in the pound and turn around and get another. i hate those parking vultures, hence why i rarely go into the city on the weekends any more. nipper

well without a functioning thermostat you have no heat. i did find on my 87 that if it was below 20 outside (before global warming in NY) and i let the car warm up in the driveway, i could keep up with the cold air. If i just drove off it was hard to get the car toasty. nipper

If you can use one from a 1997 1/2 or newer. Before then there was a design fault that led to torque bind (seal failure). I do beleive all the housings are interchngable till 99 nipper

Makes sense. Local driving there isnt enough air moving over the radiator to pull out all the heat. Highway driving the amount of air through the radiator will remove all the heat and cool the engine. Subaru thermostates are 180-190 degrees. At mid point on the temp gauge that is around 190-200 degrees reading off the ecu using a scangauge. As you can see it doesnt take much to pull the heat out of the engine without the thermostat. This is not a big heat producing engine when its cold outside. Thats why you get no heat without a thermostat. nipper

Your duty C solenoid has failed. The light is flashing 16 times to tell you it has an error code, but in reality there is no reason to pull the code. Odds are if you think you have TB you have TB. The solenoid has failed bacause its not responding to the signal from the TCU when you put in the FWD fuse. I wouldnt bother changing the fluid independent of changing the solinoid, since it wont help. The trany light comes on to indicate that there is a fault from the last time you drove the car. I wouldnt drive the car in this condition, as the AWD clutches get damaged very quickly in this condition. Been there done that. nipper

Everyone has thier own way to solve this, and they all work. My father and shop always taught me to fill the cooling system while the car is running and the thermostat has opened. Been doing it this way for many years with many differnt cars, and never had an air pocket. Another way is the same, but with the car on ramps. nipper

Oddly GM's ceo when asked what his biggest mistake was, he admited it was killing their electric car program. He said they could have had a hybrid out of that that would had put toyota to shame. nipper

Remember that to get a patent, the item being patented does not have to operate or be functional. There are many many many patents that never worked or un feasable. I hold a few patents, and whne you do the research you see all sorts of silly things. With cars electric or otherwise, it all depends where you want things in the waiste stream, in the begining, middle or end. Electric cars its the end (though batteries in theory are recyclable). nipper

the grease in the connector is good. It water proofs the connection. Opening up the motor to check the grease isnt a bad idea, its straight forward BUT its selaed so i dont think it would help (can't hurt). it is possible that your motor is tired> Subarus are not know for fast wipers (i miss three speeds my fathers dart had). Also check the linkage to make sure its not binding. I think the wiper motor grounds through the switch (i dont remeber) so a ground wire may not help. nipper nipper

SInce you didnt say, i am assuming this is an 80's subaru. It's old enough for the ignitor to start getting finiky. If it is the ignitor it will happen again. Chokes do stick due to age, can be the choke spring heater thingy (forget what its called). nipper

First off did you open the cooling system to do the timing belt. If you did then you have an air pocket in the cooling system. nipper

a week is fine. If its TB and the fwd fuse makes it go away, keep it in untill you get the car serviced, then remove it right before you pull in. After you have the tranny flushed drive in tight circles for a bit to loosen up the clutch pack. nipper

this seems to be a weakness with chrsyler products. I've yet to hear of one go bad on a sooby, and only one on a GM. nipper

with or without cinderblocks..... nipper

im going back to a voltage issue then. When the car is cold in the morning take a meter to ti and see what the voltage is when the light is on. Just because its a new altenator doesnt mean it cant go bad. nipper

I suggest round with a slight flat spot on the bottom. hehehehehe i have BFG T/A's and i like them. nipper

everyone with airbags uses one. In some cars its also part of the vehicals dynamics control for steering angle. nipper

You cant patch a tire that is has a puncture on anypart towards the side wall or the side wall itself. the tire flexes the most at that point ans the plug would either get torn or leak. It's dangerous to plug a sidewall. This being an AWD car, the tires must be within 1/8" circumfrence of each other to prevent from frying the AWD system. This is true for subaru, audi or any other quality AWD system. SInce you have a rather large amount of miles on the tires, you have a few choices. 1- buy a new tire and have it shaved. 2- buy 4 new tires You can also buy 2 tires and put them on one side of the car, but if and only if you dont have a limited slip differential. I really dont recomend the last one. I am just throwing the option out there since someone else is going to mention it. nipper

not cv's. Check the drive shaft universal joints and the center support bearing. Also check the wheel bearings. nipper