nipper

overkill. Your brother is partially right. You can get all 4 wheels to transmit power (this is when an automatic is good) by lightly applying the brake pedal at the same time of the gas. Good lsd's are mechanial in nature, with either a clutch pack or a cone pack and a spring mecahnisim. The sooby LSD is is a viscous coupling, its cheaper lighter and easier to build. It requires the one wheel to spin before it starts transmitting power to the non spinning wheel, and when it does its sort of underwhelming. a mechanical LSD is always engaged unless making a turn, then the clutch disengages allowing for the turn (its been years i think i have it right). If you have a stick, you have to go this route. If you have an automatic, your much better off with the brake trick. nipper

sounds like one of those odd canadian winter sports , like this thing with sticks and ice, and they chase this little black thing, i think its called a puck nipper

its not so much weightas it is rolling resistance. High mileage tires are harder and will have less rolling resistance. Lower mileage tires are stickier (softer) and take more nergy to move. You are basically taling 12 lbs here, so it would have a negligable affect. Your right foot can vary gas milage by 5mpg around town easily, so i wouldnt worry about it. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/05/low_rolling_res.php nipper

[/url] try here http://subarujusty.proboards20.com/index.cgi before we hunt around a temp unit, is this FI or carbed? nipper

i cant say as i dont know the code or logic. I do know that i have often given ECU's far more credit then they deserve at times (like this). i really cant answer you there. Ecus tend to work off linear lines of design, where fault modes arent really taken into consideration. There are too many possible scenarios. nipper

some people are just no fun. Nothing wrong with going fast with the ac on Besides im not allowed to ride a bike till next year (dr orders) nipper

the belt can have jumped on the crank and not the cams. nipper

Gear oil change and learn how to double clutch. This is plain ol wear and tear and may not be much you can do. The synchro is worn and tired. nipper

i think your thinking of the european justys. Those were suziki/geo metros. The US ones are unique and subaru made. The engine im not sure about, but i think thats 100% subaru too. nipper

or the ignitor nipper

http://www.subaru.com/07B9Tribeca this way the link works we shall see. i dont know if there is any room anywhere for batteries to make it hybrid, but i can easily seeing the legacy being one. It had a large enough volume. i have yet to see one on the road here nipper (i still think the tribecca is butt ugly)

its in the logic and code of the ecu, so its going to take a geek to do it. nipper

im hunting for one myself. great to run around town in and cute in a way only a mother could love nipper

Its electrical in nature. I know a i had a VW of the same vintage that would do this and it was the engine temp sensor for the ECU. Aparently these things can kill a subaru too (and often do). Thats where i would start. i would replace it for the heck of it and see what happens. nipper

the lever is on the bottom of the steering column on the left side. nipper

and i feel even with the automatic if the ac cycles at a shift point. nipper

unlike other cars, the abs light does not come on to tell you its engaged. You will know whane it kicks in, there is no mistaking it. It may kick in when breaking over a pothole or a man hole cover thats wet. Like was said by rverdoold find someplace wet next time it rains and stand on the brake pedal at 20-30 mph. Always a good idea to know what this feels like. Sometimes you cant get it to do it on a dry raod because of good brakes, tires, or your brain wont let you brake that hard without having too. Read your owners manual, i think you dont have any brake assist (not power brakes) if you do its even harder to get the abs to activate on dry ground. nipper

somone always has to be difficult The engine needs a new (acoreding to the mechanic) ECU temp sensor. The ABS light may be as simple as a dirty speed sensor at one of the wheels, or a broken wire or bad sensor. The steering wheel (trouble maker) its just a simple clamp type mechanisim. Is the handle there at all, hagning down, or just flopping around. When you raise the handle it should feel like your applying pressure and clamping it in place. nipper

http://www.cars101.com/subaru/hybrid.html i have a a feeling the B9 will be long gone by the time the hybrid shows up. nipper

Thats mine there's yours nipper

model and year ? nipper

OH GOD NO NOT ANOTHER ONE SHOOT ME NOW sounds like a problem we are having over on "please help car wont start" but that i think is a timing belt issue, though he is getting only iginition on 1-2. I agree with you it may be the coil. Do you have a cel? nipper

if its a little out of synch depending upon the year the cel will flash at you. If its a lot out of synch it may not and already assume the car isnt running. thats a good question. Since the car isnt running the CEL light wont trigger, but there may be stored codes. In the begining of this entire mess, he said he drained the battery and disconnected the cable in essance resetting the puter. by now there may be codes to pull. nipper nipper

i know dont how the logic works in the ecu. Sometiems we give the ecus way too much credit, as they are fairly dumb units. This is pure guessing It can have something to do with the communications between the cam sensor and the crank sensor. Remeber they spin at a 2:1 ratio, so what you are seeing as spark may not be spark at the proper time for ignition, but at the proper time to just make the 1-2 coil fire. the problem with waste spark is that you cant tell if it is 1 or 2 that are at compression, where with a dist you can. There is always a compression test to see if the timing is off. Its not that much aof a deal to pull the covers and look at the timing, i think that has to be investigated. If this was a customers car coming back, that would be one of the first things i would have checked with the driveability issues you described. Weather or not you like doing it, you have to look at the sequance of things. If you told us this right off the bat, i think almost everyone woulf have said double check the timing belt. You dont have to pull, just pull the covers tocheck that all the timing marks are where they are supposed to be. Without this timing, no matter what we tell you, no matter what you do or replace, nothing will work. nipper (and i keep saying im walking away form this, now its a challange)