I put together a 199x loyale and sold it to a friend that really needed a car. It's had some common trouble, leaking seals, blown muffler, whatever. When I got my hands on it initially, it was kinda low on transmission fluid and it smoked. All of the vacuum lines were full of ATF. New modulator from Advance, manufactured (or at least branded by) Fram fixed the problem.

 

He calls me up (a year later) and mentioned that it was shifting funny. The car was down a quart of ATF. Car smoked. Vacuum lines full of ATF. WTH?

Subaru parts only for this app? No dealers within 60 miles of me.

See if Standard motor parts or Blue Streak carries the modulator. Also check out

https://www.subarugenuineparts.com/oe_parts_cat.html

 

nipper

Fram plain sucks. Most of the Subarus I see in the wrecking yards that are there because of engine failure are sporting Fram oil filters. I wouldnt use anything made by them:mad:

what he said fram suck stick to purlator filters sold by napa, or the bosch filters are made by puralator

Yes, I know about Fram filters. I'm interested to see if anyone else has had a Fram vacuum modulator fail.

The vacuum modulator on my old DL failed.

 

Replaced it with Fram, failed 3 weeks later.

 

I dont trust them either :-\