nipper

There isnt. It all runs off the same resevior. How long have you had this condition. nipper

Actually it is a chaep fix that works fairly well. Subaru still recomends it with every coolant change. Like any stop leak (GM uses it one too) they work up untill a point. I would try it and see what happens. I'ld trust a stop leak from Subaru more then one off the shelf. nipper

I had the same thing, it was just easy to go to a bone yard and get one. The reietance values and wattage made for some big resistors, and time vs work was just easier. Also in a bone yard you can tell real fast if they work or not. If they are in one peice odds are they will work. If in doubt take a meter with yuo. nipper

well if it is the timing belts, he will get low or no compresiion weather its a wet or dry test. This is very easy test to do and will tell you whats what very fast. nipper

i agree about the hostility. i have several good private garages around here, and a good dealer thats just a bit too far away for regular sevice. The maintence scheduals are set up to keep warrenty repiars down, they arent just thrown together at some engineers whim. You also do get what you pay for when it comes to parts. If its a part buried in the engine and has lasted over 100K, i'll bute the bullit and go to OE and get it. In maintance you get what you pay for.

SO then this is an achilllies heal for foresters? nipper

This is one place where you want to avoid the word "cheap" . Have the radito sniffed, and keep an eye on the temperiture gauge. my concern is why did the car stall? nipper

i dont recall if ha has done ye old transmission flush ... if he hasnt he should nipper

Actually thats the going rate for the mirror, the electronics in it is not cheap, aside from the compass i do beleive its quto dimming too. You want the toys they cost money to fix. nipper

Struts have no bounce acording to him, and they should bounce 1.5 times at the most, once at the least. They are seized. All that energy from road imperfections have to go someplace, so it goes to the cars cahssies and sterring, where hs would have to give a lot of xourse corrections to keep the car straight. nipper

First thing first ... go out and buy a inexpensive electrical aftermarket engine temp gauge and wire it in. See if that gauge matches what your seeing, if it is we have to start looking someplace else. Do you have good or poor heat? nipper

Sounds like a cable drive problem nipper

nahh ill stick with OE or wix thank you. Subaru engines last a good long time so subaru must be doing somethig right. nipper

i say yes, as its cheap insurance. nipper

Try the obvious, the gauge itself. The gauge can be repalced without replacing the entire dashbaord. It comes apart real easily, just getting to it is a joy. nipper

Subarus usually dont wear rings unless the engine has been overheated. How much oil are you consuming and how many miles on which engine. You are going to have to do a compression check wet/dry as that will tell you if its rings, valve seats or guide seals. nipper

i said new struts would require an alignment ..not that it would solve the issue all buy itself..... now let me tuck you in nippper

Well its not really performance, except for makybe in a stick shiftit may be hard to get a smooth launch. You can hear un explained bangning on staring off froma dead stop, like somethig is hitting the floor, andpossibly hear it on the down sfit too. In older cars if the correct motor mount let loose, your engine could hit the hood in the right circumstances. What will take a beating are all the goodies attached to the drivetrain (drive axles, exhaust system and so forth and anything with a gith clearance) nipper

the unerving part of this is "sound like i never heard of" ... When the differntial starts to go bad, it makes an amazingly loud sound that gets loder with road speed. it could be a rear wheel bearing, but in the collective 600K miles of 4 differnt subarus, I never had a rear wheel bearing go bad. Look under the car, is the rear differntial case wet ? If it was a wheel bearing, the tire shop should have picked up on it... just a thought. nipper

So did you put yours in the pan? nipper

i have an owners manual, but not the maintanece manul, so hes like me, thats why hes asking, and whats the harm? nipper

Well the SVX trannies always did have a problem with over heating. From skirting other boards it seems that even on mountaain roads the max that people have seen is 200 degrees, 210 if they beat on it. The tranny fluid temp sensor has two purposes (too bad we cant tap into that) Aside from the over heating warning, it also keeps the car from locking up in drive untill the tranny is fully wamed up. That setting is dictated by the tranny fluid temp and not the engine temp, which taking form the post, can take as much as ten miles if its a really cold day. As far as to which coolant line is th hot side, any tranny shop or anywhere that can do a tranny flush will tell you thr flow. I would guess it would follow the same as the raditor, hot water goes in the thermostat side of the raditor, cold water out the other. I would think the tranny cooler in the radiator would follow the same thing nipper

Maybe you just overheated the clutch so it had no ability to grab. This will happen on occasion, but never had it on a soobu. I had it happen on civic in heavy traffic, and it didnt seem to have any ill effect. Maybe you shuld look into installing hill holder from an earlier sooby nipper

Not all o-rings are alike, There are about 40-50 or more diffent kind of o-rings out there, but most likly it is one of three of the major different automotive types. I said replace the pump every OTHER timing belt change, now that is either 120K or 200K depending upon the engine. I never said with each change. Also when putting in a strange motor with not much known about it, and i am there anyway, I would change it, along it with the water pump and cam seals. Oil pumps usually are just gasket sealed with no sealant. It doesnt take much to accidently lay down to much sealant, and have it get in the oil galleys, which are no where as big as the water jacket gallies, and cause a major amount of trouble. nipper

SOme of us like to know whats going on with our cars ...though from what ive seen the sooby tranny light sensor seems to be in a good place. i imagine an external trannt cooler would make the entire thing moot. Which leads to the next question, where would an engine oil pressure gauge go nipper