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I know that some have pulled the engine of these machines through the hood, but the service manual says that you need to drop it out of the bottom of the car with the entire front subframe. That subframe bolts to the body with 4 long bolts. If they followed the manual, they disturbed those...

Bank 2 is left side, correct? Check your plugs in that case, look for one or more that are wet, just to rule out an overfueling issue. It is starting to sound like possible O2 upstream sensor issues, if we do have them. If you have an infrared thermometer, check your cats for consistency...

Yikes. I just paid 3.589 for 93 octane this morning in MA. And my LS days are over. Time to sell the Getrag for parts or whatever. I now own 3 boosted Subarus lol.

Hey George, that 17.0 mixed seems pretty normal for our getrags. The best I ever got on the highway was around 22, but it was usually 21 or 20 when I was checking. Had you seen better numbers in the past? I used to see a 1 or 2 mpg improvement after a spark plug change.

Oh man, you've got that right! Subaru hub bearings are a trip!

Nah you're good. I must have missed your water pump in the earlier list you published, and thought I had only seen the aux water pump. You're good.

While you are at it, replace your main water pump. It sounds like it may have lost its impellor. Mine did on a V6, and the engine lost either a head gasket, cracked a head, or cracked a cylinder wall while I was troubleshooting it. When I moved my 'lifetime' warranty water pump to my replacement...

How is this engine for bleeding air from the upper bleed port? Does it act normally and generate good stream flow when opened up to bleed? Reason I ask is that when my engine went south on my V6, the problem ended up being the impeller had fallen off the water pump, where you would not see it...

If anyone is interested, my 2000 is actually available if anyone needs it for any reason, be it parts, restoration, etc. And there is a good pilot bearing buried in there! Also a functioning hydraulic cooling system, a good transmission (replaced at around 180k), a completely re-bushed rear...

I have one, it comes with the complete car!

Every single leak I experience after engine cooling system work is always from a worm hose clamp. And I know I got them tight when I installed them. They still get loose. I find the same thing with my turbo hose clamps on my wrx-s. Every oil change, check and re-torque is my routine. I try to...

My actuators always failed when it was in the 90s outside. Sounds like a conversion to electric fan would be indicated. As you say, that fan is not spinning fast and it should be spinning fast when it is hot outside and the a/c is running. So probably the fan change and the plastics renewal...

Just find the shortest alignment shop drive and get the car there asap. If it is not a short trip, have it towed, unless you want your tires to be toast in short order, because they will be! And to clubairth, he said it was clicking, so slop in the ball joints of the tie rod end. It may have...

The recirc door is not too bad to service, you just have to pull the sound panel or whatever is covering the underside of the dash and one air duct in order to get to it. On mine, the servo likely broke the rod, and I epoxied the rod and bought a servo, but never installed it or reconnected the...

I did the same thing, car was starting to bottom out on quite normal transitions from parking lots onto streets. Bought a pair of rear used coilover oem shocks and solved the problem, since Eibach springs had settled the rear down 2 inches under stock ride height. I did not have to change the...

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Could have happened. The problem is that the diff is bolted to the subframe and has to move forward to be able to drop. There is no way to move forward that I can think of. So that means that you need to drop the exhaust, the heat shield assembly and the driveshaft first. I hope that you find an...

You'll need to drop the rear subframe in order to do this, and that entire assembly is quite a handful, be sure to have a lot of jack and jack stands ready to balance this whole thing. Maybe a floor transmission jack would be useful. It is not an easy job. Especially if there is not a lift...

No worries George, I'll be sticking around. The heart thing is a nice new lease on life, getting through the first month or 2 is the hardest part. When your time comes, try to get them to do a titanium plate to close up your sternum instead of stainless steel wire. With the wire, you have to...

It is ready anytime, its registration ends on June 30th but I really no longer need the car. I had a Subaru and the LS was its backup, because with a Subaru, you should always have a backup car. I got another Subaru last spring, which came with a non-running spun bearing engine. I found out on...