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One telling point I think is that they are hard to find in Junkyards here unless they are wrecked or picked clean. I see people driving those 2.2s that should be shot for lack of auto maintence and they just keep leaking and putting along if they keep oil and water in them. I think 350,000 to 400,000 should be upper limits, but some well cared for examples may beat that.
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If you don't get satisfaction take it to an independent Subaru mechanic you trust for an opinion of what is wrong. Thay had a lot of suff out to so the ehad gaskets and they is a lot of opportunity to make an error. Soemtimes even just bending plug wires (which you have to do to pull the heads) can cause them to start making the engine run roughly. Leaving a msall vacum hose or a wire off is a common problem.
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Let's see what I can remember of your questions. A lot of folks get in the 25 mpg range overall as I do in my Forester. Up or down a bit for conditions, fuel, and equipment. There should not be oil on your plugs, you probably have leaking sealing gaskets and it may help a bit to replace them. Your plugs are in the head, just down there a bit. I believe your timing belt replacement should be 105,000 miles if I recall correctly. For manuals the beat is found a Endwrench on the web and can be downloaded.
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It is a fair amount of work and expense so it would depent how long you are going to keep the car. I considered this on my 99 Forester but decided to stay with a new set of drums and shoes instead. I assume you would need a proportionng valve to balance front and rear or perhaps a new master cyl if it's built in. I know it has been done a number of times and info should be available. I figured if I had gotten 100,000 miles out of the stock rears that an easy to comeby set of drums (about $20 apiece if I recall) and and a couple sets of inexpensive shoes would probalby go as long as the engine. A bit less than 30,000 miles later this seems to be working out OK.
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Thinking about what MT Smith has said about the controllable power delivery of the automatic reminds me of my last Jeep. I have had several Jeeps with both stick and auto. The last one was a CJ7 with a rare turobo 400 automatic and a transfer case with clutches like and automatic Subaru. I bought it when my manual Chevy S10 was a pain in the butt pulling my heavy sailboat up slippery SSF boat ramps. The Jeep just dropped into gear and the torque converter gives you about 40 to one advantage. It would just idle up the boat ramp withoput spinning a wheel. My five speed Subie goes through the mud well but there is some drama involved and I get to clean a lot of mud off later thrown by all four spinning wheels. I have to keep speed up to make it through. I'm sure if I had actual traction ony two wheels would spin but when they are all somewhat free look out.
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Sensors?
cookie replied to eiremed's topic in 1990 to Present Legacy, Impreza, Outback, Forester, Baja, WRX&WrxSTI, SVX
The temp sensor may not show up on a code. It fools the engine into a different temp setting but the ECU won't see a problem unless it is totally dead. -
Must have been an automatic. They have been using GM automatics and I forget who is makeing them now. Not an impressive record of reliability with those. BMW is like everybody else, they make some things very well and others are not up to standard. The water pumps have a very poor record of early failure on the sixes. I have a pump made by Stewart and an alloy radiator made by Zionsville on my car because of those weak points.