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  1. Power steering whine manifested the last couple of days. Going to swap out o-ring and hoses on the pump and hope that does the job. Ran over a deer carcass a few weeks ago and the gasket between the dp and resonator pipe disintegrated (?). Ordered new gaskets and fasteners -- shop wanted to replace the exhaust from headers to the resonator pipe. Also ordered new rear strut mounts and spring cushion to try and solve a saggy butt issue and a tiny bit of driver side tire rub.
  2. I'm in Hailey, ID which is kind of the middle of nowhere. https://goo.gl/maps/h9xYd7tNdqVi9Yo8A I'd be shocked if there were a Subaru specialist shop within two hours of here.
  3. $125 is great, I would pay that all day long. But I'm in a new area and don't trust any of the shops yet.
  4. Did plugs and cylinder 3 coil pack. I don't know how some of you do it in under an hour. It was a pretty legitimate battle. Coils were a piece of cake but spark plugs took everything I had: every 3/8" extension, wobble, universal, deep socket, 12-pt -- the works! Hardest by far was the #3 plug: shitty access and long-term heat damage. And... the plugs I pulled were Denso branded and gapped at 0.040-ish. And my wife asks why I don't take the car to the shop for these things...
  5. Thanks for the tip -- going to zip-tie the #3cyl when I get everything buttoned up. Well, I really hope it doesn't come down to changing out the engine harness. Also, 304k miles!
  6. Cyl 3 misfire at high load/high rpm after doing passenger side valve cover gaskets. Ugh. Overdue for plugs anyway, but any other ideas on what it might be? Could it be vac lines under the TMIC? Also, my oil leak wasn't from the valve cover gaskets. Ugh x2.
  7. Yeah forget the covers at this point. The car is going to be apart a while. Figure out what the problem is. Renting a borescope probably a good start to figure out why tf your spark plug looks like that. Compression/leakdown would be a good following step.
  8. Yikes. Looks like it's been beat on. Did it look like that when you put it in? You should do a compression and leakdown test. I can't imagine too many scenarios that don't suck with a spark plug that looks like that.
  9. Like won't build boost at all or stops at wastegate pressure, like 7psi or so?
  10. I also had MAF issues that made the car run like crap, knock, and retard timing. New (not reman) Denso part fixed it. Sounds like you may have a short. Might be the result of a shoddy turbo replacement job: disconnected/damaged vac lines, could have nicked the wiring harness if not run in original locations, etc. I would test the alternator and the battery before diving into tracking down a short, though. A battery that is down to 4.x volts is basically perma-dead and needs to be replaced, no matter how many times you try to charge it.
  11. Did passenger side valve cover gasket/halfmoons and an oil change with the Mazda/Tokyo Roki filters. Fingers crossed for no more leaking oil...
  12. Doing a cross-country road trip in two weeks in the spec.B. Should I be doing this on winter tires or 350tw summer tires? More or less going to be following I80, but will be making a detour through St. Louis and Kansas City. Once we hit the Rockies, will likely make our way through CO, UT, WY, visiting national parks.
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