I took apart a 98 Outback engine 2.5 DOHC to do head gaskets timing belt etc...found this part in the garage left over...not sure if it is from the outback or a different car...

 

...can anyone confirm where this goes if from an Outback?

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That is not off the outback.

Is that a rubber type backing on that angle? If so it doesn't go near the header which I origionally thought. That vibration damper would suspend a bracket of hydraulic lines or something so they don't go thru a million vibrations.

Edited July 23, 201015 yr by Fuzpile

That doesn't really look like it goes on the outback.. and if it does it looks superfluous. (maybe holds a wiring harness "in place" or something.) Looks older though.

kinda looks like a belt cover bracket? like the cover bolts to it, then it to the block?

 

 

-Justin

looks like the mount for the MAP sensor and swithching solenoid.....kinda

 

anything look missing between the air cleaner and the strut tower?

 

the bolt part does look like Subaru threads.

By the alternator to hold the alt belt shroud?

By the alternator to hold the alt belt shroud?

 

Bingo

 

Looking again I'm pretty sure that goes on the upper, front AC compressor bolt and holds the far end of the AC belt cover.

Bingo

 

Looking again I'm pretty sure that goes on the upper, front AC compressor bolt and holds the far end of the AC belt cover.

 

Oops - yea that's what I meant. Holds that little piece of black plastic that covers the pulley on the AC unit and is held on by one of the long AC compressor bolts. Because I've forgotten the bracket in the past.

Oops - yea that's what I meant. Holds that little piece of black plastic that covers the pulley on the AC unit and is held on by one of the long AC compressor bolts. Because I've forgotten the bracket in the past.

 

+1

That one's a PITA to put back on as you have to remove an AC bolt. Not hard, just extra work! (Yes, been there/done that!):-\

 

GL,

TD