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Jacobpockros

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  • Birthday 12/29/1990

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    San Diego, CA
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    2021 Subaru WRX Limited 6spd

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  1. I drove that car with a notchy 1st gear for 60k miles. Just held the clutch in for an extra second before going into 1st gear and it never had issues. You bought a clean body car non-running for $1700 so of course it has issues, and you got $650 back for the wheels I left on there. The trans on your green car stopped working at 190k so I’m pretty sure it’s normal this trans isn’t perfect anymore. It should be able to make it to 200k if you’re gentle with 1st which is easy to do. Reverse gear complains sometimes and is straight cut so I actually think that’s where your shavings are from but hard to say. I changed the trans fluid 45k miles ago with the rear diff fluid.
  2. You can see I had that seal 100% flat too. Perfectly flush with the back of the engine. If I did it again the same way it could last 100k miles or 20k, just no way to tell. It all fairness it wasn’t a horrible leak since there were never drops of oil pooling underneath or anything like that but clearly oil in front of the trans, even more so with the trans exposed as xrayspec showcases….
  3. Factory-installed rear main seals on those engines hardly leak, ever. 1 out of 200 maybe? If not smaller odds than that. I put the new one in literally perfectly flush, like a textbook installation…. and it started showing wetness less than 10k miles later. My friend that did engine work at Subaru for 4 years replaced the one on his own car and it started to leak lol. The factory-installed one on my car had over 150k miles on it and wasn’t leaking before I took it out. Rear main seals are only worth replacing on engines that are known to have rear main leaks because seal replacement is sometimes a roll of the dice. I would check your car from the highest point to its lowest point to verify its not leaking from another point, unless your seal has been replaced in the past.
  4. The cat that’s on there is tough as nails like I mentioned. Has made it past the ref several times even with UEL’s and the cams that were in it.
  5. If the car still has a squeak going over bumps I would grease those front sway bar bushings and see if the noise temporarily goes away. If it does I would replace those front sway bar bushings since they’re poly and 7-8 years old now. You should probably reseal the rear diff since that’s where your leak is coming from.
  6. So after a huge ordeal finally found a replacement for my old car. I briefly bought a 2-owner 2016 WRX that clearly had some work done to it in the past and was quickly put back to stock to be traded in. I did not feel comfortable with this purchase and after 2 months decided to try to locate a new off-the-lot car. This process proved to be somewhat difficult as you cannot order 2015-2021 bodystyle WRX’s anymore. Most 2021 WRX’s that are still new are cars that customers have ordered months ago and backed out on after they arrived at dealerships. Additionally, right now is a bad time to buy a new car since there are inventory shortages and dealer markups. Despite this, managed to find a new 21’ White/black Limited 6spd at a Subaru dealership in Irvine and made the drive over to trade my 2016 in. It was not a convenient purchase, but as a die-hard car enthusiast it needed to be right. Lo and behold the new story of a Legacy: So far my plans are to take it easy on this car and drive it like an old lady. I will be keeping it on stock tune for some time since I have no erge to race my car. No stage 1 or 2 or any of that…. I do have a few small reversible modifications planned for it but will be keeping every receipt on parts that are ordered so this car has an easy-going documented life. I will highlight all my upkeep and “car treats” in this thread (as well as Nasioc).
  7. My pump works fine. It’ll probably still squeal though from air in the system. When I last had that problem found it was drawing air in through the washer on this bolt: Replace the washer on the bolt. I have a new one in the bag of hardware you have. Torque it to spec and then go a little tighter on it after that. It ended up fixing it. Then bleed the PS system really well and drive it. May have to drive it a little with the cap off if it still whines. I might have had P0107 before and I think it ended up going away once the car was being driven. Since it’s a stored code I would drive the car for a while and see if it goes away. If the P1507 is a pending code which it looks like it is, it can be from an exhaust leak or out of adjustment valves if it’s not the actual switch itself. If the switch doesn’t fix it hook it up to a smoke machine. This has fixed that problem on this car in the past.
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  9. Totally didn’t mean to let you down, just disorganized on my part. We got most of it right? I sold it to you for less than what I had other offers for because I knew you’d make the car amazing. Those extra parts are not going to anyone else and I promise I’ll find the rest of the stuff and post pics of it in here. Can bring it over too. I know when you fire it up it will sound great with the headers + 2.25” exhaust. Really sounds like a real Subaru.
  10. I can do some more digging. I still have oem carpet that I should bring you. I can bring other stuff all at once.
  11. You have a new oem filter in that box of parts and also a K&n filter in the air box that’s just been cleaned.
  12. 183k miles and the engine is making noise, possibly a bearing. It was a good run. Will try to sell it to a friend so it can live on.
  13. I have done damn near everything you can think of trying to improve my gas mileage. Pcv, air filter, fuel filter, checked for carbon build-up, tire pressure, removing junk, etc. The only two things I’ve been able to see a difference in mpg with have been changing my spark plugs and having the roof rack off. I’m going to get a new front O2 sensor soon and see if that helps as well. Do the spark plugs if it’s been a couple years. I got 4 oem’s and didn’t spend more than $15.
  14. Does anyone have 00-01’ Oem injectors laying around? I need a detailed picture of the way the large seal sits on the injector when the injector is removed from the car (I think my injector cap is sticking out too far).
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