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If your doing all this work, i would suggest just getting a new pump. I would change mine with every other timing belt change.

what did you cut off? a hose? nipper

ALlow me to introduce you to the search button .... do it on airfilters. I just did this yesterday and posted it in a long thread, and sorry folks not up to it again. My pain pills for my back are giving me a nice ride. Detailed test on GM duramx Deisel and aftermarket filters. Guess who came out on top...the OE airfilter. any filter that has better air flow has to have larger poors, and let more air in, hence more dirt. The pistons can handle it, but the fuel injectors cant, nor can any sensors down stream from the airfilter. nipper

did you replace the clips that hold the throw out bearing? Bleed the hydraulic clutch just to rule it out. COuld be a bad slave cylinder. But first make sure everythnig is still attached the way its supposed to be. nipper

Thats on a manual, and they do have a lag. I was under the impression this is an automatic, which is more reactionary and complicated as far as control. nipper

WHy not use the handbarke like your supposed to to start off from hills? nipper

Zero bounce is bad. You should get one to one and one half bounces. Knoking sounds i the universal joint in the sterring shaft, you need to have that looked at too, sometimes its normal, may be a sigh of it seizing. My money is on the struts. Did you check the front end with it jacked up off the ground?nipper

If they are OBDIII it will work. Check out something simple first, always gor for the simple stuff. Check out the fuel pump relay. Make sure this puppy is clicking on at about 8 volts (voltage drop when cranking). ALso whaen it happens can you hear the fuel pump come on? nipper

SOmetimes the engine cant be warm. Procedure is to remove all the plugs, and have a wide open trhottle. Crank the engine 7 times and repeat. Once you have done this, you squirt some oil in the cylider and do it alll aover again and record those numbers.If there is a increase in pressure, you have a weak rings, no change you a vavle or valve timing issue. nipper

Its mostly the junk the consumer wants..so say the auto makers. Not so much crash worthyness. Now if the EPA does change the wya they measure the MPG, that would be a backdoor CAFE raiting increase...then we would see things get better. nipper

Actually it was the EPA that classified foresters as SUVS, it was not the gas milage (then ferraris would be rated as Semi's) its the interior volume and dimensions that determined the rating. nipper

im interested in this too nipper

what are ALL the codes you initally saw, What codes are you seeing now. Multiple codes are a chain reaction, and doe not mean every sensor is shot, just means they are not going into close loop when they should. nipper

I seem to remeber earlier models it was just easier to find a AWD car and fix it then convert it. Newer ones it looks like its possible but again alot of part work... i can be wrong. nipper

Sounds like a head gasket and maybe a timing belt. I agree head gasket does not make a sooby loose power, but overheating it sure will. Engine may be tired. nipper

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Actually the manual says 100K on the timing belt for a 2.5. I dont know if this applies across the board, but it seems the computer compares the cam and crank postion sensors and if they get out of synch wil make the check engine llight blink. Never ignore a blinking CEL. Thats what i was told on my 98 wuth the 2.2L . I thought that was a great idea. It may still be there in the newer ones, but now 60K is early for a Timing belt unless they have other business down there. http://www.cars101.com/subaru/subaru_maintenance.html#2000Maintenance nipper

Its across the board. Again it goes back to people wanting more junk on thier cars, they get heavier, lower milage. More electronics more things go wrong. Biggest reason cars go back to the shop are not the drivetrain, but all the widgets. The widgets drove MB and BMW way down in the quality surveys, not the drivetrains The newest marketing trick by GM is just to state higway milage in thier ads. I think subarus are nicely equpied. Compare the base models with anything else in thier class. There is no comparison. nipper

Did you driv in left circles 8 times then right 8 times after the fluid change? I had the same thing after a fluid change, did the circles, and it went away. Aparently it lossenes up whatever gunk isthe fluid flush didnt get since the car was not running when flushed nipper

I think the outback may actually have higher or equal ground clearance to the RAV4. They are nice, i miss the electric RAV4's (yes i got to drive one for a few weeks) nipper

How many miles on this puppy? nipper

nothng its part of his signiture nipper

hehe sounds like some off brand russian tire nipper

Murphys law .... its one thing to not know about this, its another to tease the gods and go on a trip to no where land with this. If you do make this trip, pack emergency provisions in the cra just in case. nipper