Timing belt when through a canyon.. whoops, no more power going up hill. Differential and then heater coil. After that nothing at all.
Love this car. Has saved my life serveral times --- twice on ice coming to a stop sign, and others just braking and manouvering in bad traffic. I love to go out in snow storms and try to get stuck, pop-her in 4x4 and it feels like someone yanked it out with a chain. You've got to do it just once. I have begun telling friends, 'Don't drive a Subaru, because you'll never want anything else again'.
I bought a Subaru GL 10, 4 door sedan, not AWD, which has an oil leak. Anyone else with that problem and a solution?
Owned two subaru's (one was a Justy). Both leaked oil from most places that oil could leak at one point or another.
If you're seeing oil under the car try to determine where it's dripping from underneath and then trace the 'path' the oil has followed along the engine. Two common places are as follows:
1) Valve Cover (an easy, do-it-yourself fix) or
2) Rear Main Seal (leak appears between engine and transmission bell housing, probably a shop fix)
Be sure to check the CV boots too if the 'oil' you see is *really* thick and under the left or right sides of the motor.
Mine leaks about 1 Qt every 2,000 miles. Different mechanics have estimated $2,000 to fix all the seals. They said that if they owned the car they'd just be diligent about checking and adding oil whenever they bought gas, and that's what I do.
Boxer engines in general are known oil leakers. The cam carriers and cam seals are a common place as is the valve covers.
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