Anybody have ideas on why. Is there anything I need to replace besides the flex plate? It's just stock build.

Edited August 10, 20169 yr by craiger123

Welcome to the USMB, craiger123.  Please post your question in the Newer Generation forum.

This is it.  What is the failure mode of the flex plate?  At the outer rim bolts or at the center?

Hi,

Clarify....you state Flexplate and Flywheel in the first post.....Flexplate = Automatic - 5EAT; Flywheel (FW)  = 5-speed manual....they both connect to the crankshaft.

 

Breaking a FW would be tough, so thinking you mean pressure plate, disk or?

 

Flexplate's do break on occasion.

 

How much boost/HP/Torque are you putting down? If stock, shouldn't break; 350+ just might?

 

TD

Edited August 11, 20169 yr by wtdash

Sorry, stock build. It's the flex plate.

 A little Googlin' found THIS.....basically the 4 TC bolts (4 on the 5EAT's?) weren't torqued properly....but getting a torque wrench on those is near impossible.

 

If you installed the 2nd one (that cracked) maybe an install issue (no offense)? If a NON-Subaru shop did it then, I'd find a real SUBIE shop.

 

GL,

Td

Thanks wtdash. I didn't install it but it wasn't a Subaru shop.