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Ok, lent my 2000 outback to my mate for a couple of weeks, and sure as hell, while he had it the harmonic balancer (crankshaft puller) managed to undo itself and go under the car and off back down the road causing my mate to drive home with no air-con, power steering, or alternator!! Some guy appare...

Ok, lent my 2000 outback to my mate for a couple of weeks, and sure as hell, while he had it the harmonic balancer (crankshaft puller) managed to undo itself and go under the car and off back down the road causing my mate to drive home with no air-con, power steering, or alternator!! Some guy appare...

yep, it may even just be a head gasket.
hav u considered doing a full rebuild urself, it costs about 1000 if u do it urself, and its great fun!!!!

beleive it or not, the reservoir also has to be full. its not just a cathment for overflowing coolant, it also gets sucked back into the radiator when the engine gets hot for the first time since a coolant change! During the first heat cycle, all the chambers around the cylinders which were otherwis...

Which EJ25 u got, DOCH or SOHC? Do u ever get a plume of light blue/whiteish smoke at first start after rest for more than 10 hours? If so count how may seconds it takes between the engine start and the smoke billowing out. IF its imidiate then its the rings letting oil through at rest (cool). If it...

i garuantee you, if take off ur front disc rotors, they will be warped. Now, when ppl hear warped and think about the vibration, they think warped means bent on one side and not the other, this is not true. Warped means, the centre of the disc has been pushed into itself, basicly coning the disc, wh...

somehow conect the starter positive terminal to the little terminal on the solenoid (the cylinder hanging off the starter) that is of ocurse after unpluging it, attache the other end to the positive terminal, and just see if it cranks properly, if so, then something in the cars electrical system, is...

it really sounds like slapping and not detonation. if its slapping, then the rings are also shot. u cant have slapping without rings being hurt from it. When the slap happens, it opens up enough of a gap to allow massive amounts of oil to get past the oil rings (at the bottom of piston) and usually ...

well it sound like ur not getting spark, if a fuse blew, then something cased it to blow and it would have been part of the ignition system.
Electrical faults are difficult to diagnose unless ur an auto sparky, or its something simple like a stripped wire earthing.

what was the result here? heater core system could have been faulty, which leaks coolant into ur car, and sometimes never drips through ur floor pan, therefor u dont see any drips and u get all suspicious of head-gaskets! if theres no mix between oil and coolant (verify by looking at oil on dipstick...

u sure its not just a shit load build up of carbon?
do the upper engine cleaner cans take care of the combustion chamber, or is that stuff just for the plenum and valves?
if so give it a shot.

KJO, oupla things, before u get started. the oil in combustion chamber at startup is as others have said, stem seals or rings/pistons or both. as the boxer engine/s rocker covers fill UP with oil (towards the side of the cover), usually a heat worn stem seal will take a bit of time to actually start...

my lack of response is due to my newfound love of driving with a solid steering rack and no more brake vibrations!
Replaced rotors and pads!
Rubber bushing had disintegrated, jammed cardboard in there and solved it haha!
new bush ordered!

excelent, so i should probably get under there, take the exhaust off, and pull the bushes out get new ones, stick em in, and see what happens with new rotors.
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see what im aunsure about, si weather or nto, the warped rotors could have caused the rack to malfunction, i dont really know the full workigns behind a steering rack, liek the seals and all that, but i do know that the rack is busted, coz the guys at beaurepairs told me that after an alignement and...

Hey all When braking i get the vigorous shaking of the steering wheel and can feel it through the brake pedal, therefore i suspect warped rotors. I also know that my steering rack has a little bit of play in it, when i turn a hard left, then straighten out, the steering wheel is off to the left when...

if u still are having no luck, my trick is to pull hard on one side, and on the opposite side use the palm of your hand to strike the back of the steeringwheel towards ur face, then go to the hospital for new face. i have done this twice and still havent learnt!! haha

ahh revmarty what u may see moving is the clutch brake hold, which is known in SUbarus as the Hill-holder system. the system allwos u to point up a hill, press the brake and clutch, release the brake, and not have the car roll backwards untill the clutch is released. this operates independently from...

Revmart, there should be any sort of pump system involved with the hydraulic clutch, well not that ive seen.
when you depressed the clutch pedal, is the slave cylinder actuating, or are you getting no response?

OK so starting from scratch, typical probelms with cooling systems are as follows loss of coolant loss of pressure (cooling systems need pressure to keep boiling point high) loss of coolant flow loss of regulation ur not loosing much coolant at all, uve replaced the cap and thermostat, ur not seeing...