peter droz

Well, I have a 1996 Subaru legacy wagon that runs beautifully, unfortunately when I went to go through emissions, I stopped to put gas in it and the gas tank started leaking, so I turned around and went home, I mean you could smell the fumes, badly and I figured it wasn't going to pass anyway since the check light came on at this point. Now as you probably know what a pain it is to replace a tank, but the rest of the car is perfect, so I was thinking that maybe I could swap the engine and transmission to another suby wagon about the same year. My question is, does it have to be exactly the same year, or could it be a year older or maybe one younger without any hassels, same 2.2 engine of course? What do you think?