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drove home from montreal to long island ny like that (8 plus hours). Just be fully aware that the car will handle differently nipper

maybe 50 lbs max. The seat bottom is light, the back especially if it folds down is heavy nipper

actually it may not be a bad thing. It will claen out the cooling system, as you need to flush it out anyway after doing the HG. Rinse out the radiator. nipper

nononono drive it into my driveway nipper

you know outbacks are jelouse beasts. You may wake up one morning with 4 flats on the 4 runner when you want to go off road, and swear there is a gleam in one of the outbacks headlights and the grill is snearing... They like to get muddy too:brow: nipper

its more like WHEN you have questions not if. http://endwrench.com/images/pdfs/2.5Timing.pdf the marks can be very confusing for a first timer. DO a search here, warning its one of the more popular topics. nipper

ok ive had my giggle for the day. It has an allergy? How many miles, stick or automatic, does it do it after its warmed up or all the time, any particular engine rpm? Is it running a fever nipper

Starter is accessable from the top of the car, no need for ramps unless your really tall. Get yourself a haynes manual if your keeping the car past break in (100,00 miles). It will show you where the ignitor is and alot of other goodies. Its on a bracket near the for/aft engine strut under the hood i think (im not sure). the manual shows you a pic of it. "have an answer for everything" sometimes thats not a good thing nipper

now ive had the opposit, they all made a fuss at low speed, weither way whatever it is about to go south on you. Jack the car up, and wiggle the tire at the 3,9 oclock posiyion and look at the tie rod. Next do it at the 12,6 position and look at the ball joint, you also need to pry up on the tire with a pipe ubder the tire and inspcect the ball joint Fibally turn the wheel left or right and rotate it by hand, watch the axle and feel for any resistance to turn. Check both sides. your mileage and age it can be any one of them. Which leads to an interesting observation, its not too often somone says they need ball joints... nipper

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=35633&highlight=knock+sensor+location

get it checked out asap. This can be a ball joint/bushing/tie rod end nearing the end of its life (actually sounds like its past it). i had this in an 88GL and about 70 miles later the tie rod end popped (thank god i was aproaching a toll booth when it happened). I doubt its a cv joint as they get better as you go faster, and are much more noticble at low speeds and on turns. nipper

https://www.subarugenuineparts.com/oe_parts_cat.html thats Jamie

AHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoever did your timing belt did NOT torque the bolt down. it is VERY important that this bolt be properly torqued. If tou are not sure, find a shop or somone else to do it for you. nipper

ok its the starter. I bet the return sprong on the starter drive is busted. You can see this by removing the starter. The ignition im betting is a ignitor. Get a few from a junkyard to find out. The engine is very basic, and older then the in line engines. Boxer engines (VW Porsche Airplanes) date back to Otto Benz in 1896 (not to be confused with an opposed piston engine). The beauty of these engines is that the layout allows for all the opposing forces on the pistons and cranks to cancel each other out. This is why they can run almost for ever without the bearing wearing out (as long as they dont overheat and have oil changes). They have low centers of gravitiy, and are compact in size. They run smoother also then a regular 4 cylinder engine. If you look at the typical mileage on these cars, its not unusal to have them aproach the 200K mark and stil run like champs (including vw, corvairs, porsches, airplanes and other application). This is partially the reason they never caught on in detroit where planned obsolence is the norm. Subaru electronics are fairly simple (untill recently) compared to others. nipper

same with airplanes and any other heavy duty high speed use. Nitorgen is considered dry, so there is no moisture in it normally. This is the reason the military tenads to pack things in N2 so they dont rust or greakdown from oxidation. I sort of have a problem with the o2 theory. !st is that n2 is a smaller molecule then o2 and can leak out faster. Secondly the air is 78% nitorgen and 21% oxygen, so even then i cant see the leaking part. I just posted the article as a point of refernce and wanted to see what would come back. It is truly a profit thing. People have been using compressed aor with no problems all these years. Now about summer air vs winter air ....... nipper

your a bad person, BAD! out of curiosity, did you smoke out the neighboorhood? nipper

only 5 qts? you have another 5 to go, and yes that cures torque bind 90% of the time nipper

nah it has to reach 15 pages to get to that point:grin: nipper

easy little wire high resistance solinoid when hot, little wire cant supply enuogh current to overcome the resistnac. Jumper cable big wire lots of current caan overcome the resistance. There is the poossability it is the ignition switch. Here is how to find out. Dissconnect the starter wires and take a resistance reading across the solenoid when cold. Next when its hot and doesnt want to start, do the same thing again, and compare the two readings. If it was the ignition switch it shouldnt care weather its ot or cold. Also its rare for a sooby ignition switch to go bad. People do get bum rebuilt starter and altenators (i know i have hence i dont buy from pepboys anymore). Some rebuilders replace the worn parts, other rebuild the entire thing, thats called remanufactured. Ideally thats what you want to buy. nipper

in theory they work the same, in actuality i think they are two differnt transmissions. Actually sometimes low miles on an older car is worse then high miles on a newer car. These things wear, and unless your the original owenr, one never knows what kind of life they have had. Probabaly the same cost to fix though nipper

well thats progress. Does this noise change with engine rpm ? It can be the starter isnt fully disenaging from the flywheel, but thats just a guess since i cant hear the car. The car can go to any mechanic, they are just simple cars. The dying does it do it regularly? a ignitor comes to mind. does it just cut out or sputter. nipper

i think your going to have to drive it to reproduce the problem. Also go to an autzone and have them check the codes. Get yourself the haynes manual, you can do these yourself. nipper

awww you do care i go to bed at 2 when the painmeds kick in ill be up at 9 nipper

bumpers are weird. I had one damaged from a chain reaction while parked, it broke the grill too. the bumper had a scrtach guess how much go ahead no higher 1800.00 get a second opinion from a body shop to just hang the skin. it sounds like the are replacing it OR repainting it. nipper

Actually thats more a bushing issue. Dont knock that bouncingm, thats what makes the sooby shifter a nice notchy shift as opposed to american cars which are like moving a stick in mud. nipper