nipper

Valve stem seals, easy to replace, you can live with it (depending upon how much your neighbors like you). Mine did that rather heavily at startup after sitting for 3 months. It doesnt take much oil to make a lot of smoke, so its not horrible, just ugly looking. Keep an eye on your oil level. nipper

Whats the big oily wet spot to the right on the picture, looks like its under the altenator? nipper

With my bad back now (cry) i want my seat heater to work. Any idea of the cost of such surgery? nipper

Subaru is a small manufacturer. Not all car companies can afford to have dedicated wiring harnesses for each country. Subaru goes the cost cutting method and makes one harness for all (hence keeping down the cost of the car). Also small manufactureers will switch flow of the cars sometimes depending upon the value of the dollar to save costs even farther. The switch is in such a location i dont even see how one can accidently keep hitting it once you know its there. Personally i think you should get used to it or stop buying subarus. No one else seems to have this problem, and its just a subaru quirk. Cars with quirks are such a nice break from everything being a bland cookie cutter of the others. The switch is well marked. i have hit mine on occasion, and since i was taught to constantly scan the sinstrument panel (as a good driver should) ive noticed the switch on, and just shut it off. I dont see what the big deal is. nipper

Its the cars internal computers running your batery down. Here is my suggestion. Get a remote starter with a good healthy range. This way once a week you can start the car without leaving your house, and charge up the battery. This is how i kept mine charged last winter when i couldnt drive for 3 months. nipper

Heated seats are controlled in a very simple manner, everyone is over complicating things. There are two circuits, series and parallel. When the heaters are in parallel, they are at full heat. When they are in series, they are at the lower setting. Now that being said the heater in my seat back is out. Does anyone have a clue how to fix that? nipper

All automtaics since the mid 1990's do this. Its to warm up the engine and tranny faster for emission reasons. This is another reason to be nice to the car on a cold day till it starts to warm up. nipper

the resistor is making it buz. Apply a resistor in line with a duty solenoid, or almost any solenoid and ti will buzz (not fully engage). On the plus side this may be why he is not chewing up his clutch pack. he als is cycling the solenoid much faster then the TCU does, so he is allowing for the plates to slip like they should. Maybe he has found the holy grail nipper

actually 2700 for a manual shift 4eat with full control isnt a bad deal. nipper

never heard it, i went out and listened for it, and mine doesnt buzz. nipper

not doing the waterpump is a mistake. Do it all at once and be done with it. Remeber there is a seal in the waterpump too. Do it all and not have to go back in there for another 9 years. nipper

....and upstate NY, but this automotive engineer, knows that e85 is a just a flash in the pan, unless they find some way of making out of something else besides corn, and making it far more cheaper. Last study i saw (and i see a lot of them) states even if we converted all our corn to e85, we would only make a slight dent in consumption. the other problem is that corn is a resource heavy crop. The other problem is getting everyone to buy new cars. http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=mj05cavallo in 2005 it cost 6.00 to produce a barrel of oil. Oil is wonderful in some of the things it does. It comes out of the ground easily. It is easy to transport. The refininf process (once started up) uses no extra energy, as the waste products are used to produce the heat and electricity required to refine the product. Ethanol requires a lot of water to manufacture. Corn is not an easy thing to get e85 from. Brazil uses sugar beets, and has far less vehicals on the road then we do. The rush for e85 is because automitve companies are getting tax breaks on each car they make that can use e85. It only costs them 300-400 dollars on the assembly line to make a car e85 compatable (that number is most likely much lower). http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1629 interesting read. nipper

a dying alternator will trigger the ABS fault light. This happens due to a weird backfeed of the sharging circuit. So you may have a bad altenator and nothing wrong with the abs. The car should be at 13.5-14 volts. How old is your battery? nipper

you dont get a light because the "failure" corrects itself. You only get a light if there was problem on the last time the car was on. If the problem corrected itself it wont show the fault. nipper

you have to clean them buy getting your hand on them and wiping them glean, especiually if grease is involved nipper

Also you all are getting something. An open exhaust in a car not modified for it can cause a loss of bottom end torque, and also burn up exhaust valves. Ht gasses quickly flowing by steel valves will erode them (friction), slower gas flow avoids this. nipper

its a very low voltage ciruit. The awd fuse powers the C solenoid so it is on and locks out AWD. Cutting the power to the duty c gives you max pressure 50/50 awd. This is why the clutches fry up. At max pressure you get very little slip in the clutchpack, so when they have to slip they chew themselves up. The duty c not only affects the balance of f/r awd, but also the pressure to the clutch pack via a spool valve in the hydraulic circuit. nipper

this is defanitly under the extended warrenty. Take it back to where you bought it. Subaru oil leaks travel, but it sure sounds like the sperator plate. If this is manual it may affect the clutch if it is coming out fast. nipper

AT 70k on a 1995 it is time for rubber change. Timing belts dont last for ever. You need to do a timing belt change(they do have a calander spec too), since the seals are drying out. You need: cam seals main seal oil pump seal timing belt water pump. Inspect the idler, since they should be ok. nipper

SUbaru ABS is a four channel system, meaning that there is one sensor for each wheel (there were some three channel systems out there). The sensors are hall effect. This means everytime a square tooth passes by them, they make an electrical pulse that the ABS puter reads. The abs will pulse the brakes to that sheel/s that is/are slipping. ABS will shorten your breaking distance compared to sliding on a slick surface, but it makes it longer then on dry ground (hence why you still need to leave lost of room betweehn you and another car). ABS is the biggest help when breaking on curves or when two wheels slip and the others have traction, It helps you maintain control. The only time abs makes things worse is in unplowed snow or loose dirt and gravel. In those cases the material piles up in front of the tires and makes a wedge. If the wheel sensors get too dirty (it happens) they will throw a code. It is very possible that there is grease and dirt on the sensor that is throwing it off, or it can be a totally differnt sensor that is dirty. nipper

http://www.toymod.com/fujimi/ they have subarus. There is no search funtion so you have to thumb through the pages http://search.store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/nsearch?catalog=internethobbies&query=subaru&.autodone=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.internethobbies.com%2Fnsearch.html http://www.hobbytron.com/cgi/sc/productsearch.cgi http://www.google.com/search?q=car+model+plastic&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8 start there nipper

You dont have to get it all out, just most of it. Most the fluid is in the torque converter (hence the drain, fill, drive, repeat theory). Also its not as critical in the transmission is 1/10th of a quart, hell if even one quart is left, as the tranny has differnt issues then engine oil. nipper

There is no good reason to drop the pan. the filter in the pan lasts the life of the car. Its not like the filter in the engine, its just a screen. Dropping the pan can cause many problems. Once a pan is removed, unless put back on in a specific manner, they tend to leak (they are finiky). Mechanics like to drop pans becaus e that way they can scare thier customers into other services "look at all the material in the bottom of the pan". The material is normal. Subaru doesnt even drop the pan. nipper

Actually the octane should have been lower, at the higher altitude. And its either 10% 85% or 100% nipper

could just be time for a new cable. Look under the hood and make sure nothing is binding. nipper