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I know with the 2001 and above the LSD was standard and included with the cold weather package and standard on the limited and above. I belive is 00 is may have been optional. You should have gotten out of the situation you described with a LSD

See the picture from the posting below you. He is right. The little dipstick is the place to put in the gear oil. I changed mine on my 2001 outback a few months ago. Just note that since this may be your first time or it has been a while since you touched it, there is probably so much grease and dirt on the dipstick that it blends in. It took me 20 min to find the dipstick the day I went to change mine gear oil too..

I agree with some of the other postings. What condition did you buy the car? Also the previous owner must have beat the crap out of this car but probably did almost NO maintenece. On the contrary suburu is one of the top rated cars in reliabilty. I guess there can be a lemon out there too. It even happens to Honda.. I have a 2001 OBW with 137,000 miles on it and have not made a maintenece repair yet!!!! to date. My only repair I will have to make soon in new boots up front. The right side is cracked, but i have 137K on them..

I have had the rumble slightly on my OBW since around 105K. I now have 137K on the car. None of that has changed and it is not louder as of yet. However abou 2K miles ago my tranny is poping out of 4th ONLY on its own. It is anoying but I can live with it for now to extend the repair. I still have the ORIGINAL clutch. Only when it is cold until about 10 min of driving on ocasions there is some slippage but it is minor and it only happens if you floor the gas and then it catches. Any suggestions or ideas will be helpful. I figure when I have to replace the clutch I would have the syncro's replaced etc. Could it be the syncros or bearings? Every other gear is fine

I have had the rumble slightly on my OBW since around 105K. I now have 137K on the car. None of that has changed and it is not louder as of yet. However abou 2K miles ago my tranny is poping out of 4th ONLY on its own. It is anoying but I can live with it for now to extend the repair. I still have the ORIGINAL clutch. Only when it is cold until about 10 min of driving on ocasions there is some slippage but it is minor and it only happens if you floor the gas and then it catches. Any suggestions or ideas will be helpful. I figure when I have to replace the clutch I would have the syncro's replaced etc. Could it be the syncros or bearings? Every other gear is fine

Hi I have a 2001 Outback just turning 120K miles. It has been a great car with ZERO problems. This is the first. My CEL came on while driving and has not gone out. The gas cap is fine, so my guess was to think the O2 sensor ( s) My understaning they need to be replaced eventually anyway. How many do I have? I belive I see the sensor on the cat under the car, but is their another one on the manifold? Second part to the question is that I have a minor exaust leak at the gasket which conects the Cat to the pipe. Could this being throwing the emissions control off? I tried using the HIGH heat metal copper silicone that pep boys sells to seal up the leak. It worked for about 2 weeks and then started to come off? Any ides?

Take the new short block. The car is under warranty and let Subaru do the job now. It also gets your car in the record books so that Subaru is aware of the replacement of the engine. You should be good after that. The lemon laws would apply to the same problem 3 times. But since Subaru is willing to put a new or rebult engine in that will fix it. The reliability of Subaru is excellent, so this must have just been crap luck. I have a 2001 Outback with 113K on it now and have done routine maintenece ONLY. Not a dime was put in to any repairs. Eveything original...

This is totally normal. The fans cycle on automatically with the AC and Defrost ( which uses the AC compressor). It is done as a precaution to make sure that the engine NEVER gets to hot and that cooling with occurr regardless of temperature outside. Then any other time the cooling fans with only usually run one at a time when the engine is idling a long time or if after you come off the freeway for example then come to a stop, ocasionally the fan or fans will cylce on for additional cooling because of the sudden drop in air flow from the freeway...

I have a 2001 OBW and it was the plugs and wires. I bought the third time around bosch platnium 2 plugs and after about only 25K my car started to hesitate a bit and then a little thump here and there. With in another week or so it began to misfire. I even had the CEL come on detecting the misfire, but it went out while driving. Ran right to Autozone and picked up the Bosch platinum +4 plugs and a new set of wires. The plugs are $5 a piece and the wires were $25. They do wonders.. I have about 25K on them and they are still perfect. They are even pre gapped and no gapping is required. Just take off your air intake, and the windshield washer tank and you are good to go. I did the plugs and wires in about a half hour. Usually I end up cleaning a few things, checking all the fluids etc. SO an hour should do the trick...

I never even thought of that. I have a 2001 OBW and bot passenger and drivers have windnoise only if I open the windo a little bit and then shut it while I am driving on the highway. For the passenger side, if I open the window ALL the way and shut it the wind noise goes away. The drivers side does not always work by doing that. SO I took you recommendation and lowered the windows and pinched the seal. PERFECT. Not a bit of noise. I have a 110K on the car and have not put a dime in to the car other then maintence. If this is one of the MINOR details, I can deal with it. NExt time it happens I will just pinch them again...

I was thinking about adding a sub to my 2001 Outback. I already have the box and an amp from a prior installation. The amp has both low and high imputs. Since I would be keeping my stock radio I plan on using the high imputs. In the back of the outback there is another 12V power outlet. Can I use the power and ground from that outlet to power up the amp. Also, can I use the imput from the top mounted tweeters to let the amp receive the signal. I was just trying to avoid the running of the wires and removing the doors panel to tap in to the speakers. Any thoughts....

A few weeks back when Ideling the car in neutral, if you let the clutch out completly there is a noise that is coming from the clutch/tranmission. I was thinking throwout bearing etc. It is worse when the temperature is colder. But for about 2 days in a row, excessive driveline noise almost metal type of noise occured. It has then gone away, but there is definitly a slighlty louder noise when excellerating etc. There is definitly a little gear noise.. Still on a very quiet night or if the car is cold ideling in the garage just say, if I let the clutch out with the tranny in neutral there is a little noise. Any ides? Would chaning to synthetic gear oil help matters, I figure it can't hurt...

You may have said the magic words. The conditioner. I am in the process of filing complaint with Subaru. I maintain my 2001 Outback with the 2.5 Phase II engine in it impecably. I have done all the maintenece myself on it. WHen Suburau issued the conditioner bulletin I stopped by my local dealer, they threw it in and I was on my way. I just recently did the whole 105K maintence. Timing belt, water pump, belts hoses, thermostate etc.. I got myself a new bottle of conditioner, removed the 125ml of coolant, put in the conditioner and I was on my way. Wrong, 2 days later I noticed my tempeture gauge rising. Well, I actually blocked up my radiator. Nowhere does it tell you how to install the conditioner. My guess would be to do it while the engine is hot and then take it on a 1/2 hour trip. I did mine the night before and apparently the conditioner sitting in the radiator all night caked up...I had the same thing with the coolant smell. You may have a blockage that is letting pressure build up in the raditor and the coolant can be leaking by the pressure cap. Monitor it, because I ended up replacing my radiator, because the conditioner clumped up. Word to the wise be careful with the conditioner, it is really nothing more then a "stop leak". Yes, it does have conditioners in it while can prolong the life of the HG, but becareful. I have not added it yet since I changed the radiator, but I probably should, but I am not sure what to do...If any one else has their 2 cents let me know.

Yes it is possible for the additive to cause a blockage and create trouble. I pasted my reply yesterday because 3 weeks later we figured out what happened. A new radiator cured the probelm, but follow the directions below for adding the conditioner and you should not have a problem. I did it this way now and my outback is fine... Re: Overheating Engine on Highway Well it has been 3 weeks later and we figured it out. The crappy conditioner that Subaru recommends to "Condition" the headgasket, or really probably nothing more then their version of "Stop Leak" sat in my radiator overnight and caked and clogged up.. I am going to write and call the 800-Subaru number. I have the insert that they sent for my manual and NOWHERE does it say to add the conditioner and make sure you circulate thourougly throughout the system right away. I figured when I went out for a drive the next morning is would be fine. I guess I was wrong.. Now thinking about it when I added it this time, I idled the car until hot, then shut the engine for about 5 mins. opened the cap added the conditioner and then took the car on a 45 min trip to a friends house. I figured I would let the stuff fully circulate so there would not be any problem this time. I do ALL the mainenece on my car, and have a good deal of knowledge but never thought about this conditioner clumping up. After a new radiator car is good as new.. I guess I can't complain. 108,000 miles and have not put a DIME in to the car other then maintenece. Save for the radiator....

Just an interesting note. I just changed my pads this past weekend on my 2001 Outback 5 speed though. I got 108,000 miles out of the rear disk pads. I did the fronts form the first time at about 75,000 or around there. I mostly do highway driving now, 53 miles one way to work. Prior I took all back rural roads but was driving about 50-60mph.. I bought ceraminc performacnce pads from Pep Boys. They are about $45 a set. They sell semi metalic and ceramic. I had the front pads on since 75,000 miles and still fine.